Kelly Hogan & Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Beneath the Country Underdog
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Artist: Kelly Hogan & Pine Valley CosmonautsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-04-04
Music Label: Bloodshot Records
Soundtracks:
- (It's A Mighty Thin Line) Between Love And Hate
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
- Mystery
- I Don't Believe In You
- Papa Was A Rodeo
- Easy Loving
- Wild Mountain Berries
- Sudden Stop
- Crackers Rule
- Gone
- Whispering Pines
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Music Review: Quality alt-country music
Rating: 5 Stars
If this album had been recorded in the seventies, it would have been classified as country-rock. Being recorded at the end of the old millennium, it is classified as alt-country, a genre that includes country-rock but is not limited to it.
Many of the songs here are covers including It's a mighty thin line between love and hate (Johnny Paycheck), I still can't believe you're gone (Willie Nelson, from his album Phases and stages), Easy loving (Freddie Hart), Wild mountain berries (Peggy Scott), Sudden stop (Percy Sledge) and Whispering pines (The Band). None of these songs have been over-covered and I'm sure that some listeners to this album have never heard any of these songs before. Perhaps the most famous song among them is Easy loving, which was a major country success in the early seventies, winning CMA song of the year two years running. You might expect that it would have been covered more often than it actually has, but although I like the song, I never thought it was a classic.
Kelly co-wrote three of the other songs (I don't believe in you, Crackers rule, Gone), while Jon Langford (the producer) wrote Mystery. The remaining song, Papa was a rodeo, written by Stephen Merritt, may also be an original.
This is a fine album with a nice mix of songs that should appeal to fans of the early Eagles albums.
Description of Beneath the Country Underdog
On "Beneath the Country Underdog," Hogan gets the backing she deserves from insurgent country ass-kickers The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (featuring members of The Waco Brothers, The Mekons, and The Bottle Rockets) --with made-in-Chicago production by misanthropic Welsh badboy, Jon Langford. These 11 tracks -- ranging from Hogan?s haunting originals, to covers of Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, and The Magnetic Fields -- also feature a slew of hipster/hickster guest stars, including Neko Case, Edith Frost, John Wesley Harding, and Robbie Fulks.This is how it might have sounded had Dusty Springfield followed Dusty in Memphis with Dusty in Nashville. A Georgia cop's daughter, Kelly Hogan started in the Rock*A*Teens, sang lead for Atlanta combo the Jody Grind, then moved to Chicago to work in the record biz. Her full-length solo debut, produced by Windy City pal Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers), is an ominous stockpiling of rockers, twangers, and torchy ballads, showcasing Hogan's absolutely stunning alto and girls-will-be-boys sense of humor. Her trio of original numbers complement an eclectic checklist of covers by some of Hogan's favorites, including Langford, Willie Nelson, the Band, Johnny Paycheck, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, and Boston pop icons Magnetic Fields. --Scott Holter
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