Bill Kirchen: The Proper Years
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| Bill Kirchen: The Proper Years | |
 compilation studio album by Bill Kirchen | |
| Released | March 3, 2020 |
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| Recorded | Proper Records, Specific Sound Studios, London |
| Producer | Paul "Bassman" Riley |
| Label | Last Music Company |
2020 two CD album by Bill Kirchen includes vocals by Elvis Costello on "Man In The Bottom Of The Well." Compiles the three albums "Hammer Of The Honky Tonk Gods"(2006) , "Word To The Wise" (2010) and "Seeds And Stems" (2013) plus three extra bonus tracks.
Tracks
| Disc 1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods | Bill Kirchen | 2:25 | ||||||
| 2. | Rocks Into Sand (with Nick Lowe & Geraint Watkins) | Bill Kirchen | 3:27 | ||||||
| 3. | Get A Little Goner (with Nick Lowe & Geraint Watkins) | Sarah Brown, Bill Kirchen | 2:44 | ||||||
| 4. | Skid Row In My Mind | Blackie Farrell | 4:21 | ||||||
| 5. | Working Man | Bill Kirchen | 2.55 | ||||||
| 6. | Soul Cruisin' | Joe New | 3:34 | ||||||
| 7. | Truth Be Told | Bill Kirchen | 2:52 | ||||||
| 8. | Devil With The Blue Dress | Frederick Earl Long | 3:23 | ||||||
| 9. | One More Day | Bill Kirchen | 2:55 | ||||||
| 10. | Heart Of Gold | Tony Johnson | 3:44 | ||||||
| 11. | If It's Really Got To Be This Way | Arthur Alexander, Donnie Fritts, J.Nicholson | 3:09 | ||||||
| 12. | Bump Wood | Bill Kirchen | 4:10 | ||||||
| 13. | Shelly's Winter Love (with Nick Lowe, Paul Carrack) | Merle Haggard | 4:27 | ||||||
| 14. | Man In The Bottom Of The Well (with Elvis Costello) | Bill Kirchen, Johnny Castle, Austin de Lone | 4:35 | ||||||
| 15. | I Don't Work That Cheap (with Commander Cody) | Bill Kirchen, Blackie Farrell | 2:49 | ||||||
| 16. | Time Will Tell The Story | Bill Kirchen, Sarah Brown, Louise Kirchen | 4:15 | ||||||
| 17. | Husbands And Wives (with Chris O'Connell) | Roger Miller | 3:10 | ||||||
| 18. | Open Range (with Kevin "Blackie" Farrell) | Leroy Preston, Blackie Farrell | 4:27 | ||||||
| 19. | Arkansas Diamond | Sarah Brown, Bill Kirchen | 3.33 | ||||||
| Disc 2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 1. | Word To The Wise (with Dan Hicks) | Bill Kirchen, Dan Hicks | 2:46 | ||||||
| 2. | Ain’t Got Time For The Blues (with Maria Muldaur) | Bill Kirchen | 2:56 | ||||||
| 3. | Valley Of The Moon (with Norton Buffalo) | Bill Kirchen | 3:49 | ||||||
| 4. | Too Much Fun | Bill Kirchen, Billy C. Farlow | 2:40 | ||||||
| 5. | Tell Me The Reason | Bill Kirchen | 3:04 | ||||||
| 6. | Down To Seeds And Stems Again | Billy C. Farlow, George Frayne IV | 4:03 | ||||||
| 7. | Rockabilly Funeral | Kevin "Blackie" Farrell, Brian Voorheis | 4:16 | ||||||
| 8. | Semi-Truck | Bill Kirchen, Billy C. Farlow | 2:09 | ||||||
| 9. | Womb To The Tomb | Bill Kirchen, Louise Kirchen | 4:01 | ||||||
| 10. | Flip Flop | Bill Kirchen | 3:28 | ||||||
| 11. | Swing Fever | Bill Kirchen, Johnny Castle, Nigel Goodson, Jack O'Dell | 3:15 | ||||||
| 12. | It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry | Bill Kirchen | 4:10 | ||||||
| 13. | Truck Stop At The End Of The World | Bill Kirchen, George Frayne IV | 3:14 | ||||||
| 14. | Mama Hated Diesels | Kevin "Blackie" Farrell, Bill Kirchen | 4:58 | ||||||
| 15. | Hot Rod Lincoln | Charlie Ryan | 7:43 | ||||||
| 16. | Talkin' About Chicken | Bill Kirchen, Louise Kirchen | 3:08 | ||||||
| 17. | Think It Over | Jimmy Donley (alias Kenny James) | 2:46 | ||||||
| 18. | Oxblood | Butch Hancock | 3:47 | ||||||
| 19. | The Times They Are A-Changin' (with Austin de Lone) | Bob Dylan | 4:15 | ||||||
