Gin Palace Jesters - Honkytonk Fool (2004)

heir brand of honkytonk is first rate, authentic '50's and early '60's style with wonderful pedal steel, fiddle on a handful of tracks, mandolin and harmonica on one. The Gin Palace Jesters share vocal duties and Dave Sisson (voc, gtr.) also wrote 12 of the 15 tracks. The lyrics are catchy and often tongue in cheek. I love lines like "I smelled pomade on my and it was not my brand." That's just one of the many favorites with cool guitar licks a la Junior Brown and harmony vocals. Some songs are reminiscent of Buck Owens like "Drink One For Me", great melody and perfect two-step (and Swing Dance) material too. A beautiful but sad waltz "I'll Just Pick Up The Pieces" with a Bluegrass flavor fits in nicely. "Love, Love, Love" is done Buddy Holly style, "Gone" is a cool Hillbilly Rocker, "Johnny Come Lately" is a slow swinging atmospheric tune. This is an all around superb album, great musicianship, perfect sound - memorable through and through.

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