Plan 9/Caroline
1992
Two Roads: Live in Australia
About This Album
Recorded during a series of three nights in Sydney and Melbourne, Two Roads: Live in Australia is Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in a pared down setting -- two voices, two acoustic guitars, and a batch of terrific songs. The pair -- who first recorded together in the early '70s with fellow Lubbock native, Joe Ely as the Flatlanders -- opens appropriately enough with the A.P. Carter standard, "Hello Stranger," before proceeding through various selections from Hancock's extensive catalog, as well as Gilmore's "greatest hits" ("Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" and "Dallas"), a Jimmy Rogers classic, and one tune each by Lucinda Williams and Aussie native, Paul Kelly, who guests on both. It's a given that the material is strong throughout, with it's combination of traditional and progressive Texas country, and Dylanesque folk, but there's also a warmth, intimacy and energy to these performances, whether it's Gilmore and Hancock effortlessly trading verses or simply supporting one another. And while this may be their first official full-length recording together in 18 years, the fact that there is such a deep history between the two, and that they've often turned up on-stage together, as well as on each other's recordings in one way or another over the years, makes this a natural, sometimes ragged but always right effort.
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