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Carryin' On

Dale Watson

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Carryin’ On delivers on Dale Watson’s longstanding dream to make a country record the way they did in the ’60s, using the last remaining session players from that gilded era. The band here was assembled by legendary steel guitarist Lloyd Green, who brought onboard classic talent like steel player Pete Wade and pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins, as well as tasteful younger musicians like bassist Dennis Crouch and fiddler Glen Duncan. Watson asked the musicians to play as they did back when they were cutting new records by Loretta Lynn and Ray Price, and indeed Carryin’ On exhibits the unmistakable restraint and elegant expertise of classic productions by Owen Bradley or Chet Atkins. For the occasion, Watson brought his strongest collection of material in years, most of which was written and road-tested over the course of his neverending tour schedule. Appropriately for an album by a man nearing 50 and working with guys even older, much of Carryin’ On deals with themes of aging. Signature barroom weepers like “Your Love I’m Gonna Miss” and “How To Break Your Own Heart” take on newfound maturity in this sophisticated setting.

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Thank God Country music still has artists like Dale Watson

This is what Country Music Should sound like!

Watson makes old-school sounds with old-school players

Dale Watson has always been a country music militant. But as he’s aged, he’s moved away from explicit railing against the modern country music establishment, choosing instead to show them up by crafting songs that are more country than “country.” Of course, there’s some irony in Watson’s embrace of an era that was scorned by then-contemporary critics who felt Nashville had irrevocably compromised the hillbilly roots of earlier times with the introduction of electric guitars and drums. But one can easily trace the DNA shared by the Carter Family, Merle Haggard and Dale Watson, while many of Nashville’s modern radio stars seem to have grown from the Petri dish of arena rock. The music that Watson idolizes, and the place from which he composes, grew from the same roots, even as electric instruments were introduced and pedals were added to the steel guitars. His latest album draws directly upon the golden age by featuring Lloyd Green (steel guitar), Hargus “Pig” Robbins (piano) and Pete Wade (guitar) as instrumentalists, with the Carol Lee Cooper Singers adding deft countrypolitan touches in the background. Watson’s baritone is less strident than in his earlier days, showing his love of country songs with his vocal caress rather than with lyrical barbs. He shuffles with the swinging glide of Ray Price, tenderly holding a lover, switching to the bottle’s embrace when left behind, and finally counseling the cheaters of the world “How to Break Your Own Heart.” The album’s title track borrows the rolling rhythm of “Gentle on My Mind,” but its self-assessment of an aging party boy charts a future without John Hartford’s wistful memories. Robbins’ piano and Green’s steel underline the emotions as Watson’s songs wallow in romantic misery, moon over absent mates, and celebrate being in love. The album’s one moment of modern-Nashville-inspired enmity is the closing “Hello, I’m an Old Country Song.” But here the words are filled with sorrow rather than barbs, more nostalgic and resigned than ready to pick a fight. Still, as long as Waston is writing and singing, he keeps the flame of his beloved country sounds vital, and that’s truly the best rebuttal of all. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]

Can't Stop Listening To This Album!

I caught "Flowers In Your Hair" on XM and knew right away I needed to check this out. After listening to a couple of samples, I bought the album and have been unable to turn away from it since. I am planning to take a trip down to Austin soon to see this guy live. True story.

Biography

Born: October 7, 1962 in Alabama

Genre: Country

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

A staunch adherent of old-style honky tonk and Bakersfield country, Dale Watson has positioned himself as a tattooed, stubbornly independent outsider only interested in recording authentic country music. As a result, he has never sold many records, but...
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