Jesse Winchester - Let The Rough Side Drag (Reissue) (1976/2006)

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Artist: Jesse Winchester
Title: Let The Rough Side Drag
Year Of Release: 1976/2006
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Genre: Folk Rock, Country
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 39:37
Total Size: 100/228 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Jesse Winchester - Let The Rough Side Drag (Reissue) (1976/2006)

Tracklist:

01. Let the Rough Side Drag (2:38)
02. Damned If You Do (3:26)
03. Step by Step (3:00)
04. Lay Down Your Burden (4:11)
05. Everybody Knows but Me (2:56)
06. Blow on, Chilly Wind (2:34)
07. Working in the Vineyard (2:47)
08. How About You (4:10)
09. It Takes More Than a Hammer and Nails to Make a House a Home (4:36)
10. As Soon as I Get on My Feet (3:15)
11. The Only Show in Town (2:33)
12. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz (Reprise) (3:33)

Line-up:
Backing Vocals – Lorri Zimmerman, Sharon Ryan
Bass – Don Habib
Bass, Backing Vocals – Marty Harris
Drums – Chris Castle, Christian St. Roch
Guitar – Rob Cohen*
Keyboards – Maurice Beauchamp
Pedal Steel Guitar – Bob Lucier, Ron Dann
Piano – Ken Pearson
Saxophone – Carlisle Miller
Violin – Bruce Murchison
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Flute – Jesse Winchester

At his best, Jesse Winchester is an inspired songwriter with a unique worldview. But even at less than his best, he is a craftsman, capable of turning out an album's worth of well-written songs like those here that, now and then, suggest his personal viewpoint. The title track, another of Winchester's reflections on the importance of persevering under difficult circumstances, and "Damned If You Do," which suggests that you might as well follow your heart because you're in trouble either way, are up to his usual standard. But even slight songs like "Everybody Knows But Me" are clever and enjoyable, and overall, Let the Rough Side Drag, with its accomplished mixture of country and R&B, was Winchester's most accessible album so far, even if it was his least ambitious.

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