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...according to our Brett on Thu 18 Jun, 2009.
I'm sure this guy just sang "God never gave me a shoulder blade" which is an awful sounding disability, I haven't got a clue how he's playing guitar and that with a floppy arm but he certainly deserves our respect for it. Anyway Larry Jon Wilson is his name, I'm not familiar with him but apparently he's been recording for decades, he's on Drag City and it's immediately apparent he's got a bit of a Johnny Cash thing going on with his deep baritone and sparse country arrangements. Maybe a bit of Leonard Cohen, early solo Mark Lanegan or Smog.. This eponymous effort sounds cool from what I've been able to hear of it on this busy Price Slice Wednesday.‘Larry Jon Wilson’ is the first Larry Jon record in nearly 30
years.
Previously only available as a high-priced import, ‘Larry Jon
Wilson’ is now available, reasonably priced — and on sweet, sweet
vinyl.
In addition to his own originals, Larry Jon Wilson performs songs by
Mickey Newbury, Dave Loggins and Stuart Wright as well as
Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan’s ‘Heartland’.
The starkness and depth of Larry Jon Wilson’s music is bound to
appeal to fans of Cash’s American Recordings, Kristofferson’s
recent ‘This Old Road’ and Bill Callahan’s tale-telling baritone on
‘Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle’.
Once upon a time in the 1970s, Larry Jon Wilson released
four acclaimed albums and garnered a reputation as one of the
best new “outlaw country” songwriters around alongside such
hallowed names as Mickey Newbury, Townes Van Zandt and
Guy Clark.
Starting his career late (learning guitar in 1970, at the age of 30)
and leaving it early (ten years later), he walked away from the
business, not the music. Signed to Monument Records by Fred
Foster on the strength of a letter and a demo cassette, his legacy
has been the four albums of deep country soul released between
1975 and 1979, but none of them came as close to the bone as
this new self-titled album.
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