Track Listing 1. Hold Her When She Cries 2. Crazy 3. If It Ain't Broke 4. Back to Back 5. Cheatin' Again 6. Honky Tonk Angel 7. I'm on Fire 8. Another Round 9. Goodbye Dixie 10. Love and Honor 11. Prove It All to You 12. Sinner
| Details | | Distributor: | Allegro Corporation (Dist | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Whitey Morgan & the 78s: Whitey Morgan & the 78s (vocals, guitar); Ben Vermeylen (guitar, background vocals); Jeremy Leroy Biltz (guitar); Jeremy Mackinder (bass guitar); Mike Popovich (drums). Personnel: Fred Newell (pedal steel guitar); Eric Hoegemeyer (organ, percussion); Elizabeth Mackinder (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Al Sutton. Audio Remasterer: Chris Gooseman. Recording information: Rustbelt Studios. With their tellingly titled debut album, HONKY TONKS AND CHEAP MOTELS, Whitey Morgan & the 78s try to transform the Motor City into Music City. Surely no simple task, most would agree, but it seems that the Flint, Michigan, based quintet shares a singular obsession with the outlaw country movement, and, in the case of Morgan himself, an outright fixation on ol' Waylon Jennings. Accordingly, this 2008 debut, though recorded entirely in the Michigan chill, never wanders north of the Mason-Dixon Line, musically speaking. Balancing the numerous laconically weepy acoustic- and pedal steel- guitar numbers spiked with wonderfully weepy pedal steel with whiskey-drenched honky tonkers, the band conjures up images of a wheezing, sawdust-drenched saloon.
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