Pure country today - or Ameripolitan if you want to get genre specific - from an artist I first came across about 20 years ago when he released an album of Truck Driving country songs that caught my attention.
A former trucker himself, Dale Watson carved a niche for himself in the big-rig country sub-genre but he's steered away from that in recent years to embrace a broader, Johnny Cash-influenced sound. At 56, with over 30 albums under his belt, there appears to be no slowing him down... despite all those dumb vices he just can't shake.
Mid-life crisis be damned!
Great quiff too.
Real Country - hangin' tough - as someone once said. I have a few of Dale Watson's songs and I think he missed out on the Outlaw movement, although in Dale's case that was no bad thing.
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