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Honky Tonker of the Month

CODY RHODES Nick Of Time - The EP  to Texas to play music. “...Cody Rhodes Playing around the Houston area, impresses with he and his band find themselves playing mostly covers, but his easygoing Rhodes confidently states that this EP sums up where he is style...” musically. The only self written track is the opening This Jukebox Must Be Stoned and holy mother of God it’s a killer. I’d like to think Rhodes has a lot more songs of this quality inside of him and This Jukebox Must Be Stoned whilst it might have been nice to / Clock On The Wall / Mr Blue hear some more here, the covers / She Wants Me To Stay (Stay road he heads down is not the Gone) / Somethin’ ‘Bout The commonly trodden path. Moon / There Goes My Heart I’m guessing Mr Blue is Again / The Umbrella Song included here because of Producer: not listed Garth Brooks rather than The Self release Fleetwoods, but I can honestly 22:38 say I preferred it to either of them thanks to its slightly more dancehall feel and terrific little steel riffs. Throughout his Nick Of Time - The EP Cody Rhodes impresses with his easygoing style reminiscent of George Strait and Tim Mensy. Somethin’ ‘Bout The Moon has the laid-back jazzy quality of much of Strait’s 80s work, Holly Dunn’s There Goes My Heart Again is even more danceable than it ever was, and She Wants Me To Stay The trend for seven track albums (Stay Gone) is preferable to the continues apace with Cody Rhodes David Kersh version for the same and his Nick Of Time EP. However, I’d reasons. Imagine Billy Yates sure as hell rather have seven tracks doing it and you’ll get an idea of of this quality than 15 or even 20 how this feels. substandard filler. Cody Rhodes cut his If there were any doubts about Nick Of Time - The EP in three days this guy’s ability just listen to him but says that it was “20 years of living wrap his tonsils around the stone and learning that made this possible,” country waltz The Clock On The having played at the Texas Opry and Wall. Whilst it might have been anywhere else he could as a teenager nice if this were a ten track album and throughout his college years. and had included a few more Some years later Cody Rhodes quit of his own songs what’s here is his desk bound day job in Detroit - in perfect and any fan of traditional what he describes as something of a country will love it as I do. Paycheck moment - and headed back Duncan Warwick

32 cmp - APRIL 2017

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