Name: Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
Brand: E1 Entertainment Dist ***
SKU: 1176780
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Local Customs

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Album: Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Trash One	More Info...
2)	Live My Life Today	More Info...
3)	Simple House	More Info...
4)	She's My Daughter	More Info...
5)	Yellow River	More Info...
6)	It Makes You Feel So Bad	More Info...
7)	I Still Remember	More Info...
8)	Love of the Morning	More Info...
9)	Where's Love Gone Today	More Info...
10)	I'm the Fool	More Info...
11)	I Found My Music	More Info...
12)	Benashaw Glenn	More Info...
13)	Tomorrow	More Info...
14)	Take a Look at Your Friends	More Info...
15)	Give Me Time	More Info...
16)	No Control	More Info...
17)	Lady Tell Me Why	More Info...
18)	Everyday Is Saturday	More Info...
19)	Dream Away	More Info...
20)	Let's Take a Walk in the Woods	More Info...
21)	You Know I Love You	More Info...
22)	Black Night Is Calling Me Home	More Info...

Album: Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Trash One	More Info...
2)	Live My Life Today	More Info...
3)	Simple House	More Info...
4)	She's My Daughter	More Info...
5)	Yellow River	More Info...
6)	It Makes You Feel So Bad	More Info...
7)	I Still Remember	More Info...
8)	Love of the Morning	More Info...
9)	Where's Love Gone Today	More Info...
10)	I'm the Fool	More Info...
11)	I Found My Music	More Info...
12)	Benashaw Glenn	More Info...
13)	Tomorrow	More Info...
14)	Take a Look at Your Friends	More Info...
15)	Give Me Time	More Info...
16)	No Control	More Info...
17)	Lady Tell Me Why	More Info...
18)	Everyday Is Saturday	More Info...
19)	Dream Away	More Info...
20)	Let's Take a Walk in the Woods	More Info...
21)	You Know I Love You	More Info...
22)	Black Night Is Calling Me Home	More Info...

Performer Notes

Liner Note Authors: Rob Sevier; Ken Shipley.
Where the first volume in Numero Records' Local Customs series focused on R&B, funk, gospel, and soul from small labels and a basement studio in Ecorse, MI, Lone Star Lowlands focuses on Mickey Rouse's Lowlands Recording Studio in Port Neches, TX, part of the States "Golden Triangle," that existed in between Port Arthur and Beaumont, located between Lake Charles, LA and Houston. Rouse's studio, like so many of the offerings that Numero passionately documents on its releases, was a hard-luck concern that recorded minor acts from the region between 1969 and 1972 when it shut its doors. The material ranges in form and genre but certainly has a sound. There's the folksy pop-psychedelia of Bobby Welch's "Yellow River," and his more Texas songwriter-oriented pop on "Benashaw Glen," and the spacy, harder rocking "Give Me Time" from Circus, and "Take a Look at Your Friends" by the Next Exit. There is also the deeply Crosby, Stills & Nash-saturated influence on "Where's Love Gone Today" by Mourning Sun that almost directly rips the "doo-doo doo-dit-doot-doot-doo doo doot" of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." For the collector interested in obscurities, Lone Star Lowlands will no doubt provide CD versions of recordings issued on tiny regional labels. Numero has done its usual exhaustive job in research, with a long liner essay by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, and did a stellar job of packaging with lots of rare photos, all packaged in a slip case box. [There is also a deluxe double-LP version of this set available.]~ Thom Jurek

Professional Reviews

Paste (magazine) - "[S]potlighting regional studios, Numero Group combed the archive of Mickey Rouse's Lowland facility in Beaumont, Texas, the town where Johnny and Edgar Winter got their start....Intriguing..."