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Artist
Roger Wallace
12+ albums
texascowhat favamericanUSAaustin
about
Roger Wallace is the most acclaimed new country music talent to rise of late out of Austin, Texas. He’s earned that status by creating classic country that mixes deep rural roots with a cosmopolitan refinement and eloquence. Taking his cue from Nashville’s creative golden age circa 1960, when a plethora of gifted singers and writers brought a new Southern sophistication to the music, Wallace all but defines quality country for the contemporary age. On The Lowdown, his Lone Star Records debut and third release, Wallace brings it all back home to the days when Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge on Lower Broadway in Nashville was the gathering place for a veritable explosion of country music talent. He does so by recruiting some of the most gifted musicians in Austin, the current capital of real country music, including guest singer Toni Price on "Blow Wind Blow" and noted producer and guitarist Derek O’Brien. As well, the disc features Wallace’s all-star Austin band, the members of which, as usual, he credits with their valuable contributions on the CD’s cover. The Lowdown includes seven songs from Wallace as well as material by the late, great Harlan Howard and pop classicists Friml & Hammerstein, and contributions from such masterful Austin writers as Teri Joyce and Timmy Campbell. It ranges through a wide swath of country music modes that stretches from Wallace’s native Tennessee to Texas where he now lives. And riding high in the saddle atop the music is his distinctive and sumptuou
