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Earnest 'Guitar' Roy - This Is Earnest 'Guitar' Roy - Earnest InchGuitarInch Roy and Jimbo Mathus worked together to create a sound that moves as if bound for a dance hall that never closes. - InchFun sticks to tape,Inch Jimbo Mathus is apt to say. And what could have been more fun, really, than the May 2024 session that rendered This Is Earnest InchGuitarInch Roy? Not only was it the first time Mathus had met the Clarksdale guitar legend but also the first real recording both in Music Maker's new studio headquarters in Eastern North Carolina and with Mathus' sharp backing band. At the start, Music Maker had even given Roy a car for more gigs across Mississippi. Could there be a better way to facilitate the fun that indeed sticks to these 10 tunes? Mathus and Roy evenly split songwriting duties here, with Mathus lending the winking and lascivious InchSneaky on the WeekendInch while Roy brought his hard-charging kiss-off InchEarnestly.Inch It's Roy's guitar, though, that is always taking the star turn, whether slicing through the rhythm section of InchEarnestlyInch like a blade or ripping through licks and across the boogie piano of InchGoing Out SwingingInch as if bound for a dance hall that never closes. Roy is a Delta blues guitar scion, a junior to a father who taught Big Jack Johnson to play. But he learned, too, jazz and rock, plus how to write a solid hook. It's all here at last on This Is Earnest InchGuitarInch Roy. Album Tracks 1. Big Ol Smile 2. Body Shop 3. Dirty Hustlin' 4. Earnestly 5. God Knows I Tried 6. Hard Headed Woman 7. How Long 8. Going Out Swinging 9. Sneaky on the Weekend 10. I Wanna Talk to You
