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JOHN THE REVEALATOR FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS #107 ROOTS BIRTHS & DEATHS REVIEWS &&&&& Cor not) JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN HACIENDA BROTHERS JIM STRINGER & THE AM BAND ABI TAPIA \ ERIC HISAW Nature of the Blues Eric d e liv e r s his b e st a l b u m to-date w ith 13 n e w ORIGINALS INCLUDING “CHEAP LIVING”, “SHOUT OUT Lo u d ” a n d “To m o r r o w ”. "AT ANOTHER TIME, HlSAW, LONG BASED IN A u s t i n , c o u l d h a v e b e e n d e s c r i b e d a s COUNTRY-ROCK, WITH THE EMPHASIS ON ROCK, BUT HIS COMBINATION OF LITERACY AND GRIT MAKES AMERICANA A RATHER MORE USEFUL LABEL THAN USUAL. I’VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT IT BEARS REPEATING BECAUSE IT’S THE SOURCE OF HlSAW’S STRENGTH, WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING ABOUT WORKING CLASS LIFE, HE’S NOT V *ÊÊÊÈÊÊmÊ£?r~' -} V- YOUR USUAL OVER-PRIVILEGED MIDDLE CLASS SONGWRITER STRIVING FOR DOWNWARD MOBILITY, HE’S THE REAL THING, WITH THE RAGGED EDGE OF AUTHENTICITY. 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T riskaioekaphilia pJayinc OU» ci (Music Room) *BL/*CP/*DF/*GM/*JH/*KD/*LB/*LMG/*MN/*NA/ *RS/*TB/*TR/*TS 2 Miss Leslie: Between The Whiskey And The Wine (Zero Label) *MP/*RH/*RM/*RT 3 Heybale: The Last Country Album (Shuffle 5) *3RC/*BR/*SH/*TF 4 Eliza Gilkyson: Beautiful World (Red House) *DD/*DJ/*ES 5 ’ I See Hawks In LA: Hallowed Ground (Big Book) *RH/*WR 6 Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal (Back Porch) *LW/*MDT/*N&T 7 Emmylou Harris: All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch) *CR/*RJ 8 James McMurtry: Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod) *GC/*XE 9 1100 Springs: Country Jam (Palo Duro) *M M /*00 10= John Hiatt: Same Ola Man (New West) *MB/*RF The Wilders: Someone's Got to Pay (Free Dirt) *ST 11 Paul Evans: Aqua Noir (Mount Misery) 12 Hayes Carll: Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway) *CS 13= Elliott BROOD: Mountain Meadows (Six Shooter) *SB/*SR Fred Eaglesmith: Tinderbox (A Major Label) *KB 14 Randy Thompson: Further On (Jackpot) *EW 15= Band O f Heathens (BOH) *MY Crooked Still: Still Crooked (Signature Sounds) *JT 16= Arty Hill & The Long Gone Dadays: Bar O f Gold (Cow Island) *BP Miss Lauren Marie: I'm No Good Without You (Texas Jamboree) *DA/*DC Kimmie Rhodes: Walls Fall Down (Sunbird) *TG 17= Hacienda Brothers: Arizona Motel (self) *KF/*RV Tim Hus: Bush Pilot Buckaroo (Stony Plain) ’*'BS/*RA 18 Chip Taylor: New Sounds O f Freedom (Train Wreck) *AA 19= Rachel Harrington: City Of Refuge (Skinny Dennis) *JB RG Stark: Not Crazy Tonight (La Linda) *JS 20 Red Molly: Love And Other Tragedies (self) 21 Stephen Clair: What Luck (self)^BB 22= NQ Arbuckle: XOK (Six Shooter) *JR Dan Tyminski: Wheels (Rounder) *MA 23 Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags:AII the Great Aviators Agree (Monkey Barr) *RC 24= Angel Band: With Roots & Winas (Appleseed) Chatham County Line: IV (Yep Roc) 25= Joe Ely & Joel Guzman: Live Cactus! (Rack 'Em) Feufollet: Cow Island Hop (Valcour) *AG Loose Acoustic Trio: Sorrow Be Gone (Biq Book) *PP 26= The Belleville Outfit: Wanderin' (self) *GF Chuckanut Drive: Fidelity Grange (Ragtown) *R78 Dr John: City That Care Forgot (429)^JP Old 97's: Blame It On Gravity (New West) Otis Taylor: Recapturing The Banjo (Telarc) *DWT Railroad Earth: Amen Corner (SCI Fidelity) *MF Compact Discs Records * Video WATERLOO m t a - 1SM1 Sun 8*KMfc Nk»r*N ’LMMftr YX T*T&a w M e m m u s i c s t i l l m a t t e r s *XX = D J’s A l b u m o f th e M o n t h Freeform American Roots is compiled from reports provided by 140 freeform DJs. 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I did get Mitch Webb’s Lonely Kind rather late in the month, so I was Eddy’s Rebel Rouser, that’s what. So much for pigeon-holing. Maybe I have a warpec a bit rushed. So a bit belated and detached, but what I intended to say was “Most taste in guitarists or maybe Austin Chronicle readers are a bunch of meatheads. Texas musicians will, at least, pay lip service to St Doug, but Mitch Webb & The but my favorite Austin pickers never seem to get any respect in the Chron’s music Swindles are just about his only true disciples.” awards, but I personally know people who put Jim Stringer at the top of their lis1 • One correction to last month’s cover story, John Inmon actually started playing of reasons for coming to Austin. As NotSXSW regular Bob Howell remarked in the with Austin bands in 1966, not, as I said, in the early 70s, thus his remark about “plenty April issue, “I’ve never seen Jim Stringer be anything less than rock solid.” The same of work, good money, big crowds” speaks to an earlier period than I implied.