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Take
Country Back Review
ThereIsNoRadio.com Interview (MP3) YouTube: Testimony to US Congress TIME Magazine: The Last Stand of Internet Radio Billboard: Execs, Artists Testify On Webcaster Rates FreePress: House Hearings on Internet Radio Podcast: "It Burns When I Pee" (MP3) Carrying On with Joey Allcorn Sex, Drugs & Yodeling... Introducing Joey Allcorn Where Is The Honky Tonk Music ? Hats Of To Hank Singer Allcorn Live Road Life in the South So Lonesome He Could Cry Atlantis Confrence 2005 Article Art on the Avenue Nashville EP Review Country Band Makes Tour For US Troops
"Testimony
of Joey Allcorn" to the US Congress |
"It may not be correct to call someone innovative and traditional at the same time but there is no better way I can think of to describe Joey Allcorn. He has a sound that is wholly different from popular country music today but very representative of country music 50 years past. Allcorn is well versed in traditional country music style and he sticks to his roots by writing songs that are humorous, meaningful, and above all else timeless" - MurMur (Savannah, GA) Joey is the latest artist to climb aboard the train that Wayne Hancock and Dale Watson fired up ten years ago. That being to train towards unabashed country music. Music that’s steeped in the roots of country music, progressive in it’s thinking, and refuses to bow at the altar of the almighty dollar. While no other artist to date has taken Watson’s crown as the King of the Haggard/Paycheck/Jones school of Honky-Tonk, Joey Allcorn the 24 year old Columbus, GA native may well have perfected the Wills/Williams/Tubb genre. - www.RealCountryMusic.org "Joey Allcorn’s musical contributions are right on the mark and right on time. He’s also gifted with enough raw talent to get noticed and the tenacity and energy it’ll take to make sure that it happens....I came across a quote not too long ago about the impact that certain artists have had on the face of country music: “Hank Williams modernized it. Johnny Cash personalized it. And Buck Owens electrified it.” I’d like to add, if given a chance, Joey Allcorn may very well resuscitate it." - www.TakeCountryBack.com "I really love the cd. It's cool because he's in the "circle" of true honky tonk singers but has a voice all his own. I mean I love me some Wayne, JB, and III but it's cool to see someone in this circle with a different sounding voice!!! Damn we've almost got a new version of the Highwaymen with those 4 huh? I'll be spinnin quite a few songs off it today." - TJ Thompson, WJOS Norfolk VA "Joey Allcorn has the ability to make you think his songs have been written 50 years ago." - Mike Penard, ISA Radio, France "Columbus, Georgia native Joey Allcorn has released his long awaited full length debut album "Fifty Years Too Late". The album showcases Allcorn's stellar songwriting and vocal talents with 13 original tunes including the autobiographical title track. Allcorn is a once in a lifetime artist who's promise and potential is tangible and obvious. His vocal and songwriting abilities are aced only by his stage presence and his passion for the music genre that fuels that fire." - www.MetroCountry.co.uk "Columbus' Allcorn is equal parts hellfire and Hank Williams (senior, thank you very much), with a live show that features a stand-up bass and a slide guitar. It's old-timey music with enough energy to give modern country stylings a well-placed boot in the rear. Allcorn's full-length debut, "50 Years Too Late," is due out late summer (and features guests like Hank Williams III and BR549." - Montgomery Advertiser "Georgia’s native Joey Allcorn was physically born at least fifty years too late. But his soul might as well have been born back when the good old ones did. Influenced by the biggest Country voices, song writers and musicians of our mistreated Country past, Allcorn has also learned to be himself and managed to listen to all kinds of music. He is leaving his own legacy around. Somewhere between Nirvana and Faron Young you will find Joey Allcorn’s amazing Honky Tonk music." - Esther Berlanga (www.AllAboutCountry.com) "Allcorn loves him some classic honky tonk, and even though Wayne 'The Train' Hancock staked out similar territory a decade ago, there aren't enough of these Hank Williams-styled American twangers to go around." - Creative Loafing (Atlanta) "Columbus native Joey Allcorn's latest twang-drenched album is titled "50 Years Too Late," as in 50 years too late to catch a Hank Williams or Patsy Cline live show. But if Allcorn had been born in time for all that, he might not be around to remind us so much of ol' Hank today." - Twangin' "I hear Hank/Luke the Drifter, Hank Jr, Hank III and even some touch of the Legendary Jimmy Rodgers - but most of all I hear Joey Allcorn." - Robert Ackerman "Retro country artists playing up the outlaw image with lazy drawls, baritone vocals, sleepy rhythms, undertaker duds and an obvious fixation on Luke The Drifter. His tunes are about murder, cheating, drinking and jail in no particular order. When a guy in his early 20's wears Webb Pierce duds, publicly bemoans the proliferation of "candy ass pop music" and gives his albums titles like "50 Years Too Late," it's easy to see where he's coming from." - Connect Savnnah "Joey does perhaps the best imitations of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams in the business today, and yet his sound is still unquestionably his own. He brings a grunge rocker's sense of morbidity to the classic sounds of The Drifting Cowboys. I expect great things from this young man." - RealCountryMusic.org "Call it rockabilly, or call it Americana, Allcorn's sets are a little bit country and a little bit rock & roll. Think Hank Williams Sr. and throw back an extra shot of attitude, and you're in the neighborhood." - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer "A great regional alt.country band that vacillates between full-on hillbilly shtick, and raucous sets with the force and attitude of hard rock music." - Nashville Rage |
