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Album: Back2Back Texas Country Rawstin, Butch Rawlins and Larry Austin, has just recorded this new CD of 12 tunes of Western Swing, Texas dance hall and Texas country music. They are backed by a band consisting of some of the top names in Western Swing music. Besides Larry and Butch on vocals the album features Tommy Nash playing some very enjoyable lead and acoustic guitar. Former Texas Troubadour, Time Jumper and Statesider, Johnny Cox is heard playing some wonderful steel guitar and Nathan Colts and Billy English are heard playing drums. Former Asleep at the Wheel piano player and fiddle player, Chris Booher is heard playing keyboard and Dale Morris Jr. is heard playing fiddle. Ronnie Ellis plays bass and John Sharp does background vocals. The album opens from the George Strait library with Ace in the Hole and then goes on to Stonewall Jackson's memory Don't Be Angry. The Texas dance hall shuffle sound is heard with Wine me Up from Faron Young. They also reprise Johnny Gimble's Under the X in Texas and another Texas gem Blame it on Texas. Other tunes with a country sound are Jerry Max Lane's It Ain't the Fallin' in and After I Tuck Your Memories in and T. Graham Brown's Wine into Water. Other Texas tunes written by Jerry Max Lane are Milam County Fever and Six Feet Deep in the Heart of Texas. There is also western music with Jerry Max's The Rodeo is Over. The final tune is the Dave Dudley 1960s country hit Six Days on the Road. The album can be obtained at www.rawstin.com Mike Gross, WVOF-FM, Fairfield, CT |
