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Seven Decades
Ever since rock rose to dominate popular music, it has fallen upon country music to deal with matters of maturity. While rock rings with anthems of young love and angst, country croons about marriage, kids, and holding on to the farm. Who better, then, to bring us joyfully engaging tales of aging than country legend Hank Thompson, who's got a half-century of honky-swing classics behind him? Is there sex after 60? Check out "Sting in This Ole Bee," where he sings, "I may be in retirement, on Social Security, but if there's honey in that hive there's a sting in this ole bee." Tunes such as "Condo in Hondo" and "New Wine in Old Bottles" continue the theme in similar lighthearted fashion. Only jazz artist Mose Allison writes and sings about growing old with as much warmth and wit. Rounding out the program are some novelty tunes and some pop ("Scotch and Soda") and country ("In the Jailhouse Now") standards. Wherever Thompson wanders, Lloyd Maines's perky production and Thom Bresh's terrific Travis-style fingerpicking (he's Merle Travis's son, after all) keep the proceedings as honest and weathered as a desert roadhouse. --Michael Ross
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Tracks| 1 | Sting In This Ole Bee | | 2 | In The Jailhouse Now | | 3 | Condo In Hondo | | 4 | Triflin' Gal | | 5 | Dinner For One, Please James | | 6 | The Night Miss Nancy Ann's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down | | 7 | I'll Start Believing In You | | 8 | Abdul Abulbul Amir | | 9 | Lobo The Hobo | | 10 | New Wine In Old Bottles | | 11 | Medicine Man | | 12 | Scotch And Soda | | 13 | Wreck Of The Old '97 |
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