Ryan Hurd - Midwest Rock & Roll - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ryan McMahon - Put Me Back Together [COMPACT DISCS] Canada - Import date 05/05/2015

The muscular, chooglin' beat of the country funk heater InchCan't Take BackInch opens Ryan Curtis' sophomore album 'Ain't Ever Easy.' Like a steam train gliding into some high desert station, it bears the strong vintage machinery of Curtis' Inchalt-country from the high countryInch sound. The song lopes in on oozing guitar and keys over a backbeat that pulses sexier than a breakup song has the right to be. Regret has rarely sounded this happy, but Curtis is capable of turning love and loss into dripping hot, powerful songs. Over the last decade the various styles of country have become Curtis' stock-in-trade. With a gravelly growl he paints cinematic pictures of picaresque people from the Midwest and the badlands; down and out townies, bar room drifters, forlorn lovers, and resilient loners fill his visionary tales, mournful subject matter he turns into country gold. The best thing about Ryan Curtis albums is his ability to cover all the country sub-genres ballads, western music, honky-tonk, country-rock are all in his oeuvre. 'Ain't Ever Easy' is the best example to date.

After taping six albums as a leader for the Prestige tag between 1959 and 1961, Oliver Nelson recorded his breakthrough LP The Blues and the Abstract Truth, on Impulse! The album featured jazz luminaries Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes, and contained the tune InchStolen Moments,Inch now considered a standard. THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 2 BONUS TRACKS - 180-GRAM VIRGIN VINYL - LIMITED EDITION