{"id":6375,"date":"2013-02-19T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2013-02-19T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T17:10:36","slug":"mike-cooley-the-fool-on-every-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/02\/19\/mike-cooley-the-fool-on-every-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Cooley – The Fool on Every Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/b>The first solo album from singer-songwriter-guitar slinger Mike Cooley (of the Drive-By Truckers) was recorded live over a couple nights in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. While Cooley generally commands more or less equal stage time with the Truckers, his contribution to albums are often overshadowed by the more prolific Patterson Hood penned numbers. An intimate affair complete with boozy hollering and raucous sing-a-longs, The Fool on Every Corner<\/em> mostly revisits DBT classics, though stripped entirely of the heavy arrangements that accompany these tunes on their original releases or the live rock shows where most listeners first encountered them. \u201cGuitar Man Upstairs\u201d and \u201cMarry Me\u201d get a nice acoustic treatment, while slower jams like \u201cLoaded Gun in the Closet\u201d and \u201cCottonseed\u201d start the set off nicely. One highlight for me comes during \u201c3 Dimes Down,\u201d<\/a> a tune complete with Tom T Hall<\/a> references and a line lifted from Bob Seger\u2019s \u201cRock N Roll Never Forgets,\u201d<\/a> one of rock\u2019s best pump-you-up-for-a-night-of-boozin-anthems. Towards the end of \u201c3 Dimes Down,\u201d Cooley goes off on the Seger line and gets right into \u201cRock N Roll Never Forgets,\u201d until he forgets the words and trails off. A cover of Charlie Rich\u2019s \u201cBehind Closed Doors\u201d<\/a> and a brand new tune, \u201cDrinking Coke & Eating Ice\u201d give the rabid DBT fan some extra bang for their buck. My only complaint, as a rabid DBT ran, is that \u201cUncle Frank\u201d or \u201cOne of These Days\u201d weren\u2019t included. A great introduction to an underrated American songwriter, The Fool on Every Corner<\/em> is a dang good record. It\u2019s too bad it came out so late in 2012, as I\u2019m sure it missed a lot of Top Ten lists (mine included). (ATO, drivebytruckers.com) Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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