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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great Thompson primer, June 8, 2007
This review is from: Wild Side of Life (Audio CD)
To read, in the discography included with this CD, that one of the tracks was recorded in the "Capitol Lounge at Sunset and Vine" is to experience a certain frisson of longing for a - perhaps imagined? - Golden Age of music recording. But that's not to say that this music sounds at all dated. This is a super - and super-value - selection of 30 tracks of great, straight-ahead Texan country music. Thompson's voice is reminiscent of that of another Hank (Williams) but with a smoother, almost crooner-ish edge to it. The musicianship is superb and there's some killer steel guitar work here, particularly on "Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart" (a title, surely, worthy of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) where it's played, to sometimes eerie effect, by Curly Chalker. Many of the tracks are transcription recordings and considering their vintage - the earliest is from 1946, the latest from '53 - the sound quality on this disc is consistently very good. Add to this a nicely produced fold-out cardboard sleeve, a booklet with liner notes by Adam Komorowski and a useful discography and you have a very attractive package. This is true, popular country music before much of it became a slickly-produced marketing exercise.
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