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Calgary, Alberta's the Tightners play a spirited brand of folk and blues-influenced rock that at times recalls a Canadian prairie version of the heartland rock of Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen and at others recalls the streamlined blues-rock of Robert Cray. A good old-fashioned bar band, the Tightners (their name even comes from a local slang term for beer and other drinks made to get one "tight") are an unpretentious lot who are out to make music, not art. The title "Barley, Butts, and a Broken Heart" pretty much spells out their world view, and a kind of blue-collar melancholy suffuses much of this disc, released in 1999 as a benefit for the Canadian Lymphoma Research Foundation. The title track, "Magical Lady," is a tender tribute to Patricia Manson, the foundation's founder and president, who died of the disease in May 1999.
Tracks:
1. Temptation - 5:47
2. Barley, Butts and a Broken Heart - 5:44
3. Magical Lady - 4:25
4. Feel Too Good to Get the Blues - 4:54
5. Dance--ultimate Cure - 3:44
6. Passion for Deb - 4:01
7. The Hole You Live In - 4:10
8. Looking for the Wind - 4:35
9. Highway Rock - 2:33