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Various Artists - Bloodshot Sampler (2003)
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The trouble with sampler albums is that by thier very nature they aim to bring to the listeners attention all the different styles that the label offers. This album is no different.Country music is a genre that brings out strange reactions in poeple....some love it and some hate it. Those that hate it,hate it period. Those that like it may only like certain artists ,or only certain trends such as bluegrass or mainstream. Bloodshot's sampler is definitely not mainstream...in fact the sleeve notes admit as much! The closest the album gets to a singer sounding anything like New Country or mainstream is Rex Hobart's Gotta Get Back To Forgetting You. The rest of the tracks are Alt Country and left field...and some tracks are so left field that they nearly drop off the radar!! That in itself is not a bad thing...it allows the listener to get a good cross section of the Alt Country scene. There is something here for all tastes country,or at least those prepared to open thier minds to the possibility that there is country beyond the Nashville Music Machine. I will attempt to briefly illustrate each track... 1) The Sadies- Empty The Chamber... A haunting guitar instumental evocative of western plains and spaghetti westerns...Clint would be proud!! 2) Kelly Hogan- Green Green Grass Of Home... Backed by the Pine Vally Cosmanauts, this track is a revellation!! What a voice,what a version of this song!! Forget Tom, play this instead!! 3)Trailer Bridge- Hope Is A Thing With A Feather...Very Alt Country,haunting and melancholy 4)Waco Brothers- Poison... A good introduction to the Brothers brand of stomping Alt Country,its got fiddles and pianos..but it just bounces along away from Nashville! 5) Bobby Bare Jr- I'll Be Around... Daddy Bare would be proud!! An understated piece of melodic Alt Country. 6) Wayne Hancock- Johnny Law... A slab of turbo-charged honkytonkabilly from "The Train"...Imagine Chuck Berry meets Hank Williams and you get the picture. 7) TH' Legendary Shack Shakers- Pinetree Boogie... A mixture of swampy bluesy psycho rockabilly with thier own unique brand of delivery. 8) Jon Langford-Solitaire Song... backed by the Sadies this track is a toe-tapping Alt Country romp with steel guitars to the fore. 9) Alejandro Escovedo- Velvet Guitar...Country rock that reminds of Tom Petty in a way. 10) Sally Timms- Homiside... The Pine Valley Cosmonauts do backing duties once again on this track. This sounds even more Tom Petty than the last track!! 11)Robbie Fulks- Sleeping On The Job Of Love...A real toe-tapper...very Texas sounding a la Dale Watson. 12)Jon Rauhouse- Circle The Wagons Babe...A swooping retro steel guitar insrumental. 13) Rex Hobart- Gotta Get Back To Forgetting You...About as mainstream as it gets...a country rock stomper. 14) Ryan Adams- To Be Young...Probably the best known artist here...doing a resonable Dylan sound! 15)Split Lip Rayfield- Movin To Virginia...A stunning bluegrass track,thumping bass and melody hook...track of the album!! 16)The Meat Purveyors- Hey Little Sister...Cowpunk...Dixie Chicks on acid!! 17)Asylum Street spankers- Monkey Rag...An old time sounding Dixie Rag. 18) Devil In A Woodpile... I Shall Not Be Moved...A feelgood version of this old spiritual song...very bluegras and so infectious 19)_Old 97's-Ray Charles... A fast paced Alt country rocker finishes the set.Read full review
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