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One of the most enduring characteristics of 80s \u201calternative\u201d music was the cross-fertilization between country and rock. This 80s variant rocked harder than earlier efforts by The Byrds<\/strong> and\/or The Flying Burrito Brothers<\/strong>, and was exemplified by a number of excellent bands. The Long Ryders<\/strong><\/a>, The Blasters<\/strong><\/a>, Jason and the Scorchers<\/strong><\/a>, BoDeans<\/strong> and Lone Justice<\/strong> crafted some of the era’s best country-rock. Part of the success of these band was down to their imbuing their songs with a punk sensibility. By the time of Lone Justice’s 1985 self-titled debut, they had fallen prey (to some degree) to the slickness that a major label deal often wrought.<\/p>\n But two years earlier, the band cut a self-produced, live-in-the-studio demo tape that would showcase what they really sounded like. Omnivore Recordings has unearthed these tapes and pointedly titled them This is Lone Justice<\/em>. There’s much more county and less rock here. Maria McKee<\/strong>‘s unaffected vocals ring true, and the playing is ace. Unreformed rock fans might not dig the clip-clop drumming of Don Heffington<\/strong>, but the originals (joined by covers of \u201cJackson\u201d and Merle Haggard<\/strong>‘s \u201cWorking Man’s Blues\u201d) are strong material that show why the band earned a record deal.<\/p>\n Note: Due to an unusually full schedule last week and this week \u2013 you wouldn’t believe me if I told you \u2013 my posts will be a bit shorter than typical. Once the dust settles, my normal wordy posting will recommence.<\/em><\/p>\n Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> One of the most enduring characteristics of 80s \u201calternative\u201d music was the cross-fertilization between country and rock. This 80s variant rocked harder than earlier efforts by The Byrds and\/or The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,49,65],"tags":[1338,1622],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country","category-cowpunk","category-new-release","category-review","tag-lone-justice","tag-omnivore-recordings","cat-20-id","cat-21-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\"){kind=icon}
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