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True West Discography of CDs
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Perfect Time CD (2012)
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Hollywood Holiday Revisited CD (2007) 
True West songs If California is America's ultimate Manifest Destiny prize, then True West's bleak neo-psych is the perfect soundtrack for the inevitable "Is this all there is?" moment. Sounding something like a trippier Gun Club crossed with a gothier Dream Syndicate, True West may have been the Paisley Underground's best band, and certainly the most deserving of a success they never attained. This fantastic Atavistic remaster of their debut HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY (also featuring their self-titled EP) aims to correct that error.
The reissue reveals a band as adept with cosmic guitar drone--"Steps to the Door" and the Pink Floyd cover "Lucifer Sam" both anticipate Spacemen 3's hypnotic odysseys--as they are with dark Americana rave-ups (see "Shot You Down" and "Burn the Roses"). Throughout the record, singer Gavin Blair and guitarist Russ Tolman, whose complicated dark jangles predate Johnny Marr's, trade riffs and yowls, but they also know their way around some nice comedown balladry. A fierce, must-own gem for anyone remotely interested in L.A. indie rock in the early '80s.
Encompassing Their Early Signature ?Desert Psych?, And Featuring Core Members Russ Tolman, Gavin Blair & Richard Mcgrath, Hollywood Holiday Revisited Includes True West's Landmark Hollywood Holiday Mini-Lp, The Classic Drifters Full-Length, Plus The Demo Sessions Produced By Television's Tom Verlaine-- All Framed Up In A Scintillating 20-Page Photo Booklet, With Liner ...
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True West: The West is History - Live at the House of Blues DVD (2007)
True West CD discography This musical release from double-guitar country music act True West captures a live performance by the group, recorded during their reunion show at the House of Blues in 2007, as well as rare additional footage from previous shows promoting their previous albums in the 1980's.
Propelled by the dual guitars of Richard McGrath and Russ Tolman and the soaring vocals of Gavin Blair, True West recorded only three albums in their 1980s heyday, none of which successfully captured the raw onstage power of the band. In addition to ...
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Big Boot-Live A CD (1998)
True West albums Track Listing of songs: Backroad Bridge Song; Waved Me By; Happenings Ten Years Time Ago; And Then the Rain; Hold On; It's About Time; Hollywood Holiday; Look Around; You; Lust for Life; Lucifer Sam; Suspicious Minds;
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Popular or famous True West music songs: You, Look Around, Backroad Bridge Song What Could I Say, Lucifer Sam, Hollywood Holiday, It's About Time. More music songs Hold On, And Then the Rain, Thinking About Her, Speak Easy, What About You, Ain't No Hangman, Suspicious Minds. More music songs Lust for Life, Throw Away The Key, At Night They Speak, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, Burn the Roses, Long Road. More music songs Morning Light. See All Songs
True West Biography
True West CD discography Artist lives up to their name, offering fans plenty of California-friendly pop, but drenched in enough chaotic feedback to also make the group cutting edge. Credited with helping to start the '60s pop-meets-post-punk aesthetic that marked the early '80s Paisley Underground scene, Artist formed at the turn of that decade, its core members being singer Gavin Blair and guitarists Richard McGrath and Russ Tolman. Tolman, along with Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, produced their self-titled EP in 1983. Before long, the group was releasing underground hits like HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY and the DRIFTERS, and opening for R.E.M.'s FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TOUR. But after a countryish turn with HAND OF FATE, the band called it quits in 1987, although they reunite for the odd festival gig.
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True West music CDs Contemporaries
Bangles, The Long Ryders, The Dream Syndicate, The Three O'Clock, Thin White Rope, Rain Parade, Green on Red, Absolute Grey
True West discography Followers
The Shins, Beachwood Sparks, Fleet Foxes, The Broken West
Influences
The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The 13th Floor Elevators
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