Dale Watson - Call Me Insane

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Jan 5, 2016 Sold Date

Sep 10, 2015 Start Date

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Article name: Call Me Insane
Genre: Country Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Red House Records Number of tracks: 16

Tracklist LP - 1

1. Dale Watson - Day at a Time 2. Dale Watson - Bug Ya for Love 3. Dale Watson - Burden of the Cross 4. Dale Watson - Everybody’s Somebody In 5. Dale Watson - Luchenbach, Texas 6. Dale Watson - Crocodile Tears 7. Dale Watson - Jonesin’ for Jones 8. Dale Watson - I’m Through Hurtin’ 9. Dale Watson - Call Me Insane 10. Dale Watson - Heaven’S Gonna Have a Honky 11. Dale Watson - Tonk 12. Dale Watson - Tienes Cabeza de Palo 13. Dale Watson - I Owe It All to You 14. Dale Watson - Forever Valentine 15. Dale Watson - Hot Dang 16. Dale Watson - Mama’s Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Babies

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Dale Watson has been been making records for 25 years, which makes him as much of a veteran as any of the honky tonk legends who inspired him in the first place, and like many music biz lifers, Watson is a smart guy who knows how to give his fans what they want while keeping thing fresh so he doesn't get bored. Released in 2015, Call Me Insane may not sound like a major creative breakthrough (and ultimately it isn't), but there are just enough countrypolitan accents in tunes like "Forever Valentine," "Crocodile Tears," and the title track to show Watson isn't just a honky tonk man, and his way with a weeper is every bit as strong as his knack for tunes about beer drinking and good times. Watson's band -- including Danny Levin on piano, Don Pawlak on pedal steel, and Lloyd Maines joining Watson on guitar -- is in typically superb form on Call Me Insane, capturing the nuances of the intimate numbers and delivering the right amount of revved-up energy when Watson turns it up on his tribute to the Ol' Possum, "Jonesin' for Jones," and his celebration of true love, "Hot Dang." Watson is as strong a songwriter as he is a singer, and he can tell the tale of a working man ("A Day at a Time"), describe a romance gone bad South of the Border ("Tienes Cabeza de Palo"), or ponder his own idea of paradise ("Heaven's Gonna Have a Honky Tonk") with down-to-earth smarts and a real gift for wordplay. In the grand tradition of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, Dale Watson may not crank out masterpieces on a regular basis, but he never fails to deliver the goods when he goes into the studio, and Call Me Insane shows the honky tonk man can still write 'em and sing 'em as well as you could hope, and he's not slowing down a quarter-century into his career. ~ Mark Deming

Mark Deming