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Too
Country are the real deal. I've seen them work; they sit in
with us every time they come to Texas. These guys know and love
real country music. They make good records, and they're
tremendously entertaining in person. I can't recommend them highly
enough. Cornell Hurd |
Too
Country MADE
IN AUSTIN How
can anyone be too country for country music. Well, friends, in
these days of gizmos, pro-tools, pseudo plastic cowboys and
pop-crossovers a couple of English guys can. Gareth Rowan and Harley Dave
Hughes are Too Country, and on this debut album, recorded at the famed
Bismeaux Studios in Austin, Texas, they not only stand
head-and-shoulders alongside the Austin cats, but outdistance the
majority of the Music Row wannabes when it comes to making genuine country
music. Gareth
Rowan’s a commanding physical presence and a by-God country vocalist This
outfit has an undeniable authenticity that seems to escape most UK acts.
The real music fans of Austin and other Texas honky-tonk haunts
will lap this stuff up. Too
Country’s MADE IN AUSTIN is
just what it says on the label. So be warned and accept no inferior
substitutes. Alan Cackett - Editor, Maverick Magazine
’Made
in Austin’ is an impossible to resist collection of good humoured Spyda Radio
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Two
guys that need to be recognized for their talent and songwriting skills,
and for keepin' it country when Nashville is tryin' to shut us
"Real Country Lovers" out! – Billy
Dee
– Gentleman Musician, and bassist for Dale Watson, David Allen Coe,
Johnny Paycheck and Vern Gosdin (amongst many others!) and features on
Too Country’s album. “Dee
is very likely the greatest electric bass player in country
history...” Dante
Dominick June 23, 2005 was proclaimed Billy Dee Day in Austin, Texas by Mayor Will Wynn.
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Jesse
Taylor (Texas
Storm) "Harley
Dave is an incredible Guitarist with amazing Honky Tonk Tone, superb
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Too
Country's Made In Austin has TCB's Honky Tonk stamp of
approval! They've got it all going on: Songwriting, great
music and musicians, originality, and a whole lot of fun! Don't waste a second getting it into your record collection!
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Too
Country
is not the sort of tag many ambitious artists would be associated with
willingly. So it’s either
a misguided or wonderfully inspired tongue-in-cheek choice of name for
the group fronted by one of the best British duos I’ve heard in many a
year – Gareth Rowan and Harley Dave. We
met up in the congenial surroundings of a barbecue and it was the sound
of Too Country’s new album, recorded in Texas, that greeted us. I
assumed that the laidback vocals and backings I was hearing were the
work of a Stateside ensemble, as the songs – all but a couple penned
by Gareth, had that authentic Honky Tonk style and feel, yet none of
that phoney Americanism that so many Brits tend to employ.
I had been chatting happily to Gareth and Dave for quite a while
before the penny dropped. When
an invite arrived from Genuine Cowhide Records in Austin to
“Come on over,” Gareth and Dave did just that.
The result is the wonderfully entertaining, relaxed, authentic
sounding album, Made In Austin This
is one of the best efforts by a British team I have heard in a long
while, but will it take off in the UK?
That, of course, depends on who gets to hear it and where its
played. Come on, BBC
network radio. Break the
habit of a lifetime and get behind this one!
As their appearance at the recent Americana festival
proved, Too Country is a crowd pleaser live and, if there’s any
justice, promoters should be beating a path to their door – or their
website www.toocountry.co.uk David Allan, Country Music People Magazine, October 2004
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