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Jack Ingram
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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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