1. Idaho
2. Bongo Ride
3. I’ll Be Seeing You
(vocals by Sally Timms)
4. 5 After 5
5. Drinkin’ & Smokin’
6. Harbor Lights
(vocals by Rachel Flotard)
7. Mannix
8. Grief
9. Everybody Loves The Sun
10. Ballad Of The Black Chihuahua
11. East Of The Sun (and West Of The Moon)
(vocals by Neko Case)
12. Begin The Beguine
13. Holiday For Strings
14. Hood Canal
15. Girls Of Pajama Hill
16. Big Iron
(vocals by Kelly Hogan)
17. Red Pollard
18. The Fishin’ Hole
Total time: 47:32
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Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Heart Attack
Jon Rauhouse
Bloodshot
In a perfect world, a review of this disc would begin something like, “Offbeat pedal steel guitar players are a dime a dozen, but those who know how to pick a song are few and far between.”
Sadly, there’s a shortage of offbeat pedal steel guitar players – always has been, actually – but Rauhouse still knows how to pick ’em.
Anybody who puts “Harbor Lights” and the theme from “Mannix” on the same record as “Begin the Beguine” and “The Fishin’ Hole” (the wordless version of which was “The Andy Griffith Show” theme) is a genius.
And if those tunes aren’t obscure or seemingly incongruous enough, how about David Rose’s “Holiday for Strings,” an instrumental hit most people don’t know by name but nonetheless is still part of America’s collective consciousness after nearly 65 years; or “Idaho,” a swing hit for Benny Goodman written by Jesse Stone, who was just passing through jazz and later wrote “Money Honey,” “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash” and “Shake, Rattle and Roll.”
And then there are the originals, with titles like “Bongo Ride,” “Ballad of the Black Chihuahua” and “Girls of Pajama Hill.” To provide vocal relief (not that any is needed), a few tunes feature female vocalists that Rauhouse has backed in the studio and on tour, such as Neko Case, Sally Timms and Kelly Hogan.
Other contributors include Arizona compatriots Calexico, and Tommy Connell, who is to Rauhouse what Jimmy Bryant was to Speedy West and what Santo Farina was to brother Johnny.
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