CD Review: Albert Leon Payne & Friends – No Doubt
by Ritchie Ritchison for Country Music News International
I Wish Someone Who Loved Me
( Would Look At Me Like That)
Heaven’s On The Other Side Of Town
When She Does Me Right
Las Cruces
No Doubt
Eye to Eye with a Fool
Unless There’s An Easy Way Out
When Rose Cared For Me
Ain’t There No Fiddles in Austin
Change Her Mind
If This Was Texas
The Other Woman
Farmer’s Daughter
Albert Leon Payne’s latest offering is a classic Texas Country album if I ever heard one.
Filled with Pedal Steel and Fiddle it has all the ingredients necessary to make you long for the chance to get out on the dance floor and two step the night away. Chuck Cusimano offers some tasty guitar work on this disc as well as providing Mr. Payne with some great songs to sing.
Heaven’s on the Other Side of Town and When She Does Me Right are both excellent examples of the kind of music that put Texas on the map. While my favorite track Eye to Eye with a Fool cements this album’s 5 star rating. The Other Woman and Farmer’s Daughter are stand alone classics and whoever does them will always be compared to Johnny Bush and Merle Haggard respectively. Here however both song receive the unique treatment of Albert Leon Payne. If you like Texas Country don’t pass up this disc!
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars