Genre: Album
Grade: Not Rated
Notable People: Brother Al Ball, Ferlin’ Berry, Flaco Hanson, Floyd Morrison, Martinman Tayse, Special Guest: Feel Unetic, With: Marty Reiter, Produced by: Patrick Cody
Title: “Sweetheart” Live
Review: The Bunty boys have hit the Vermont studio again for their fourth studio effort in 40 + years. Bunty Station has been together for 25 years and plays a blend of folk, bluegrass, country, blues and rock music- all forms of American roots music- sometimes dubbed “Country and Eastern”. The band members prefer playing in living rooms but are reluctant living legends on the Pig Roast circuit and are perennial favorites of Central Ohio’s Lutheran communities. The band has its origins in the Columbus 70’s cult band, Steaks and Chops- of which there are three founding members; joined on this outing by the fourth living founding S&C member…the elusive Feel….plus local slide guitar master, Marty. Famed for playing at the primary intersections of very small towns”, this outing finds the Bunty boys paying homage to the 50th anniversary of the Byrd’s “Sweetheart of the Rodeo”, which ushered in the American Country Rock movement in 1968. The Bunty boys present the album’s eleven songs as they were presented on the original Byrds recordings. The last bonus track is a fortieth year re-recording of Berry’s “Rundown Vision”……a band highlight for years. I’d say this is an album not to miss…but I may be biased.
Full video:https://www.dropbox.com/s/w6ip563n1aynx84/BuntyStation_SweetheartoftheRodeoSessions_Full.mp4?dl=0