David Olney - One Tough Town
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Artist: David OlneyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-04-05
Music Label: Red Parlor
Soundtracks:
- Whistle Blow
- Sweet Poison
- Who's the Dummy Now?
- Little Mustang
- No Lies
- Oh Yeah (Dead Man's Shoes)
- Snake Song
- Panama City
- Sweet Potato
- See How the Mighty Have Fallen
- One Tough Town
- Postcard From Mexico
- Rainbow's End
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Music Review: ALL THE RAGE, Nashville, TN- Wildcards- David Olney
Rating: 5 Stars
9 p.m. Fri., June 15, The Basement, $8
What's that word for when there's only one provider of a certain product? A monopoly.
David Olney has a monopoly. He pretty much is a monopoly.
There's only one of him, and thus far nobody has been able to cop his riffs. He often writes songs through characters, with the narrative inhabiting the characters and also usually revealing something of himself. Sometimes that something is heartbreaking, sometimes funny, sometimes other stuff.
If you want something that sounds like David Olney, you've got to find David Olney. He's not hard to find, for the most part. This week he's at The Basement for a show that marks the release of his latest brilliant album, One Tough Town. That album finds him revealing a new batch of gems and also including a harrowing version of late, great old friend Townes Van Zandt's ''Snake Song.'' Van Zandt is one of the luminaries who has lavished mighty praise on Olney. Emmylou Harris has too, and so has Steve Earle, and so has anybody worth his or her salt who has ever witnessed a David Olney show.
Tommy Womack, who has his own little monopoly going, opens for Olney. Highly recommended.
--Peter Cooper
(06/14/07)
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Over an impressive professional career spanning four decades, David Olney has built a reputation not as a kind-hearted troubadour, but rather as a performing songwriter with a sharp literary mind that often cuts to the bone of the human condition. Olney's songs have been recorded by an impressive list of artists including Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury, Lonnie Brooks and many others, winning him a worldwide reputation as one of the best songwriters in America.As one of Nashville's undersung treasures--though his material has been recorded by Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle--David Olney merits comparison with the late Townes Van Zandt (whose insidiously insistent "Snake Song" provides a highlight here). Both combine literate precision with a bluesy undercurrent, and a tragic sense of life with a lethal sense of humor. While this may be Olney's bluesiest album to date, it's also his most playful and musically expansive, with Dixieland brass, banjo, and ukulele framing the arrangements. The tropical lilt of the deadpan "Panama City" could pass as low-rent Jimmy Buffett, while the interplanetary comedian conjured on the title cut sounds like one of Randy Newman's narrators. Other songwriting highlights find Olney singing from the perspective of a ventriloquist's dummy on "Who's the Dummy Now?" and revisiting the Bible with "See How the Mighty Have Fallen." And for those who find his voice an acquired taste, just listen to him croon on the closing "Rainbow's End." --Don McLeese
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