Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys - Your Favorite Fool

Artist:

Hobart, Rex

UPC:

744302009421

Description:

Personnel: Rex Hobart (vocals, acoustic guitar) J.B. Morris (vocals, acoustic guitar); Kelly Hogan (vocals); Solomon Hofer (pedal steel, dobro); Skip Edwards (accordion); Blackjack Snow (electric bass); T.C. Dobbs (drums, cymbals).
Recorded at The Dog Bone Studio, Burbank, California between April and May 2002.
Personnel: Rex Hobart (vocals, acoustic guitar); Solomon Hofer (dobro); Skip Edwards (accordion); Blackjack Snow (electric bass); T.C. Dobbs (drums, cymbals).
Audio Mixer: Sally Browder.
Recording information: The Dog Bone Studio, Burbank CA (04/2001/05/2002).
Photographer: Jason Miller.
Arrangers: Misery Boys; Rex Hobart.
Rex Hobart`s third Bloodshot release in four years, at ten tracks and just over half an hour of music, is a little on the short side. But how much heartbreak, cryin`, and twangy reverbed regret can you take in one sitting? Executive produced by Dwight Yoakam axeman and knob twiddler Pete Anderson, who oughta know his way around a good Bakersfield tune by now, Your Favorite Fool is top-shelf, low-down tears-in-yer-beer honky tonk, like in the old Faron Young days. Torchy country & western chanteuse Kelly Hogan goes sob for sob with Hobart on the George Jones/Tammy Wynette-styled "Golden Ring," just to prove that hurtin` aches as much on both sides of the altar. Hot dawg double-time licks kick into high gear on the Commander Cody-ish "I Don`t Feel It Anymore," proving that the Misery Boys can tear it up with the best of them. But it`s the sobbin` steel guitar and classic Buck Owens sound that drives the majority of this disc. Even though it`s all been heard before, Hobart`s expressively deep baritone and no-frills approach go down like good whiskey after a bad night. Titles like "Gotta Get Back to Forgetting You" and "You`ve Got Some Cheatin` to Do" tell the story without having to hear a note. It`s a slice of pure, dusty country the way they used to make it before the big hats and bigger production budgets moved in. You`ll be singing Hobart`s songs well after the half-hour it takes to spin this short but sweet album. ~ Hal Horowitz

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. You`ve Got Some Cheating to Do
2. Your Favorite Fool
3. Take It Back (Before You Mean It)
4. Gotta Get Back to Forgetting You
5. Golden Ring
6. I Don`t Feel It Anymore
7. Promise to Be Honest
8. Let`s Just Call It Love
9. Another Bad Habit of Mine
10. I Should Be Gone By Now

Album Information

Release Date:

10/21/2002

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Label:

Bloodshot

Producer:

Sally Browder

Catalog Number:

BS 094

Original Release Year:

2002

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

32 : 49

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