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艺人

Billy Joe Shaver

语种

英语

厂牌

Lucky Dog

发行时间

1987年02月14日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by William Ruhlmann

The fourth and last of Billy Joe Shaver's Columbia Records albums of the 1980s, Salt of the Earth was the singer/songwriter's first album of all-new material in six years and his last recording for another six, making it by definition a pivotal album in his infrequent recording career. It effectively encapsulates his characteristic style, from the hard-rocking honky tonk of &Whiteman's Watermelon& to the gentle &Hill Country Love Song.& Shaver's conflicted morality allows him to announce fervently that &You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ,& then follow that song with &The Devil Made Me Do It the First Time& (the inevitable punch line being, &the next time, I done it on my own&). In Shaver's world, men work hard and play hard, too, and faith is observed more in intention than practice. Self-referential, funny, and moving, Shaver's songs, sung with cracked-voice conviction and played with gutbucket force, define outlaw style, here as on his other recordings. This album didn't get a lot of attention when it was first released in 1987, and Sony's Lucky Dog imprint did fans a service on September 19, 2000, by remastering and reissuing it as part of its &Pick of the Litter& series of deserving, underappreciated vintage albums.