Paid in full (The Desotos) (LP 4280 - 4281)

The Desotos  Your Highway for Tonight (CD, Ode Records, 2011) *** 

Paul Gurney with The Desotos  Shadow of Love (CD, Tailgator Music, 2017) ***  

Genre: NZ Music, Americana, country rock

Places I remember: Roger Marbeck, JB Hi Fi

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Paid in Full (Y0ur Highway for Tonight)

Gear costume: Neon Light (Your Highway for Tonight)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7

Active compensatory factors: The DeSotos are Paul Gurney (vocals, guitar),
Stuart McIntyre (bass, vocals), Ron Stevens (Hammond organ, keyboards, guitar, vocals), Michael Burrows (drums, vocals). They lean on Paul Gurney's country blues guitar and his laid-back vocals.

Thanks to Roger Marbeck, I did have their debut album in my collection as well (Cross Your Heart), but I seem to have mislaid it somewhere. So, it's on to their second album - Your Highway for Tonight.

It's a lovely album full of cool JJ Cale inspired laid back Americana. Nothing gets too rushed in the country! That's probably my niggly thought too - it's all pretty much the same pace and I find myself hankering for some variety.

The Shadow of Love album isn't as good in my opinion. Too laid back and mellow for my taste.

Where do they all belong? A nice Americana corner of NZ music.