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Eddytor's Dozen
Music
by Chuck Eddy
February 22nd, 2005 12:00 AM

He earns his mustache.
Big news on the hillbilly front these days is that some a&r type at Koch is suddenly doing a really good job of luring me into not hating alt-country. More big news is that I finally realized that the reason Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill is so much more alive and less puritan than all those older albums I remember by him is that he and Ricky Van Shelton are two different people. And the final news is that Nashville Star alumnus Miranda Lambert's big-label debut opens with a track that screams "Screaming Blue Messiahs," and Lee Ann Womack's current hit sure does sound a whole lot like "Little Green Apples" by O.C. Smith (not to be confused, then or now, with O.B. McClinton or O.V. Wright).

BEAUREGARDE
Beauregarde
(Jackpot crack-pot '80s hard-assed garage-boogie reissue)
View Video Introduction to Beauregarde (Flash)

BILLY DON BURNS
Heroes, Friends & Other Troubled Souls
(IndieMafia outlaw alt-country album)

HACIENDA BROTHERS
Hacienda Brothers
(Koch border-accordioned blues-country album)
Download "Looking for Loneliness" (MP3)
Download "Mental Revenge" (MP3)
Download "No Time To Waste" (MP3)
Download "Walkin' On My Dreams" (MP3)

SHOOTER JENNINGS
Put the O Back in Country
(Universal South nepotistic country-rock album)
Download "Busted In Baylor County" (MP3)

MIRANDA LAMBERT
Kerosene
(Sony Nashville country-rock album)
View "Me And Charlie Talking" Video (QuickTime)
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TIM MCGRAW
"Drugs or Jesus"
(Curb country single)

MARY PRANKSTER
Lemonade: Live
(Palace Coup cabaret-tinged swingabilly cowpunk album)
Download "Whistlestop" (MP3)
Download "New Tricks" (MP3)
Download "Arms Length" (MP3)

LEANN RIMES
This Woman
(Curb buxom-country album)
Stream "Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense" (Real)
Stream "Nothin' Bout Love Makes Sense" (WMA)

SAWYER BROWN WITH ROBERT RANDOLPH
"Mission Temple Fireworks Stand"
(Curb gospelized country-rock single)
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TURPENTINE BROTHERS
We Don't Care About Your Good Times
(Alive hard-assed garage-boogie album)
Download "We Don't Care About Your Good Times" (MP3)
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DALLAS WAYNE
I'm Your Biggest Fan
(Koch honky-tonk country album)
The Little Darlin' Sound of Should Have Been Hits
(Koch '60s-'80s honky-tonk country reissue compilation)
Stream "Crank the Hank" (WMA)
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