No Justice: Live at Billy Bob's Texas [Limited Edition]

No Justice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 4, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Smith Music Group
• ASIN: B000TJ6C72
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,083 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Never Come Back

2. By My Side

3. Shakedown on 9th Street

4. Red Dress

5. Don't Walk Away

6. Spinning Wheel

7. Horseshoe Lake

8. Bend But Don't Break

9. Who I Want to Be

10. Circles

11. The Toast

Editorial Reviews

"In college everybody has a guitar. I couldn’t get any girls with mine so I knew it would be more about the music." Judging by the company that NO JUSTICE keeps it is easy to see that Steve Rice, lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist, had some pretty pivotal insight early on. It is silent knowledge that when you are coming out of Stillwater, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt depot, it had better be about the music. A rather small place on the map known for spawning large talent like Jimmy LaFave, Garth Brooks, The Great Divide, Cross Canadian Ragweed, and Jason Boland and The Stragglers (just to name a few), it is quickly understood that in this neck of the woods a man is only worth his weight in song. Rice recounts, "When I first moved to Stillwater I was introduced to the Red Dirt genre. It was something I had never heard of before." Being that Red Dirt is a genre of music that stands as an equal opportunity employer to all styles of music, the sound is difficult to describe to someone looking for the comfort of labels. With hammer in hand Rice hits it on the head, and many will agree, that Red Dirt music is, "Something that is more of a feeling than a sound. That feeling is honest music." As it is with any good organic creation, there is an aging process that needs to occur in order to harvest the perfect blend. Though the band was formed in 2001, it was in 2004 that all the different flavors settled in and NO JUSTICE came into peak season. Rock tones weave in and out of the band’s solid new self titled release thanks in part to Brandon Jackson, vocals/rhythm guitarist and recent rock band recruit, and the Brothers Payne, Tony on bass and Jerry on lead guitar. Tunes like "Never Come Back," and "Bend But Don’t Break," lead with the southern rock badge of authority, but gives way to the funk fusion prowess of drummer/ percussionist, Armando Lopez. Lopez shines on "Don’t Walk Away" providing smooth groovy touches in all the right places, and on "Breath," a melodically addicting ballad, alive with pop essence and a funk pulse. Rice tops it all off with acoustic overlays and a vocal concoction brewed from little grit and a lot of soul. Produced by JJ Lester of Stillwater’s The Great Divide, and Grammy award winning engineer, Eric Delegard, the band’s self-titled February 2006 release on Smith Music Group is a rich tasty mixture that goes down easy. Despite their name, the band’s 2003 freshman release Far From Everything did the band justice garnering them a Texas size hit with "The Toast." The single hit the Texas Music Chart’s Top 10 and remained there for 27 straight weeks (2005), a major accomplishment for the only independent artists on the Top 10 chart at that time. Far From Everything was included in Gruene With Envy’s Top Ten list (2003) and voted Best Album of the Year at the Payne Country Line Music awards show (2004). Far From Everything has also ranked #2 on LonestarMusic.com’s top selling albums. Fulfilling their Red Dirt obligation to uphold with their music, the band also took home the title for Best Red Dirt New Comer of the Year (2003). The road leading up to the band’s much anticipated 2007 release is well decorated with media acclaim, radio airplay, and a quickly growing fan base that has attracted a ceaseless tour schedule totaling 200 plus dates a year. Always in excellent company, NO JUSTICE has shared stages across the greater Midwest with artists such as Charlie Robison, Billy Joe Shaver, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Jack Ingram, Cooder Graw, Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Hank Jr., the Warren Brothers, and Chris LeDoux. Headed by Jon Folk at Nashville based Buddy Lee Attractions, and sponsored by Budweiser True Music, NO JUSTICE will soon be appearing at a venue near you. Visit www.nojustice.com for tour dates and information on the upcoming release.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Live or mostly live, October 13, 2007

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This review is from: No Justice: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Audio CD)

I purchased this product with anticipation to see how No Justice does in concert. Well, if you listen to the audio cd rather than watch the DVD you will enjoy the music. They came across well on the cd with great vocal and good instrumentals backed by a great drummer. Their stage presence wasn't much but didn't hurt their musical performance. (Reckless Kelly or Cross Canadian Railroad on stage they aren't.) The songs are a great cross section of their music released to date with a couple new to me numbers. The DVD is a whole different story! The sound quality is excellent but the video leaves much to be desired towards the end. In about the middle of the performance the DVD freezes for a couple seconds then picks up again with the video out of sync with the music. Really weird!