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Honky Tonker of the Month CODY JINKS is that if Waylon himself were to Adobe Sessions go to that school, he wouldn’t BRYAN DEERE early Capitol Records days.  come out sounding like Waylon Too Hot to Handle Bryan Deere apparently came Jennings. There is no originality  to classic country and honky tonk in these songs - you know from via , and in particular his the first line of Mamma Song father’s Link Wray albums and I’m that this will be sentimental slush certainly glad he did. The title track about how cowboys love their is from the pen of Eddie Noack mammas and how he still talks (Psycho) that is possibly better to Jesus. Ready For The Times known as something of a rockabilly To Get Better sounds like Merle classic by Sonny Burns, while Haggard on Mogadon. undoubtedly the best-known song If you want an album that is Harlan Howard’s Pick Me Up On sounds like Waylon and Merle Your Way Down. Recently I opined B-sides from the 70s, this is for that the song has been recorded What Else Is New / Mamma you. Otherwise, buy the real Come On In / I Can’t Go Home rather too much, but like everything Song / Cast No Stones / We’re thing. Like This / Bury The Bottle With else here Bryan Deere retains the Gonna Dance / Birds / Loud Spencer Leigh Me / Can I Go Home With You?/ spirit of the song while managing And Heavy / David / Me Or You Pick Me Up On Your Way Down / to put his own stamp on it and I / Folks / Ready for the Times To THE HARD PANS At My Side/ I Love You Because / absolutely loved the stripped back Get Better / Dirt / Budget Cuts Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young restrained shuffle treatment he has Producer:  / Slowly / From A Kiss To The given the song. It may well be my / No One / There Stands new favourite version. 46:43 The Glass / Too Hot To Handle I could say the same for Webb Producer: Tom Mindte Pierce’s Slowly and There Stands Cody Jinks may give the Patuxent Music The Glass, which are also fabulous appearance of being a shambolic 38:33 takes on classic country songs. Texas outlaw but he is right on As well as sounding like a young the ball. He uses social media Bryan Deere comes from a Faron I get the feeling that it has to promote himself and he has bluegrass background but one been Faron and Pierce who have 3,847 friends on Facebook and listen to this album and you’d think had the biggest influence on Bryan 2,226 fans following him on he’s been hanging around with Deere and he also nails Young’s Twitter. I did think of making it Deke Dickerson for the past thirty Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young. 2,227 just to see what he got up years rather than playing mandolin Among the lesser-known songs to during a week but I can make Ain’t Gonna Have It / Dying for the likes of Roni Stoneman. is From A Kiss To The Blues that a pretty good guess. On his blog Trying / Cockroaches Of Either that, or you might think was cut by the hugely underrated he writes about his hangovers, Staymore / Fidel’s Parking Lot you’ve discovered a lost honky tonk Country Johnny Mathis (check out his dog’s misadventures and how / Nobody Up Drinking (But Us) treasure from the 1950s for the his recent BACM release) and Ray he was caught with live bullets / Wallace / Robin & Janey / sound is so authentic on Too Hot Price’s I Can’t Go Home Like This on a plane. He performs at the What’s Coming / The Original to Handle. from back in the days when he Mule Barn, the Stumblin’ Goat Bloodstained Five / Mount Sure, it’s an album of covers wanted to be . and the Snorty House Saloon Bullshit / Where’s The Pub / of old honky tonkers, some better I am predisposed to liking and he sells T-shirts with the logo Clouds known than others, but rarely will these kinds of records but have to of a skeleton holding a gun. His Producer: The Hard Pans you have heard it done so well. admit that this is one of the best song, Hippies And Cowboys, MVD/High Plains The band is absolutely spot-on, examples of classic honky tonk has had 33,000 hits and the front 36:45 with drummer Anders Eliasson able recordings I can recall hearing in picture on his website shows him to knock out a shuffle beat like it’s recent years, and the fiddle by Nate with Billy Joe Shaver. The veteran Austin band The 1956, and the band gets its own Leath is worthy of a special mention Cody Jinks performs and Gourds are on an indefinite time to shine on an for superb work throughout. I even records with his band, the hiatus, but their spirit lives on of I Love You Because. While the like that Bryan Deere is pictured Tonedeaf Hippies, and his with the debut album by The production may be sympathetic with a Series 1 Land Rover on the equipment is set up by Cody’s Hard Pans. Claude Bernard to the tunes it is crisp and new inner sleeve rather than the more Roadies. I have never seen (guitar, keyboards) and Jimmy while at the same time sounding obvious 56 Chevy pick-up. This him but I can’t help feeling that Smith (bass) from The Gourds completely authentic. To top it all record is hardcore… and perfect in he is a caricature, a wannabe formed The Hard Pans with off, Bryan Deere has a tone to his every way as far as I’m concerned. graduate of the The Gourds sound engineer voice similar to Faron Young in his Duncan Warwick school of . Trouble and guitar tech Mark Creaney.

38 COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE - MARCH 2015