Valance

by Waylon Speed

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1.
Beef Jerky and Beer 04:57
2.
Livin' 04:26
3.
Then Again 03:03
4.
I Heard the Shot 05:38
5.
Cherry Plane 03:24
6.
Gotta Get Out 03:57
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Killin’ Time 03:27
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Silver and Gold 04:55
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Smoke 03:42
10.
Train Out Of Town 05:11

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"Waylon Jennings-meets-Motörhead...” - Seven Days

Valance (2012), Waylon Speed’s third album, trades in the classic-country themes of whiskey, speed, gasoline, trains, smoke and best friends’ wives. Perhaps this sounds trite on paper, but rest assured that Waylon Speed transcend cliché and deliver to listeners all that is great about balls-to-the-walls country music, and American music in general.

An almost mind-numbing energy runs through this album, from its first notes to its last. The guitar, drum and bass work — courtesy of Chitwood Hammaker, Justin Crowther and Noah Crowther, respectively — that drive Ravin’s lyrics down the dirty back roads and endless interstates of America sound like Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Three ridin’ on some serious amphetamines. This is energy that would have been incomprehensible in the 1950s. Tracks “Then Again” and “Killin’ Time” feature some of the finest quick-fingered guitar solos to come out of a Burlington amp in a long minute. Ravin’s lyrics regarding “broken bottles, broken bones and broken hearts” (“Smoke”) are written and delivered with heartfelt sincerity.

Recorded live to two-inch analog tape, Valance has a timeless quality — so rare these days — that can only be realized in a room full of musicians playing alongside and against each other. And louder’n hell!

Put this record on, turn it way up, and your surroundings all but dissolve; you’re now in a beat-up old truck and don’t give a damn about open-container laws. - Sean Hood, Seven Days

credits

released April 24, 2012

Band:
Noah Crowther: Bass and vocals
Kelly Ravin: Guitar and vocals
Reverend Chad Hammaker: Guitar and vocals
Justin Crowther: Drums and harmonica

All Songs by Waylon Speed (Crow on Ten Music - ASCAP) 2012.
Produced by Waylon Speed and Leah Konechy
Engineered, Mixed, co-produced by Ben Collette
Recorded at the Barn in Vermont October 2011
Mastered by Fred Kavorkian at Kavorkian Mastering, NYC
Album Art by Sarah Ryan

© and ℗ Crow on Ten Records, 2012.

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Waylon Speed Burlington, Vermont

Waylon Speed was created after playing together at a local honky-tonk in Burlington, Vermont. While Waylon Speed is not influenced by mainstream music, they integrate each members individual influences to achieve a truly unique genre all of it’s own.
Named after the guitarist Rev. Chad Hammaker’s son, Waylon, the band is a family owned and operated enterprise. ... more

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