Artist: Augie Meyers
Album: Country
Year: 2009
Label: El Sendero
Order-#: ESR-1003

© 2009 / Bruno Michel

Far more than forty years of stage presence and countless hits as an individual artist or as a member of famous groups. Those are just some achievements of Augie Meyers. His fourteenth solo production flows seamless into his legacy. Beside his solo career, Meyers has recorded roughly sixty other albums with bands such as The Sir Douglas Quintet or The Texas Tornados.

Thirteen most calmly presented tracks are on this CD, which El Sendero Records recently put to market. Augie's distinctive voice and sound is immediately recognized and when listening to some tracks, one inevitably thinks of the above mentioned super groups.

My three play tips are Hey Sarita, I Cried My Last Cry and Walkin’ The Back Streets. The album is a welcomed change to the current monotony of today's charts of Country(-Pop). If it would have been released back in the 60's or 70's it would have been spawned several Top-10 Hits for sure. Never mind, the important thing here is that there's still labels out there that are producing such great music without having primarily marketing success and sales figures in mind.

Info at www.augiemeyers.com