Sold Date: September 30, 2024
Start Date: September 26, 2024
Final Price: $30.00 (AUD)
Bid Count: 1
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I am Ben from Stockholm, Sweden and they call be the Swedish Cowboy. Musically I am the coolest person on the planet. I especially love two forms of music...hardcore (the hardest) honky tonk country and wild surf style guitar. A strange mix you might say and possibly true but here you will find the best of both worlds.I also love blues, rockabilly, old timey and anything else only the coolest have but you would probably expect this! THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL COLLECTION I am selling. Everything is in great condition. I bought most new and would always make a copy to play so most would only have been actually played one or two times. Whenever I played my albums I would wear white cotton gloves. I am selling as my Japanese ice skating champion wife has convinced me it is time to share my music and closing my herring pickling business in Sweden also frees me up to do this. Anyone who buys one of my records is truly blessed.I have lived in Australia just on 30 years and you can really call me The Aussie Swedish Cowboy if you wish as that is what I am. I love everything about my new home. I am pleased to be able to offer my collection. I have a lot and the likes of it will never appear again on any sale platform. My friend Steve (ebay seller steveswr53) is handling my listings for me. Remember though I am the one and only Swedish Cowboy.

IF YOU ARE IN SYDNEY YOU ARE WELCOME TO PICK UP FROM MIRANDA.
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All records are sent in high quality 4B cardboard mailers.

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Vern Gosdin "Chiseled in Stone" LP original Columbia 1987 in perfect nick. Truth is this may be the best country music album ever made. Every track is sublime, production perfect, performances as good as it gets. Whatever the rating scale is this should get full marks on it...out of 5..5 Stars...out of 10...10 stars...out of a hundred...you probably guessed it. They didn't call Vern "The Voice" for nothing. George Jones never made an album anywhere near as good as this gem.

All Music Guide The 1980s were the beginning of a run of fine albums for Vern Gosdin that continued into the 21st century. It's true that he wasn't always as popular as he was in the late '60s and mid-'70s, but from his period on Compleat through his signing with Columbia and on into American Harvest Recordings in the late '90s, Gosdin has made solid, tough, and aesthetically beautiful country records. The new traditionalists, led by Dwight Yoakam, were the very movement that helped Gosdin regain popular acceptance for a time from the mid-'80s through 1993. Chiseled in Stone ranks as arguably his finest moment of that period. Produced by Bob Montgomery, the album features a deck of tunes from Gosdin and co-writers Hank Cochran and Dean Dillon; if Gosdin didn't co-write, Dillon and Cochran did. What's more, these songs were all written for Gosdin's wonderfully worn yet astonishingly versatile voice. "Do You Believe Me Now," the darkest and most wrenching song on the album, opens it. It's the story of a man on skid row who is suddenly and unexpectedly visited by his ex, and he convinces her by his very ravaged existence that he cannot live without her and asks the question in the title. As Sonny Garrish's steel winds out underneath Gosdin's vocal, all of the pain and pathos in the song comes at the listener full force, yet with the softness of Gosdin's voice, it is believable as a tender revelation as well as a song of unremitting darkness and surrender to the "road of no return." He is punishing no one but himself, but it's important she knows he wasn't lying when he said he was nothing without her. But the very next cut is one of those that Gosdin owns. With the fiddles and steel shuffling along in dance time, "Tight as Twin Fiddles" is a solid, authentic update on the Texas Playboys' sound. The truth is, there isn't a weak track here, from the honky tonk blues of "Set 'Em Up Joe" to the lonesome ache of "I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Comin'" and "Is It Raining at Your House" or the title track. For fans of George Jones' I Am What I Am and Merle Haggard's "Going Where the Lonely Go," this is a reward in and of itself.

Do You Believe Me Now    3:35
Tight As Twin Fiddles    2:02
Is It Raining At Your House    2:59
Set 'Em Up Joe    2:26
There Ain't Nothing Wrong (Just Ain't Nothing Right)    4:30
Chiseled In Stone    3:50
Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time    2:50
It's Not Over, Yet    3:57
Nobody Calls From Vegas Just To Say Hello    2:27
I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Coming    3:15