Uncle Walt's Band - Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Enough Could Sing (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 329 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps + digital booklet - 145 MB
59:09 | Folk, Country, Americana | Label: Omnivore Recordings
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 329 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps + digital booklet - 145 MB
59:09 | Folk, Country, Americana | Label: Omnivore Recordings
First anthology to chronicle the music of Uncle Walt’s Band, includes five previously unissued tracks. “Walter Hyatt, David Ball and Champ Hood have been an inspiration to me ever since the first time I heard Uncle Walt’s Band,” said Lyle Lovett, a journalism student at Texas A&M University when he first heard the band. “Musically, their finely crafted original compositions reflect diverse influences, while lyrically they demonstrate a sensitive, sophisticated understanding of the dignified South.” Uncle Walt’s Band, from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was an eclectic music trio that moved to Nashville in 1972 and shortly thereafter to Austin at the urging of Willis Alan Ramsey. An attempt at an album proved unsuccessful, so the band headed back to Spartanburg in 1974 where they recorded their own debut LP, Blame It On The Bossa Nova. One thousand copies pressed, sold through performances and self-promotion, disappeared quickly. Heat was gaining for the band so they headed back down to Austin with a reissued album now titled, Uncle Walt’s Band. (Pressings of their original LP change hands for hundreds of dollars these days)