Review:'Jenny Don't & The Spurs' 'Live At The Jenny'
- Label: 'Property Of The Lost Records'
- Genre: 'Alt/Country'
- Release Date: '25.8.25.'
Our Rating:
This is a classic live album recorded raw and intimate at the Jenny Lind in Hastings, it is the third in the ongoing Live At The Jenny series. Portland, Oregon Western swing sensations Jenny Don't And The Spurs have rode into town on a Sunday in February with a mission to not have to do battle with the locals. Jenny Don'ts Spurs are Christopher March, Kelly Halliburton and the incredible Buddy Weeks.
The album and concert open with a short intro into Flying High with deep twanging western guitars and drummer Buddy Weeks exploring his cymbals in spine tingling ways. Eventually Jenny joins in on vocals and we are off on a wild ride of intense guitar and baleful vocals helping us all make sure we are Flying High with them, Jenny Don't welcomes everyone to the Jenny Lind to have some fun together.
Soon enough The Spurs are In Trouble With The Law, they have been twanging too much in public again, arguing about if they'll ever play entertaining football again, While Jenny wants you to go on the lam with her to escape those dastardly lawmen who don't appreciate classic old school Western swing. Of course she is On The Run, a lot slower and full of feeling for the events that led her to have to get the hell outta dodge once more.
Sunset On The Alamo and that most venerated of awful battles is explored anew at a fine clip, complete with lariat swishes hoping for less bloodshed and the chance to watch a glorious Sunset. Is it Too Late? Turns this classic heartbroken country blues in a whirlwind, it could almost be over before it started pace, they are at a full gallop, it goes straight into recent single Sidewinder that is blowing through town like an arrow headed for King Harold, looping out of the sky towards it's target, the tension builds and builds one cymbal crash at a time.
Lovesick Crawl sounds like early Wanda Jackson, Jenny spill's her heart as to how she aches for some of your love, complete with yelps and Christopher March rampaging up and down his fretboard, sounding every bit like a band you wouldn't be able to take your eyes off. Right From The start it's one of those affairs that's going to go down in a classic country way.
Still As The Night waiting for Cat Balloo to show up or some similar spectre of the old west, something to disrupt the still in that endless night. Call Of The Road is exactly what has brought The Spurs into town ready to go on a rampage, Jenny tells us exactly how it's gonna be, while the Spurs just let loose. 3 Or 4 Nights is about how long her love for you will last, she needs to get back on that lonesome road once more, careening outta town in her covered wagon and full speed with the guitar going all Lefty Frissell on us.
The Fire is exactly what Jenny Don't & The Spurs sound like they have brought to Hastings, this is incandescent western swing geetar action. The show closed with Paso Del Norte a dark tinged trip down Mexico way, they haven't scaled any walls, but they do want to ride on down that highway once more at full pelt, they slow the wagon train down to towards the end, with spry cymbal crashes and that extremely twangy guitar with Jenny introducing the band as they leave the stage to some huge cheers.
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