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Butch Hancock Songs (add music)No songs available for this artist.Butch Hancock BioButch Hancock is most often described as Dylanesque. The comparison is apt. His lyrics are meaningful and memorable, his delivery uses some of the gliding style of Dylan, and he plays both harmonica and guitar to accompany himself. Unlike Bob Dylan, however, Butch Hancock has often recorded albums in a rather impromptu way and hasn't always had good distribution of his albums. Eats Away the Night is his best produced album to date, and shows what this underappreciated songwriter can be in favorable circumstances. Rolling Stone magazine described him as "a raspy-voiced West Texas mystic with an equal affinity for romantic border balladry and Zen paradox."
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Along with Lubbock bred childhood pals Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock has also been active in their group work as The Flatlanders. Own and Own, released in '91, contains his "If I Were a Bluebird" made popular by Emmylou Harris. His songs have also been recorded by Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker. He and buddies Ely and Gilmore have also all recorded each other songs and played on each other's albums. Own the Way Over Here is considered by some to be his best album. It is a collection and showcase of some of his best songs. Like many other musicians in Austin in the 70s and 80s, Hancock acknowledges Townes Van Zandt as an influence on his work. Musician is not the only hat Butch Hancock wears. He has a degree in architecture, and is active in leading rafting and adventure tours in Big Bend that feature nightly concerts. He also organizes some very popular New Year's Eve concert/parties in Veracruz, Mexico. |
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Butch Hancock Album Review:
new folk music at 1999-12-19 this is a wise and whimsical collection of songs from a man who has been around and is happy with who and where he is.lovingly crafted and resonant,these are songs of depth and beauty that light up the horizon like a desert sunset. Butch Hancock Album Review: An obscure masterpiece at 1999-09-11 I find myself putting on this CD when I have insomnia. I figure if I cant sleep, I might as well savor some great music. Even in Texas, this small-label CD is hard to find at a music store. Its the least commercial Butch Hancock Ive heard, and thats quite a feat for someone few people have heard of. Its also his most introspective. Its just a man and his guitar in Terlingua, singing about barefoot prints on the desert sand, chasing God and leaving your car behind for a little walk around the planet. Butchs relentless word-play is in fine form but less manic than usual (Butch is the only songwriter I know with the audacity to rhyme surgery with purgery.) After a long career based on sheer exuberance and imagination, Butch Hancock has revealed another side of himself - a philosopher, a craftsman and a damned fine poet. Butch Hancock Album Review: Top-Shelf TX Songwriter/Well-Kept Secret/National Treasure at 2003-01-04 Relatively unknown in the U.S. outside Texas, singer-songwriter Butch Hancock is one of the best-kept secrets of our time (by his choice). He is far better known in Europe and Australia than his native country. Many of his songs have been recorded by others, especially by Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.You Coulda Walked Around The World is his most recent release, and its essential stuff. For me, each song stands alone as a masterpiece. This one is worth the price for the title track alone. Plus it includes his original artwork and photography.Start with this one or with his previous classics....the music is timeless. Butch Hancock Album Review: Stan Laurel meets Socrates at 2001-05-06 It was a shock hearing this album at first. Even by Butchs normal low-fi production standards this albums single guitar and vocals sound is really stripped down to the bone. Repeated listenings pay dividends though and this is another fine collection of songs with Butch sounding ever-happy with his own low-key way of doing things.The albums opener, Chase and the closing title track are my particular favourites in an album that conjures up impressions of Butchs quiet part of Texas.The photo on the albums back cover shows Butch standing beside statues of Stan Laurel and Socrates, and its strikes me that half way between these two greats may be as close as it is possible to get to describing Butch and his wonderful music. |
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Butch Hancock Album Review:
The Texas bard with a band at 2001-09-17 Hancock is often heard in minimal, acoustic settings (West Texas Waltzes, I Coulda Walked Around The World). This is probably mostly due to the fact that he cant afford to tour and record with a band. However, he did so on some of his earlier records like this, the third one. Steel guitar, fiddle and even a brass section makes these songs come alive. This is the closest hes ever come to sounding like your typical honky tonk country artist. The songs are also more focused than usual and my favourites are Some Folks Call It Style, Her Lover Of The Hour, Golden Hearted Ways and Corona Del Mar, which adds a nice mexican flavour. Highly recommended, especially if you find his purely acoustic stuff a bit hard to swallow. |
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Butch Hancock Album Review:
One and own... at 2001-02-04 Hancock is one the best songwriters to come out of Austin and since the 70s has built a body of songs only Bob Dylan can match in a good day. Its true that his songwriting and voice reminds of Dylan, but only Dylan at his best. Sometimes Hancock is even better. In the Texan tradition Hancock is a kind of outlaw, not willing to work with the big labels, and going his own way, recording either in small labels or in his own label. Many people would like to hear on cd his tape collection, NO 2 ALIKE, a live 10 days recording of 140 songs. The conclusion from all this, is that you should buy any cd of Butch hancock whenever its available, maybe tomorrow it wont be here. Any fan of Dylan has no excuses not to hear this guy, any fan of great songwriting would go the right way by listening to Hancock. The real thing! |
