Genre: Country rock
Places I remember: Spellbound Wax Company (Gisborne)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Rocky Top (with Donna Washburn featuring on vocals)
Gear costume: Polly
Active compensatory factors: I picked this from the used sale bins at Spellbound on a recent visit to Gisborne. Country rock is a genre that I am particularly drawn to. There's not the purist authenticity issues centred around country or bluegrass. Instead there's a yee har - let's have fun with blurring the genres aspect to country rock.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Rocky Top (with Donna Washburn featuring on vocals)
Gear costume: Polly
Active compensatory factors: I picked this from the used sale bins at Spellbound on a recent visit to Gisborne. Country rock is a genre that I am particularly drawn to. There's not the purist authenticity issues centred around country or bluegrass. Instead there's a yee har - let's have fun with blurring the genres aspect to country rock.
Having said that, there is a purist whiff around this album as both the principles enjoy immersing themselves in traditional forms.
The music is great - the players are great - Sneaky Pete on steel guitar, Chris Hillman on Mandolin, Dillard on banjo and guitars - what could go wrong?
The songs? Well they are inconsistent but Polly is a sublime Clark song, and the covers create a lot of variety of approach.
Don't Let Me Down is my favourite Beatle song. If you are going to cover a Beatle song you need to approach it from a whole different genre. So a country/bluegrass version? Yep - works!
Where do they all belong? Next album up in this genre (vinyl edition) is The Eagles featuring Bernie Leadon who is one of the players featured on this album.
Where do they all belong? Next album up in this genre (vinyl edition) is The Eagles featuring Bernie Leadon who is one of the players featured on this album.
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