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Chippy
Studio album by
Joe Ely, Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock, Jo Harvey Allen, Jo Carol Pierce
Released1994
RecordedSpur Studio, Austin, TX
Feb. & Mar. 1994
GenreTexas Country
LabelHollywood Records[1]
ProducerJoe Ely & Terry Allen
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert Christgau(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)[3]
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide[4]

Chippy, also known as Songs from "Chippy", is an album by Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock, Jo Harvey Allen and Jo Carol Pierce.[5][6] It includes original music from the musical, Chippy, which was written by Jo Harvey and Terry Allen and commissioned by the American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, where it received its world premiere in 1994.[7] The setting of the musical is West Texas, in the mid-twentieth century.[8]

Production

The album was recorded at Joe Ely's home studio.[9] It was produced by Ely and Terry Allen.[4]

Critical reception

The Los Angeles Times called Chippy "one of the best albums of the year in country music, or any other genre," writing that "crusty singing voices abound, and they are utterly persuasive in creating the illusion that we are listening to people who moved across a landscape of barrooms and oil fields more than 50 years ago."[10]

Track listing

  1. "Goodnight Dear Diary" (Joe Ely)
  2. "Across the Great Divide" (Jo Carol Pierce)
  3. "Chippy Narration"
  4. "Buildin' More Fires" (J. Ely)
  5. "Wind's Gonna Blow You Away" (Butch Hancock)
  6. "Gonna California" (Terry Allen)
  7. "Thunderstorms & Neon Signs" (Wayne Hancock)
  8. "Fate with a Capital F" (J. Ely, B. Hancock, T. Allen)
  9. "The Way I Was Raised" (Jo Harvey Allen)
  10. "Cup of Tea" (J. Ely, J. Allen)
  11. "Tongues"
  12. "Low Lights of Town" (B. Hancock)
  13. "I Blame God" (Pierce)
  14. "Oil Wells"
  15. "Cold Black Hammer" (J. Ely)
  16. "Boomtown Boogie" (B. Hancock, T. Allen, J. Ely, J. Allen)
  17. "Back to Black" (T. Allen)
  18. "Just Dancin"
  19. "Whiskey and Women and Money to Burn" (J. Ely)
  20. "Morning Goodness" (B. Hancock)
  21. "Angels of the Wind" (T. Allen)
  22. "Roll Around" (B. Hancock)
  23. "Goodnight" (J. Ely)

Personnel

References

  1. ^ https://lonestarmusicmagazine.com/qa-joe-ely-4/
  2. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-from-chippy-mw0000116450
  3. ^ https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=3277
  4. ^ a b MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 6.
  5. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/theater/theater-review-songs-of-a-hapless-hooker-who-kept-count.html
  6. ^ https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/bad-girls-get-old/
  7. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-from-chippy-mw0000116450
  8. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=EfYugMlfPLcC&pg=PA83
  9. ^ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-11-ol-25917-story.html
  10. ^ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-11-ol-25917-story.html


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