Tim O'Brien - Pompadour - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Tim O'Brien might operate a bit under music business radar, but he's been an essential part of the fabric of the folk, bluegrass, Americana, and songwriter scenes for the past fifty years. Since his emergence as singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter with the iconic 1980's bluegrass group Hot Rize, the West Virginia native has continued down a diverse and constantly evolving musical pathway. In the process he's written songs for people like Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks, released rootsy classics like InchRed on BlondeInch and InchThe CrossingInch, and earned a few Grammy awards.  For the past ten years, O'Brien has performed primarily with his wife Jan Fabricius, and their new InchPaper FlowersInch is tangible proof of that deep collaboration.As O'Brien explains, their partnership started informally. InchJan started adding harmony vocals to shows and recordings soon after we became a couple in 2013. We would play music around the house, and she would learn new songs as I wrote them. Then soon enough we started writing together.Inch  When Cathy Fink and Jon Weisberger approached O'Brien in 2023 to contribute to what became 2024's InchBluegrass Sings PaxtonInch, Tim and Jan wrote InchYou Took Me InInch  with the man himself. Encouraged by the results, the three scheduled weekly Zoom co-writing sessions and the songs kept coming.  InchPaper FlowersInch includes twelve of those songs as well as three more originals, 2 of which Jan and Tim wrote together and one that Tim wrote.Recorded at Cowboy Arms and the Tractor Shed in Nashville with help from longtime collaborators like bassists Mike Bub and Edgar Meyer, fiddler Shad Cobb, keyboard ace Mike Rojas and drummer Larry Atamanuik, the result is a story-in-song of the couple's life together. O'Brien says, InchWe'd been carving out our duet stage identity for years and now we had a body of our own songs. It was time t

Grammy award winning Americana artist Tim O'Brien is back with a strong follow up to 2021's InchHe Walked OnInch. Including 13 new originals about a bear, a fish, lambs, horses, and some people too - a grave digger, a neighbor, and even Walter Cronkite - Cup of SugarInch is a feel-good summer with humor on top and deeper meanings just below the surface.Mullti-instrumentalist O'Brien is backed by his loyal band mates Mike Bub, Shad Cobb and wife Jan Fabricius, supplemented by Jamie Dick on drums, Mike Rojas on keyboards, Russ Pahl on steel guitar, and Cory Walker on banjo. Bluegrass icon Del McCoury lends his signature guitar and tenor vocal on InchLet the Horses RunInch. Co-writers include Ronnie Bowman, Jonathon Byrd, Shawn Camp, Jan Fabricius, and Thomm Jutz. Sounding more and more like himself. Album Tracks 1. Bear 2. Let the Horses Run 3. Stuck in the Middle 4. Thinkin' Like a Fish 5. Cup of Sugar 6. The Pay's a Lot Better Too 7. Shout Lulu 8. The Anchor 9. She Can't, He Won't and They'll Never 10. Diddleye Day 11. Little Lamb Little Lamb 12. Goodbye Od Friend 13. Gila Headwaters

W. Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, the Charlie Daniels Band, Roy Acuff, Willie Nelson, Gene Autry+, full length CD w. full color book. Album Tracks 1. Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye) 2. Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff 3. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana 4. Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry 5. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 6. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe 7. Country Boy 8. If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time) - Lefty Frizzell 9. Me - Ray Price 10. Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline 11. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 12. El Paso - Marty Robbins 13. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs 14. Flowers on the Wall - the Statler Brothers 15. Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette 16. Folsom Prison Blues [Live] - Johnny Cash 17. Restless - Carl Perkins 18. Me and Bobby McGee - Kris Kristofferson 19. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson 20. Devil Went Down to Georgia - the Charlie Daniels Band 21. He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones, George Jones 22. Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) - Merle Haggard