Tag: honky-tonk

Lucky Tubb with Jimbo Wallace – Lucky Tubb with Jimbo Wallace [2018; Fun-Guy Records]

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On his second single, Lucky Tubb brings in Reverend Horton Heat bassist Jimbo Wallace to co-write and play a pair of songs.  A-side “Cattlemen’s Stroll” plays with some retro Western dance-hall material, with a mellow melody eased along on brassy guitar licks.  The B-side, “There’s Not A Day”, shifts to a more modern rockabilly strut for a quick ramble, returning to the throw-back flavor for its finish.  Well-played and earnest in its homaging, but nothing to make it really stand out too much besides the pedigrees of the people involved.

New Riders of the Purple Sage – Who Are Those Guys? [1977; MCA Records]

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Easy-going humor and twangs both vocal and stringed fill this album, the eighth studio LP by the NRPS, with stoner-baked treatment of honky-tonk across ten tracks.  Originals and covers (including Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue”) mingle freely, and while solid technique is shown in the playing, the band rarely pushes itself out of their relaxed comfort zone.  Combined with a run-time of just under half an hour, the album ends up feeling inconsequential, and though the musicians seem to relish the country-fried cornbread flavoring, it’s otherwise pleasant enough for its short duration.