Flat Top Jones - Ten Years and a Million Miles FLAC

Track listing:

1. Maple Sugar
2. High, Wide and Handsome
3. Set Your Watch By Me
4. Poor Boy
5. Vaquero En La Cantina
6. I'm not the Man I Used to Be
7. Doing My Time
8. Blues for Mammy
9. Eastphalia Waltz
10. Honey, You Don't Know My Mind
11. Ten Years and a Million Miles


"The key element in Flat Top Jones is recently deceased singer and songwriter Gary Claxton. Claxton, who died just before the album was released, contributes four originals to this 11-track set, and his songs and delivery are as solid as anything on the honky-tonk scene today. Always in the running for top vocalist at the annual Austin Music Awards, Claxton leans into his work as hard as anyone, and his backwoods George Jones squeal (think Jones in “White Lightnin’” mode) is nothing but legit. Period. Whether it’s a stone-killer drinking song like “You Can Set Your Watch By Me” (“the sign says happy hour /but it won’t make me smile/no, happy hour always leaves me feelin’ blue”) or the danger-in-the-curves rockabilly treatment of the title track, where he sings that in 10 years and a million miles he’s gone through “two pairs of boots and five hairstyles,” Claxton sounds perfectly in his element. With Austin all-star aces Kevin Smith (Derailers, Ronnie Dawson) on bass and veteran drummer Tom Lewis (Jim Lauderdale, Wagoneers, Heybale) laying in hypnotic shuffle beats with multi-instrumental badass Erik Hokkanen on lead guitar and fiddle, Ten Years and a Million Miles sounds like what happened when hard-scrabble hillbillies like Faron Young and Lefty Frizzell hit Nashville and turned it upside down. George Strait and Tim McGraw could stand to spend some quality time with Flat Top Jones. "