Clinch Mountain Mystery

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共12首歌曲

艺人: Larry Stephenson
语种: 英语
厂牌: Pinecastle
发行时间: 2004年04月13日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

With a solid core of fine pickers, a handful of guests, and a dozen high-stepping songs, the Larry Stephenson Band shows exactly what it's made of on Clinch Mountain Mystery. This is hard-driving traditional bluegrass, highlighted by Stephenson's high-longsome lead and lots of hot instrumental work. Although the title song is a rather grisly unsolved murder mystery, most of these songs center on the ravages of love gone wrong. At their most lighthearted, they include the nonsensical &Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me,& obviously written before anyone worried about combining images of love and violence in one song. &Someone's Gotta Cry& reminds one of the sort of bluesy song the Osborne Brothers might've sung, while the downhearted &A Heart Never Knows& should be avoided by anyone who's just been cast aside. The real oddity on the album is &Clinch Mountain Mystery,& written by Dixie and Tom T. Hall. The song starts typically enough, with the new kid in town running off with a local girl. When she turns up missing, a search party turns over the entire mountainside where, &They found his torn britches and Janice's dress/And it looked like something had chewed on the rest.& After noting that body parts had been scattered everywhere, the narrator reveals -- rather unsatisfactorily -- that the mystery was never solved. Despite the sad and occasionally gruesome songs, Clinch Mountain Mystery -- musically speaking -- is an upbeat affair, sure to satisfy anyone addicted to good old-fashioned bluegrass.