Here I Am In Dallas

Dallas Wayne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 21, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hightone Records
• ASIN: B00005MLW3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,237 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid, straight-ahead honky-tonkin' country, September 3, 2001

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Here I Am In Dallas (Audio CD)

After recording a half-dozen albums in Finland (!), this native Missourian returned to the States and signed with the Hightone label. This second LP for Hightone sticks to the twangy straight-ahead country and honky-tonk sounds that are his stock-in-trade. His previous collaboration with alt.country stalwart Robbie Fulks is slimmed down to one co-write ("I Hit the Road (and the Road Hit Back)"), giving favor to Wayne's own pen, and some well-selected covers (including an oddly cheery take of Ray Frushay's "Cheatin' Traces" - recently covered by The Wandering Eyes).

Wayne's stinging criticism of modern country (most notably in the press materials and liner notes) might grow tiresome if his most effective refutation of mainstream country's "diluted and deluded" state wasn't his music. But from Chris Lawrence's stuttering guitar figures (tipping more than a few strings to Merle Haggard's Strangers) to Wayne's Vern Gosden-like bottom scraping vocals (with a twist of George Jones' multi-note runs), this is heartfelt thowback, rather than calculated nostalgia. The subject matter (drinkin', women, the road, and several stripes of misery) doesn't pave any new ground, but, in large part, that's the point. They're well-worn classics for a reason: listeners can relate. (And no one's complaining about blues tunes using the same old chord progressions, are they?)

Guest players Skip Edwards (piano) and Jay Leach (steel guitar) add weepy backing to "Not a Dry Eye in the House," while Wayne's band (The Roadcases) hold forth as a crack unit (unusual in the mainstream world of studio pickers who don't follow an album out onto the road). A solid outing that, sadly, you won't likely be hearing on a country radio station near you (unless you happen to have an Americana or non-commercial station nearby).

5.0 out of 5 stars This is Awesome, December 31, 2010

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This review is from: Here I Am In Dallas (Audio CD)

This is not simply Dallas Wayne's best album, it is an awesome cd. From first to last the material is first class and the singing and music is hardcore country that anyone who likes the old greats not the new plastics, will wear out this cd. It really is that good. Buy it & spread the news here is one of the great moments in country music!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - Very Pleased, November 8, 2010

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This review is from: Here I Am In Dallas (Audio CD)

Item arrived VERY quickly, still cello-wrapped and just as promised. I am very pleased with this transaction and would buy again from this seller. I bought it
as a gift, so have not unwrapped it.