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About the CD
Release Date: August, 2006
Release Date: August, 2006
"Ain't No Good Life"
Blues purists probably won't dig most of the music on Ain't No Good Life. Why, you ask? Well, because our life experiences and the music and people that have influenced us along the way are far different than the founding fathers of blues who came before us.
There will always be those who feel compelled to argue over what the blues is… or isn't. We figure the universe would be a mighty flat and boring place if everyone was given one crayon from the box and told they had to express themselves with just that one color.As we make the journey through our years we've found that each experience and encounter adds depth and hue and dimension to who we are, as musicians and as human beings.
For our debut release, we colored our Blues from the big box of crayons There's a little bit of everything on this 13-song disk. The title track, Ain't No Good Life, is the most traditional sounding on the disk and features Rusty's slide guitar skills. We wound up using the original demo tracks, recorded in our home as Rusty wrote the song, because we knew it would be impossible to duplicate that raw emotion again in the studio.
We had a lot of fun swapping verses on a number of the songs - like the mid-tempo Somethin' Missing and The Fool Will Do, a straightforward, bouncy shuffle blues tune. Our quirky sense of humor again shows up in Nasty Reputation, Ain't From Mississippi, and Toppy, all hard-grooving tunes with a southern blues rock vibe and Rusty tears up the fret board on Hell On My Heels.
Do It Again may slip out of the genre of blues but it's a great song to be able to sing at this stage in our lives and the lyrics resonate with our audiences.
There was never a question about Summertime; the disk's only cover song, making it onto the CD. Not only was it the first song we played together at a late-night more-than-a-bit tipsy gathering at a friend's apartment, the song has been a part of Laurie's life from birth. By contrast, Hang Dog is dark and gritty. Long Time Comin' could almost be considered country - except towards the end where Rusty gets crazy and makes mischief by taking aim at his previous musical life and Laurie pours intensity into her vocal delivery on Missin' You.
We will probably never be money-rich but we enjoy abundance in the things that matter. Together, we spend a lot of time making music, laughing and smiling. We hope we've been successful in capturing that in the music. Right here and now, this set of songs is a pretty darn honest reflection of who we are and where we come from or where we don't come from in the case of Ain't From Mississippi. We hope you like them.
There will always be those who feel compelled to argue over what the blues is… or isn't. We figure the universe would be a mighty flat and boring place if everyone was given one crayon from the box and told they had to express themselves with just that one color.As we make the journey through our years we've found that each experience and encounter adds depth and hue and dimension to who we are, as musicians and as human beings.
For our debut release, we colored our Blues from the big box of crayons There's a little bit of everything on this 13-song disk. The title track, Ain't No Good Life, is the most traditional sounding on the disk and features Rusty's slide guitar skills. We wound up using the original demo tracks, recorded in our home as Rusty wrote the song, because we knew it would be impossible to duplicate that raw emotion again in the studio.
We had a lot of fun swapping verses on a number of the songs - like the mid-tempo Somethin' Missing and The Fool Will Do, a straightforward, bouncy shuffle blues tune. Our quirky sense of humor again shows up in Nasty Reputation, Ain't From Mississippi, and Toppy, all hard-grooving tunes with a southern blues rock vibe and Rusty tears up the fret board on Hell On My Heels.
Do It Again may slip out of the genre of blues but it's a great song to be able to sing at this stage in our lives and the lyrics resonate with our audiences.
There was never a question about Summertime; the disk's only cover song, making it onto the CD. Not only was it the first song we played together at a late-night more-than-a-bit tipsy gathering at a friend's apartment, the song has been a part of Laurie's life from birth. By contrast, Hang Dog is dark and gritty. Long Time Comin' could almost be considered country - except towards the end where Rusty gets crazy and makes mischief by taking aim at his previous musical life and Laurie pours intensity into her vocal delivery on Missin' You.
We will probably never be money-rich but we enjoy abundance in the things that matter. Together, we spend a lot of time making music, laughing and smiling. We hope we've been successful in capturing that in the music. Right here and now, this set of songs is a pretty darn honest reflection of who we are and where we come from or where we don't come from in the case of Ain't From Mississippi. We hope you like them.