Danny
Everitt – Acoustic Souvenir (Instant Records)
Texas singer-songwriter Danny Everitt began his
professional music career in the ‘70s when, while still a university student,
his band signed a recording contract with Dallas based Pompeii Records. Graduation
brought a move to Nashville and employment as a staff songwriter for a
publishing company, and he released his debut solo album in 1981. A
collaboration with Eric Burdon brought hits, and a host of major artists
covered his most popular song “Love Is For All Times”. Family commitments put
his performing career on a back burner, but he returned to the fray in 2007
with the acclaimed “Cold Wind Cold Rain” and now, some six years later, he’s
followed it up with his brand new record “Acoustic Souvenir”.
Listening to the ten-track collection, it’s a shame
he doesn’t acquaint himself with the studio a little more regularly. His name is
on all but one track – a cover of Marty Robbins’ “Devil Woman” – and his
lived-in, weathered voice has all the familiar qualities of an old friend, even
if you’re hearing it for the first time. Beginning with “Sunset Highway”, its arrangement and presentation sits
in the space between Guy Clark and Butch Hancock’s finer records, and contemplates
love and the passing of time; a fine start. “Old Man On
the Pier” drips evocative imagery and Everitt’s vocal nestles in closely
to the narrative, and his Texas troubadour credentials are confirmed on “The Ballad of Aubrey Call”, where the protagonist is
subject to an amiable litany of myth and conjecture, but the happy ending seems
true enough.
Phil S.
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