Drinkin Songs & Smokin Guitars

Editorial Reviews
Country Standard Time
"...made to be cranked to maximum volume, preferably with your spirit of choice close at hand."

Album Description
Opens with mind-boggling, mean tele guitar pyrotechnics, flashy and trashy lyrics, (just look at the way these are dressed), and never lets up. The record closes with a bluegrass version of "Hog Wild," the album's opening track, featuring bluegrass legends Rob and Ronnie McCoury on Fiddle and mandolin.

Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Best from Clint in a long while
  • Black's Irresistable "Logic"
  • Typical Clint Black.
 Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic
Clint Black
Manufacturer: Equity Music Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music
New TraditionalistNew Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music
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ContemporaryContemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000AMU0V2
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

  1. Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic
  2. Heartaches
  3. Code Of The West
  4. Rainbow In The Rain
  5. Undercover Cowboy
  6. Go It Alone
  7. Too Much Rock
  8. A Big One
  9. I Don't Wanna Tell You
  10. Back Home In Heaven
  11. Thinkin' Of You
  12. Longnecks & Rednecks

Product Description

1. Drinkin’ Songs & Other Logic
2. Heartaches
3. Code of the West Rainbow in the Rain
4. Undercover Cowboy
5. Go It Alone
6. Too Much Rock
7. A Big One
8. I Don’t Wanna Tell You
9. Back Home in Heave
10. Thing’ Of You
11. Longnecks & Rednecks


Format: CD

Amazon.com

Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic is a straight, no chaser collection of honky-tonk songs from Clint Black. Hard twangin' accompanies hard drinkin' from the opening shot of the theme-setting title track through the last call of "Longnecks & Rednecks." Between rounds, Black adds some cowboy philosophizing ("Code of the West"), a plea for a return to purer country or better farmland ("Too Much Rock"), and a glimmer of spirituality ("Back Home in Heaven"). With Black producing and writing (or at least collaborating on) all of the material, the results aren't quite as consistent as they were in his hitmaking heyday. He suffers a novelty low with "Undercover Cowboy," about a seductive schemer who "only wants to know how to get under the cover with you," yet channels the dance-floor inspiration of Bob Wills with the twin fiddles of "Heartaches" and the breezy swing of "I Don't Wanna Tell You." Wherever the music takes him, there's a whole lot of Texas in these tracks. --Don McLeese

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Best from Clint in a long while .......2006-05-03

This is the best album from Clint Black in a quite a while, although it is not up to the standard of his first albums. It does represent a return to the traditional country music that first brought him into prominance, although there are traces of the Adult Contemporary focus of recent years.

The album opens with the title track, an uptempo song that pays homage to country's past. "Heartaches," the second track, is a nice honky tonk song. After that comes "Code of the West", a rather cliche-ridden number that fails to interest.

These first three songs set the pattern for the CD, two pretty good songs for every one mediocre or indifferent song. I'm not sure which is my favorite track, perhaps the very western swing influenced "I Don't Want To Tell You" with it's great fiddle backing, but clearly "Undercover Cowboy" is the biggest stinker of the set - a song about a cowboy Don Juan whose sole mission is to get "under the covers" with "undercover" cowgirls. Perhaps I am being generous giving this four stars, but the best tracks are very good indeed and the worst tracks (except "Undercover Cowboy") are at least listenable

4 out of 5 stars Black's Irresistable "Logic".......2005-10-08

Prime Cuts: A Big One, Back Home in Heaven, Rainbow in the Rain

Clint Black has return to his mother milk of what nurtured him into fame way back in the early 90s: swinging Texas honky tonk stompers interjected with those traditional sensitive tear-jerking ballads. Gone are those delusory attempts to cross over to the pop market (a la the extremely misfired "Money or Love" and the shoddily pablum "Easy for you to Say"). As the title suggests, Black has decided to tip his Stetson to the venerable tradition of country drinkin' numbers. This does not mean that this CD is entirely an inebriant to the sonically dipsomania. Rather, only 4 of these tracks (the title cut, "A Big One," "Thinkin' of You" and "Longnecks and Rednecks") contain explicitly alcohol-related themes, with the rest dealing with thoughtful ruminations of love lost, missed opportunities, cherished friendships and a couple even dealing with death. Thanks to Black and his longtime band mate Hayden Nicholas who co-penned most of these 12 cuts, these songs reverberate back to Black's "Killing Times" days where the music is unadulterated country nuanced with a roiling mix of honesty, urgency and credibility.

A listen to the scintillating lead single "Rainbow in the Rain" is enough to convince that one is listening to greatness. Giving the well-worn theme of despair in the throes of a breakup a makeover, Black dives into the emotional depths to create one of his most compelling uptempos in his vast catalogue. Co-written by Nicholas at the time of his mother's death, the spiritually searching "Back Home in Heaven" is given a cherubic boast with the angelic backings of label mate Little Big Town. The sparse acoustic sounding ballad "Go It Alone" offers a sobering look at death again as two friends had to part at the last phase of life. But not everything here is morbid, drawing on the traditions of Faron Young and Ray Price, the swing shuffle "I Don't Wanna Tell You" turns heartache into a delightful Texas dance hall gem. With regards to the drinkin' songs, "A Big One" is a honky tonk barroom crowd pleaser complete with a sing-a-long chorus. Old pal Steve Wariner joins Black and Nicholas in penning the title track, a great upbeat number bolstered by some tasty sounding guitars from Wariner himself.

Despite being a fetching album, there are a few weaker moments: the sleazy "Undercover Cowboy," a tale about a Casanova having his ways with the ladies, hits an all time low. With a melody reminiscent of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' "Undercover," this track is very much on the obligatory side. Scheduled as the sophomore single "Code of West" is a feeble attempt in creating one of those John Wayne cowboy movies. With a wordy plot and trying to draw too many fortuitous connections to the war, lyrically this track is messy at best.

For fans who wonder where the Clint Black of earlier hits such as "A Better Man," "The Hard Way," "When My Ship Comes In" has gone, "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" is proof that this CMA Award winner is back. And he's back in fine form. Drinking deep into the recesses of the honky tonks, the smell of whiskey has never been more pungent and the consanguinity of the bar stool crowd has never been warmer; thus, putting asunder any logic to stay away.

4 out of 5 stars Typical Clint Black........2005-10-06

I have heard three songs from the CD. The standout of the CD is Back Home In Heaven . The other two songs I have heard are:Code Of The West, Rainbow In The Rain
You can download these two tracks from Clint's web site: These three songs are all typical Clint Black.
[...]
Clint's remarks on Back Home In Heaven
Clint Black/Hayden Nicholas
Hayden's mother died recently and fortunately we have enough guitar players in the band to cover for him. He was able to spend a lot of the year at home and was there to hold her hand when she passed. I keep lots of songwriting notes and every day we're working in the studio I'm very careful to gather them all up in my notebook and take them with me. I keep them right by the bed because I wake up sometimes and a song will have sorted itself out. So I'm very particular about keeping all those notes with me. I've had the idea for "Back Home In Heaven" for a while, and it was going to be about coming home to my girls, Lisa and Lilly, from being out of town. And I planned to write it alone. For some reason I really can't explain, the scrap of paper with that title on it didn't make it back into my notebook one night. I came into the studio the next morning and Hayden was sitting there holding it. I'm trying to figure out how I could have possibly made a mistake I never make, and he says, "After my mom died your mom sent me a card that said, 'Your angel is in heaven watching over you.'" And we both about lost it. I told him this had to be providence. Something I never do just happened to relate to a note my mom sent him. He turned the line of the song around and it was just perfect. When it came time to record background vocals I wanted to bring in Little Big Town because I love their sound. Before the session, Kimberly's husband died unexpectedly. I called the label and said just mark that off the schedule. We can address it down the road. They called back and said Kimberly had heard the song and wanted to be a part of it-that this song meant a lot to her. It was going to be the first thing they did when she went back to work. So I said, fine, but if at any point they want to cancel -- if they pull up in the driveway and she has second thoughts, cancel it. Well, they showed up and, to be recording anything was remarkable. But with the content of this song it had to be so personal to her. And she lost it several times during the session. I went into clown mode and tried to keep everyone distracted. It turned out to be a really good evening for her. She gave every indication that, even though it was tough, it was what she needed to be doing. They did an incredible job, and just added one more layer of meaning to a song that has plenty.
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        5 out of 5 stars Exactly what you'd expect Pirate Music to be........2006-08-07

        That's it, really - this is a great "pirate music" album. It's a load of fun, and I recommend it to anyone looking for something to play in the background of their rum-soaked pirate-themed party, for a PotC viewing, a Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day playlist, or just for fun. It's great. One of the best 'pirate' albums I've come across.

        5 out of 5 stars Scurvy Bastards = Pirates Rocking F-U-N !!!!.......2006-01-19

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        5 out of 5 stars Land Locked Pirate Music .......2005-09-10

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        Drinkin Songs & Smokin Guitars
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • best band in america
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              		Beer Drinkin' Belly Rubbin' Lyin' Cheatin' Songs

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              RANDY ALLEN ST. CLAIR/Beer Drinkin' Belly Rubbin' Lyin' Cheatin' Songs. This one is exactly what the title implies. Included are eleven original solid honky tonkers by St. Clair, who sounds a bit like Mel Street in places. Accompanied by fiddle, steel, lead and bar- room piano. Songs include title tune as well as IT TOOK HER LEAVING-A MAN CALLED JONES-ALBEQUERQUE-NEON ANGEL-I HAVE TO REACH UP TO TOUCH BOTTOM.

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