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- Summary: This release is one of the earliest recordings from the Texas band some consider the founders of Americana music. The fourteen tracks were recorded in 1972 in Odessa, Texas just before they headed to Nashville.
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- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Americana, Alternative Country-Rock
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| (Jimmie Gilmore) Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? Well Dallas is a jewel, oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight. And Dallas is a jungle... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Dec 21, 2012A surprisingly quality recording of an incredible set, The Odessa Tapes plays like what it is: a miracle shrouded in modesty, and an ephemeral moment in time.
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Sep 4, 201214 songs of keening, romantic acoustic music of great seriousness and lightness of being.
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Sep 6, 2012The Odessa Tapes has it all, most tellingly a warmth and intimacy foreign to More a Legend's typically starched Nashville conformity.
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Sep 4, 2012The Odessa Tapes shows this was from the start a talented band, one with a clear vision of itself, that was going to Nashville with pride in its performing abilities and material.
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MojoSep 4, 2012This band played their earthly songs with far more gentle elegance than they deploy nowadays in their sporadic revival. [Sep 2012, p.102]
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Sep 4, 2012If it's more of an archival release than a necessary one, it's very listenable and catches an eccentric, odd little band of three fine songwriters doing that thing they did--and that they still do.
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Sep 12, 2012These slightly older renditions are less polished and dynamic than the Nashville sessions and have a different kind of homespun charm. The 14 tracks here suggest the wide open spaces of Texas (where the studio was located) more than the countrypolitan sophistication of Nashvegas.