FREE STATE SERENADE (VINYL)

A wild ride of hillbilly blues and honky-tonk, Chuck Mead ?(best known for his work as front man for BR549) wrote his ?new album based on the stories and legends, crimes and the ?lonesome open road of his childhood and formative years in ?Kansas. He recorded it with his longtime band, the Grassy ?Knoll Boys.?'Free State Serenade' jumps from jaunty mountain airs like ?Neosho Valley Sue, where BR5-49's Don Herron lends his ?fiddle to what Mead calls a coming of age ditty to Sittin' ?On Top Of The Bottom a whip-smart ode to Sittin' On Top ?Of The World. The Devil By Their Side is a dark, chugging ?rock n' roll number about William Quantrill's murderous 1863 ?Civil War raid of Lawrence, Kansas.?Mead co-founded three-time GRAMMY nominated alternative ?country band, BR5-49, who have released seven full-length ?LPs and won a Country Music Association Award since the ?early 1990's. ?Tracklist:?01. Knee Deep In The Walkarusa River?02. The Devil By Their Side?03. Neosho Valley Sue?04. On A Slow Train Through Arkansas?05. Little Ivy?06. Evil Wind?07. Ten Light Years Away?08. Reno County Girl?09. A Short Goodbye?10. The Light Of Day?11. Ain't Nothing Like The Love A Woman?12. Sittin' On Top Of The Bottom