Malheur
Wait
Mickey’s Marker 3:51 Southern Comfort on my Mind 4:34 Needle
in a Haystack 3:12
I Can Wait 3:12 My
Old Home 3:40 I Believe 3:41 Short, Fat, and Ugly 3:42 A Shoulder to Cry On
3:49
Sunny Saturday 3:43 What a Fool I’ve Been 3:25 Sunday in
Badwater City 3:32Barrister Blues 3:09 No More Rain 2:55 Braggartsville 2:42 Wanted
3:20 I’m a Stranger 3:31 Blame it on the Change 3:42 Mister Albert Lee 3:31
Mickey’s
Marker opens up with a fiddle. Then, Lucy comes in; a good
voice, kinda different. I really was expecting to hear some Disney music. Who
knows, maybe this is a song for Disneyworld. I had to listen to it a few times
because I wasn’t quite sure why Mickey needed a marker so bad. I never really
figured it out. It seems like Mickey is sick, but why does he need some
markers? I think he was supposed to draw a line on the road so they could
follow it home. Isn’t that like the story of those kids who dropped
breadcrumbs? I mean what if it rains. Mickey had better get some permanent
markers.
Next is Southern Comfort on my Mind, if Mickey
needs markers and she needs Southern Comfort that would make a really weird
mix. I think I know why she wants Mickey to have markers. It’s so he can draw
her drinking and crying at the same time. I really hope Mickey isn’t her kid.
I really like the way this album has a lot of
different genres of song. Needle in a
Haystack is exactly what I’m talking about. There is what sounds like an
electric guitar, maybe it’s not but it really fits and accompanies you through
this song. Usually, at this point I know
whether I care for a band or not. This one is a great deal different because I’m
much more interested in what is coming next.
Now here we go a real down home country song. I Can Wait is the kinda song you’d
imagine hearing at a big country venue while riding that mechanical bull. I can
just feel my hat being swung over my head with each buck as the second clock is
climbing and my boots are grinding the thing.
The fiddle is back in play, but on My Old Home it’s not so much bluegrass
as the first song. I really can imagine a road trip though the plains or prairie
states. Waking up at some motel, grabbing some coffee and jumping in that car
early on the way home to some small town is this kinda song. I Believe is a much slower song, almost
a ballad. This song has a very nice piano, and a great melody. It makes you wonder what the inspiration for
this song was.
Short,
Fat, and Ugly is not how I like my women. I sure hope
Lucy doesn’t either. In this day and age, you never know. Oh, that’s how she
felt. I haven’t seen a picture of her so I don’t know and can’t tell you. But,
there is that blues guitar again.
A
Shoulder to Cry On comes up next. Someone better go fetch
Mickey and get him some markers. She’s going to start crying again. This song
has an electric guitar that pushes it through.
The rest of the songs on the album have that old, “wild-west,”
sound to them. You can really feel the wanted posters coming through on Braggartsville. That is, by far, my
favorite song on the album. This is a difficult album to review due to the many
different kinds of songs. The fiddle is really an intricate part of this album.
I can’t say I like it because it’s not something I’d be walking around
listening to. However, I can really see a great deal of people really enjoying
this album.
Jeremy Frost for Country Music News International