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Music CDs
Our hand-picked collection of albums from the artists listed here at Honky Tonk
Texas, USA, including our comments and reviews.
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Three New Ditties
Moses Guest
Price $ 9.99
This disc is a short collection of new songs Moses Guest arranged with the help of several other musicians - adding dobro, banjo, mandolin, and pedal steel
guitar which ripens the sound. As of March 2000, "U 'N' Mi" was at #31 in the Top 200 at MusicMonster.net Radio.
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Hey You
Jack Ingram
Price $ 13.99
Jack Ingram is another in the illustrious line of Texas singer-songwriters that extends from Willie Nelson
through Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, and Robert Earl Keen. His approach
crosses Walker's folksy good-old-boy confessions with Earle's rebel-rock snarl. Hey You was recorded
in Nashville with producer Richard Bennett and Ingram's band, the Beat Up Fords, and it's far and away
his best studio work to date, conveying the sweaty honky-tonk and roadhouse-rock energy of his live
shows while showcasing his maturity as a songwriter. He still has room to grow as a storyteller before
he's on the level of a Van Zandt or an Earle, but he's already a better singer than most of his influences.
--Rick Mitchell
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Jack Ingram
Jack Ingram
Price $ 13.27
i go to camp longhorn (4th term), and each summer jack ingram plays a couple of songs for us at
campfire. i think he is really good. usually i don't like country (i'm more into bon jovi and eve 6) but this guy
is an exception. he has talent that surpasses that of any performer i have ever seen before. i
recommend this because it's excellent.
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Unleashed [Live]
Jack Ingram
Price $ 14.99
Outside of Texas, it's hard to grasp the Beatlemania-like frenzy that can be directed toward these
marginally successful singer-songwriters. At a packed Texas honky-tonk such as Gruene Hall, however,
the brothers Robison and adopted kin Jack Ingram go over like the Second Coming, which doesn't mean
they don't earn the reception. The three Texans take no chances with material--everything but Ingram's
"Travis County" has been cut elsewhere--and deliver their most anthemic and popular tunes in
straight-shooting, full-band, Outlaw country style. Small flourishes save these 12 songs (recorded one
night in December 1999) from abject predictability: Bruce's Western swing version of Joe Dickens's
"Good Life," his wife Kelly Willis's sweet guest harmonies on "Angry All the Time," and Charlie's
self-deprecating tone on "Sunset Boulevard." Unfortunately, Ingram turns in four of his slighter tunes,
including the obnoxious frat-brat anthem "Barbie Doll," which only makes the call-and-response of his
audience all the more suspect. But if you've never experienced Texas frat-country hysteria first hand,
this live set will get you more than close enough to the party. --Roy Kasten
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Blue Earth
The Jayhawks
Price $ 13.49
Influenced from the heart of the mid-west by Uncle Tupelo, The Jayhawks from Minnesota are a lot like Ronnie Hawkins living in Canada! Always great stuff. "Martin's Song" will chill you.
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Hollywood Town Square
The Jayhawks
Price $ 11.49
Compared with The Band, Gram Parsons,The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Neil Young ain't all bad and telling.
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SMILE
The Jayhawks
Price $ 11.88
Back with their 6th offering and as good as ever. Gary Louris & Marc Pearlman have a majic touch in the vain of the infamous "Uncle Tupelo."
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A Bigger Piece Of Sky
Robert Earl Keen
Price $ 13.99
Robert Earl Keen is the Sam Peckinpah of the singer-songwriter movement. Almost alone in a field
dominated by "sensitive" types, Keen is willing to write songs about America's--especially his native
Texas'--obsession with guns and violence. Although he is often pigeonholed (and not without reason) as
a comic songwriter, guns are all over his fourth album, A Bigger Piece of the Sky. Keen is not a great
singer (he sounds like Jerry Jeff Walker with a cold), but he is one of the best lyricists in a state crawling
with them.
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