In Honor of my favorite show on saturday nights, I present to you a recording of one of my favorite episodes of Austin City Limits.
Recorded in 1996, this honky tonk supergroup gave us a performance much like what you would expect this gathering to sound like on any one of their front porches. They sit around joking singing songs back and forth, trading licks....trying to one up the next guy. Highlights on this disc include well all of it, but specifically the middle part where they play a game of one upmanship with spiritual songs, the all-together sing along of "on the road again", and my favorite.....Waylon's "I'd have been out of jail". Give it a listen or two.
Austin City Limits
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This 2-disc set is comprised of a full concert at the Crocodile Cafe on May 29, 1999. Their full Austin City Limits set from Jan. 26, 1998, and a few tracks from the Gypsy Tea Room on an unknown date which are primarily Buck Owens covers. The highlight here is definitely the Austin City Limits set which is all songs from Too Far To Care. The Crocodile Cafe concert is good in it's own right, as I think the songs off Fight Songs sound much better live than in studio.
This is a great album and a great introduction to Todd Snider if you are not familiar with him. He is one of the best songwriters around today and also an excellent storyteller, and this album showcases both of those traits. This is Todd at his best, just him a guitar and an occasional harmonica. Standout tracks include: D.B. Cooper, I Can't Complain, Beer Run (which you may have heard on the horrible Bob & Tom Show), Statistician's Blues....but the absolute highlight of the whole album is The Story of the Devil's Backbone Tavern. Give it a listen
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