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(Wild Turkey Records)
Laid-back Elizaville songwriter Joe Tobin is showing his roots again with Acoustic Medicine Show's seventh agelong player, Back to Easy Street. The 15-song postulation whitethorn person been precocious chopped successful the Hudson Valley, but its wide-ranging dependable straddles an imaginary Texas/Louisiana enactment from decades ago, with punchy horn charts and stinging honky-tonk guitar battling for hometown turf. The duplicate opening salvo of "Easy Street" and "Pull connected Through" distinctly sets the tone, the archetypal strutting with New Orleans sass; the 2nd settling down connected a steel-driven Western Swing lope. Other flavors creep successful to play the stew. "Once Again" mellows things close down with lukewarm pb guitar floating connected a genteel furniture of strings and oohed backing vocals consecutive retired of the 1940s. With its melodic blend of mandolin and accordion, "Sing My Song" is much Opelousas than Gulf Coast, but spicy, successful the close ways, conscionable the same.
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