I saw a man coming ‘cross the field
Saw a man coming ‘cross the field
I saw a man coming ‘cross the field
Kickin’ up dust like an automobile
I’ll get mine by and by
Back to the subtitles for volume 6 of The Tiffany Transcriptions. Sally Goodin doesn’t speak to any particular thematic throughline, but it does speak to the fact that this CD has two versions of Sally Goodin on it, a rollicking instrumental and an even better vocal version that closes the album. Other standouts include a surprising cover of Irving Berlin’s I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, the laid-back It’s My Lazy Day, a cover of Woody Guthrie’s Oklahoma Hills, the frenetic Oh Monah and the Oklahoma Rag. The best two tracks are the show-stopping instrumental showcase Playboy Chimes which features the band really showing off and I’ll Get Mine By & By, an exercise in lyrical absurdity and unstoppable energy. I’m running out of ways to say superlative things about this series and the joyous, high-energy, good-natured party music that just packs every album in this series. For those keeping count, this one makes 86 songs and there’s only one of those 86 that I don’t care for. How many artists can you get that deep on and keep that kind of ratio? We’ll see what volume 7 brings. 4 stars.
tl;dr – what’s left to say about this series of astonishingly great, exuberant Western Swing except that Vol. 6 keeps up the quality level? 4 stars.