For years, Jonny Fritz traveled the world as a country music eccentric, maintaining the nonstop schedule of a road warrior whose giant-sized personality didn’t overshadow, but rather magnified his talent at songwriting. Then, one day, he stopped. Fed up with the economic burdens of the music industry, he took a long break from the recording studio and the road. Debbie Downers — not just a single album, but a collection of four inter-linked records, each one featuring a different producer and a unique interpretation of the same album — marks his charismatic return. First up a the country record, the most conventional considering Jonny’s catalog, that Fritz recorded in Nashville with a group of Music City sidemen. Self-funded and independently conceived, Debbie Downers is a project fueled not by the music industry, but by a genuine love of music itself. Whether he's skewering his MAGA relatives ("Debbie Downers"), singing about the challenges of working at Walgreens with your roommate ("The Boss"), or sketching the portrait of a divorced father "trying hard to ignore the looks from the earth-tone moms" at the neighborhood playground, Fritz turns the everyday into the anthemic, creating a colorful soundtrack for blue-collar life. He's rested and rebalanced, back in the saddle after a long, voluntary break from the road. This time around, though, he'll be following his own path, not getting derailed by false hopes of pleasing the masses through convention, but rather aiming to please himself and his community of respected musicians.
Saginaw Michigan / the Sad Side of Love / Puttin' On
Dodávateľ
Morello Records
Dátum vydania
21.5.2021
Nosič/diel
2CD
Žáner
Country+Folk
Dodacia lehota
25 dní
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Cena s DPH
16,70 €
Popis:
• There are few artists in country music more highly praised, or influential, as Lefty Frizzell. With a vocal styling often imitated but never matched, he found one of his greater advocates in Merle Haggard though musicians such as Keith Whitley, Johnny Rodriguez and Randy Travis were amongst others who also acknowledged his influence on their work. • The son of an oil field worker, William Orville Frizzell was born in Corsicana, Texas on 31st March 1928 but raised in Dorado, Arkansas when his family moved there shortly after his birth. • In a 25 year recording career, he gave country some of its most iconic recordings, adding a highly distinctive, vowel-bending singing style to the honky-tonk sounds of his native Texas. But with success came the demons and Lefty Frizzell was also one of the music’s most tragic figures. • He paid the price for the years of heavy drinking and this, combined with high blood pressure, led to him suffering a massive stroke. He died on 19th July 1975. He was just 47 years old.
• Seven years later, his considerable contribution to country music was recognised in his induction to Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. • In 1964 the “Saginaw Michigan” album reached No. 2 in the album charts and the title track spent four weeks at No. 1 in the singles chart remaining there for 26 weeks. • ‘The “Sad Side of Love” (1965) and “Puttin’ On’” (1967) appear on a UK CD for the first time. • This fabulous release also features 16 Bonus Tracks that were released as singles between 1964 and 1971.