Inspired by such great compilation like Country Got Soul, Delta Swamp Rock and Country Funk!
Comin’ right up, a steaming gumbo of down home, honey drippin’ Voodoo-Soul and rough-fried funky Blues with a large side order of countrified brain salad and gritty Southern Rock. These compilations encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty shakin’. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Follow the Love Rustler train through the landscape of blues and country with stops in Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Rock, Arkansas. Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Old Funk, Georgia. The legendary south of country preachers, forgotten jailhouses, rowdy juke joints and jaded dreams of salvation.
The tunes are from the glorious era between 1970 and 1975 with some years plus and few minus. We found the best tunes on albums you thought you knew and searched a lot of relatively unknown bands and releases for exceptional tunage. If sonically imperfect we had the tracks mastered and listened to the bunch endlessly to achieve the perfect flow.
The Love Rustler recommends: “Pour yourself a drink and keep on chooglin’!”
Volume 18/Dixie Fried comes as CD-R and features 21 tracks and about 80 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
Keep On Chooglin' - Vol. 17 / Dixie Fried
1. Cowboy - Road Gravy Chase
2. Thomas Jefferson Kaye - Collection Box
3. John Kay - Easy Evil
4. Eric Quincy Tate - The Bream Are Still Biting In Ferryday
5. Ken Lauber - Undertow
6. J.J. Cale - Lies
7. Larry Jon Wilson - Ohoopee River Bottomland
8. Tony Joe White - Scratch My Back
9. Charlie McCoy - Working Man Blues
10. Levon Helm - Hurricane
11. Lowell George - I Can't Stand The Rain
12. Les Dudek - Lady, You're Nasty
13. Borderline - Don't Know Where I Am Going
14. Lynyrd Skynyrd - I'm A Country Boy
15. Little Feat - Down On The Farm
16. Kill Devil - Bye Bye Boogie
17. Beaverteeth - Dixie Fried
18. Allman Brothers Band - Can't Loose What You Never Had
19. Watchpocket - Love Shine
20. Too Smooth - Crippled Duck
21. Charlie Brown - Baby Needs A New Pair Of Shoes