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Rodney Hayden, The Real Thing

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1552338

Disk length: 36m 37s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2001

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. The Real Thing 3:36
2. Black Rose 3:09
3. Tryin to Find Myself 3:53
4. Heartaches & Highways 2:46
5. Mighty Lonesome Sound 2:19
6. You Don't Talk I Don't Listen 2:25
7. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You 4:00
8. I'll Give You Love 3:55
9. Tears Only Run One Way 2:54
10. December Rose 3:51
11. Back In Your Arms 3:42

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Review

The 22-year-old South Texas native Rodney Hayden is the very first signee to Rosetta Records, Robert Earl Keen's new label. Thus it's not surprising that Hayden often sounds disarmingly like Keen in terms of intonation, if not style. But the Keen influence is only one component of Hayden's impressive and well-rounded package of talent. Stylistically, he's cast himself in a Texas-style hard-country/honky-tonk vein, with a touch of Nashville polish tossed in. He brings fire and youthful conviction to fine originals like the coming-of-age "Tryin' to Find Myself" and the anthemic "Heartaches & Highways" (two of seven songs Hayden cowrote with Bill Whitbeck for his debut album). Though he sounds a little callow on his rendition of Billy Joe Shaver's world-weary, politically incorrect "Black Rose," Hayden breathes convincing heartbreak into Robbie Fulks's "Tears Only Run One Way." And he even manages to turn Tom Waits's beer-stained, self-pitying "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" into a credible honky-tonk weeper. --Bob Allen

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