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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Idaho
2. Say About Love
3. Fadeaway
4. Paradise
5. Still the Night
6. Feed the Fire
7. Ballad of Jenny Rae, The
8. Naked
9. Closer to Free
10. Good Things
11. You Don't Get Much
12. Lookin' For Me Somewhere
DISC 2:
1. Ooh (She's My Baby)
2. Far Far Away From My Heart
3. Black, White & Blood Red
4. She's a Runaway
5. Going Home
6. Texas Ride Song
7. True Devotion
8. Go Slow Down
9. Misery
10. I'm in Trouble Again
11. Walking After Midnight
12. Good Work
| Details | | Producer: | The BoDeans | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The BoDeans: Sam Llanas (vocals, guitar); Kurt Neumann (vocals, guitar, floor tom); Michael Ramos (piano, keyboards, organ); Bob Griffin (bass); Nick Kitsos, Rafael Gayol, Kenny Aronoff (drums).
Engineers: Phil Edwards, Timothy Powell, Mark McCraw, Jim Scott.
Recorded live in San Francisco, California, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois between September 1989 and May 1994. Includes liner notes by Kurt Neumann.
Since the mid-'80s, The BoDeans' brand of heartland rock has earned them critical praise and made fans out of Robbie Robertson, U2 and fellow Wisconsin native Jerry Harrison, among others. JOE DIRT CAR captures the band live, playing songs from their five studio albums.
The BoDeans have always avoided hopping on stylistic bandwagons, resulting in little radio or video support. Despite these obstacles, the band has built a following with its formidable live act. Although the material on JOE DIRT CAR is from several different shows, the energy never lags.
The harmonies of Kurt Neumann and Sammy Llanas, the band's front line, are rooted in the Everly Brothers, particularly on songs like "Fadeaway" and "Paradise." Elsewhere, The BoDeans show they were digging country before it was the trendy thing to do. Llanas introduces "Lookin' For Me Somewhere" as a song prompted by a crush on Emmylou Harris, and with its clip-clop rhythm, all that seems to be missing is some pedal steel. "Ooh (She's My Baby)," a fine piece of honky-tonk originally released as a B-side, is in the same C&W ballpark as the Bob Wills-inspired "Texas Ride Song." And although their Patsy Cline cover ("Walkin' After Midnight") rubs shoulders with songs that have Bruce Springsteen's stamp all over them ("Feed The Fire"), the BoDeans are a great live band that easily treads ground between these two camps by way of some Chuck Berry riffs ("Good Work").
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