Following the success of 2003's inaugural compilation, the follow-up sways to the same delicious white-boy groove. The cream of '60s/'70s southern country is here?from Tony Joe White to Dan Penn?torn between smalltown escape and pining for home. White's "High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parish" drifts in on ...
Following the success of 2003’s inaugural compilation, the follow-up sways to the same delicious white-boy groove. The cream of ’60s/’70s southern country is here?from Tony Joe White to Dan Penn?torn between smalltown escape and pining for home. White’s “High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parish” drifts in on a haze of woodsmoke; Bobby Gentry’s “Fancy” is stifling humidity personified; Townes Van Zandt gets alarmingly funky on the early “Black Widow Blues” (1966); Shirl Milete’s “Big Country Blues” is a lyrical feast. Best of the lot is Jim Ford’s huge, horn-honking “Harlan County”. Another three are in the pipeline.
