Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch

Descripción del producto No description available.Genre: Country & WesternRating: Release Date: 0000-00-00Media Type: Compact Disk Tienda Texas maverick Ely will never top his own Honky Tonk Masquerade (1978), a seminal album that defines the best of the Lone Star school of songwriting-and-swagger. But at 60, his quavering vocal remains as urgent, skittish, and distinctive as ever, and he's still a free-flowingly eclectic writer, as capable of a sweet, affecting Cajun love song ("Little Blossom") as an erotic and insinuating blues tune ("July Blues"). Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch is a misleading title for this group of 10 originals and a lively cover of compatriot Butch Hancock's "Firewater," for most of Ely's protagonists carry an air of desperation, either hustling for love or money (the excellent "Jesse Justice," a tough-edged portrait of an itinerant pool shark), or gripping the windowsill of life with grimy fingertips. Too many of the songs here ultimately disappoint--"Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde," one of Ely's epic outlaw ballads, is as shot full of holes as the real-life bandits, and "Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes," about the displaced victims of Katrina, fails to elicit either the outrage or the poignancy it seeks. But the hardest-working live entertainer in Texas always finds a way to charm his listener. "Sue Me Sue" wears out its refrain way too soon, yet in laying a "She's About a Mover" riff over some early Elvis rockabilly, the Lubbock Kid connects all the right musical--and emotional--dots. --Alanna Nash

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,59 x 0,39 x 4,92 pulgadas; 2,47 Onzas Fabricante : Rack'em Records Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2007 Código SPARS : DDD Producto en Tienda desde : Febrero 9, 2007 Etiqueta : Rack'em Records ASIN : B000MCICVA Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº287,348 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº1,538 en Outlaw Country nº2,116 en Country Alternativa y Estadounidense nº4,128 en Rock Country (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.5 4.5 de 5 estrellas 13 calificaciones Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Idioma : Inglés Dimensiones del producto : 5,59 x 0,39 x 4,92 pulgadas; 2,47 Onzas Fabricante : Rack'em Records Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2007 Código SPARS : DDD Producto en Tienda desde : Febrero 9, 2007 Etiqueta : Rack'em Records ASIN : B000MCICVA Número de discos : 1