Hacienda Brothers, What's Wrong with Right - 47m 18s

Tracks & Durations

1. Midnight Dream	4:09
2. What's Wrong With Right	2:56
3. Keep It Together	3:19
4. Cry Like a Baby	3:47
5. It Tears Me Up	3:51
6. The Last Time	2:35
7. If Daddy Don't Sing Danny Boy	3:02
8. Rebound	3:03
9. Cowboys To Girls	4:27
10. Different Today	3:38
11. Life's Little Ups and Downs	4:32
12. The Warning	3:46
13. Son of Saguaro	4:04

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Review

On the surface, the combination might seem as strange as barbequed cactus, as the Memphis soul of producer and legendary songwriter Dan Penn meets the wide-open Southwestern strains of Arizona's Hacienda Brothers. Yet the lead brothers--singer/accordionist Chris Gaffney and guitarist/primary songwriter Dave Gonzalez--have plainly found a kindred spirit as well as a guiding light in Penn. The Haciendas' transformation of "Cry Like a Baby" (the Box Tops classic, penned by Penn and Spooner Oldham), spiced with accordion and steel guitar breaks, gives the tune a whole new seasoning, while the rendition of "It Tears Me Up" holds its own against Percy Sledge's original. Yet the music goes even farther afield, from the Philly soul of Gamble and Huff's "Cowboy to Girls" and a Gonzalez original, "The Last Time," that sounds like a signature shuffle by Ray Price, to the Sun-era rockabilly of "Rebound." A majestic cover of Charlie Rich's "Life's Little Ups and Downs" obliterates all distinction between country and soul. If the liner notes lacked songwriting credits, two Hacienda originals--the opening "Midnight Dream" and "Keep It Together"--could pass as Penn's R&B, while the title track--a collaboration between Gonzalez and Penn--is the purest country song here. --Don McLeeseThe Hacienda Brothers, led by cult heroes Chris Gaffney and Dave Gonzalez, introduced their wood-smoked blend of stone country and old-school R&B on their self-titled 2004 debut album, helmed by legendary writer/producer Dan Penn. The record was made in Tucson, where both of the principals, who now reside in Southern California, have roots, so people took to describing the group's sound as "western soul." The term not only stuck, it proved to be inspirational when the Haciendas and Penn reconvened in the picturesque Arizona city for the follow-up effort, What's Wrong With Right (Proper American Records), because the album vividly captures the new/old genre brought about by the pairing of Gaffney, Gonzalez and Penn.

The drop-dead gorgeous title song — one of the record's several instant classics—marks the second time Gonzalez and Penn have written together, following the first album's soulful "Looking for Loneliness." Dave has known Penn since 1998, when they met at a European festival between sets by and Penn and partner Spooner Oldham and Gonzalez's Paladins. They share a love of everything automotive, but the guitarist remains in awe of Penn as a songwriter. Before their first collaboration, Gonzalez recalls that Penn told him, "I got three rules: I don't do nothin' over the phone, I don't do nothin' over the mail and I don't do nothin' over the Internet. I'm into hangin' out." It turned out that Penn was particularly into hangin' out in Tucson, which was one of the attractions of working with the Haciendas. The meeting of the minds amid mountains and desert proved to be fruitful for all concerned.

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