Track Listing 1. Justice For All 2. It's Not Over Now 3. Time Without You 4. Hollywood Hillbilly 5. You Always Get What You Always Got 6. From the Cradle to the Grave 7. Why Oh Why Live a Lie 8. Yellow Mama 9. Tomorrow Never Comes 10. Runaway Train
| Details | | Playing Time: | 26 min. | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Dale Watson (guitar); Don Don Pawlak (pedal steel guitar); Don Raby (fiddle); Jon Blondell (trombone); Gene Kurtz (bass guitar); John McTigue (drums). Though Dale Watson still excels at honky-tonk, this 2007 album reveals an edgier side to his songwriting, with a Johnny Cash-like darkness lurking beneath the surface of songs like "Justice For All" and the stern "You Always Get What You Always Got," and the somber message of the title track undercutting its cheerful fiddle accompaniment. Watson can still rock with the best of them, though, and the album's final track, "Runaway Train," displays both singer and band at their extrovert best.
Editorial Reviews Watson follows the footsteps of Cash and Haggard in exploring human balances, from the dichotomy of vengeance and forgiveness and regret transforming into antipathy, to the substance of the here and the hereafter. No Depression
Watson seems to have been inspired as much by Cash's spirit as by his sound. The songs deal with soul-baring and weighty life and death issues. Dirty Linen
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