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Album: 3 Trails West This is a new album of 14 tunes by a wonderful new western group that bridge the gap between Western Music and Western Swing Music perfectly and with class. The group personnel are Jeff Eisloo playing some very enjoyable steel guitar and also mandolin. Both Roger Eilts and Garry Bury do lead vocals with Roger also playing rhythm guitar. Roger's brother, Leo Eilts plays bass and does harmony vocals while David Kaemmer plays some super fiddle. The album opens with a western standard from the pen of later to be country music great Hank Snow, Out on the Open Range. From the Sons of the Pioneers the group does Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer's Blue Prairie and the sacred oriented The Place Where I Worship. Also from the Sons of the Pioneers is reprised Baby Doll, a tune written by Bob Newman and also done by his group, The Georgia Crackers. There are also two from Andy Parker and the Plainsmen, Texas Belle and Saddle your Bronc and Ride. The group bring back Ken Curtis' Rooty Toot Galoot and two from Bob Wills that were penned by the great Cindy Walker, Cherokee Maiden and Miss Molly. When the Bloom is on the Sage goes back to the Happy Chappies and the glory days of western in popular music are remembered with Along the Navajo Trail and Wa Hoo. The Johnnie Lee Wills hit Texas Sandman is now enjoyed as Kansas Sandman and Louise Massey, Curt Massey and the Westerners are remembered with Dude Cowboy. This CD can be obtained from the band's web site www.3trailswest.com The cost is $15 plus $1 shipping and handling. Mike Gross, KSEY-FM, Seymour, TX |
