Name: Innocent Victims and Evil Companions
Brand: Forty Below
SKU: 80537641
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Innocent Victims and Evil Companions

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Album: Innocent Victims and Evil Companions
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Black Lion	More Info...
2)	Recipe for Disaster	More Info...
3)	Lost In a Day	More Info...
4)	Bughouse In Pasadena	More Info...
5)	Feel Town	More Info...
6)	Last Tear (Delaney's Song)	More Info...
7)	Fisherman's Daughter	More Info...
8)	Sooner or Later	More Info...
9)	Missing Guru	More Info...
10)	Livin' In It	More Info...
11)	Moscow Girl	More Info...
12)	Exiled	More Info...
13)	Solar Powered Radio	More Info...
14)	No More Runnin'	More Info...
2)	Recipe for Disaster	More Info...
3)	Lost in a Day	More Info...
4)	Bughouse in Pasadena	More Info...
5)	Feel Town	More Info...
6)	Last Tear (Delaney's Song)	More Info...
7)	Fisherman's Daughter	More Info...
8)	Sooner Or Later	More Info...
9)	Missing Guru	More Info...
10)	Livin' in It	More Info...
11)	Moscow Girl	More Info...
12)	Exiled	More Info...
13)	Solar Powered Radio	More Info...
14)	No More Runnin'	More Info...

Album: Innocent Victims and Evil Companions
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Black Lion	More Info...
2)	Recipe for Disaster	More Info...
3)	Lost In a Day	More Info...
4)	Bughouse In Pasadena	More Info...
5)	Feel Town	More Info...
6)	Last Tear (Delaney's Song)	More Info...
7)	Fisherman's Daughter	More Info...
8)	Sooner or Later	More Info...
9)	Missing Guru	More Info...
10)	Livin' In It	More Info...
11)	Moscow Girl	More Info...
12)	Exiled	More Info...
13)	Solar Powered Radio	More Info...
14)	No More Runnin'	More Info...
2)	Recipe for Disaster	More Info...
3)	Lost in a Day	More Info...
4)	Bughouse in Pasadena	More Info...
5)	Feel Town	More Info...
6)	Last Tear (Delaney's Song)	More Info...
7)	Fisherman's Daughter	More Info...
8)	Sooner Or Later	More Info...
9)	Missing Guru	More Info...
10)	Livin' in It	More Info...
11)	Moscow Girl	More Info...
12)	Exiled	More Info...
13)	Solar Powered Radio	More Info...
14)	No More Runnin'	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Bill Carter (vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion); Denny Freeman (electric guitar, slide guitar); David Holt , Charlie Sexton (electric guitar); Gabriel Rhodes (slide guitar, percussion); Richard Bowden (fiddle); John Mills (strings, flute, saxophone); Mike Thompson (trombone, piano, organ, keyboards); Dony Wynn (drums, percussion); Ruth Ellsworth Carter, James Stevens, Kimmie Rhodes (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: James Stevens; Bill Carter.
Recording information: E.A.R. Studio, Austin, Texas.
It's unfair to call Bill Carter a musician who operates behind the scenes but most of his mainstream success arrived as a songwriter, not performer. Usually, those successes arrived via a Vaughan Brother: the Fabulous Thunderbirds turned "Why Get Up" into a drive-time staple and Stevie Ray Vaughan cut both "Willie the Wimp" and "Tightrope." Some of Innocent Victims & Evil Companions, Carter's ninth solo album, recalls this kind of Texan blues-rock -- certainly there's a stronger through-line between '80s blues and this 2016 set than there is between this LP and Bill's other notable Austin connection, that of the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes (Carter was part of P in the '90s and played on 1996's Electriclarryland) -- but it's hard to call this album conventional. Carter steers Innocent Victims & Evil Companions into the realm of dry, dusty Americana poetry, offsetting his muscular roots-rockers with meditative ballads. Often, he even splices these two aesthetics together, resulting in muscular open-ended numbers where his observations and introspections are grounded by lean writing and earthy performances. He'll tip his hat to particular styles -- "Moscow Girls" is a Tex-Mex delight, "Fisherman's Daughter (Delaney's Song)" is straight-ahead blues, both "Bughouse in Pasadena" and "Exiled" are powered by a love of kinetic AM pop-trash, "No More Runnin'" ends the album on an elegiac, soulful note -- but the most impressive thing about Innocent Victims & Evil Companions is how Carter threads all these sounds and sensibilities to create something that's distinctively Texan and humanly idiosyncratic. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine