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Delbert McClinton - Cost of Living Audio CD

A fair review of the Delbert McClinton "Cost of Living" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Delbert McClinton reviews here, or go back to the Delbert McClinton tabs.

Delbert McClinton Band: Delbert McClinton
Title: Cost of Living
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Release Date: 2005-08-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: One Of The Fortunate Few 2: Right To Be Wrong 3: The Part I Like Best 4: I'll Change My Style 5: Hammerhead Stew 6: Your Memory, Me And The Blues 7: Dead Wrong 8: Down Into Mexico 9: Kiss Her Once For Me 10: I Had A Real Good Time 11: Midnight Communion 12: Two Step Too 13: Alright By Me

ok but disappointing
The album is uneven as if some songs were added to fill it out. As a Delbert McClinton fan, I expected more. He has the voice and the delivery for country blues or honky tonk blues or whatever you want to call his music. He still has his chops, just needs to find better material. Tracks 2,4,9 and 11 stand out. This is one that probably would have been better to have a few less tracks.


Turn it UP!
I also like very much the track "Two Step Too", which purty much sums up my own taste in musica. Especially for the first track, "One Of The Fortunate Few"! (Did you do like me and buy the CD "One Of The Fortunate Few", thinking the song of the same name would be on it???). "I like to listen to the rock 'n roll, but I like to two step too"!.


His best album in years
There is no voice like Delbert's; man, can he sing. I've been a Delbert fan for more than 20 years, and this is his best release in a long time. From the raucous "Hammerhead Stew" to some welcome country songs like "Midnight Communion" and "Two Step Too" this CD rocks. As for those reviewers who dislike the country element here, they aren't true Delbert fans, since real aficiandos know that some of Delbert's early works were
good ole country (listen to "Victim Of Life's Circumstances"). The two best cuts here are "Down Into Mexico" (what a story!) and about the saddest song I've ever heard, "Kiss Her Once For Me. " When you first listen to the latter, it's easy to assume it's about a lost girlfriend. It's not--it's about a dad who's kind of lost his daughter to the girl's mother, and as a divorced dad, this song breaks my heart. Go, Delbert!.


cost of living
It's like Springsteen lyrics, guitar strains of Marty Robbins and maybe a little touch of John Fogerty. I can find nothing bad about this cd. I can recall sitting in a bar thirty years ago with some of my military buds and listening to this kind of music, wishing we were someplace else. What memories this cd evolked! All in all I can say that Delbert McClinton is becoming part of my blues collection and will continue to add more.


lone star star
It's an alchemy of apparently disparate essences - blues, soul, rock'n'roll - and Delbert McClinton is a master chemist. Texas music is more than music from Texas. Like his fellow Lone Star Staters Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Doug Sahm, McClinton's defiance of definition may have denied him a wider audience, but those who know him can consider themselves, to quote one of his songs, "one of the fortunate few". McClinton wrote most of the 13 songs here and anything he doesn't write he makes his own (I'll Change My Style, associated with Jimmy Reed, becomes wonderfully greasy swamp R&B). For tragic, noirish adventure with a femme fatale, try Down into Mexico ("Sherrie was a dancer / she was a schemer / we came up with a foolproof plan"). Those who have lost love will share the ache of Kiss Her Once For Me ("and there's a part of her life I won't be there to see / when you're holding her tonight, kiss her once for me"). McClinton just turned 65 and shows no sign of decline. Start here and work back to such gems as Genuine Cowhide (1976) and The Jealous Kind (1980). (This review appeared in The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. ).


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