STAN MARTIN: Cigarettes and Cheap Whiskey

Stan Martin

Cigarettes and Cheap Whiskey

© 2002 Stan Martin (711517640824)

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What do you get when you mix Dwight Yoakam, Chris Isaak, twangy guitars and lots of heartbreak? Stan Martin

tracks

1 (Walking On) the Wild Side of Life
2 Crying Over You
3 Not On Me
4 Maybe Someday
5 Thinking You're Wrong
6 Honky Tonk Fever
7 Don't Tell Me It's Over
8 Because of You
9 Baby I'm Gone
10 Forever Ended With You
11 I'm Leaving Town
12 I Got the Roadhouse Blues

notes

"STAN MARTIN is a quadruple threat. He writes great country songs, he sings like a real hillbilly, he plays the fire out of his telecaster and he produces everything with a radio friendly flair for detail." Billy Block -Western Beat Entertainment

STAN MARTIN's "Cigarettes and Cheap Whiskey" is a solid album of what country music has been, and will always be about, and that's song's of the heart.

Stan strikes a take no prisoners stance that lets you know that he likes his honky tonk to rock with songs like "(Walking on) The Wild Side of Life", "Thinking You're Wrong" and "I Got the Roadhouse Blues". Then in the next moment he gives you traditional songs of heartbreak such as "Not on Me" and "Forever Ended with You".

Although Stan wears his musical influences on his sleeve, his sound is never weary or rehashed.
Just listen to the Roy Orbison meets Johnny Cash influenced ballad "Don't Tell Me It's Over" or the Chris Isaak-like overtones of "Baby I'm Gone" and you know that his musical soul is as honest as they come.

Stan grew up in the inner city projects of South Boston, which may be an unlikely place for a future country songwriter and guitar player to get his start, but as Stan puts it, "there isn't any difference between growing up poor in a rural setting or in the city. Poor is poor." His mother's love of Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and The Stanley Brothers, coupled with the fact the she too was a musician, fostered his love of the genre. His songwriting reflects that love and respect for a simple melody combined with honest lyrics.

Stan says, "Matters of the heart are so complex and never black and white. Sure, we all fall in love, and that's great, but it's the why we fall out of love that makes poetry and songs so interesting. I think people can relate to someone's unhappiness more than they can to their happiness because the sad fact of the matter is, most people are unhappy. The day to day grind of trying to make a comfortable living or having a career that you really don't like and then throwing two people in love into the mix with different goals and ideas of what a future together means... Well, that's a recipe for a country song".

Along with his songwriting ability, Stan is a great guitar player in his own right. He's equal parts Don Rich and Pete Anderson with a twist of Clarence White thrown in for good measure. Although Stan tends to keep his guitar playing to a minimum on his recorded material, it's his live guitar work where he really shines. "I guess I have a split personality when it comes to guitar playing. In the studio I serve the song, but there's something about playing live that kicks me into overdrive". Maybe his ability to take his playing up several notches during a live performance is the reason why he has received high praise from Texas guitar slinging luminaries such as Jesse Taylor and Eddie Shaver ("that's one hell of a Tele player").

Besides playing with the aforementioned Stan has performed with the following: Billy Joe Shaver, Jim Lauderdale, George Jones, Webb Wilder, Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, Suzy Boguss, Michael Nesmith, Statler Brothers, Butch Hancock, Heather Myles, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Blue Rodeo, Wayne "the Train" Hancock, Mojo Nixon, Little Jimmy Dickens, Charlie Pride, Loretta Lynn, Dick Curless, Commander Cody, Carlene Carter, Junior Brown, Marty Stuart, Travis Tritt, Hank Thompson.

Stan opens up a new chapter in his career by taking center stage and doing what his heroes did before him, sing about the human condition. Whether he's rocking out, playing a shuffle or singing a down and out heartbreaker, Stan is always sincere and true to himself and his music.

reviews

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  • Great I love it
    author: Mark Frederick

    Great music Stan keeps to pure country roots.....This is real music Thanks

  • Loved it!
    author: JoeMarieWolfe

    we loved this cd.

  • Makes us want to dance around our living room!!
    author: Vicki and Marty Levine

    We enjoy this CD very much--especially Roadhouse Blues and Don't Tell Me It's Over. It has the Bakersville sound all over it--very good. The songs are great and the playing is kickin'. Of course,Stan Martin's singing is excellent--he reminds us of Raul Malo and Roy Orbison on Don't Tell Me It's Over. We're glad we discovered Stan. Why aren't you in Nashville??

  • Awesome, very fun
    author: Julie (Loiselle) Olivari

    It was fun to buy a cd that my cousin plays on- Ducky Belliveau. Have not seen him in years. Can not wait to share with the rest of the family. My kids both play guitar and they loved it.

  • hillbilly rock is great!
    author: kat dempsey

    i thought this cd was great. you can really hear the dwight and pete anderson influence. good songs and wonderful guitar sounds. nice mix with blues.

  • Great Twangin'
    author: Kevin Mealey

    This is really a great honky tonk CD. I was lucky enough to see Stan in Cambridge a year ago when he was playing with the Honky Tonk heroes and he blew me away that night. This CD convinces me that he's got what it takes. I'm looking forward to more Stan......

  • Great CD
    author: Susan Eldredge

    This is an excellent CD-not a song on it that I didn't like. Good real country music. Recommended by Hillbilly at Harvard and well worth it.

  • Stan Martin does it again...
    author: Mike Hawk

    Stan Martin does it again... Another winner. This guy is ripping up the airwaves once again. Nothing like a little Honkey-Tonk with a dash of blues to help chase down them cigarettes and cheap whiskey. Keep up the good work! Mike Hawk

  • A convincing singer and an absolute master of twangy Telecaster
    author: Steve Morse-The Boston Globe

    Stan Martin CIGARETTES AND CHEAP WHISKEY Twangtone Records If you enjoy the honky-tonking side of Dwight Yoakam and Merle Haggard, then you should chase down this new release by Boston country stalwart Stan Martin. A convincing singer and an absolute master of twangy Telecaster guitar, Martin mines the rockin' side of honky-tonk, so slam this into your CD changer and roll. Martin could easily be out of the Bakersfield school of country, but he cut the disc at Ducky Carlisle's Room 9 From Outer Space studio in South Boston. Carlisle assists on drums, and several other locals chip in, with bassist Charlie Irwin and pianist Tom West standing out. The one surprise guest is Scott Joss, who is Yoakam's fiddle player and adds zest to seven of the album's 12 tracks. Martin is an excellent distiller of the medium, whether it's on lost-love tracks ''Crying Over You'' and ''Thinking You're Wrong,'' or moving-on anthems such as ''Honky Tonk Fever,'' ''I Got the Roadhouse Blues,'' and the fast shuffle ''I'm Leaving Town,'' in which he and harmony singer Amber Casares sound like a latter-day Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. This is a solid record from a honky-tonker who means it.

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