50 Great Texas Singer-Songwriter Albums
Eine Liste aus dem Houston Chronicle (https://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/slideshow/50-great-Texas-singer-songwriter-albums-140061/photo-4046526.php).
01) Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything) (Fate, 1979)
02) Guy Clark – Old No. 1 (RCA Victor, 1975)
03) Willie Nelson – Phases and Stages (Atlantic, 1974)
04) Kris Kristofferson – Kristofferson (Monument, 1970)
05) Willis Alan Ramsey – Willis Alan Ramsey (Shelter, 1972)
06) Shaver – Tramp on Your Street (Praxis International, 1993)
07) Robert Earl Keen – A Bigger Piece of Sky (Sugar Hill, 1993)
08) Nanci Griffith – Once in a Very Blue Moon (Philo, 1984)
09) Eric Taylor – Shameless Love (Featherbed, 1981)
10) Butch Hancock – West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes (Rainlight, 1978)
11) Lucinda Williams – Happy Woman Blues (Folkways, 1980)
12) Waylon Jennings – Honky Tonk Heroes (RCA Victor, 1973)
13) Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity (Watermelon, 1992)
14) Joe Ely – Honky Tonk Masquerade (MCA, 1978)
15) Lightnin‘ Hopkins – Lightnin‘ Hopkins (Folkways, 1959)
16) Townes Van Zandt – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Tomato, 1972)
17) Steve Earle – Guitar Town (MCA, 1986)
18) Jimmie Dale Gilmore – After Awhile (Elektra Nonesuch, 1991)
19) Tish Hinojosa – Culture Swing (Rounder, 1992)
20) Ray Wylie Hubbard – Crusades of the Restless Knights (Philo, 1999)
21) Jerry Jeff Walker – Driftin‘ Way of Life (Vanguard, 1969)
22) Mickey Newbury – Looks Like Rain (Mercury, 1969)
23) James McMurtry – Too Long in the Wasteland (Columbia, 1989)
24) Rodney Crowell – The Houston Kid (Sugar Hill, 2001)
25) Delbert McClinton – Victim of Life’s Circumstances (ABC, 1975)
26) Sam Baker – Say Grace (Sam Baker Self-Released, 2013)
27) Patty Griffin – American Kid (New West, 2013)
28) Kinky Friedman – Sold American (Vanguard, 1973)
29) Bruce Robison – Wrapped (Lucky Dog, 1998)
30) Terri Hendrix – The Ring (Wilory, 2002)
31) Richard Dobson – In Texas Last December (Buttermilk, 1977)
32) Frummox – Here to There (Probe, 1969)
33) Mike Stinson – Hell and Half of Georgia (Poplar Cove, 2013)
34) Rusty Wier – Black Hat Saloon (Columbia, 1976)
35) Vince Bell – Phoenix (Watermelon, 1994)
36) David Rodriguez – Proud Heart (Continental Song City, 1995)
37) Amanda Shires – Carrying Lightning (Amanda Shires Self-Released, 2011)
38) Doug Sahm – Groover’s Paradise (Warner Bros., 1974)
39) Juke Boy Bonner – I’m Going Back to the Country Where They Don’t Burn the Buildings Down (Arhoolie, 1968)
40) Jack Ingram – Midnight Motel (Rounder, 2016)
41) Radney Foster – Del Rio, TX 1959 (Arista, 1992)
42) Adam Carroll – Far Away Blues (Blue Corn, 2005)
43) Damon Bramblett – Damon Bramblett (Lone Star, 2000)
44) Clay Blaker & The Texas Honky-Tonk Band – Rumor Town (Neobilly, 1998)
45) Jon Dee Graham – Escape From Monster Island (Freedom, 1997)
46) Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway, 2011)
47) Robert Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant (New West, 2014)
48) Beaver Nelson – Little Brother (Black Dog, 1999)
49) Slaid Cleaves – For the Brave and Free (Slaid Cleaves Self-Released, 1993)
50) Mando Saenz – Studebaker (Carnival, 2013)
Muß gestehen, daß ich viele der neueren Sachen nicht mal dem Namen nach kenne, obwohl ich mich durchaus intensiv mit amerikanischen Songwritern beschäftige.
Von den Platten nach 1990 würde ich auf jeden Fall mit reinnehmen:
Chris Whitley – Living with the Law (Columbia, 1991)
Johnny Dowd – Wrong Side of Memphis (Johnny Dowd Self-Released, 1993)
Edith Frost – Calling Over Time (Drag City, 1997)
Wayne Hancock – That’s What Daddy Wants (Ark 21, 1997)
Calvin Russell – Calvin Russell (Last Call, 1997)
Caroline Herring – Twilight (Blue Corn, 2001)
Jolie Holland – Escondida (Anti, 2004)
Eliza Gilkyson – Beautiful World (Red House, 2008)
Sarah Jarosz – Build Me Up from Bones (Sugar Hill, 2013)
Aus den 80er fehlen mir:
Lyle Lovett – Pontiac (Curb, 1987)
Hugh Moffatt – Loving You (Philo, 1987)
Und von den klassischen Platten vermisse ich auf jeden Fall:
Michael Nesmith & The First National Band – Magnetic South (RCA Victor, 1970)
Michael Martin Murphey – Geronimo’s Cadillac (A&M, 1972)
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