hayes carll alone together sessions

​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.
 
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