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Nick 13 (Tiger Army) - Same (Käytetty CD)
€11,00Quick ViewKantri albumi Nick 13:sta (Tiger Army)…. Tuottajana JAMES INTVELD! Nick 13 will release his long-awaited solo album June 7th on Sugar Hill Records.Nick’s self-titled debut was produced in Los Angeles and Nashville by Greg Leisz and James Intveld, with mixing duties handled by Grammy award winner Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks). Nick 13 crafts storytelling Americana songs of heartbreak, experience and passion, driven by his haunting and distinctive voice and acoustic guitar.Nick 13 is best known as the singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the band Tiger Army. His solo work recalls the vintage American sounds of honky-tonk and classic California country from the middle of the last century with a modern twist. He’s already performed at Stagecoach, Hootenanny and South By Southwest.Nick 13 has the timbre of Chris Isaak, the tone of a young Lyle Lovett, with some Elvis and Ricky Nelson mixed in,” wrote The Press Enterprise. CMT declared his music to be ”drenched in hillbilly electric guitar [and] coolness.”Nick’s debut album for Sugar Hill Records features acoustic and electric guitar, standup bass, pedal steel, fiddle and much more from a wide pedigree of players who connected with 13’s genuine passion, understanding and knowledge of the history of the music and forward-thinking vision for the future. Some of the folks on the album include Lloyd Green, Sara Watkins, Josh Grange, Eddie Perez and Mitch Marine, in addition to the album’s producers Leisz and Intveld.”
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Nick 13 (Tiger Army) - Same (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewKantri albumi Nick 13:sta (Tiger Army)…. Tuottajana JAMES INTVELD! Nick 13 will release his long-awaited solo album June 7th on Sugar Hill Records.Nick’s self-titled debut was produced in Los Angeles and Nashville by Greg Leisz and James Intveld, with mixing duties handled by Grammy award winner Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks). Nick 13 crafts storytelling Americana songs of heartbreak, experience and passion, driven by his haunting and distinctive voice and acoustic guitar.Nick 13 is best known as the singer, songwriter, guitarist and founder of the band Tiger Army. His solo work recalls the vintage American sounds of honky-tonk and classic California country from the middle of the last century with a modern twist. He’s already performed at Stagecoach, Hootenanny and South By Southwest.Nick 13 has the timbre of Chris Isaak, the tone of a young Lyle Lovett, with some Elvis and Ricky Nelson mixed in,” wrote The Press Enterprise. CMT declared his music to be ”drenched in hillbilly electric guitar [and] coolness.”Nick’s debut album for Sugar Hill Records features acoustic and electric guitar, standup bass, pedal steel, fiddle and much more from a wide pedigree of players who connected with 13’s genuine passion, understanding and knowledge of the history of the music and forward-thinking vision for the future. Some of the folks on the album include Lloyd Green, Sara Watkins, Josh Grange, Eddie Perez and Mitch Marine, in addition to the album’s producers Leisz and Intveld.”
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Stuart Marty - Ghost Train – The Studio B Sessions (CD)
€10,00Quick View”Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Marty Stuart has born the torch for historic country music since his career began. He’s literally spent most of his life making and producing records and writing songs that reflect that. Stuart’s made some wildly innovative and eclectic recordings that nonetheless bear the watermark of authentic country. Ghost Train is his first studio offering since 2005’s twin concept albums Souls’ Chapel and Badlands. His last outing was 2006’s excellent Live at the Ryman. In his wonderful liner essay, Stuart claims that the inspiration for Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions occurred on August 29, 2005, in an empty train station in Philadelphia, MS after he heard the news of Hurricane Katrina’s arrival in the Gulf. He went and stood on the empty tracks until he heard a northbound train, then moved and stood as close as his courage would allow and had an epiphany. The result is this program of 14 songs, all in the hardcore country tradition, mostly recorded in the famed RCA Studio B in Nashville. Stuart wrote or co-wrote 11 — three with wife Connie Smith, one with Johnny Cash, and another with Ralph Mooney, whose ”Crazy Arms” is here. The other cover is Don Reno’s classic ”Country Boy Rock & Roll.” Stuart is backed by the Superlatives — guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson, and bassist Paul Martin — with a host of pedal steel players. There isn’t a weak track on the set, but there are some real standouts: the Reno cut is one, as is the stomping opener and single, ”Branded.” The ballad ”Drifting Apart” has harmonies worthy of the Louvin Brothers and a pedal steel solo by Mooney that’ll make you weep. ”Hangman,” co-written with Cash, is a spooky ballad in the old-school storytelling tradition; while Stuart does a fine job singing it, one can hear Cash’s ghost rambling through the lyrics. The country boogie of ”Ghost Train Four Oh Ten” is a punchy hillbilly rocker, while the instrumental ”Hummingbyrd” is a killer tribute to the guitar genius of both Don Rich and Clarence White. ”A World Without You,” a duet with Smith, is as moving and true as country ballads get. Stuart may not sell millions of records anymore, but he can still make fine records that will stand the test of time; Ghost Train is among the very best of them.”
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Various - Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewHIENO TRIBUTE ALBUMI! Johnny Paycheck is best remembered as the likably ornery Nashville outlaw who scored a major crossover hit with David Allan Coe’s Take This Job and Shove it” and made the title a household phrase. Unfortunately, as is often the case, Paycheck’s biggest hit also created a one-dimensional image that he was never able to escape, and did no justice to the full scope of his talent. Paycheck was a fine singer, a gifted songwriter, a respected journeyman musician who anchored road bands for George Jones and Porter Wagoner, and an artist whose work could be bitingly funny, heart-wrenching, intensely personal, or a little disturbing depending on which tune from which point of his career you chose to cue up. In short, the late Johnny Paycheck is a guy whose public profile could stand an overhaul, and thankfully ace songwriter and noted fan Robbie Fulks has been given the opportunity to do just that with Touch My Heart: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck, in which 20 artists interpret songs that were either written or recorded by Paycheck during his nearly 40-year career in music. Fulks recorded most of these performances with the same core session band (including Redd Volkaert on guitar and the great Lloyd Green on pedal steel), giving the album a consistent and unified personality that makes this more than a collection of well-intentioned but scattershot single sides, and the ”casting” is inspired, with all the performers ideal fits for their selections. George Jones captures the desperation amidst the bravado of ”She’s All I Got,” Mavis Staples finds an almost spiritual devotion in ”Touch My Heart,” Neko Case’s hard-edged honky tonk charge through ”If I’m Gonna Sink (I Might as Well Go to the Bottom)” is breathless and a little bit scary, Mike Ireland’s beautiful take on ”A Man That’s Satisfied” confirms he’s one of the greatest unsung talents in country music, and Hank Williams III captures the dark and hopeless heart of ”I’m the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised” while calling up the spirit of his grandpa. Nearly every track on Touch My Heart dips into a slightly different shade of classic country music, and every song satisfies, while cohering into a thoroughly convincing and genuinely affecting argument for the diversity of Johnny Paycheck’s talent. In short, this is a working model of how a tribute album should be done, and one imagines that, somewhere in that great honky tonk in the sky, Paycheck is tipping his hat to Robbie Fulks and his many talented friends — they’ve truly done right by his work and his memory. Points added for David Cantwell’s superb liner notes.”
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Nelson Willie - Crazy: The Demo Sessions (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewWhen Willie Nelson first arrived in Nashville in 1960, he was a funny-looking, slightly pudgy Texan with dreams of making it as a singer and songwriter. He found work writing songs (for $50 a week) for Ray Price and Hal Smith’s publishing company, Pamper Music. Crazy: The Demo Sessions contains 18 of the demo recordings Nelson made for Pamper between 1960 and 1966, including the famous title cut, which Nelson’s friend Hank Cochran pitched to Patsy Cline in 1961. Cline knew a good song when she heard one, and she even mimicked Nelson’s now-famous style of singing slightly behind the beat. Crazy contains a number of recordings that Nelson would revisit over the years, including Opportunity to Cry,” ”I’ve Just Destroyed the World,” ”Darkness on the Face of the Earth,” and ”Half a Man.” (To hear more of the Pamper recordings, check out Rhino’s superb 1995 box set, A Classic & Unreleased Collection.) The tracks here are exquisite–many of them feature just Nelson and his guitar, with a sound that is much closer to his stripped-down Red Headed Stranger period than his 1960s recordings for RCA. One of the highlights is a definitive reading of the previously unreleased demo ”Something to Think About,” a spellbinding tearjerker featuring the great Hargus ”Pig” Robbins on piano and Buddy Emmons on pedal steel. –David Hill”
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Crowell Rodney - The Houston Kid (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewConsider this an album-length sequel to Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This,” the autobiographical anthem that established Rodney Crowell at the songwriting vanguard of mid-’70s Nashville. Though his career has seen more misfires than hits in recent years, his music here returns to its purest, strongest impulses. Whether he’s taking creative leaps beyond the facts of his life (”The Rock of My Soul,” ”I Wish It Would Rain”) or operating within a more transparently confessional mode (”Why Don’t We Talk About It,” ”I Know Love Is All I Need”), the results ring redemptively true. The album’s centerpiece is a duet with Johnny Cash on ”I Walk the Line (Revisited),” as Crowell puts his imprint on one of his former father-in-law’s signature tunes. With echoes of some formative influences–from Sun rockabilly and Houston honky-tonk to Buddy Holly and the Byrds-Crowell’s music provides buoyant complement to the plainspoken testament of the lyrics. -Don McLeese
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