Maurice Hope – May 26, 2016 at 08:07AM
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Careless Soul is the 23 year-old Texas singer-songwriter’s second album (his first was Introducing Cale Tyson was really two EPs combined), and with Tyson exploring his roots even farther you have the feel of honky-tonk country warmed in a little southern soul on occasions.
Produced by Michael Rinne currently the bass player with Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell his new record has Jeremy Fetzer (lead guitar), Skylar Wilson (keyboards), Brett Resnick (pedal steel), David Hood (bass) and Jon Radford (drums) plus Jordan Lehning arrange strings and horns. On a release that eases seamlessly and with a little swagger through a genre or two. Or should I say his music draws from one or two as he cultivate his loose fitting approach covers songs that speak a little about heartache, loneliness, love won and adapt to different situations. Tyson’s songs seem to come easy to him, they aren’t bent out of shape and dark but the kind that coming out of the chute laying it on the line as he takes the listener on one roller-coaster journey after another. It’s like he’s invited all and sundry into his living room for an evening’s music, only thing if he had he would have throw in a bunch of country classics too since he loves the oldies!
It certainly helps when you also have pickers who all fired up and committed to the cause. With no one better or eye catching than Resnick who can make that pedal steel smoke (as he repeatedly did on Tyson’s recent tour) the standard is set early as he is setting the listener up for “Staying Kind” which opens the album to the likes of the moody, steel warmed well titled “High Lonesome Hill” or lilting honky tonk song with horns “Gonna Love A Woman” or soul inclined “Pain In My Heart” and undoubtedly best song in all departments on the record “Travelling Man”. Tyson brings a great deal to the table as he shares a little of himself and not only those he cleverly observes and he doesn’t miss much either.
“Ain’t it Strange” with its strings and piano might not be something to get the audience hooting and hollering along with him live but it has ever bit as much right as the chugging 1960-ish “Somebody Save Me” or Muscles Shoals or up at you “Easy” (something Jason & The Scorchers might have done; listen out for some terrific lead and pedal licks enough to blast the song into orbit) or bustling “Railroad Blues”. Keep an open mind, give it time to settle if you don’t get it first time but chances are you will. I am sure the record and Tyson will soon find a comfortable spot in your mind, if not instantly and have “Travelling Man” at the top of the list of addictions!
Maurice Hope
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