Wayne Hancock – Slingin' Rhythm (CD)
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Wayne Hancock has spent decades keeping alive a strain of American music that never really fit neatly into Nashville's machinery, drawing from Hank Williams, Western swing, and roadhouse country in equal measure. "The Train" earned his nickname honestly, and *Slingin' Rhythm* finds him and his road-hardened band locked into the kind of groove that only comes from years of playing together night after night.
A Wayne 'The Train' Hancock album is as refreshing as a beer pulled from a tub of ice on a hot summer's day; dang if it ain't always a kick how surprisingly JUST RIGHT it is. Slingin' Rhythm is just right, a finely honed brand of juke joint rhythm sitting in the sweet spot of American music invention between country, hillbilly, jazz, and Western swing. And while Wayne is indeed a throwback, the funny thing is, the more retro he gets, the fresher he sounds. His songs about the everyday and the everyman, with their driving rhythm and live-in-the-moment vibe, have a character and passion that go beyond a particular time.
With its emphasis on organic interplay and extended soloing, Wayne and his band drive the center line between tight and loose. Like a latter day Bob Wills, spontaneously calling out encouragement, or Hank Sr. and Ernest Tubb effortlessly knocking out smile (and dance)-through-the-pain honkytonk, Wayne Hancock delivers an unvarnished, BS-free restorative.
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UPC: 744302024929
Label: Bloodshot Records
Release Date: 10.28.16
Format: CD