JIMMY LAFAVE
''TRAIL, DISC ONE''
FEBRUARY 9 1999
135:44
DISC ONE
1 /Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan/4:02
2 /Red Dirt Roads at Night
Jimmy LaFave/3:23
3 /Because the Wind
Joe Ely/4:32
4 /Burden to Bear
Jimmy LaFave/3:16
5 /Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out/5:03
James Cox / Jimmy Cox/5:03
6 /Going Home
Jimmy LaFave/4:04
7 /Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Dylan/6:01
8 /The Perfect Combination
Jimmy LaFave/2:56
9 /How It Must Remain
Jimmy LaFave/3:56
10 /Key to the Highway
Big Bill Broonzy / Charles Segar/3:33
11 /Oh, Sister
Bob Dylan/3:27
12 /Loved You Like Rainbows
Jimmy LaFave/4:34
13 /Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Bob Dylan/5:45
14 /Oklahoma Hills
Jack Guthrie / Woody Guthrie/3:38
15 /Forever Young
Bob Dylan/4:57
DISC TWO
1 /Valentine's Day
Bruce Springsteen/5:08
2 /Ellie's Song
Jimmy LaFave/4:20
3 /If You Want to See Me Rock
Jimmy LaFave/3:30
4 /If Not for You
Bob Dylan/3:50
5 /I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Bob Dylan/4:47
6 /The Open Road
Jimmy LaFave/5:15
7 /Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Bob Dylan/3:38
8 /I Threw It All Away
Bob Dylan/4:12
9 /Down in the Flood
Bob Dylan/5:01
10 /Never Be Mine
Kate Bush / Jimmy LaFave/3:44
11 /It's All over Now, Baby Blue
Bob Dylan/6:07
12 /Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Sam Hopkins / B.B. King / Billy Myles/6:01
13 /The Lone Wolf
Bob Childers/3:48
14 /One Too Many Mornings
Bob Dylan/3:30
15 /Hold On
Traditional/9:46
Herb Belofsky /Drums
David Bender /Drums
Kevin Carroll /Guitar
Stewart Cochran /Keyboards, Organ, Piano
Darcie Deaville /Violin
Jody Denberg /Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Vicki Dorschner /Keyboards
Marvin Denton Dykhuis /Guitar
Michael Fracasso /Vocals
Randy Glines /Bass, Harmonica
Eric Hansen /Drums
Mike Hardwick /Guitar
Greg Johnson /Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Jimmy LaFave /Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Producer
Mark Lyon /Guitar
Lisa Mednick /Vocals
Abra Moore /Vocals
Gurf Morlix /Lap Steel Guitar
Mark Patterson /Drums
Rick Poss /Guitar
Gary Primich /Harmonica
Lorne Rall /Bass
Keith Robinson /Drums
David Sanger /Drums
Glenn Schuetz /Bass
Bob Spencer /Bass
Mitch Watkins /Guitar, Vocals
David Webb /Keyboards
Gene Williams /Guitar (Acoustic)
Lucinda Williams /Vocals
Larry Wilson /Guitar
REVIEW
by Cub Koda
Containing 30 previously unreleased tracks, this two-CD set highlights the past two decades of LaFave's growth both as a songwriter and as a prime interpreter of Dylan material. Here he tackles no less than a dozen of Dylan's classics, ranging from the opening "Positively 4th Street" to "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" to the quiet stillness of "If Not for You." Equally as satisfying are LaFave's own originals, with "Red Dirt Roads at Night," "Burden to Bear," "How It Must Remain," "Ellie's Song," "Loved You Like Rainbows" and "The Open Road" all being particularly compelling statements. The sound, taken from live performances and radio broadcasts from Texas and around the world, is rough and right, giving this an official bootleg kind of feel that fits the music nicely.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly Austin-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Jimmy LaFave brings a passionate rock & roll energy to his original folk songs, whether he's playing solo or with a band. LaFave grew up in Wills Point, east of Dallas, but at 17, his family moved to Stillwater, OK. When he was in his teens, his mother purchased his first guitar for him with green stamps. While Stillwater was not exactly bustling with musical activity, it wasn't a ghost town either, and it was close enough to Tulsa that LaFave found all the opportunities he was seeking as a young singer/songwriter. The musical heritage of the area certainly was rich enough: folksinger Woody Guthrie, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, and jazz fiddler Claude "Fiddler" Williams, plus songwriter J.J. Cale and Leon Russell's Shelter Studios. But to find a wider audience and, more importantly, a record deal, LaFave thought it would be worthwhile to move to Austin. He found both after moving to Austin in 1985, and he's been based there ever since.
LaFave found a home in Chicago House, an Austin coffeehouse, and he spent the next eight years hosting open mikes there, honing his presentation skills as a solo artist. Through the latter half of the 1980s, he also worked with his band, Night Tribe, at other Austin clubs. With backing from Mark Shumate, a computer entrepreneur, LaFave was finally able to record his debut for Bohemia Beat Records, a company Shumate founded in 1992.
LaFave has released three albums for Bohemia Beat: Austin Skyline, (1993), his debut, a live recording titled as a play on Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album; Highway Trance (1994), a studio album that showcases his considerable skills as a guitar picker, singer, and songwriter; and 1995's Buffalo Return to the Plains, which contains just one cover, prime inspiration Bob Dylan's "Sweetheart Like You." LaFave counts among his other influences Jackson Browne, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
LaFave's grassroots approach should give him a better foundation on which to build a successful career. The way he blends country, blues, folk, and early rock & roll, his work ethic, and low-key rapport with fans are all factors that work in his favor. Trail was issued in 1999; Texoma followed in early 2001. His next two albums -- 2005's Blue Nightfall and 2007's Cimarron Manifesto -- were issued by Red House Records.
''TRAIL, DISC ONE''
FEBRUARY 9 1999
135:44
DISC ONE
1 /Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan/4:02
2 /Red Dirt Roads at Night
Jimmy LaFave/3:23
3 /Because the Wind
Joe Ely/4:32
4 /Burden to Bear
Jimmy LaFave/3:16
5 /Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out/5:03
James Cox / Jimmy Cox/5:03
6 /Going Home
Jimmy LaFave/4:04
7 /Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Dylan/6:01
8 /The Perfect Combination
Jimmy LaFave/2:56
9 /How It Must Remain
Jimmy LaFave/3:56
10 /Key to the Highway
Big Bill Broonzy / Charles Segar/3:33
11 /Oh, Sister
Bob Dylan/3:27
12 /Loved You Like Rainbows
Jimmy LaFave/4:34
13 /Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Bob Dylan/5:45
14 /Oklahoma Hills
Jack Guthrie / Woody Guthrie/3:38
15 /Forever Young
Bob Dylan/4:57
DISC TWO
1 /Valentine's Day
Bruce Springsteen/5:08
2 /Ellie's Song
Jimmy LaFave/4:20
3 /If You Want to See Me Rock
Jimmy LaFave/3:30
4 /If Not for You
Bob Dylan/3:50
5 /I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Bob Dylan/4:47
6 /The Open Road
Jimmy LaFave/5:15
7 /Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Bob Dylan/3:38
8 /I Threw It All Away
Bob Dylan/4:12
9 /Down in the Flood
Bob Dylan/5:01
10 /Never Be Mine
Kate Bush / Jimmy LaFave/3:44
11 /It's All over Now, Baby Blue
Bob Dylan/6:07
12 /Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Sam Hopkins / B.B. King / Billy Myles/6:01
13 /The Lone Wolf
Bob Childers/3:48
14 /One Too Many Mornings
Bob Dylan/3:30
15 /Hold On
Traditional/9:46
Herb Belofsky /Drums
David Bender /Drums
Kevin Carroll /Guitar
Stewart Cochran /Keyboards, Organ, Piano
Darcie Deaville /Violin
Jody Denberg /Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Vicki Dorschner /Keyboards
Marvin Denton Dykhuis /Guitar
Michael Fracasso /Vocals
Randy Glines /Bass, Harmonica
Eric Hansen /Drums
Mike Hardwick /Guitar
Greg Johnson /Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Jimmy LaFave /Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Producer
Mark Lyon /Guitar
Lisa Mednick /Vocals
Abra Moore /Vocals
Gurf Morlix /Lap Steel Guitar
Mark Patterson /Drums
Rick Poss /Guitar
Gary Primich /Harmonica
Lorne Rall /Bass
Keith Robinson /Drums
David Sanger /Drums
Glenn Schuetz /Bass
Bob Spencer /Bass
Mitch Watkins /Guitar, Vocals
David Webb /Keyboards
Gene Williams /Guitar (Acoustic)
Lucinda Williams /Vocals
Larry Wilson /Guitar
REVIEW
by Cub Koda
Containing 30 previously unreleased tracks, this two-CD set highlights the past two decades of LaFave's growth both as a songwriter and as a prime interpreter of Dylan material. Here he tackles no less than a dozen of Dylan's classics, ranging from the opening "Positively 4th Street" to "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" to the quiet stillness of "If Not for You." Equally as satisfying are LaFave's own originals, with "Red Dirt Roads at Night," "Burden to Bear," "How It Must Remain," "Ellie's Song," "Loved You Like Rainbows" and "The Open Road" all being particularly compelling statements. The sound, taken from live performances and radio broadcasts from Texas and around the world, is rough and right, giving this an official bootleg kind of feel that fits the music nicely.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly Austin-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Jimmy LaFave brings a passionate rock & roll energy to his original folk songs, whether he's playing solo or with a band. LaFave grew up in Wills Point, east of Dallas, but at 17, his family moved to Stillwater, OK. When he was in his teens, his mother purchased his first guitar for him with green stamps. While Stillwater was not exactly bustling with musical activity, it wasn't a ghost town either, and it was close enough to Tulsa that LaFave found all the opportunities he was seeking as a young singer/songwriter. The musical heritage of the area certainly was rich enough: folksinger Woody Guthrie, jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, and jazz fiddler Claude "Fiddler" Williams, plus songwriter J.J. Cale and Leon Russell's Shelter Studios. But to find a wider audience and, more importantly, a record deal, LaFave thought it would be worthwhile to move to Austin. He found both after moving to Austin in 1985, and he's been based there ever since.
LaFave found a home in Chicago House, an Austin coffeehouse, and he spent the next eight years hosting open mikes there, honing his presentation skills as a solo artist. Through the latter half of the 1980s, he also worked with his band, Night Tribe, at other Austin clubs. With backing from Mark Shumate, a computer entrepreneur, LaFave was finally able to record his debut for Bohemia Beat Records, a company Shumate founded in 1992.
LaFave has released three albums for Bohemia Beat: Austin Skyline, (1993), his debut, a live recording titled as a play on Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album; Highway Trance (1994), a studio album that showcases his considerable skills as a guitar picker, singer, and songwriter; and 1995's Buffalo Return to the Plains, which contains just one cover, prime inspiration Bob Dylan's "Sweetheart Like You." LaFave counts among his other influences Jackson Browne, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
LaFave's grassroots approach should give him a better foundation on which to build a successful career. The way he blends country, blues, folk, and early rock & roll, his work ethic, and low-key rapport with fans are all factors that work in his favor. Trail was issued in 1999; Texoma followed in early 2001. His next two albums -- 2005's Blue Nightfall and 2007's Cimarron Manifesto -- were issued by Red House Records.
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