Thursday, 1 August 2013

WEBB WILDER "Town & Country" (1995)

In the hands of the wily Webb Wilder and the Nashvegans, you can expect superb and eclectic taste in covers, with spunky, entertaining delivery. Town & Country offers 16 quick flashes ranging from the Flamin' Groovies classic "Slow Death" and The Music Machine's "Talk Talk" (the "Town") to Waylon Jennings's "Nashville Bum" and Rodney Crowell's "Ain't Living Long Like This" (the "Country"). On the way, there are plenty of pitstops for obscure rockabilly and R&B (Lazy Lester, Jerry "Boogie" McCain) and various phases of British Invasion (Small Faces, Mott the Hoople). (Allmusic)

trax:
01 Stay Out Of Automobiles 02 Nashville Bum 03 Slow Death 04 (I'm A) Lover Not A Fighter 05 To The Loving Public 06 Honky Tonk Hell 07 My Mind's Eye 08 Too Many Rivers 09 Goldfinger 10 Hissy-Fit 11 Talk Talk 12 Streets Of Laredo 13 Short On Love 14 I Ain't Living Long Like This 15 Original Mixed-Up Kid 16 Rockin' Little Angel
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6 comments:

RYP said...

WEBB WILDER "Town & Country"
...served by Gyro1966...
gitit! no pw
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12vjoe said...

Excellent stuff! Thanks!

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS:


THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL - Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful (1966) (Japanese Deluxe Edition)

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/71213921/file.html

Having released two previous albums and a soundtrack, along with a stream of singles, over the previous 12-and-a-half months, the Lovin' Spoonful assembled their third regular studio LP, Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, for release around Thanksgiving 1966. It contained the group's chart-topping single from the previous June, "Summer in the City," along with September's Top Ten hit "Rain on the Roof" (curiously titled "You and Me and Rain on the Roof" on the LP). Released simultaneously with the album and included on it were the two songs from the next single, "Nashville Cats," which became the band's seventh consecutive Top Ten entry, and "Full Measure," a B-side featuring drummer Joe Butler on lead vocals that scraped into the singles chart. Those were the money songs, although Bobby Darin discovered the leadoff track, "Lovin' You," and quickly covered it for a Top 40 hit, and the moody "Coconut Grove," a tribute to Fred Neil, would become a permanent part of Spoonful leader John Sebastian's repertoire in his solo career. An emphasis on the parts of the album is a way of describing it as more of a loose collection of disparate tracks than a unified effort, despite Sebastian's hand in all the compositions and his lead vocals on most of them. This was by necessity, but also by design, since Sebastian and co. went into the studio trying to sound completely different each time. They often succeeded: except for the vocal similarity, the rock band playing "Summer in the City" and the caustic, autobiographical "4 Eyes" doesn't sound much like the country unit picking its way through "Lovin' You" and "Nashville Cats." Sebastian may have been an obvious New Yorker (those "yellow Sun records" were from Memphis, not Nashville), but that didn't keep him from expressing his musical passions effectively. (Allmusic)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Web Wilder - I use to have this but have lost it along the way. This is going straight to my IPod. love the Web!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for Web, great stuff.

piratecyan said...

Thanks for Loving Spoonful, much appreciated