Rex Allen, Jr. - Today's Generation - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rex followed in the footsteps of his singing cowboy daddy, rounding up over 20 hits on country charts in the '70s and '80s, while keeping a Western flavor to his music. Here are 10 of his best.

Nothing Sun Under the NewaInchthe title of Stephen Beckeras new EP of bedroom-spun songsaInchexpresses exactly the kind of poetic sleights-of-hand we encounter throughout this short, brilliant offering from the Brooklyn songwriter. Becker fills this compact record with aphorisms flipped on their heads, reversals of logic and intuition, dislocations of causality and expectation. He finds a joyful sense of confusion in all the little contradictions of our daily lives, and these shards of irony take on a kind of intimacy when wrapped in a blanket of synthesizers, spun around a water wheel of modulating chord changes, and shot through with pulsing drum machines and sudden bursts of noise. The music churns the songwriteras ambivalence into revelation, his confusion into reverie, and his words into invitationsaInchasking us to see whatas right in front of us as something strangely new.01 Slurpee02 Clean03 One Day At A Time04 Tie-Dye

Various Artists - Rex & Regina [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/1994