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Hicksville_Bombers
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Out of 21 votes - Similar Artists: Restless, Willie Dixon, Elvis, George Thorogood
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Crisp, Sweet, Dreamy, Rauch, Vibrating, Hot-Blooded...JUST A HELL OF A BAND!
25-Feb-2008 05:11:57 PM
Reviewer: Erburitt
I love all the 3 tracks, but when it comes to "How's The World Treating You", well I was just blown up to the ceiling and I'm still stuck up there with no way to come down to my chair...LOL.
Ok, I fell in love with beautiful ballad when I first heard it by Elvis. Then I found an older country version by the great Jim Reeves and my love for that tune kept on growing bigger with every time I put it on my turntable.
Now, this is the third version I came across and I'll be crazy but I'd dare to say I love it better than the other two.
Why ? The singer of the "Hicksville Bombers" has a vibrato (or tremolo) in his voice which is just making the difference!
The arrangement too, while substantially faithful to the original composition (I guess the first one to make the top chart was the version from Eddy Arnold in 1953 - I heard it, but I don't have his record, has been enriched with a number of little, though meaningful, changes in the guitar parts which result in a totally unexpected better version than the ones I knew.
I'd love to download the picture of the band and give it a stand in my room flanked by that of Jim Reeves' and Elvis'.
Wow! I'm gonna make a copy of that song right away so I won't run the risk to lose it.
Hey, here it's 2:44 a.m. of Tuesday, 26th.
I'll just listen a few more times to those "Hicksville Bombers" (their bombs are really clever!) and then I'll go to bed.
Good (whatever it is over there) every one!
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being a hillbilly myself for over 50 years, I can dig this music, baby
15-Apr-2008 10:06:13 AM
Reviewer: johnfubar
They remind me of a beerbar band I listened to years ago; rowdy, tight music, well rehearsed, and knowing exactly where they are going with it; ie: straight to the bone...
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