Product Description

The latest recording from award-winning artist John Lilly continues to show off his wide repertoire of original, traditional, and classic country music hits. Haunted Honky Tonk is powerfully performed with remarkable depth and features ten original songs plus a number of classic traditional country tunes. It includes guest appearances by Bill Kirchen, Chuck Campbell, Ginny Hawker, Buddy Griffin, Chris Stuart, Janet Beazely and others. The enhanced CD highlights a music video and other exciting bonus content.

Track Listing

1. Haunted Honky Tonk
2. Who Broke the DJ's Heart?
3. I'm Paying Now
4. Whippin' that Old T.B.
5. Pave My Grave
6. Bohemian Boys
7. The Drifting Tune
8. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
9. I Can't Escape from You
10. Groundhog
11. Prisoner's Birthday
12. Roadkill
13. Friday, Sunday's Coming
14. In Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #240823 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Review
Lilly delivers in every possible way, keeping alive the dream that country music still lives. --Americanaroots.com

Customer Reviews

Best country album of 2007: Every flavor of heartbreak
If you were listening in on the all-time best jukebox for a broken heart, the songs would include these. John Lilly takes on lost love, abandoned children, the grisly humor of an backwoods groundhog hunt, early death, and every dark night of the soul, without a misstep. Special note must be made of "Wrong, Wrong, Wrong" and "Who Broke the DJ's Heart" which feature Bill Kirchen (beloved twanger from Commander Cody's Lost Planet Airmen) to add some rockin' kiss-off twang, with other great appearances by Lilly stalwarts Buddy Griffin on fiddle and the great traditionalist Ginny Hawker on vocals. Additional guests Chuck Campbell and Janet Beazley provide snarky sacred steel and unique traditional instrumentals, but the songwriting and focused theme are all John's. Heartwrench to humor to truck drivin' twang ("Pave My Grave") to personal salvation - you can't get country much better than this! Personal favorites include the lovely "Drifting Tune", a cowboy ballad which does "Sweet Baby James" one better, and "Roadkill" which takes romantic angst to new lows of metaphor. But every cut on this one is compelling.

In addition to the great original songs, there are also three covers (including renditions of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams classics which fit in seamlessly). Great guitar and mandolin work as well, with clean and unobtrusive production. A true classic which should be in the collections of all old-time, folk and classic country fans. You will love this album -- just like the Freeform American Roots DJs who voted it number 1 in October 2007!