Album Notes

Ted Roddy has performed his Austin Texas based brand of Rock-n-Roll Honky Tonkin Texas Country Soul Music for over two decades. His previous bands included the rockabilly country of Teddy & The Talltops and the lounge of The Naughty Ones. His harmonica work has been featured on records by the likes of Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Augie Meyers, and Jello Biafra!

The Tearjoint Troubadors embrace the finer points of the Nashvegas sound circa 1970's. With stylistic nods to the great Nashville studio musicians and backup singers of the period and all things Hee Haw!

Ted's country harmonica work is featured on every track with shouts out to Charlie McCoy, Norton Buffalo and Onie Wheeler!

All songs were written by Ted Roddy except for a few writen with his backup singers; Teri Joyce & Karen Poston and a couple of select covers: Dallas Frazier's Border of Mexico, Dan Penn & Donnie Fritts’ Tearjoint (hence the band name), and Austin legend Joe Dickens classic, I Like Whiskey.

Sophie Best in Country Standard Time says

Cranking up this new CD from Ted Roddy's Tearjoint Troubadours feels just like swinging open a louvre door on a Saturday night. And from the first line of the opening number, you know just what sort of joint you've stumbled into: a raucous barroom with a packed-out dancefloor and a few dimly-lit corners for the sleazy end of the evening.
Although this is only Roddy's second full-length release, he's been part of the furniture around Austin's music community for a couple of decades. And if Roddy is a piece of furniture, he's surely a barstool; this is a hard-drinking album, and any chardonnay-sippers or teetotallers will already have scampered for the door by the time Roddy hollers "I like whiskey!"a few songs in.
Stylistically, Roddy is all over the shop, with hard-swinging honky tonk and rockabilly tempered with tex-mex and cajun flavors. The roster of musicians assembled by Jim Stringer's Music Room collective brings sparkle and verve to Roddy's straight-up songwriting; Karen Poston's vibrant harmonies give Roddy's already robust vocals the strength of a double shot. Bloody marvellous stuff.

Dust off yer boots it's honky tonk time ya'here!