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Wynette Tammy: You and me / Let's get together [CD]

Idén är egentligen lika enkel som genial - nya generationer av entusiastiska artister tar sig an den levande legenden Owe Thörnqvists enorma musikskatt! Inte mindre än 22 artister från Sverige, Europa och USA gör på detta album sina tolkningar av Owes klassiska hitlåtar. <br/><br/>Owe har själv varit minst lika entusiastisk under detta projekt - där han har haft insyn från början till slut. I egenskap av den energiske 89-åring (som han bevisligen är!) så kunde inte Owe hålla sig ifrån att ytterligare sätta sin prägel på albumet - genom att medverka på öppningsspåret med ett eldigt munspelssolo. <br/><br/>På samma sätt som Owe Thörnqvist genom åren har framfört en stor bredd av musikstilar - så återfinns det även ett flertal stilar på detta album, i form av bl.a rockabilly, country, blues, latino, jazz, boogie woogie och swing. <br/><br/>Den geografiska spridningen på artisterna är även påtagligt bred... Inom Sverige jämt fördelat från norra Norrland till sydligaste Skåne. Därtill har tydligen Owe också satt spår internationellt... Vilket föranlett medverkan från Norge (Built For Speed) och Danmark (Mads Clausen) vidare till exotiska inslag från Tyskland (Boppin'B), Portugal (No Smoking On Board) och USA (John Whiteleather). <br/><br/>Boogiemannen rockar onekligen vidare och hans odödliga låtar likaså - i form av dessa 22 högst respektfulla och underhållande tolkningar!!

Owens Buck: Four classic albums plus 1961-62 [2 CD]

I can do whatever I wanna all by my lonesome<br/>If that's a problem well you can't say shit<br/>Cause I'm going my way<br/>Livin' and dyin' - NIKKI LANE<br/><br/>From the first bass note within the driving drum beat you can tell something is different about the new record from Nikki Lane. The backbeat feels like a gutsy strut while the lead guitar feels like a revved up engine shifting gears. Denim & Diamonds comes out firing, spit shining the cowboy boots and tossing on a jean jacket.<br/>Produced by Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Denim & Diamonds has the Highway Queen embracing a more rock-oriented sound while still maintaining the heartfelt outlaw country sound she has developed across her previous three releases. Denim & Diamonds still has the fuck-off flare of which Nikki has come to be known. Her stylized, story-telling lyrics are all there as well as her catchy country hooks. The outlaw country sound is now balanced out with a gritty guitar and a machine gun snare that echoes the sound of 70's rock.<br/>Nikki Lane has made a record that sounds new and old. Familiar and surprising. She embraces where she has come from, ("First High", "Born Tough") the lessons learned along the way, ("Good Enough", "Try Harder") all while doing things her way, ("Denim & Diamonds", "Black Widow").

Wyatt Jaime: Feel good [Gatefold / Vinyl LP]

Earle Steve & The Dukes: The Saint of Lost Causes<br/>Yellow vinyl. Limited edition.

Som titeln antyder är nya plattan en hyllning till läromästaren och vännen Jerry Jeff Walker, som dog hösten 2020, 78 år gammal. <br/><br/>Med "Jerry Jeff" kompletterar Steve Earle den serie hyllningsplattor som inleddes med 2009 års "Townes" (Townes van Zandt), fortsatte med 2029 års "Guy" (Guy Clark) och som nu avslutas med "Jerry Jeff".<br/><br/>2021 gav Steve Earle dessutom ut "J.T.", en fin men smärtsam hyllningen till sonen Justin Townes Earle, som dog 2020, endast 38 år.<br/><br/>"The records were recorded and released in the order in which they left this world. But make no mistake - it was Jerry Jeff Walker who came first," says Earle.<br/> <br/>Earle was 14 when he first heard Walker. His high school drama teacher gave him a copy of "Mr. Bojangles," Walker's classic ballad about an unforgettable character he met in a New Orleans jail. After Earle moved to Nashville in the 1970s, he had the opportunity to get to know Walker, who enlisted him as his designated driver.<br/>"There's a tendency to think of Jerry Jeff around a relationship to one song," Earle says, referring to "Mr. Bojangles," which was covered by everyone from Bob Dylan to Sammy Davis Jr. "He was also such a great interpreter of other people's songs. But my main purpose in recording this album was to remind people that he wrote a lot of fucking great songs."