Word: schlitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side as he listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy to see why he is heralded as on of the best saxophonists of his generation. When the piano's turn came, he built up a solo that climaxed with two-fisted fullkeyboard runs, booming...
...CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back to 1957 -- rockabilly prime time -- when Marty Robbins, the Everly Brothers and Don Gibson were teaching city kids how country sounds: like a murmur from the echo chamber...
Like one of those ominously quiet sequences in a Hitchcock film, Beattie's low-key style tends to create the tension of expectation. For example: "Corky pushed the door open and turned and looked at Wayne, sitting on the step, holding a Schlitz. It was the last drink he would have before his life changed." But all that happens is that Wayne gets arrested on a false charge of possessing cocaine. We never do find out what became of him except, in an epilogue, that he is now living in Mexico City...