New Music From Old Artists
Lately so much music has been coming out from oldtime artists I follow, I can hardly keep up. Hopefully in the future I will have features or reviews on all of these projects, but in the meantime here they all are to bring you up to speed. If there’s one album you like to see reviewed in particular, please feel free to chime in below.
Kris Krisofferson: Closer To The Bone
I’ve heard some compare this in a production and theme sense to Johnny Cash’s American Recordings. There is a great review on the9513.com by one of my favorite country writers, Juli Thanki, HERE.
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Robert Earl Keen: The Rose Hotel
Another Texas songwriting legend. OK, maybe he’s not an “oldtimer,” but he been around for a long time writing some of the best storytelling songs and inspiring countless acolytes in the Texas scene. A great review of The Rose Hotel can be found on ninebullets.net.
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Guy Clark: Somedays The Song Writes You
A Texas songwriting legend who apparently still has a little something in the tank, and I’m not talking about fumes and dregs. Here’s a review from No Depression.
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Also the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band recently put out Speed of Life, and the legendary Ralph Stanley released Can’t You Hear the Mountains Calling
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Coming Up:
If you thought that an artists that’s been dead for 50 years was incapable of putting out new music, think again. As a follow up to the Hank Williams Unreleased Recordings, on November 3rd another three disc set, Hank Williams: Revealed will be released. It is now available for pre-order. This is another compilation culled from the “Mother’s Best Flour” recordings that have been circulating around in bootleg form for years.
And Waylon Jennings is getting on the posthumous kick as well. Six of Waylon’s 70’s albums are planned to be re-released on vinyl. I think I would still prefer to find the original issue for buck at a garage sale, but this is still good to see.
And if you like all this music from these old farts, make sure to check out the latest episode of It Burns When I Pee:
So which album would like to see reviewed first? Guy Clark, Kristofferson, or Keen?
October 14, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
Kris Kristofferson!! He kicks ass. Plus I was named after him.
October 14, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
Thanks for the link–much appreciated! Great site you’ve got here; it’s always nice to find folks who like real country music.
October 14, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
Definately Kristofferson
October 14, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
Did Juli Thanki just comment on this story?
Juli Thanki, my favorite country music writer?
October 17, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
I am one for Kris as well, any member of The Highwaymen deserves top ranking. Plus his songs have been sung by the who’s who of country.
October 18, 2009 @ 3:31 am
I can’t wait to get the new Kristofferson album, I think his last THIS OLD ROAD is among his very, very best albums. A real later-day masterpiece.
And Guy Clark…he’s my favorite songwriter ever (along with Townes) and his new album is pretty damn good. Not as good as The Dark, Old Friends or Dublin Blues (if we’re talking about his more or less contemporary stuff) but on par with the very satisfying albums like Cold Dog Soup or Workbench Songs. Like those albums, Somedays…has a 2-3 songs (The Guitar, Hemingway’s Whiskey, Maybe I Can Paint Over That) that are absolutely outstanding and worth the album alone, while the rest of the songs are still more than decent and make up for a nice listening (only one of the 11 songs – One Way Ticket Down – is substandard imo).
He’s still got it, oh yes sir.