Swing Time
Swing Time was recorded live over a few nights where he is most at home: the stage of Austin’s fabled roadhouse extraordinaire, The Continental Club. In the glare of the stage lights, Wayne and his tick-tight band kick it out and rescue country’s heritage from the clutches of the Nashville pretenders.
The album starts with crowd noise, and a quick count in for the band. That's all it takes Wayne and the boys to get rolling.
At a time when many self-proclaimed musicologists and genre snobs want to bottle America’s rich musical legacy, label it, and put it on a museum shelf so it can be safely experienced, Wayne and his band of accomplices will have none of it--they aim to air it out every night and let it run...
Swing Time is Wayne "The Train" Hancock's second full-length album for Bloodshot, and it was recorded live over a few nights where he is most at home: the stage of Austin’s fabled roadhouse extraordinaire, The Continental Club. Produced by Lloyd Maines (Wilco, Richard Buckner, Joe Ely), this album dusts off some classics from albums that have been long out of print, like "Thunderstorms and Neon Signs" and "Johnny Law," showcases some new tunes and dresses them up in some new finery, including the twin lead guitar heaven of Dave Biller and Paul Skelton, the trombone of Bob "Texaco" Stafford and killer, piercing straight steel of Eddie Rivers.
Wayne rolls out some covers done in a style that has scuffed up dance floors from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. There's Ernest Tubb's "Lose Your Mind,"and the oft-covered classics "Route 66"and "Walkin' the Dog."
In the glare of the stage lights, Wayne and his tick-tight band kick it out and rescue country’s heritage from the clutches of the Nash-vile leviathan. We think you’ll agree, the goods on Swing Time are more infectious than poison ivy, and twice as hard to shake once you’ve been exposed to it.
CHOICE CUTS:
Thunderstorms & Neon Signs
Johnny Law
Tag Along
Flatland Boogie
