WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78'S - WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78'S (LIMITED LP)

Whitey Morgan And The 78's Whitey Morgan And The 78's on Limited Edition Vinyl LP

Outlaw’s have always been the rough-around-the-edges, tuff guy at the country music family picnic. Denim and leather, not Stetson and Nudie. Hair by Pennzoil, not Pomade. But, in the right hands like Haggard, Paycheck, Junior, Willie and Waylon and now Whitey Morgan, outlaw is more than beards and bandanas, ink and attitude, it’s goddamn folk music. It’s about doing the best you can, about getting by and about cold beer and colder women, everything that keeps the honky tonks full on a Saturday night. It’s about standing up when it’d just be easier to fall down.

Coming from Flint, Michigan, the always forgotten civic little brother to Motown but no less a hard town with empty factories and emptier prospects, loaded Whitey Morgan & the 78’s with that survivors’ f.u. mentality. The self-titled debut Bloodshot album was recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock NY, and while their antecedents are pretty clear, Whitey and the boys play with a muscular attack and energy that makes us think they had to learn to play it that way to be heard over the din of the stamping plant and its ghosts.

Whitey Morgan & The 78's Track Listing

1.  Bad News
2.  Turn Up the Bottle
3.  Memories Cost A Lot
4.  Buick City
5.  Meanest Jukebox in Town
6.  Cheaters Always Lose
7.  Hard Scratch Pride
8.  Honky Tonk Queen
9.  Where Do Ya Want It?
10. I Ain’t Drunk
11. Long Road Home