Jody Nix is back with another CD of 12 cuts that display without doubt his Western Swing pedigree. Here again is another really top class production from Jody.
Besides featuring Jody on vocals, fiddle and harmony vocals the album features the great Johnny Cox playing some of the most enjoyable steel guitar licks that you can only dream about. Jake Hooker is heard on bass and Robert Weeks is also featured on fiddle. The very polished Rich O'Brien is heard on electric and acoustic guitars and Dixie Hankins rounds out the band on drums and also on harmony vocals.
The album opens with The Hal Blair/Don Robertson composed Hank Locklin early 60s pop/country crossover hit Please Help Me I'm Falling and then goes on to Bobby Goldsboro's With Pen in Hand from a few years later. Also from the country music world is a great Texas dance hall style arrangement of Bill Anderson's I've Enjoyed as Much of this as I Can Stand and from the George Jones hit parade is Leon Payne's Things Have Gone to Pieces. From the great Bob Wills is Artie Glenn's Sooner or Later and Harlan Howard's The Image of Me. Jody also borrows from Bob Wills' great vocalist, Tommy Duncan's Intro years, There's Not a Cow in Texas and from the pen and library of Red Steagall, The Fiddle Man. Also included are the late Slim Willet's Tool Pusher from Snyder and Splinter Middleton's Walking Tall. There are also two of Jody's own fine compositions, the super Texas dance hall sounding Sorry, Sad and Lonesome and a country I Entertain Myself with Memories. (reprint from http://www.swinginwest.com)
The entire cd or individual tracks can be downloaded at www.buckatune.net
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