Pine Hill Haints LP - The Song Companion Of A Lonestar Cowboy

The Pine Hill Haints - The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy: On the Pine Hill Haints' 2021 long-player, 'The Song Companion of a Lonestar Cowboy', they go there and to other colourful places on the americana and appalachian trail. The fifteen song sequence kicks off with 'Fall Asleep' and 'Back to Alabama', a fiery pair of rockabilly-meets-Irish-jig rave-ups, then winds through standout tracks like the Bo Diddley-grooved 'Pretty Thing', a pounding tom-tom and fiddle take on the traditional 'John Henry' and the catchy, cajun-flavored squeezebox pop of 'Lone Star Kid'. There are excursions into Sun Records-style country ('Midnight Mayor' and 'Louise') and swampy blues (the saw-singing 'Wade in the Water' and 'Downtown Blues', which features guest J.D. Wilkes on harmonica). Throughout, Barrier's strong tenor voice rings familiar and friendly, with deep echoes of everything from John Lee Hooker to Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash. And the band plays with a sense of abandon that comes from thousands of gigs behind them. Disc 11. Fall Asleep - The Pine Hill Haints2. Back to Alabama - The Pine Hill Haints3. Pretty Thing - The Pine Hill Haints4. Satchel Paige Blues - The Pine Hill Haints5. John Henry - The Pine Hill Haints6. Lone Star Kid - The Pine Hill Haints7. Drop and Fall - The Pine Hill Haints8. Midnight Mayor - The Pine Hill Haints9. Catfish Blues - The Pine Hill Haints10. Fighting for the Wrong Side - The Pine Hill Haints11. Stare at the Fire - The Pine Hill Haints12. Louise - The Pine Hill Haints13. Downtown Blues - The Pine Hill Haints14. Wade in the Water - The Pine Hill Haints15. Tithy Dunbar - The Pine Hill Haints