Track Listing
1. Poorboy Shuffle
2. Linda Lou
3. Way Too Late
4. Stay All Night
5. Short'nin' Bread
6. World's Biggest Fool
7. With A Girl Like You
8. Elvis Thing
9. Foot Stomp Stompin'
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
The Tractors: Steve Ripley (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Walt Richmond (vocals, accordion, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, bass drum, feet); Ron Getman (acoustic & electric, steel & lap steel guitars, dobro, mandolin, trumpet, background vocals); Casey Van Beek (tenor saxophone, bass, background vocals); Jamie Oldaker (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Leon Russell (vocals); Eldon Shamblin (spoken vocals, electric guitar); Elvis Ripley (guitar, piano); Scotty Moore, James Burton (electric guitar); Bonnie Raitt (slide guitar); Fats Kaplin (steel guitar, fiddle); Curley Lewis (fiddle); D.J. Fontana (drums).Principally recorded at The Church Studio, Tulsa, Oklahoma.Three years after their second album, the Tractors finally return with FARMERS IN A CHANGING WORLD. The Tractors' music combines country, rock, boogie-woogie, shuffle and New Orleans groove, serving it up via singer Steve Ripley's distinctive growl. Like their previous albums, FARMERS is a raw, loose-limbed collection of songs custom-made for grooving on the dance floor. Quite a few of the tracks recall the band's super-cool 1994 debut single "Baby Likes To Rock It," including "Poor Boy Shuffle" and "Linda Lou" (both with Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar) and "Foot Stomp Stompin'" (with Leon Russell). A standout is "The Elvis Thing," a song explaining how Elvis changed America, featuring the King's real-life band--Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana and James Burton. The song that best sums up the Tractors' view of the world, though, is a hidden track buried three minutes after the end of the "last" song on the CD. It's a cool little number about the Heaven's Gate Cult called "The Hale-Bopp Boogie." For the Tractors, nothing is so serious that you can't dance to it.
Editorial Reviews
...The breathtaking drive of the band dervies from the solidest rhythm section currently cutting records....the essence of country-boogie...
Mojo (04/01/1999)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...a chugging beat, fiercely understated picking and melodies so simple they verge on the profound...
Q (04/01/1999)
...The breathtaking drive of the band dervies from the solidest rhythm section currently cutting records....the essence of country-boogie...Q (4/99, p.107) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...a chugging beat, fiercely understated picking and melodies so simple they verge on the profound...
Mojo (04/01/1999)
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