NewsJimmy Willing and the Real Gone Hick-Ups Debut Album Launch |
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Jimmy Willing & The Real Gone Hick-Ups released their self-titled debut album at The Rails, Byron Bay on Saturday 8th July, A country folk band like no other, The Hick-Ups draw water from the deep well of rural folk tradition and make it their own. Be it rockabilly or a cranked up heel and toe polka, they are guaranteed to kick up the dust. Like an old time country band the songs on The Hick-Ups album were recorded live with the band standing in a circle. Fracas Studios, Byron Bay is in the Old Norco Factory and the boys put down their stuff in the ham hanging room. Like I said, a real country record. This album pulls you in and leads you through a swag of thirteen songs, each one a story in itself the recordings have a strong sense narative. There's a song about fishin' for catfish that features the saucy vocals of Christa Hughes, a song about a love sick sailor; a moving autobiographical song "That Big Man Broke Down and Cried' and a song told through the eyes of a child, 'My Mother's So Fancy' that features two of Willing' s daughters And of course, there' s some good old-fashioned souped-up country swing and country pop that will get everyone in the house moving. The Hick-Ups are reminiscent of 1940's-50's country music acts.
Stripping things back to the bare necessities, The Hick-Ups convey
a simple honesty to their audience that is not present in much of
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