Music Town

Walter Hyatt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000EWV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get The Hell Outta Dodge

2. Must I Fall

3. When You're Down To Your Last Quarter

4. Are We There Yet Momma

5. The Evening Train

6. In Black And White

7. Teach Me About Love

8. I'm Calling

9. Out Where The Blue Begins

10. All The Time In The World

11. Here Today

12. Last Call

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a real gem, February 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Music Town (Audio CD)

The late lamented leader of Uncle Walt's Band (he died in the 1997 ValuJet crash in Florida) offers music from what his good friend Lyle Lovett calls "the sophisticated South." Hyatt's music veers between country, jazz, and unclassifiable offbeat acoustic rock, but this album has a nice straight classic country instrumentation, with lots of fiddle and dance rhythms. The discipline of writing pure country does wonders for Hyatt's songwriting, and I personally slightly prefer this to the "King Tears" album. Check out the very first track, co-written with Alice Randall of "XXXs and OOOs" and the Gone with the Wind parody fame. It's basicallly a straightforward honky-tonk tune, but the artistry in the lyrics will blow you away. There's a lot of pure country poetry here.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the lyrics are where its at!, November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Music Town (Audio CD)

I stumbled upon Walter looking to hear older music by David Ball. I can't seem to "type" Walter's music. My favorites seem to have a honky tonk flare to the lyrics, but the others draw me in also, even if the music is not something I would have chosen before.

Walter's music can not really be pigeonholed into one genre of music. He was very talented, he will be missed. I am sorry I was not among the fortunate that did know him.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars better than most, February 8, 2002

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john imus (Lincolnshire, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Town (Audio CD)

Walter Hyatt wrote classic and timeliess songs. Most of this album is clear and clean - there are only two less than very to outstanding songs. The rest stand up to repeated listenings and take you where he wanted you to go.