The Alternate Root - Discover Roots & Americana Music
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Meet N Greet
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact

reviews

hayes carll alone together sessions

9/26/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Hayes Carll (from the album Alone Together Sessions available on Dualtone Music)
A new coat of paint never hurt anything except the old coat of paint. Even songs sometimes need that , a little change to the hue to breathe some different life into tunes we all love that may find another life with some new zip. That’s the treatment Hayes Carll is giving a chunk of his songs, recruiting Darrell Scott and a load of others pals on the Alone Together Sessions, some Carll gems being taken for a new spin around the block. 
Album opener “Arkansas Blues” is sad and somber as Hayes Carll sings of ‘broken hearts and busted strings’, his acoustic partnered with atmospheric pedal steel guitar. Ray Wylie Hubbard jumps in for the duet of “Drunken Poets Dream” as the two create a seedy scenario of ‘cigarettes, papers and dominoes’ while a temptress the world is better without sings ‘you be the sinner honey, I’ll be the sin’. Both “Bad Liver and a Broken Heart” and “Down The Road ” are slowed down, the former becoming a weepy Blues ballad, the latter’s change putting a welcoming light on Carll’s characters, from the ‘Van Zandt groupies’ to the ‘freight train mommas’.  “The Sake of the Song” is a dive bar dose of acoustic lounge music, and the closer in “Wild as a Turkey” is Hayes Carll being honest, cocky, and confident amidst subtle self-deprecation. Twang drives the dirty Folk, Hayes  Carll’s lazy drawl ever inviting; he is that pal cracking you up with a late night beer, the buddy you don’t need when he gut-punches and breaks your heart, both knowing you are better off for it.
 
Listen and buy the music of Hayes Carll from AMAZON
 
For more information, please visit the Hayes Carll website
 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

Picture

    subscribe to our newsletter

Submit

To submit music, please mail a copy of your CD to the following address:
Danny McCloskey
The Alternate Root
1717 East Vista Chino
Ste A7 PMB 302
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Contact Us

    we do not share email addresses

Submit

©2020 The Alternate Root All Rights Reserved
website by Jim Cortez jctez12@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • It's All Music Radio
    • Touring In Place
    • All Reviews/Archives
    • On The Radar
  • Meet N Greet
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
    • Record Collection
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact