Wonderful album hinging the worlds of way back, yesterday, today, and of all time.
The all time rings tales of everyone's life; your memories, feelings and thoughts of times past you see in the wide angle of space and experience gained as you grow older. That lens usually smooths the rough edges, yet brings them bolder in prospective of the overall picture. Usually not in the self centered way we all feel as an individual at the time. No bigger is this on display via this trip than on the song Hardluck, Louisiana
While this album has plenty of that, almost every song touches on the theme somehow, the overall push reaches the pinnacle of rollin' rockin' boogie quite often. Round Too Long which kicks off the program with just that kinda feel. You can almost hear & feel the bare feet slappin on the floor and a cowboy's boot poppin' that old oak inlay.
The album gets this strong feel and appeal by the conglomeration on display between some of country music's "outlaw" co-conspirators, most each a front line soldier of such a genre if you're used to putting things in boxes. What is out of the box here is these are original songs, which says a lot, no one here is relying upon their myth or legend, covers or remakes, to deliver. This entire album is rock solid songs, over and over and time again, bar none.
It is wonderful to be able to put an album on, and not have to make a playlist of the best or skip the tow arm around. I just Lived A Country Song and That's Why They Call It Temptation drip pure country gold. Wild Wild Wild is another one to fill the dance floor. Throughout this roundup, chops n talent abound. Held tight by a very clear, but not too crispy production and mix. It's easy to listen to, without the fog of echoes and effects attempting to achieve a wall of sound. The musicians let their performances alone do that, without any of the color box goodies so often throw into the mix of sound to smooth things out.
If you listen to the album without reading about who is on it, like I always do, a few spots you will say, hold on, that sounds like..... Nowhere is this more prevalent than on Boogie Woogie Country Gal, another barn burner, you hearken up and say, By God that's Jerry Lee! Well it ain't Jerry Lee, but it's his younger sister! Linda Gail Lewis apples her playing, street smart voice with that shade of sass, and over all vibe one can feel, as an essential cog in this wheel of an album, full of, for lack of a better word or phrase, rockabilly royalty. Of course her name IS on the album title, yet just it being there didn't necessarily apply a presumption.
The numbers she sings lead on have that vintage slightly rough snap used expressively in so many punk and rockabilly bands of the last half century. Of course with her lineage as a member of one of "those type" originating families, she gets it honestly. Her classic pianner chops n vocals under line the excellent songs over all, most penned with singer-songwriter-picker Robbie Fulks, who has for some time been known as a top notch songwriter. Again the entire album backs up this fact.
Seems they got the mix of tunes just right. Adding a bit of bluegrass flavored gospel with On The Jericho Road ups the ante for the purists, even if in mind only. Because there's enough tales of runnin' wild herein to remind you, ain't too many saints out on the roads of rock n roll. Yet they let ya know, it's mostly all for fun, but the heart is in the right place, if you really just gotta know.
It Came From The South really sums it up. They're talking the building of the modern day cornerstone of Americana. Some like to call it roots music, some say hillbilly, others old school back road southern, a few just country (and western even maybe!), but whatever you wanna call it, it's good stuff!
Contact: Josh Zanger - Bloodshot Records, Chicaggi - https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/
The all time rings tales of everyone's life; your memories, feelings and thoughts of times past you see in the wide angle of space and experience gained as you grow older. That lens usually smooths the rough edges, yet brings them bolder in prospective of the overall picture. Usually not in the self centered way we all feel as an individual at the time. No bigger is this on display via this trip than on the song Hardluck, Louisiana
While this album has plenty of that, almost every song touches on the theme somehow, the overall push reaches the pinnacle of rollin' rockin' boogie quite often. Round Too Long which kicks off the program with just that kinda feel. You can almost hear & feel the bare feet slappin on the floor and a cowboy's boot poppin' that old oak inlay.
The album gets this strong feel and appeal by the conglomeration on display between some of country music's "outlaw" co-conspirators, most each a front line soldier of such a genre if you're used to putting things in boxes. What is out of the box here is these are original songs, which says a lot, no one here is relying upon their myth or legend, covers or remakes, to deliver. This entire album is rock solid songs, over and over and time again, bar none.
It is wonderful to be able to put an album on, and not have to make a playlist of the best or skip the tow arm around. I just Lived A Country Song and That's Why They Call It Temptation drip pure country gold. Wild Wild Wild is another one to fill the dance floor. Throughout this roundup, chops n talent abound. Held tight by a very clear, but not too crispy production and mix. It's easy to listen to, without the fog of echoes and effects attempting to achieve a wall of sound. The musicians let their performances alone do that, without any of the color box goodies so often throw into the mix of sound to smooth things out.
If you listen to the album without reading about who is on it, like I always do, a few spots you will say, hold on, that sounds like..... Nowhere is this more prevalent than on Boogie Woogie Country Gal, another barn burner, you hearken up and say, By God that's Jerry Lee! Well it ain't Jerry Lee, but it's his younger sister! Linda Gail Lewis apples her playing, street smart voice with that shade of sass, and over all vibe one can feel, as an essential cog in this wheel of an album, full of, for lack of a better word or phrase, rockabilly royalty. Of course her name IS on the album title, yet just it being there didn't necessarily apply a presumption.
The numbers she sings lead on have that vintage slightly rough snap used expressively in so many punk and rockabilly bands of the last half century. Of course with her lineage as a member of one of "those type" originating families, she gets it honestly. Her classic pianner chops n vocals under line the excellent songs over all, most penned with singer-songwriter-picker Robbie Fulks, who has for some time been known as a top notch songwriter. Again the entire album backs up this fact.
Seems they got the mix of tunes just right. Adding a bit of bluegrass flavored gospel with On The Jericho Road ups the ante for the purists, even if in mind only. Because there's enough tales of runnin' wild herein to remind you, ain't too many saints out on the roads of rock n roll. Yet they let ya know, it's mostly all for fun, but the heart is in the right place, if you really just gotta know.
It Came From The South really sums it up. They're talking the building of the modern day cornerstone of Americana. Some like to call it roots music, some say hillbilly, others old school back road southern, a few just country (and western even maybe!), but whatever you wanna call it, it's good stuff!
Contact: Josh Zanger - Bloodshot Records, Chicaggi - https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/
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