Cat. No. 2668: EZRA LEE ~ CRYIN' AT THE WHEEL. CAT-HOUSE MUSIC 003.

AUSTRALIAN BORN EZRA LEE MATZENIK FIRST CAME TO PROMINENCE WHEN HE JOINED JOHNNY GREEN’S BLUES COWBOYS AT THE AGE OF 14. IN 2009 MELBOURNE BASED PRESTON RECORDS RELEASED TWO OF LEE’S ALBUMS, OUT OF THE VALLEY (A SPLIT ALBUM ALSO FEATURING TRACKS BY PAT CAPOCCI AND DANNY AND THE COSMIC TREMORS) AND LATER HIS SOLO DEBUT ALBUM YOU CAN’T STOP A FREIGHT TRAIN. IN 2012 HE RECORDED CA$HED UP’N’CRAZY FOR EDJUMACTION RECORDS AND LATER THAT YEAR RELEASED COAL FIRED MAN ON RHYTHM BOMB RECORDS. HE THEN FOLLOWED UP WITH MOTOR HEAD BABY IN 2014 AND BOOMERANG BOOGIE IN 2016. THIS IS HIS SIXTH SOLO STUDIO ALBUM AND IS A MATCH MADE IN HONKY TONK HEAVEN – EZRA LEE AND HIS BARRELHOUSE PIANO PLOUGHING THEIR WAY THROUGH A DOZEN NO-NONSENSE GARY YOUNG PENNED COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING THE PIVOTAL TITLE TRACK CO-WRITTEN WITH DALE WATSON. AS A WHOLE CRYIN’ AT THE WHEEL IS A HARDCORE MASH OF TRUCKABILLY, BAR STOOL BLUES, BEER STAINED WEEPERS AND JUKE JOINT BOOGIE MIXED WITH HINTS OF WESTERN SWING AND CAJUN SPICE. ALL IN ALL A GREAT LOCAL RELEASE ******

TRACK LISTING: Cryin’ At The Wheel / A Thousand Reasons / Hello Heartache / Nursin’ My Broken Heart / I Never Thought I’d Miss You / Bayou Teche / Keep Your Hands Off My Baby / Rockabilly Beatin’ Boogie Band / Down And Dirty / Way Past Cryin’ Time / One More Chance / Woman Of Mine.

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