Dale Watson - Dreamland
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Artist: Dale WatsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- Honky Tonkers Don't Cry
- Ain't A Cow In Texas
- Love At First Sight
- I Wish You'd Come Around
- California Wine
- Never Ever
- Dreamland
- Fox On The Run
- Way Down Texas Way
- She Don't Care
- Don't Rock No Cradle
- Pretty Girls
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Hit: 5 Stars
Dreamland is Dale's best album in many years, and my personal favorite since Cheatin' Heart Attack. If you've given up on country music because of the loathsome dreck that's coming out of Nashvegas these days, this album will bring you back into the fold. Dale Watson plays country music the way it should be played--honest, real, and loaded with tradition. This *is* your father's country music, and that's a good thing if you like Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Webb Pierce, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, and all the other honky-tonk heroes of the early 60s. Dale Watson is one of a handful of artists (Wayne Hancock also comes to mind) who are truly dedicated to preserving the roots of country music.
You should absolutely buy this album and, if at all possible, see Dale Watson play live. But I would also urge you to then take that extra step and convert those around you who have strayed. You know who I'm talking about: your friend who went to see Kenny "no-sleeves" Chesney play at the County Fair, the guy you work with who shelled out $85 to take his girlfriend to see Tim McGraw at the megadome, the lady stopped at the traffic light with Shania Twain cranked up on the radio of her Suburban, the moron who *still* sings several verses of "Friends in Low Places" when he's had a few too many. These people are sick and they need help. This album is the perfect tonic for what ails them.
Dreamland Poster
It's Dale Watson's misfortune to flaunt a devotion to straight-no-chaser honky-tonk at a time when Nashville prefers its country with about as much kick as buttermilk. Indeed, it's tempting to imagine the response an album as solid and occasionally inspired as Dreamland would have received in the heyday of Merle Haggard and George Jones. With Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson at the production helm, Watson's hard edges are softened a bit on this 12-song collection, but he's still got the perspective and pipes for putting across barroom laments that may be unsurpassed among his contemporaries. The conservational delivery of "I Wish You'd Come Around" and the masculine wistfulness of the title track are as stirring as they are effortless. Watson seems destined to haunt the fringes of country music, where connoisseurs of hardcore honky-tonk gather to toast a master who's had the hard luck to come along a couple of decades too late to get his just rewards. --Steven StolderCountry Music CDs
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