Under My Hat

Rusty Wier | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: March 15, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Icehouse Music Inc
• ASIN: B00009WO8X
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,251 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Listen To My Song

2. Just One More Time

3. Don't It Make You Wanna Dance

4. I Don't Want To Lay This Guitar Down

5. Fly Away

6. Sally Mae

7. Trouble

8. I Believe In The Way That You Love Me

9. Aqua Dulce

10. I Heard That You've Been Laying My Old Lady

11. Texas Morning

12. Black Hat Saloon

13. The Devil Lives In Dallas

14. The Coast Of Colorado

Editorial Reviews

Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle, April 12, 2003

...Wier is possessed of strikingly soulful vocals enhanced by great personal charisma...

Product Description

A composite collection of the most popular songs by Rusty Wier during the 1970's when Rusty Wier was a founding father of the Redneck Rock or Cosmic Cowboy movement. These songs are digitally remastered and available for the first time on compact disc.

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stone, Slow, Rugged, January 26, 2005

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Knox (San Francisco, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under My Hat (Audio CD)

I have not heard most of these brilliant tracks since the seventies. The LP's are out of print and most folks outside of Texas have never heard of Rusty Weir. This CD brings it all back home. I was a teenage hard rocker when some friends cajoled me into going to a Dallas honky tonk called Whiskey River to see this genuine Texas troubador. After being exposed to the hard rocking "Sally Mae", the riff & twang of "Aqua Dulce", and the genre bending "Black Hat Saloon" I was hooked. The albums these tracks were culled from deserve to be heard by a new generation of country and/or rock fans. The songs fall comfortably in an acoustic setting and when the Fabulous Filler Brothers flat out wail. Whenever Wille & Waylon, Jerry Jeff or Michael Murphy are mentioned, Rusty Weir casts a giant shadow as a pioneer of the country/rock revolution of the mid seventies. And you know, it does make you wanna dance. Don't it?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it's about time, November 28, 2003

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JERI JARZABSKI (Arlington, tx United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Under My Hat (Audio CD)

I have been a huge fan ever since i "borrowed" "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance" from my college roommate in 1976. "Under My Hat" is great. You get 16 of Rusty's songs. He's got about 100 more. I have seen him live many times and I have never seen the same show twice.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Place and Time, I Guess, August 5, 2005

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B. Brumfield "maxxbhp" (Walls, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under My Hat (Audio CD)

I'll never understand why Rusty Weir never really "caught on". I happened upon his music myself, while passing through Texas and in the company of a beautiful and generous young woman 30 years ago. Among the Texas Troubadors of old, I think no one can touch Rusty's complexity, but then, that's not really something usually associated with this genre. What I mean is, "Bob Wills Is Still The King" isn't exactly an opus, but Waylon was in the right place at the right time and apparently Rusty wasn't. Nevertheless, I still can't see why he didn't at least achieve the cult icon status of a Jimmy Buffet, etc., at the very least. This guy's good, folks. If you sort of like Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wiley Hubbard, et al, you'll love Rusty Weir, and this CD is a pretty good collection. 30 years, I wonder what she's doing right now. ;-)