| Artist: | Country Boy Rolling Stone |
| Album: | Hitchhiking From Memphis To Mars |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Label: | personal |
| Order-#: | 6 00385 18602 5 |
© 2009 / Bruno Michel
When
this CD was in my mailbox, I could neither identify the artist Bill Crowder
nor had I ever heard of Country Boy Rolling Stone. But the classic songs I
heard and the title Hitchhiking From Memphis To Mars lead me to do
a little research on this songwriter of the 60's. According
to some sources, many of the presented songs were buried for decades until
they were discovered while a building was torn down. So they found their way
somehow to the Mississippi based Black Crow Records JV label and
producer Budley Bays decided to burn twelve of the songs on this CD.
Some of the songs, such as Mississippi Moonlight And You or Brown Eyed Handsome Brother Of The Wayward Wind remembered me of the early days of Bob Dylan. Then there is some southern rock, e.g. on Take Me Back To Birmingham. But also some beautiful ballads such as Guardian Angel Of The Honky Tonk Life (immediately, The Byrds played in the backspace of my mind) are presented on this very ecletic mix of tracks.
Good to know that these and other songs were saved from destruction and that there may be more of this and similar material being burned on another CD one day. Thanks to such labels as Black Crow and producers like Bays for giving the fans of real music their daily dose in today's world of money driven music productions.
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