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Album: Is This All There is to a Honky Tonk It was way back in the early 1970s that Tony Booth was doing those awesome Capitol recordings of coast country music with many of the elements of that Texas dance hall music sound. Tony is back and now with 12 tunes of the real deal, Texas dance hall music. The back-up band consists of some wonderful musicians. Johnny Cox is heard playing some very enjoyable steel guitar and Reggie Rueffer is playing a very hot fiddle. Randy Lindley plays rhythm guitar, Jim Loessberg is the drummer and Randy Corner is playing lead guitar. T. Bonta is the pianist, Jake Hooker, the bassist and Justin Trevino does harmony vocals. The album opens with the album title tune, a fantastic Is This All There is to a Honky Tonk and stays in the Texas dance hall mood for Justin Trevino and Guyanne McCall's Play Me the Truth and Glenn Sutton's You Love Like Someone that Used to Love Me. The mood continues with My Memories of You, I've Been Around Love Long Enough, Another Chance at Love and Kent Westbury's Losing You Just Dawned on Me. Tony flirts with Western Swing on Cold Brown Bottle and brings back memories of his years of association with Buck Owens and some major hits with four others. They are Buck's Sweethearts in Heaven and three of Tony's biggest Harlan Howard's The Key's in the Mailbox, Buddy Mize's Cinderella and Justin Tubb's Lonesome 7-7203. The album can be obtained for $13.95 including postage from Heart of Texas Records, 1701 South Bridge Street, Brady, Texas 76825. www.heartoftexascountry.com Mike Gross, WVOF-FM, Fairfield, CT |