Gilley, Lee, Daniels and Bonnie Raitt all made cameo appearances in the film as themselves, and Urban Cowboy helped the mechanical-bull-riding and dance culture depicted in the film spread across the nation. The Urban Cowboy soundtrack was certified platinum on July 24, , after selling a million copies, and the dressed-up, pop-leaning "countrypolitan" sound that dominated the soundtrack became more and more prevalent at country radio for the first half of the '80s.
By mid-decade, there was a critical and fan backlash due to the perceived blandness and watering down of "real" country music, which in turn helped lead to the "Neo-traditionalist" wave that ushered in the success of more traditional-minded artists including Randy Travis , George Strait and others.
Skip to main content. By the end of , though. Cowboy's roster, which had originally come together casually and organically, had begun to splinter, leaving Boyer and Talton to pick up the pieces. It's difficult, if not impossible, to understate the distinction Cowboy brought to Capricorn Records. At the height of the Southern rock movement launched by and spurred on through the success of the Allman Brothers Band, Phil Walden's artist roster, including the Marshall Tucker Band and Wet Willie, was also populated with bands like Grinderswitch that borrowed heavily and without reservation from ABB's style perhaps not so surprisingly, that group was co-founded by Joe Dan Petty, one of the Allmans' roadies.
But the ensembles led of Scott Boyer and Tommy Talton were earmarked not just by a reliance on vocal harmonies-an element of style missing from all the aforementioned groups-but also an emphasis on formal song structure that not only stood them in good stead over four albums of their own, but also in collaborations with Gregg Allman and Duane Allman: Skydog, the founder of ABB recommended the signing of Cowboy and reaffirmed his advocacy by playing slide on the original version of "Please Be With Me" subsequently covered by Eric Clapton on Ocean Blvd.
Quotes from interviews with Tommy Talton, combined with photos from his personal archive are more value-added than the bonus tracks here, both of which also appear on The Gregg Allman Tour Capricorn, By the time I left the school there was half a dozen quite good bands there.
You could plug in and just make as much racket as you wanted. Andy was really impressed with their show, and by a bunch of poets — including Adrian Henri — playing the venue during afternoons. Andy returned to London and accepted an offer to study law at Liverpool University, almost immediately bumping into Roger McGough at a bookshop as soon as he got there. It just took off from there. Within a couple of months I was doing poetry events at The Cavern and playing with a band at the University.
There was loads going on. Roger consequently had to drop out of the poetry gigs, leaving Andy to suggest to the charismatic Adrian Henri that all they needed was a bassist and drummer to become a bona fide band. He also nominally produced their first full-band album, Amazing Adventures Of… RCA, , in a recording deal secured by their new manager Sandy Roberton — a key figure in the careers of many now legendary acts at the progressive ends of folk and rock music of the time.
With a British audience, given this poetry and a band that were never rehearsed, we got away with it through being so different and [through] our verve and irreverence. None of which worked in America. I wanted to be a star. A lovely, peaceful album.
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