{"id":13213,"date":"2024-03-16T19:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:50:31","slug":"music-an-american-in-texas-uncle-walts-band-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13213","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: An American in Texas, Uncle Walt\u2019s Band, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A short while back I discovered Uncle Walt\u2019s Band, and bought their self-released debut, reissued by Omnivore, with lots of bonus material. It\u2019s superb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love it so much I\u2019ve now got their follow up (also self-released), An American in Texas.<\/em> This is another Omnivore reissue. Also packed to the gills with extras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group actually took a bit of a hiatus, between albums one and two. According to the liner notes for this album, Champ Hood took up violin between the recording of the first and second album. There is violin on the first disc, however. So I wonder about that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good, Ball and Wyatt. Gorgeous, in every way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s certain is that the violin plays a more prominent role here, later on. For example, the title track itself is a violin lead instrumental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My initial reaction is that whilst American<\/em> is brilliant, I slightly prefer their debut. What\u2019s intriguing is that the extras on American<\/em> are phenomenally good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upshot is that both collections, albums one and two, when taken together with the extras, are utterly fabulous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a bill! Ah, to have been there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Wowzers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to this again. My God, it\u2019s good. No\u2026 it\u2019s not good. It\u2019s great. In fact, it\u2019s utterly sublime. That an album like this can contain such hidden\/lost gems as the solo guitar\/vocal rendition of \u2018You Touch My Heart\u2019, by Walt Hyatt\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On its own that would be enough to make this a recording worth owning. And that\u2019s just one of the previously unreleased<\/em> tracks. It\u2019s followed by a solo turn by bassist David Ball, on guitar\/vocal, \u2018Seems I Can\u2019t Forget\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then – and this really blows my gaskets – \u2018She\u2019ll Be There\u2019, another gem from Ball. But this time, with an added string quartet. Unique in their oeuvre, as far asI know? (Might there be more such treasures? What a thought!) This is music that has fallen straight from my kind of Heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve upgraded this from five to six stars. It\u2019s on repeat in my CD-player, on the third time round, and I have no desire to stop it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As good to look at as to listen to. I\u2019m in love!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short while back I discovered Uncle Walt\u2019s Band, and bought their self-released debut, reissued by Omnivore, with lots of bonus material. It\u2019s superb. I love it so much I\u2019ve now got their follow up (also self-released), An American in Texas. This is another Omnivore reissue. Also packed to the gills with extras. The group … <\/p>\n

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