2/17/2006

Rusty Truck "Broken Promises"

If you haven't heard of this guy, you soon will. Here is an article about him and the album. And I would suggest to everyone that they buy this cd right away. It's worth a listen

You might want to DL everytime featuring Jakob Dylan right now.....!!!!

Rock photographer makes startlingly adept alt-country debut (with big-name help)

ON HIS DEBUT AS A SINGER-SONGWRITER, moonlighting rock photographer Mark Seliger displays an eye for a well-composed song and a voice as solid as any of Nashville’s country-pop crooners. Turning his lensman’s credentials to his advantage (can you blame him?), he’s gotten a little help from high-profile friends such as Jakob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson, T Bone Burnett and Meshell Ndegeocello, who variously produce these twelve tracks. Yet Broken Promises isn’t the distractingly celebrity-studded vanity project this setup might outwardly suggest, because Seliger is a genuine talent. The album jells behind his keening tenor, sweetly melancholic tunes and smart, soulful lyrics, which offer country-style lamentations for city folks. Placing light pop orchestrations atop a bed of dobro, pedal steel and acoustic guitar, the title track recalls the plaintive mood of Fred Neil’s forgotten classic “Everybody’s Talkin’.” With its evocation of “a cool breeze blowin’ and a full moon shinin’ down on me,” the Fleetwood Mac-style “Malibu Canyon” makes L.A. nightlife seem downright down-home. Put it like this: Anyone who can hold his own in a duet with Willie Nelson, as Seliger does in “A Thousand Kisses,” is the real deal.

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