AmericaNA, by West End, vinyl LP
This might be Americana. It might be something else altogether. Not everyone involved is an American. Some of the songs are about the South. Some are not. In the end it’s all about roots. Where are they? What are they? How does the music grow out of them? Those are the good questions. The answers are always in the music and the lyrics. West End brings its answers to vinyl. Not afraid to rock, with a proper dose of twang and a foundation set in the traditions of folk music.
UPC No.: 860010303801
Spare Time Records Catalog No: STR721
This might be Americana. It might be something else altogether. Not everyone involved is an American. Some of the songs are about the South. Some are not. In the end it’s all about roots. Where are they? What are they? How does the music grow out of them? Those are the good questions. The answers are always in the music and the lyrics. West End brings its answers to vinyl. Not afraid to rock, with a proper dose of twang and a foundation set in the traditions of folk music.
UPC No.: 860010303801
Spare Time Records Catalog No: STR721
This might be Americana. It might be something else altogether. Not everyone involved is an American. Some of the songs are about the South. Some are not. In the end it’s all about roots. Where are they? What are they? How does the music grow out of them? Those are the good questions. The answers are always in the music and the lyrics. West End brings its answers to vinyl. Not afraid to rock, with a proper dose of twang and a foundation set in the traditions of folk music.
UPC No.: 860010303801
Spare Time Records Catalog No: STR721
In 2018, the band West End began recording the first of several concept albums (three so far) with pickers in Tennessee and in Ireland. In the third album, AmericaNA, West End shifts to Americana. West End — Kirk Beasley, Bobby Ogdin, Jason Duffy, Bruce Dees, and Tom Shinny — are joined by Billy Contreras (fiddle), Tom Hemby (guitar, mandolin, and more), and Tim (bass, vocal arrangements) and Roddy Smith (guitar) from the Spare Time Pickers, of Spare Time Records. And muchas gracias to ThunderBünny for the killer slide guitar work.
On this album West End introduces singer-songwriter Steve Zachar on “Survival Skills.” And, they welcome friend, colleague, and Nashville legend Buzz Cason, who lends his vocal excellence to “Put the Love Down” and “Keep Your Distance I Don’t Like You That Much.” Really brings things full circle for the band.
Workingman’s Dead, Stage Fright, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo broke new ground more than 50 years ago and serve as an inspiration to West End for AmericaNA, to give credit where credit is due.