Awesome! - If you don t like pop country (or what I call sissy country) and you re looking for REAL country, buy it! Very upbeat. Honky-tonkin good times!
Kevin Fowler is the REAL Deal.... - If you enjoy Real Country music, look no further...Kevin deserves any success that comes his way....Something a lot of country fans don t know is that Kevin used to be a long haired rocker! He played guitar for a hard rock band from Austin,TX. called Dangerous Toys in the early 90 s...I got to see them live Halloween night 1993 at Austin s legendary (now defunct) Back Room. After Dangerous Toys, Kevin formed his own Southern Hard Rock band called Hellhounds, which later changed to Thunderfoot. They released 1 cd called Southern Discomfort (if you like Southern rock, look for it, it s out of print and hard to find, but worth the trouble!).
BUY IT NOW - WARNING! This album will have you singing to yourself day and night. Good ol honky tonk music don t get any better than this. BUY NOW.
Real McCoy honky tonk . . . - If you like country that s grittier than what comes out of Nashville, you ll get a big kick out of singer and songwriter Kevin Fowler. He sings about hard work, hard drinking, and hard luck with women, and makes no apologies for being politically incorrect about everything else. The opening song, Loose, Loud & Crazy, is a Friday night, tear-it-up anthem and sets the tone for the whole CD.Get Along declares the end of a bad romance, then Hard Man to Love turns around and professes soulful gratitude for a long-suffering woman. A heart-on-the-sleeve tearjerker, I ll Try Anything Twice, confesses a hopeless obsession for a long-gone sweetheart. There s also a series of drinking songs celebrating long necks and good times. And the two themes of love and drink converge in Triple Crown where it s belly up to the bar again for a broken heart.The rough, good-ole-boy sensibility in these songs ends the CD with a sly crowd-pleaser, Don t Touch My Willie, recorded live at Coupland Dancehall in Coupland, Texas. Its allusions to Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and George Jones show this singer squarely in the country tradition. If you like honky tonk, this is the real thing. (Also recommended: Ed Burleson, Aaron Watson, and Moot Davis.)
Good, old-fashioned Texas drinking music - Rough-edged and fully steeped in the independent spirit of Texas outlaw country, songwriter Kevin Fowler (whose Beer, Bait & Ammo has become a modern day comedic country anthem) makes the leap from microscopic Lone Star labels to a maverick would-be major. Kudos to Clint Black for signing Fowler up on his newly-launched Equity label, and for giving raw-boned, goofball novelty honkytonk a new place in today s super-sanitized Country charts... Having heard Fowler s last couple of albums, I was psyched and more than a little surprised to see him popping up on the Billboard Top 40... But imagine how much more surprised I was to get the album and hear that Fowler hadn t changed a thing about his sound... No slick keyboards or chessy power ballads here, just a fine, fun set of dopey drinking songs and love-a-loser lyrics. If anything, he might be trying a little too hard to be hard-country and outlaw, but hey, I ain t complaining. I m just glad to hear some real twang coming out of Nashville. If you like George Strait, Waylon Jennings or Ed Burleson, you re gonna love Kevin Fowler.