Showing posts with label demo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demo. Show all posts
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Come On Home Tonight (demo) - Tommy Conwell and the Little Kings
A demo of Tommy Conwell and the Little Kings playing a song called, Come On Home Tonight.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Good Love Bad (demo) - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
From the Guitar Trouble demos, Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers perform "Good Love Bad."
Friday, January 18, 2013
Didn't Want to Sing the Blues [demo] - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
Demo version of Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers' "Didn't Want to Sing the Blues." Song was officially a release on the band's sophomore effort, Guitar Trouble.
A review of Guitar Trouble courtesy of AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
It's clear that Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers were given a bigger budget on his second album, 1990's Guitar Trouble, a record that has clean, slick punch thanks to Dwight Yoakam producer Pete Anderson and star cameos from the likes of Chuck Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson. Anderson's presence and his drafting of Johnson conspire to give Conwell a roots rock credibility he never aspired to in the first place, probably because he was writing boogies like "Let Me Love You Too" to get the barroom rocking -- and when he wasn't doing that, he could toss off a bit of Sun rockabilly in the title track, or turn introspective in songs like "I'm Seventeen," an angst anthem that plays like shorthand Paul Westerberg.
Instead of picking up in these two almost contradictory instincts in Conwell, Anderson pushes him toward easily digestible roots rock, possibly on the label's urging, so he winds up with a generic boogie like "Nice 'n Naughty" and too-clean blues shuffles like "Do Right" that threaten to turn him into bluesy background music. Conwell was better than that -- and, besides, he "Didn't Want to Sing the Blues," as he says on one of the better co-written tunes here -- and he is able to show his skills a few times on Guitar Trouble, but this was a troubled project, caught between Conwell's blue-collar roots and the label's aspirations, so it sounds compromised in a way Rumble never does.
Like that record, the best moments are quite effective -- the title track rocks like nobody's business, "Hard as a Rock" gets that heartland rock anthem right in a way Rumble didn't quite do, and "I'm Seventeen" does have a ragged heart. Tellingly, those are all compositions credited to Conwell alone, suggesting that he may have known what he was about better than his major-label benefactors.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
A Matter of Time [Demo] - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
A demo of A Matter of Time - performed by Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. This song was performed as a part of the preview of the band's new rock material featured on a WMMR live performance from Studio 4 in 1993. A Matter of Time was not one of the songs to be included on the never-released MCA record, Neuroticus Maximus.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Cold Down There (Demo) - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers
Cold Down There is a demo from Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers that was written for Rumble but did not make the final cut of songs.
The song is written by Tommy Conwell and Jules Shear.
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