Tex Perkins & The Band Of Gold "Tex Perkins & The Band Of Gold" 2011

The Band of Gold is Tex Perkins and Rachael Tidd on vocals, bassist Steve Hadley, guitarists Shane Reilly and Shannon Bourne, and Dave Folley on drums. These fine folk became a unit by chance, bound by much-lauded deeds performed in the hit stage concert ‘The Man In Black’...…After more than a year of relentless roving together these six souls found themselves locked tight in a kind of musical shorthand. So when talk of recording began, it was the briefest of chinwags that prompted the making of this album. Tex Perkins and the Band of Gold were borne of a bunch of kindred musical spirits with a collective hankering to re-interpret some classics. The songs? A rag-tag bunch of possibles, which sees the band putting their stamp on alt-folk-country favourites with a patina all their own: Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, Johnny Paycheck – songsmiths and performers who lived and are loved for the music they made. Mostly arranged in a Melbourne studio over a few days in late 2010 and recorded as one-take, live, all-ins, their debut album was scratched into the wax, baked and left on the windowsill to cool. The result? As close as you’ll get to having The Band of Gold in your lounge room and calling the tunes yourself. Warm, authentic and uncovered together, this is a crack team of music-makers clocked off and kicking back. KATOOMBA RSL CLUB 86 Lurline St, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia

trax:
01 Help Me Make It Through the Night 02 Silver Wings 03 Anyhow I Love You 04 If I Needed You 05 I'd Rather Be Sorry 06 Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness 07 It's Not Love But It's Not Bad 08 Say It's Not You 09 Lonely Coming Down 10 Gypsy Rider 11 Pardon Me I've Got Someone to Kill 12 Kathleen 13 Till I Gain Control Again 14 Rock Salt and Nails
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