Bad Assery, Vol 16: Songs for Jose

What I Like

Bad Assery, Volume 3: Love Loss & Yearning

folk-ish

Roadtrips Into Sunsets

Benjamin Tod

Carry Me Home

Ghoultown Drink With The Living Dead

Life's a Dog-Gone Shame

Gabrielle

Weight of a Trigger

Lazy Moonshiner

Rage and Tragedy

September Doves

I Remember You Well

One Shot To Wake

To Heaven From Here

Songs I Swore I'd Never Sing

Big River Ballad

Mercy Bark

Talkeetna Tonight

Still Search For You

Not Coming Home

Cheating At Solitaire

Don't Think Twice

Can The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family

Wildwood Flower

II: Power Of Moonlite

Cupid's Victim

Sings

Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)

Knife's Edge

Dark and Lonely Night

Three

Through & Through & Through

Backroads of My Mind

Bona Fide Bluegrass and Mountain Music

In the Jailhouse Now

My forthcoming album, "Baby You Win," produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, the Ramones, Antony and the Johnsons, Evan Dando)at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY, and co-produced by Graham Norwood.

And featuring:

Lead vocals, acoustic guitar: Cliff Westfall
Electric guitar: Scott Metzger (Shooter Jennings, Wolf!, Phil Lesh, Joe Russo's Almost Dead)
Electric and acoustic guitar, harmony vocals: Graham Norwood (Bryan Scary, Ward White)
Pedal steel: Dan Iead (Norah Jones, Cass McCombs, Valerie June)
Bass: Jeremy Chatzky (Ronnie Spector, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Cantrell)
Drums: David Christian (Sam Cohen, Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, Mary Timony, Sweet Cream)
Keyboards: Charlie Giordano (Bruce Springsteen)

Plus guest harmonies from Matthew Horn (A Don Piper Situation) on "Sweet Tooth," "Hanging On," and "The Man I Used to Be," and Barbara Endes (Girls on Grass) on "A Lie If You Must"...

All tracks mastered by Alex McCollough of True East Mastering, Nashville, TN

BIO
A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, with family roots in the same small town (Rosine) that produced "The Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe, Cliff Westfall was raised on the hardcore honky tonk and bluegrass traditions of the area, and cut his own musical teeth in the Lexington cowpunk scene before moving to NYC. Like his fellow Kentucky natives Dwight Yoakam and Sturgill Simpson, Westfall writes country music from the inside out, with a sensibility that comes from genuine immersion in the world that first produced the music. And also like them, he manages to take the music in new directions while maintaining an indefinable but recognizable core of authenticity. This is no museum piece or too-reverent reproduction of a bygone era, but rather something vital and contemporary.

Westfall's new record, the soon-to-be-released Baby You Win, reflects a broad palette of country and near-country influences over thirteen tracks, from the Yoakam-like flash of leadoff track "It Hurt Her to Hurt Me," to the swampy, Bobbie-Gentry-on-a-bender vibe of the closer "The Odds Were Good," with stops in between on bluesy rockers ("Off the Wagon," "I'll Play the Fool"), the country-meets-surf of the title track "Baby You Win," 70s-era Jerry Lee Lewis on "Till the Right One Comes Along" (backed by a killer piano turn from Springsteen keyboardist Charlie Giordano). Plus stops in Laurel Canyon ("The Man I Used to Be"), Sun Records-era Memphis ("Now and Then"), and some seedy jazz dive of the mind ("Sweet Tooth for You"). All killer, no filler...

Gabrielle

Lost Dog Street Band