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Joey Allcorn - "50 Years
Too Late" $30 The track "This Ain't Montgomery" is
attracting a lot of attention as it features Joey singing with Hank
III about something that Hank III would probably like but deep down
would know just wouldn't be possible and that is to avoid living in
Hank Williams' shadow. Joey starts by lamenting how he was born too
late and takes us on a trip through most country styles concluding
with a very Ferlin Husky styled weepie called "The
Execution" which is great but would have been even better
without the "scratched record feel". "Alabama Chain
Gang" is a prison song...something we certainly don't get many
of nowadays. "In Nashville Tennessee" is the Robbie Fulks'
style putdown of the style of music that gets called
"country" but of course isn't in the slightest. A couple of
songs are a little out of place in that they are in a grungy style.
Seemingly like Hank III Joey also performs two sets; he would have
been advised to represent that "other" side on a separate
cd, but 11 out of 13 tracks of country brilliance isn't a bad
proportion. Musicians include former BR549 multi-instrumentalist
Donnie Herron and Andy Gibson of Hank III's band on steel guitar.