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| Various Artists |
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| Paige Price: Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys; The Long Goners: L.A. Freeway; plus Carter Falco, Blake Powers, The Mother Truckers and Fallon Franklin. |
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| 1 Songs About Texas - Franklin, Fallon |
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| 2 Lovin' County - Falco, Carter |
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| 3 Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind - Long Goners |
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| 4 Sunset Blvd. - Powers, Blake |
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| 5 When I Get My Wings - Mother Truckers |
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| 6 Sick, Sober and Sorry - WT Special |
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| 7 The Preacher - Franklin, Fallon |
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| 8 Ride Me Down Easy - Mother Truckers |
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| 9 It's Been So Long Darling - Price, Paige |
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| 10 Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - WT Special |
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| 11 L.A. Freeway - Long Goners |
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| 12 Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta - Falco, Carter |
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Album Review
CMH releases this loopy set of country music by itinerant bands across the Deep American West ("Texas is like a whole other country."). Some of the songs are loopy, still others just plain bad. There is, however, a certain charm that runs through a recording of this kind, in that it is the sound of an America that is undocumented for the most part, secret save for the friends, acquaintances, and lovers -- as well as haters -- of each act. The standouts here are the great covers of Guy Clark's "L.A. Freeway," by the Long Goners, Paige Price's reading of "Mama Don'T Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" -- which has a very different meaning when sung by a woman -- and the rock & roll cover of Billy Joe Shaver's "Ride Me Down Easy," by the Mother Truckers. Another Shaver cover, "When I Get My Wings," is given a soulful sympathetic cover by them as well. This isn't for everyone, but for those addicted to the Americana underground, there is plenty here to appreciate. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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