Ward Hayden & the Outliers
A Celebration Of Hank Williams LIVE
(Faster Horses Recordings)
It's a depressing commentary on the state of Country music in 2024 that Beyonce presently occupies the top chart position. Locating true-hearted Country requires exploration beyond commercial artifice; for that, we can look here. Ward's gentle everyman relatings and the formidable champions at his elbow total down-home rhapsodizing of splendidly unassuming bent. The genuine article is rendered with instrumental acumen that just plain feel right. It's logical that Hank's many entries in the Great American Songbook enjoy ubiquitous retellings, his emulators over decades having been countless on bar and arena stages. But reverential reiteration more agreeable than this defies imagination.
This disc was issued in late 2023. That year, Faster Horses also released Ward and the Outliers' all-originals South Shore. Per Bandcamp, that record has aleady sold out.
Recommended: "Settin' the Woods On Fire," "Weary Blues From Waitin'," "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive," "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," "Cold, Cold Heart," "Lost Highway," "Honky Tonkin'," "Lovesick Blues," "Half As Much," "Why Don't You Love Me"
Video: "Why Don't You Love Me" (live)
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