War & Peace

Butch Hancock - War & Peace

War & Peace
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Artist: Butch Hancock
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-17
Music Label: Two Roads Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Give Them Water
  2. Damage Done
  3. When The Good and The Bad Get Ugly
  4. Toast
  5. Old Man, Old Man
  6. The Devil in Us All
  7. The Master Game
  8. Road Map for the Blues
  9. Between Wars
  10. Cast the Devils Out
  11. Brother Won't You Shake My Hand
  12. Pot of Glue
  13. that Great Election Day

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Music Review: All arounf good album
Rating: 5 Stars

The music is pleasing and the lyrics are right on (or at least make you think). What more can you ask?
OK. It was unfair to just drop the above review, as it is not in the least bit helpful to someone looking for an album they can enjoy on both a musical and a social level, or for those who would prefer to keep their heads in the sand. So, here goes:
War and Peace is a rousing celebration of the progressive world view. If you think George Bush is doing a good job and we should be sacrificing our children and the Iraqi children so that he Dubya can feel like a man, and that 9/11 justified turning America into Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany; You will not like this album. But, if you believe in the core American values of freedom, fairness, justice and mercy; you will love the lyrics. If you think that good music is categorized by insane screaming and music played too loud to understand the words, or alternately by a singer that sounds like they have a severe sinus infection, or is trying to get you in bed ala Larry the Lounge Lizard, then this isn't your type of music. But if you like highly skilled musicians and clear singing, in a wide range of styles then you will enjoy this album.
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Description of War & Peace

Butch Hancock is a founding member of The Flatlanders, with appearances on Letterman and Imus In The Morning. He's a member of the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame and the Texas Music Hall of Fame.

Butch Hancock's self-produced "War and Peace", his first solo CD in almost 9 years, meets face to face with the mountains of lies that appear to be rising higher and higher all around us and all inside us, and reminds us: the times they are STILL a'changin'.

From the riveting acapella opener, a call-for-peace/prayer/warning/urge-to-compassion, to the final cut, a 7-minute plus get-out-the-vote anthem which would set Woody Guthrie, Willie Dixon and Mississippi John Hurt dancing proudly in their graves, Hancock, the impeccable lyricist, pulls no metaphorical punches as he questions all kinds of authority: overt, covert, exterior, interior, imagined, and unimagined.

His voice, still warm and scratchy after all these years, blends with his own harmonies and those of his long time running buddies, Fellow Flatlanders Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, who join Butch with harmonies on "The Master Game" and "Cast the Devils Out". Butch's new melodies are as memorable as the Guthrie-ish "borrowings" of melodies on "Cast the Devils Out" and "Great Election Day", and on "Toast" he echoes the dreamlike would-be spiritual perceptions we could all lay claim to on any given late-night drinking occasion. What's more, it's done to the accompaniment of old timey banjo and cathedral organ! Of the relentlessly rocking "Old Man, Old Man," Austin guitarist Charlie Sexton was heard to exclaim, "Man, that's so 60's ...it's like ...The Doors! I love it!" Billy Joe Shaver's favorite is "When the Good and the Bad Get Ugly," and Butch dedicates "Road Map for the Blues" to the late Clifford Antone who made him play it repeatedly in the backstage of Antone's blues club in Austin.

Butch plays over a dozen instruments on this finely mixed cd (mixed by the amazing Chet Himes). And though he claims that the only other picker (Flatlander guitarist Rob Gjersoe) "adds the real touch of class" to the arrangements, a single listening to these songs reveals surprises and a continuity that...calls for many repeats!!!


The title comes courtesy of Leo Tolstoy. The vocals are Lone Star Bob Dylan, made grittier by an East Texas wind. And the style is Woody Guthrie by way of Robert "Masters of War" Zimmerman. That said, ex-Flatlander Hancock brings unassailable conviction to this collection of original protest songs, which draw on Biblical references, activist literature, and Phil Ochs-like humanity to drive a stake through the heart of Hancock's fellow Texan in the White House. "They never found a single weapon of mass destruction," he needles in "The Devil in Us All," "but they all smell oil/got to get it into production." Hancock plays nine instruments here, and calls on old bandmates Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore for his chorus of witnesses. Still, at times, as on "Old Man, Old Man," a monologue to his maker, Hancock-as-producer needs a bit of help--his keyboards are too cheesy to rattle God's stained-glass windows, and much of this has a DIY, on-the-cheap tone. Can you really plug an electric guitar into your truck's cigarette lighter? --Alanna Nash

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