Audio CD review:
Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Two Roads: Live in Australia

Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Two Roads: Live in Australia

Band: Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore Title: Two Roads: Live in Australia Rating: Release Date: 31 July, 1992 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Hello Stranger 2: Ramblin Man 3: Her Lover Of The Hour 4: Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown 5: Two Roads 6: Wheels Of Fortune 7: One Road More 8: Blue Yodel #9 9: Down By The Banks Of The Guadalupe 10: Dallas 11: Already Gone 12: Special Treatment 13: Howlin At Midnight 14: Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level) 15: West Texas Waltz

Editoral Review Friends since their west Texas childhood, they first recorded together in 1972 as the Flatlanders, but it wasn't until this superb 1990 live album that they reunited for a full set of cosmic, twangy folk. Singer-songwriters are loners, by and large, and few have enjoyed a close relationship of the sort that Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have forged over the years. Trading songs back and forth, supported only by their guitars and Hancock's harmonica, the duo revisit Flatlanders classics, tunes by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, Paul Kelly's "Special Treatment," and mostly a host of Hancock's best originals. Hancock has recorded frequently in such spontaneous settings, but not Gilmore: his singing truly shines, unfettered by superfluous backing and urged on by Hancock's easygoing harmonies. As single discs go, these 15 songs make for an ideal introduction to two singular voices. --Roy Kasten .. You can see a complete list of all Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore discography, or go back to the Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore tabs