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reckless kelly american jackpot american girls

5/30/2020

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​Reckless Kelly (from the albums American Jackpot / American Girls available on No Big Deal Records)
The reason behind two simultaneous album releases from Reckless Kelly, American Jackpot and American Girls can be traced back to frontman/songwriter Willy Braun’s decision to produce the (then) upcoming album. As a first-time producer for the band, extra time was booked for flexibility, Reckless Kelly heading into the studio with Willy knowing ‘I wanted to produce this one by myself, just to try that out, and I made sure to book plenty of studio time to get it done right. We ended up moving along really fast, so I pulled out a few more songs and figured we’d end up using them down the road. Before we knew it, we had enough material for two really good records’. Aside from doing a fine job on album production, Willy Braun is a wise man. There are no fillers walking the halls of American Jackpot / American Girls, Reckless Kelly hitting each track out of the park, much like baseball hero Jackie Robinson, who the band honor with “42”, the tune a co-write with Willy and dad, Muzzie Braun.
Doing the math, when Reckless Kelly add American Jackpot and American Girls together they get an American opus, the songs a roadtrip on highways heading north, south, east, and west. Home is calling, Reckless Kelly bidding “Goodbye Colorado” as the tour bus heads back to Idaho (and Austin), dialing in a Tex-Mex border radio for a little Sir Doulgas mojo in “Lost Inside the Groove” and shouting out to the home team in the American Girls title track. The words of Willy Braun are fine-tuned, stories backed by Country Rock’n’Roll rhythms, one-liners in a narrative for the verses with choruses that stick like late-night decisions. A piano pounds rock’n’roll glory into the beat of “Don’t Give Up on Love” as dreamy steel guitar comforts the heart breaking in “Lonesome on My Own”. Reckless Kelly order one more round of promises to toast “Another New Year’s Day”, use a Celtic melody to warm the loneliness of “No Dancing in Bristol”, and support Idaho memories with a potent backbeat for “I Only See You with My Eyes Closed”. A satchel full of stories travel the roads of the U.S.A. with the native sons gazing out the windows offering observations when “The Company of Kings” spits, snarls, and struts across the album, following the lead of American Jackpot opener where Reckless Kelly provide a true-to-life history lesson as they singalong with consumerism with “North American Jackpot”.
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