Blue Corn Music
2004
Cut 'N Shoot
About This Album
On his third outing, guitarist and producer Gurf Morlix shifts gears with a cranking clatter. While his previous recordings were saturated with loud and greasy guitars and killer bluesy riffs that provided enough good vibes to start-or end a party, this set is markedly different; it's a solid country record, stripped to the rag and bone shop of the heart, and full of broken love songs. And though the subject matter is on the low-down side of lonesome, the musical groove is prescribed as pure honky tonk pain management. Morlix, who wrote or co-wrote all but one song here, plays everything but drums on this set; that's left to the great Rick Richards. The 13 songs here reflect the timelessness of a relationship and in Morlix's lyrics one thing becomes painfully clear: when it comes to men and women, there is nothing new under the sun. "Yesterday She Didn't," speaks in its Western swing drawl to the inconsistency of a lover who bounces both sides of the emotional fence in regard to the protagonist. Loping, acoustic guitars stroll out the tough tale, but the singer seems to accept that this is just the way it is -- his feelings remain the same. "Were You Lyin' Down?" Its answer line "when you stood me up" is self explanatory, but in the ringing Telecasters and two-stepping bass, it becomes a country & western dance tune à la Buck Owens.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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