| Dvorak, Luba / American Sin |
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| Album: | American Sin | Collection: | Country | |
| Artist: | Dvorak, Luba | Added: | 09/2019 | |
| Label: | Self Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-09-09 | Pull Date: | 2019-11-11 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
| Week Ending: | 10 Nov | 3 Nov | 27 Oct | 20 Oct | 13 Oct | 6 Oct | 29 Sep | 22 Sep |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 24, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Hanging in the Boneyard American Sin | 4. | Nov 07, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard Irene | |
| 2. | Jan 16, 2021: | Hanging in the bone yard Brooklyn Twang | 5. | Aug 15, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard Brooklyn Twang | |
| 3. | Dec 26, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard Irene | 6. | Jun 27, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard American Sin |
| Album Review |
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| Mr. Bones Reviewed 2019-09-07 | ||
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It has indeed been a long strange trip for Luba Dvorak. This descendant of Antonin emigrated from Czechoslovakia as a child to Canada and now after a few stops including a stint at Steve Earl’s song camp, hangs hangs his hat in Brooklyn where he creates his great Bakersfield cum Tex-Mex sound. Along with a splendid band featuring luscious pedal steel guitar come clever lyrics such as “Well, cocaine and porn stars/Ain’t as fun as they sound,” when singing about LA life. Special mention to track #5 due to its subject (immigration) and its sublime use of acoustic instruments. RIYL: Steve Earl, Dwight Yokum, Jose Guzman **1 lovely toe-tapper with twangy pedal steel (fast, 3:28) **2 clever lyrics on this lament about LA living (fast, 2:59) ***3 great channeling of Steve Earl in this tip of the hat to Hank, John & Waylon (medium, 2:32) 4 bittersweet ode to California living from one who’s stuck in Arizona (medium, 5:11) ***5 haunting tale of migrant family headed north accompanied with bone chilling hand hand tom-tom & squeeze box (slow, 3:10) **6 sweet & dreamy ballad of love lost accented with Spanish guitar (slow, 2:39) **7 beautiful love song to a hurricane/woman? (medium, 3:46) *8 cowboy love song to his rodeo and his desert rose, makes you almost feel the bronc’s bucking under your posterior. (fast, 4:07) *9 hard rocking tale of a white hot love that flamed out (fast, 3:05) 10 truly unique cover of a Tom Petty classic (3:37) * Mr. Bones especially likes these | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Single Scoop Single Lady | 6. | If I Go Down In Flames | |||
| 2. | Brake Lights (On The L.A. Freeway) | 7. | Irene | |||
| 3. | Brooklyn Twang | 8. | Queen Of The Rodeo | |||
| 4. | Leaving Arizona | 9. | Loving You Is Wrong | |||
| 5. | American Sin | 10. | Walls |