Skip's Spotify Sunday, 12-30-12

Have relied as much on Spotify for music this week as listening to new CD's I got as Christmas gifts, all of which, will be blogged at some point in the not too distant future.  Got to listen to Lee Ritenour's "Rit 2" album, which is just as good as the original "Rit" from 1981.  "Rit 2" was released in 1982.  Also discovered albums by one of my favorite country music artists, Lee Roy Parnell.  Parnell is different than typical country artists.  He's a skilled guitarist who draws on (instead of the traditional Telecaster twang of most country music), heavy doses of Allman Brothers inspired slide guitar, giving his music a bluesier, more boogie rock edge.

Yet, this slight shift in genre toward boogie rock and blues, still earned Parnell success in the 1990s, and he's still got the fire.  Might have reviewed one of his more recent albums on this blog.  Yours truly will check that.  But, as for the discoveries of his music on Spotify, listened to two of his earlier recordings.  1993's "On The Road", and 1995's "We All Get Lucky Sometimes" 

Lee Roy Parnell “On the Road”

1.       On The Road

2.       Country Down To My Soul

3.       The Power of Love

4.       I’m Holding My Own

5.       They Don’t Know You

6.       Straight Shooter

7.       Take These Chains from My Heart (feat. Ronnie Dunn: vocals)

8.       Wasted Time

9.       Straight And Narrow

10.     Fresh Coat of Paint (feat. Ronnie Dunn: vocals)

Lee Roy Parnell “We All Get Lucky Sometimes”

1.       A Little Bit of You

2.       Knock Yourself Out

3.       Heart’s Desire

4.       When a Woman Loves A Man (feat. Trisha Yearwood: vocals)

5.       If The House Is Rockin’

6.       We All Get Lucky Sometimes (feat. Mary Chapin Carpenter: vocals)

7.       Saved By The Grace of Your Love

8.       Givin’ Water To A Drowning Man

9.       I Had To Let It Go

10.   Squeeze Me In (this song became a hit for Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood later on)

11.   Cat Walk (instrumental)

Additional track:

John the Revelator (Son House cover/gospel song) from “Hits and Highways Ahead” album

Parnell's brother Rob Roy Parnell is an accomplished blues harmonica player, and played on "We All Get Lucky Sometimes".  Not sure which tune he is featured on, though.

The other album is "Rit 2" by Lee Ritenour.  It is the follow up to his 1981 recording "Rit", which was blogged here before, within the past year or so.  "Rit 2" was released in 1982, and has much the same idea as the original.

Lee Ritenour: “Rit 2”

1.       Cross My Heart

2.       Promises, Promises

3.       Dreamwalkin’

4.       Keep It Alive

5.       A Fantasy

6.       Tied Up

7.       Voices

8.       On The Boardwalk

9.       Road Runner

10.     Malibu