Yesterday & Today Records Review

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From: http://www.yesterdayandtoday.com.au/news/2006-11.php

 
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.