David Olney - One Tough Town
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Artist: David OlneyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-05
Music Label: Red Parlor
Soundtracks:
- Whistle Blow
- Sweet Poisons
- 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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Free Music Review: One of the Best
Hit: 5 Stars
Olney is an original, a songwriter who crafts his narratives and long songs uniquely, often from the perspective of a character (or a thing in the case of an old song, "Iceberg," the story of the Titanic told from the viewpoint of the iceberg).
On his latest, he typically opens with a blast of bluesy roadhouse rock, "Whistle Blow," fueled by harmonica and his worn voice. But Olney, who is a song writing treasure, has several tricks up his sleeve, as usual. "Who's the Dummy Now" is narrated by the dummy who is carrying the act -- and life -- for a struggling ventriloquist. There's more than a touch of Tin Pan Alley in that cut and a few others -- a trombone, clarinet and tuba make appearances, but so does snarling electric guitar.
The album, in fact, is one tasty sampling of American music. Of "Oh Yeah (Dead Man's Shoes," Olney says: "I think of the song as Flannery O'Conner goes to New Orleans." If that kind of irascible wit and ambition appeals, this is a must.
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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 McLeeseOver 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.
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