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Let's see here. I have been listening to country music for about
thirty-three years now. I have to admit that I still like my
country music just like I used to hear it back then. With steel
guitar, fiddles, and a heart felt honky-tonk sound. I love it
so much my skin crawls when I hear it played just right. Well
folks, this is exactly what you get when you listen to Ed's latest
album "My Perfect World". Ed Burleson, a sixth generation
Texan, writes and sings country music that is forged in true,
Texas honky-tonk, beer joint style. He is hosted by an elite
group of Texas players in this album too numerous to mention.
It is easy to see why this one went to number four on the Americana
charts. While I think the entire album is excellent, I will run
down a few of the finer cuts:
The first time I heard the album's first cut 'Wide Open Spaces',
I was living in the Metro Mess called Dallas/FortWorth. The song
took me back to "All the times I've spent sittin' under
an oak tree" and doing a little hunting with my dad and
some close friends. I do not like the city, and now that I live
on a farm outside of Austin, I know what Ed means when he refers
to the "wide open spaces... where a man can be a man".
Any man who's ever loved and lost can understand the album's
title cut 'Perfect World'. Taking a woman for granted and then
losing her can leave you feeling guilty, empty, and wishing for
those "better days" when you still had her. Ed delivers
this song in a true honky-tonk blue. This one will leave you
thinking about that one gal who got away.
If you have ever spent the entire night in a Texas honky-tonk
dancing with the woman you love, then you can really understand
what it means to not want 'No Closing Time'. We've all had nights
that we didn't want to end. I know I have spent a few with my
wife. This song is made for two-steppin' and a loud "awwww
hawww". " No Tears" is about just being flat done
with hurtin' over a woman. After a hard break up, some men just
go get another one, some sit around and cry in their beer, and
others just get over it. I have done all three. Finally, you
call up some old friends and the party starts all over. This
is a great song about getting on with it.
I saved the best for last, and so did Ed. 'Going Home to Texas'
is my favorite cut. This is a hell-raising "honky-tonk bar"
kind of song written by Clay Blaker. This one will make you sit
up straight in your seat and press on the gas pedal. Texas is
my "home sweet home" and I miss her, and her sweet
country sounds when I am away for too long. It's always good
coming back home to Texas. Good country music is still alive
and well in Texas. "Perfect World" is a testament to
this fact. We all get a little misled sometimes into thinking
country sound's like the Dixie Chick's, or Lone Star. But what
Nashville doesn't know, is that in a "Perfect World",
" where you tip your hat to the ladies and the Rose Of San
Antone", it sounds like Ed Burleson.
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