In the Golden West, by Hogan and Moss and the Old Weird America

In the Golden West

by Hogan and Moss and the Old Weird America

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1.	Highway Kind 03:31	info	buy track
2.	Love is a Losing Game 02:47	info	buy track
3.	Ethel's Lounge 03:57	info	buy track
4.	Pepper 03:25	info	buy track
5.	Too Long in the Wasteland 03:25	info	buy track
6.	Pancho and Lefty 03:29	info	buy track
7.	Beyond the Wall 04:11	info	buy track
8.	For Anything Less 03:06	info	buy track
9.	You Are My Sunshine (Blues) 05:42	info	buy track
10.	I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now 02:57	info	buy track
11.	Caroline 03:33	info	buy track
12.	Let Tomorrow Be the Day 03:53	info	buy track
13.	The Golden Frame and the Dusty Glass 02:30	info	buy track
14.	Nothin' 03:38	info	buy track
15.	In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain 03:10	info	buy track

about

“In the Golden West” is a live studio album of songs written or arranged during our decade of touring the mountain west, from Big Bend to Glacier, the Sange de Cristos to the Sawtooth. These songs and arrangements were given to us by the road, by experiences, by people, by loss, because of our listeners, and because of love.

Kirk Suddreath on drums and Kay Young on bass, over a couple of winters playing shows in Houston, helped create these arrangements, and they anchor this album. Recorded by Rock Romano at Houston's Redshack Studio and mastered by Donn DeVore, it’s a snapshot of our live show with our hometown band--new originals and covers of songs by Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, James McMurtry, Amy Winehouse, Gibby Haynes, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.

Notes on the songs:

"Highway Kind" by Townes Van Zandt, reimagined in folky-tonk twang to Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart."

A minor-key Latin arrangement of Amy Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game”

“Ethel’s Lounge” by Canadian blues poet Doug Norquay, a literate, whiskey-soaked rumination you can dance to. “Take this sweet and grievous rose that’s fading in the muffler smoke and bet it on the dogs.”

“Pepper” by Gibby Haynes, King Coffey and Paul Leary. Jon Hogan’s two-step arrangement of the Butthole Surfers classic.

“Too Long in the Wasteland” by James McMurtry. Ferocious minor modal scorch.

A “St. James Infirmary”-style minor-key swing version of “Pancho and Lefty” by Towne Van Zandt.

“Beyond the Wall” by Jon Hogan. A lawman love story set in the future.

“For Anything Less” by Blaze Foley. A sad but resilient country two-step by the author of “Clay Pigeons” and “If I Could Only Fly.” In 2009 Jon Hogan was asked by Blaze Foley’s sister Marsha Weldon to complete three unfinished Blaze songs from lyrics found after his death in 1989. This is one of the songs Jon Hogan studied as a melodic framework for the posthumous co-write “Can’t Always Cry,” on the album “In Dreams I Go Back Home.”

A soul-blues minor-key version of “You Are My Sunshine,” inspired by Bill Withers.

“I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now,” by Louis Herscher, recorded in 1933 by Jimmie Rodgers. A story of false accusation and redemption.

“Caroline” by Jon Hogan. Written for the Jim and Caroline of Burgdorf Hot Springs, McCall, ID.

“Let Tomorrow be the Day” by Jon Hogan. Country-soul plea inspired by Ray Charles.

“Nothin’” by Townes Van Zandt. The howl of fierce sobriety.

“In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain” by A. P. Carter, first recorded in 1936. The title of this album come from the chorus: “When I’ve sung my last song in the evening, and the sun sets in the golden west, all the scenes of this world I’ll be leaving, in the shadow of Clinch Mountain I will rest.”

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released January 1, 2020

Jon Hogan, rhythm guitar, vocals, arrangement
Maria Moss, picking guitar, vocals, arrangement
Kay Young, bass
Kirk Suddreath, drums
Recorded, mixed and produced by Rock Romano at Redshack Studios, Houston. Texas
Mastered by Donn DeVore

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Hogan and Moss and the Old Weird America Houston, Texas

Jon Hogan and Maria Moss play throughout Texas and the Western U.S. full-time, performing more than 250 shows and house concerts annually.
They also give talks on the enduring power and mystery of the music of the Carter Family and other old-time artists.

The Old Weird America includes Kirk Suddreath, Kay Young, Erik Sawyer, Peter Sing, Sean Andrews, WM David, Mark Lewis, and Charlotte Teer. ... more

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