Eats Away the Night

Butch Hancock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000EXD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,824 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #41 in Music > Indie Music > Folk > Singer Songwriters

Track Listings

1. To Each His Own

2. Moanin' of the Midnight Train

3. Eileen

4. One Kiss

5. Pumpkineater

6. If You Were a Bluebird

7. Junkyard in the Sun

8. Boxcars

9. Baby Be Mine

10. Welcome to the Real World Kid

11. Eats Away the Night

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars superb collection of Butch's songs, April 30, 2000

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R. Hutchinson "autonomeus" (a world ruled by fossil fuels and fossil minds) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eats Away the Night (Audio CD)

Butch Hancock probably sounds more like Bob Dylan than anyone else in my "dylanites" series. That doesn't sound good -- being simply derivative is rarely a virtue. But like the others in the series, Butch is wonderfully creative and not simply an epigone -- you quickly see that he has his own unique vision, even as he occasionally turns a strongly Dylanesque vocal phrase, as in "Moanin of the Midnight Train".

I met Butch once, and took a look at his amazing organic architectural sketches -- clearly the product of a fevered imagination. The closest thing to that unfettered creativity here is "Pumpkineater," a song of recrimination and vaguely supernatural menace. There are versions of "If You Were a Bluebird" and "Boxcars," covered so well by Joe Ely; the great, simple lyric to "Junkyard in the Sun"; and the closer, "Eats Away the Night," (time, that is), which almost pushes this album to 5 stars all by itself.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Butch Hancock is the Bob Dylan of Texas, December 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Eats Away the Night (Audio CD)

Butch Hancock is the Bob Dylan of Texas. There is nothing better than Butch live. And recordings of Butch live never quite match the live experience. But this (non-live) album tops all recorded events to date. Unquestionably the best version of "If You Were a Bluebird" I've heard.