5.7.08

Up Front and Down Low

Teddy Thompson's third album, a clutch of classic country cover versions. A lot of people turn queasy at the thought of country music, assuming it to be rhinestone-studded kitchy bollocks about truck driving and divorce. These people are Wrong. Country music is great.

If you do feel uneasy about song titles like Walking The Floor Over You, I'm Left, Your'e Right, She's Gone, or indeed the promising sounding The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me (sadly not included on this album) then Teddy Thompson might be a good place to start. His version of George Jones' She Still Thinks I Care is splendid:

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