Glen Campbell - Ghost On The Canvass (2011)

Glen Campbell - Ghost On A Canvass 2011

  Here is Glen's FINAL album (unless he pulls a WHO!) and if this is his last musical statement then what a way to go out !  EVERYONE needs to buy this album !   Ghost On The Canvas is a truely personal and heavily inspired album (you were right Douggie and Suzzie!) and features a couple of absolutely stunning tracks that defy label and totally surprised me.      I have lots of Glen Campbell vinyl records and would never have thought that he had a last album in him as good as this !    I have always loved Glen's voice and on this album you get to hear it as an elder gents who just wont let go quite yet !   This album also features some of Glen Campbell's finest work ever !   The opening 2 tracks give me shivers and bring me to places that I never would have expected.     "A Better Place", "Ghost on the Canvas" and "There's No Me........Without You" will send you to the stars!
   An absolute essential album

   

Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South (2004)

Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South , 2004

  Southern Rock never sounded so good as when played by the Drive By Truckers.....loud that is.....

   This a very special band who boast some pretty cool albums with "The Dirty South" being one of my personal favs'     The DBT's play a muscled multi-guitar driven Southern Rock style with tons of twang and tons of grit.    And as hard as they can rock they can also roll in the hay with some odd songs slowed down offering a nice variety of moods and themes.  Mike Cooley (guitars and vocals) takes more the Country roads while and in sharp contrast band lead Patterson Hood (guitars and vocals) takes more rock than roll.  The Drive-By Truckers album  "Southern Rock Opera" became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock albums and appears in Mojo's Greatest Hits albums you must hear before you die in fact!.   Tales of the Dirty South deals with Southern US history, folklore, politics, and even personal character sketches along the way.   This is pure redneck twang-rock that I guarantee will make your toes tap and the beer just keep chuggin'.
    Oh yeah and a ton of Lynyrd Skynyrd adages and odes in the Drive By Truckers music.

Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (2009)

Patterson Hood -  Murdering Oscar, Ruth St. Records (2009)

  My good friend Doug put me on to this solo release from the Drive-By Truckers songwriter Patterson Hood .  Patterson is joined by DBT drummer Brad Morgan , Scott Danbom and Will Johnson from Centro-Matic as well as father David Hood.  This album shares many similarities to the deep south rock vibes of the DBT's, but has a personality and feel that sets it apart.  The sound quality of this recording is deep and rich and on a good stereo will sound raw and alive.  All 13 songs are excellent and this album was a great discovery.