Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Sounds like it was recorded in the 1950s. Also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
The Country Side of Harmonica Sam is inspired by the honky tonk sound of the late 50's and early 60's. With a steady 4/4 shuffle, steel guitar and tic-tac bass, the band performs their own original songs right alongside classics from Faron Young, Skeets McDonald, Billy Walker and Ray Price - to name a few. Mix it up with a dash of 50's rock attitude and you get the picture. This album, the latest collection of Honky-Tonk masterpieces by this generation’s finest practitioners of the genre, is appropriately titled ‘Broken Bottle, Broken Heart’.
“Indeed, it was with both a bottle and a broken heart that I first sat down in my favourite chair to listen to these 14 songs of love and loss. Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that it isn’t always the best idea to mix heartache with alcohol while listening to real country music like this - the kind that once drifted out of car radios on back roads, blared out of jukeboxes, and echoed through dancehalls and Honky-Tonks across the U.S.A. Hell, that combination can be downright dangerous to the brokenhearted. But that midnight while taking a drink, closing my eyes, and getting lost in the music, I was transported. I was taken away to another place, another time. It was as if my troubles were lifted, floating off into the horizon with the drifting sound of the steel guitar and soaring vocals.
“Visions of spit shined boots two-stepping across a well-worn dancefloor on a long-gone Saturday night swirled through my mind, with the twang of the guitar and the shuffling rhythms taking my blues away. Maybe it was the tequila talking... but I suspect that it was the music at work - the kind of real Country Music that I think these Swedish gentlemen are the very best at.” - Big Sandy
The band members include bandmaster Peter Andersson (pedal steel), Ulrik Jansson (upright bass), Patrik Malmros (drums), Johan Bandling Melin (lead guitar/harmony vocals) and Harmonica Sam (lead vocals/ rhythm guitar).
Track Listing: My First Broken Heart (Since My Last Broken Heart) / How Can I Love You? / I’ve Been Draggin’ Since You’ve Gone / Losing A Girl You Never Had / I’ll leave The Front door Open / Stepping Out / Cry Baby / Broken Bottle, Broken Heart / I Drink Because I Care / If That’s The Way It’s Gotta Be / Empty House / Why Me / Waiting For A Sunny Day / Patches Of My Heart