David Olney - Real Lies [1997][EAC/FLAC] torrent

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Label/Cat#: Philo #CDPH 1204
Country: USA
Year: August 5, 1997
Genre: americana,folk
Format: CD,Album





01 House Rules
02 Barrymore Remembers
03 Camille
04 Robert Ford & Jesse James
05 I'll Fall In Love Again
06 Basketball
07 Baseball
08 Leaf In The Wind
09 Thirty Coins Of Gold
10 Death, True Love, Lonesome Blues And Me
11 Sunset On Sunset Boulevard
12 Border Town
13 It Won't Be Me No More





On the cover to this release, Olney looks haggard and careworn, a man who's put in many miles and had them all written into his face. The songs, on the other hand, are far from careworn, though the themes may be familiar. There's a nicely electric energy to many of the numbers here, however, with Olney's lyrics having a bittersweet edge that verges on cynicism without taking the plunge into complete hopelessness. Not a bad feat when you consider that those songs cover loss, grief, anger, anguish, the killing of Jesse James, the alcoholic twilight of John Barrymore and the murder of a call girl in Hollywood.