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The Mother Truckers took five years to record a followup to their debut CD, Something Worth Dying For , and that is a very long time between releases for any band trying to hit the big time. I don't know The Truckers back story so I have no idea why there was such a long wait before their sophomore effort, Broke Not Broken , saw the light of day. Nevertheless, the Austin, TX based country-rockers have turned out another album of great songs that their loyal fans will be certain to cruise to in their pickup trucks or party with on a Saturday night. Gone are the small unedited musical snippets and patter between tracks that gave Something Worth Dying For a looser feel. The new disc is more meticulously produced than their debut and the tighter arrangements make it a more mature set of songs. The band's website describes The Mother Truckers as "a kick-ass rock 'n' roll band" but there are still enough pedal steels and dobros in their music, as well as a ...

Hardcore Beatles fans already know that most of the band's 1968 double LP, The Beatles , (the masterpiece more commonly known as The White Album) was written in India when all four band mates visited there to study with the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The White Album would be their first real LP since Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the spring of 1967. In between Pepper and The White Album was the TV show Magical Mystery Tour , whose songs were released in the U. K. only as an EP on a double 45 RPM set. In America the songs from the TV show were combined with several tracks from the Pepper era that were previously released only as singles to form a whole new LP. After the group’s return from India the band’s three composers, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, convened at Harrison’s house in Esher in the south of England to informally demo their new songs to each other for the upcoming recording sessions. All three recorded their own ...

The Dave Clark Five , from the Tottenham section of London, England, almost immediately followed The Beatles over to America in 1964 and briefly challenged them for the rock 'n roll throne that the mop tops had just recently claimed for themselves. I still remember a newspaper headline I saw when "Glad All Over" knocked "I Want to Hold Your Hand" out of the top spot on the charts. It read: "Tottenham sound crushes The Beatles ." By 1967 the DC5 charted seventeen top 40 hits before disappearing from the music scene and disbanding in 1970. According to the All Music Guide they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show more than any other British act. In addition to "Glad All Over" British Invasion fans will remember many of their other boisterous rockers such as "Bits and Pieces," "Catch Us If You Can," "Over and Over," "You’ve Got What It Takes," "Can’t You See That She’s Mine," and a whole lot m...