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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Setanta Songs
UK alt country's kingpin mines the seam between Ray Davies and Waylon Jennings.
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Alan Tyler is as close as the UK alt country scene comes to boasting an actual kingpin. In the early '90s he fronted the superb Rockingbirds, who wrung glorious riches from the seam between the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Modern Lovers (their best-loved song, "Jonathan Jonathan" was a homage to, you guessed it, Jonathan Richman). Today, he runs a country club, Come Down & Meet the Folks, and fronts the Lost Sons of Littlefield, who serve as a vehicle for Tyler's own songs and cover versions. The latter is represented on this 2007 album with a brooding reading of "Ghost Riders in the Sky," but the real strength is Tyler's writing. Though the music is as straight-up country as anything recorded by Waylon Jennings — whose birthplace lends the Lost Songs of Littlefield their name — Tyler brings an unmistakably English sensibility to the words: "Middle Saxon Town" is a witty suburban historiography that might have dripped from the pen of Ray Davies. He also has a winning ear for distinguishing musical quirks: "Guns" boasts a queasy electric guitar wilfully over-modulated on a scale unequalled since George Jones' "Her Name Is..."
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| 01. |  |
Cross Eyed Country |
4:45 |
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| 02. | |
Guns |
5:02 |
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| 03. | |
Little Big man |
3:53 |
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| 04. | |
Middle Saxon Town (intro) |
1:00 |
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| 05. | |
Middle Saxon Town |
4:46 |
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| 06. | |
Favourite Child |
3:19 |
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| 07. | |
I'm Never Gonna Sing That Song Anymore |
3:21 |
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| 08. | |
Hat In The Road |
4:15 |
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| 09. | |
The Meaning Of Love |
3:36 |
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| 10. | |
Ghost Riders In The Sky |
4:30 |
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| 11. | |
I'm Still Here |
4:08 |
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| 12. | |
Ladder Of Years |
4:32 |
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| 13. | |
Love Her Like A Demon |
4:02 |
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13 Total Tracks, 51:09 Total Length
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