LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX
At the time of LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX's release in 2008, Steve Earle had become a cranky
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elder statesman of insurgent country, and it was easy to forget that he once conned his way to the top of the country charts. This fantastic live set--taped in Septe...
LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX
A full-length live album recorded during the sessions for Guy Clark's appearance on the
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long-running PBS series Austin City Limits, LIVE FROM AUSTIN TEXAS is a perfectly chosen 15-song trawl through Guy Clark's back catalogue. Standards like Texas Cookin' and The Carpenter sit next to fan favorites like Homegrown Tomatoes and Texas 1947, as well as haunting story songs like Immigrant Eyes. Clark's singing and playing are in top form throughout, as is his crack band.n
LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX
According to the Bakersfield master himself, Buck Owens was once watching Dwight Yoakam on
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Austin City Limits in the mid '80s when the budding country star dedicated his whole set to Owens. Moved, Owens met Yoakam and found himself inspired to return to the stage almost a decade after quitting the music business. One of these comeback shows is captured on this fantastic DVD as part of the venerable LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX series and features Yoakam duetting with his mentor on Under Your Spell Again.The time off clearly did Owens good, as he seems spry as ever on this eleven song set (also recorded for Austin City Limits). He tears through a set of all his major hits, including Tiger By the Tail, Act Naturally, Together Again, and Love's Gonna Live Here. Owens also proves how close his Bakersfield recipe is to rock & roll with covers of Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran. His voice sounds great, the band rips, and he delivers the material like its Carnegie Hall in 1966.(Note: The DVD features 5.1 surround sound and previously unaired performances.)n
LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX
At the time of LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX's release in 2008, Steve Earle had become a cranky
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elder statesman of insurgent country, and it was easy to forget that he once conned his way to the top of the country charts. This fantastic live set--taped in September 1986 for Austin City Limits after GUITAR TOWN had made him the decade's most unlikely country star--reveals an energetic young hillbilly with a heart of pure rock & roll relishing his new status on Main Street. Earle and his backing band, the Dukes, rip through a set featuring GUITAR TOWN standards such as Hillbilly Highway and Fearless Heart, tracks off the soon-to-be-released EXIT O, and a menacing cover of Bruce Springsteen's State Trooper. Earle's solo performance of his own My Old Friend the Blues, however, is the show stealer here, and on its own is worth the sticker price.n
Label / Distributor: New West / Essential/Pinnacle
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Live
Format: Performer
EAN: 607396614424
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Album Notes: At the time of LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX's release in 2008, Steve Earle had become a cranky elder statesman of insurgent country, and it was easy to forget that he once conned his way to the top of the country charts. This fantastic live set--taped in September 1986 for Austin City Limits after GUITAR TOWN had made him the decade's most unlikely country star--reveals an energetic young hillbilly with a heart of pure rock & roll relishing his new status on Main Street. Earle and his backing band, the Dukes, rip through a set featuring GUITAR TOWN standards such as "Hillbilly Highway" and "Fearless Heart," tracks off the soon-to-be-released EXIT O, and a menacing cover of Bruce Springsteen's "State Trooper." Earle's solo performance of his own "My Old Friend the Blues," however, is the show stealer here, and on its own is worth the sticker price.
...and the other in the Appalachian Mountains and the result is a memorable and upbeat track.
Two tracks from The Hard Way round off proceedings. The Other Kind is an almost apologetic response to his families and friends concerns to his hard living of the time. Mandolins flicker behind the guitars and an understated power acts as a platform for Earle to pour out his heart.
I woke up this morning and I took a look around at all that I got
These days I've been lookin' in the mirror and wondering if that's me lookin' back or not
I'm still the apple of my mama's eye
I'm my daddy's worst fears realized
Here of late all this real estate don't seem all that real to me sometimes
I'm back out on that road again
Turn this beast into the wind
There are those that break and bend
I'm the other kind, I'm the other kind
Finally, Billy Austin...
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Advantages: Great Country Music Disadvantages: Not Great If You Don't Like Country
...I love proper country music; the crofts of my home in the Highlands of Scotland are only a stones throw away from the dirt farms of the mid-west and southern US. There has always been a big country following in Scotland one could argue that the music has similar chord structures to that of proper Scots folk music or that the themes of desperation, social isolation, religion, suicide and loyal dogs that get killed in horrific accidents strike a chord in the Scottish psyche, but I am not going to go down that path here………..
This is the SteveEarle who did that song called Copperhead Road and upset a few folks by releasing a song written from the point of view of a Taliban fighter. What a bad boy but I think that if you cannot see the other sides point of view then you will never reach them, unless you blow them into tiny little bits...
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..., a female vocal pulls the song out of its despair and guitars grind and cut through the music before it all fades out into oblivion.
Open Letter and Ringmaster are back in the rock vein, the fomer full on Stones the latter more akin to SteveEarle or Tom Petty. Havana By Midnight is the biggest departure on the album, latin beats and a lonely trumpet sends this song over the border and across the water, Spanish sounds fill the song and even though it sounds different from the rest of the album, it has enough of the flavour of Tommy Hales nature so as not to feel out of place.
The album wraps up with a cover, Savior, originaly by London sleeze rockers Dogs D`Amour, this version is just voice and guitar and a very distorted bass way back in the mix. The sparseness of the music empasises the words, a song of redemption for past...
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