Johnny Bush
HonkyTonic
Track Listing
1. WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS (Glenn Sutton)
2. LEAVE MY MAMA OUT OF THIS (Monty Holmes, Kent Blazy, Royal Wade Kimes)
3. OL' WHAT'S HER NAME (W/ Kevin Fowler) (Kevin Fowler)
4. TONIGHT HER MEMORY'S RAISIN' HELL (Bart Butler, Chris Bergsnes, Tony Ramey)
5. JONES ON THE JUKEBOX (w/ Tommy Alverson) (Becky Hobbs, Don Goodman & Mack Vickery)
6. THE DOOR (William R. Middleton)
7. I'LL BE THERE (Rusty Gabbard, Ray Price)
8. SOME PEOPLE JUST GET LUCKY (w/Stephanie Urbina Jones) (Clay Blaker, Luke Houston Reed)
9. PUTTIN' OUT AN OLD FLAME (David Green, William R. Middleton)
10. EACH TIME (Ray Price)
11. DID WE HAVE TO COME THIS FAR TO SAY GOODBYE (Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens)
12. GOTTA GET DRUNK (w/ Cooder Graw & Willie Nelson) (Willie Nelson)
13. WHISKEY RIVER (w/ Willie Nelson) (Johnny Bush)
Musician Credits:
DRUMS: PHIL FISHER, JERRAD GREEN
BASS: ALLEN CHAPMAN, JIM KALSON
RHYTHM GUITAR: BOBBY FLORES
ELECTRIC GUITAR: BOBBY FLORES, ALAN KOLBY, LEVI MULLEN, BILL
MIDDLETON, WES HUTCHINSON
GUT STRING GUITAR: WILLIE NELSON, LEVI MULLEN
STEEL GUITAR: RANDY REINHARD, DICKY OVERBEY, JIM LOESSBERG
FIDDLE: BOBBY FLORES
MANDOLIN: GARY BROWN, BOBBY FLORES
PIANO: RANDY REINHARD, ANDY LANGHAM
HARMONICA: BILL GREEN
PERCUSSION: BILL GREEN
HARMONY VOCALS: JUSTIN TREVINO, BOBBY FLORES, TOMMY ALVERSON, STEPHANIE URBINA JONES, KEVIN FOWLER, MATT MARTINDALE, BILL GREEN
STRING ARRANGEMENTS ON "THE DOOR" BY BOBBY FLORES
VIOLINS: BOBBY FLORES, JOHN "HERB" SCHATTENBERG
VIOLA: GERALD SCHOELZEL
CELLO: JOHN STUART
"I GOTTA GET DRUNK (and I Sure do Dread it)" RECORDED BY COODER GRAW.
MATT MARTINDALE (Rhythm Guitar)
KELLY TURNER (Electric Guitar)
PAUL BAKER (Bass)
KELLY TEST (Drums)
NICK WORLEY (Fiddle)
TOMMY ALVERSON appears courtesy of Smith Music/Two of a Kind Productions
COODER GRAW appears courtesy of Three to One Records
KEVIN FOWLER appears courtesy of Equity Records
STEPHANIE URBINA JONES appears courtesy of Casa Del Rio Records
WILLIE NELSON appears courtesy of Pedernales Records
PRODUCED BY BILL GREEN
RECORDED, MIXED, AND MASTERED AT BGM STUDIOS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
DRUM TRACKS AND ELECTRIC GUITAR ON "WHISKEY RIVER" RECORDED AND ENGINEERED BY JERRAD GREEN AT GREENHOUSE PRODUCTIONS STUDIO IN MYRTLE BEACH, SC.
WILLIE'S VOCALS AND GUITAR (TRIGGER) ON "WHISKEY RIVER" AND "I GOTTA GET DRUNK" RECORDED BY MATT HUBBARD AT THE WORLD HEADQUARTERS IN PEDERNALES, TEXAS.
JOHNNY BUSH
If he had done nothing but write honky-tonk standards like "Whiskey River," "Sound of A Heartache" and "When My Conscience Hurts the Most," Johnny Bush's place in the country music pantheon would be secure. If he merely contented himself with singing standard-setting versions of barstool anthems like "Green Snakes On the Ceiling," "There Stands the Glass" and "A Moment Isn't Very Long," Bush could look back on a career well spent. If he hadn't fronted his own acclaimed ensembles, including his groundbreaking Western Swing big band, the Bandoleros, Bush could take justifiable pride in putting the swing into Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson's early group, The Record Men.
In the course of a long and colorful life and career, Johnny Bush has done all of that and more. And in the process, he has met and surmounted a challenge to his life and livelihood that is almost Shakespearean in its diabolical irony.
Now, with the release of a new album, HonkyTonic, Bush demonstrates that, in his fifth decade of performing, his mastery of country music literally spans generations. In addition to his old friends, bandleader and mentor, Willie Nelson, and Tommy Alverson, Bush is joined on the album by some of Texas' newest generation of country-rockers, including Kevin Fowler, Cooder Graw and Stephanie Urbina Jones.
Born John Bush Shinn III in 1935 in the hardscrabble blue-collar neighborhood of Kashmere Gardens in Hous
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