Amazon.co.uk Review
The declared mission of
Alabama 3s
Outlaw is to find a way of romanticising Britains mythic criminals in song in the same way that American country music celebrates its pantheon of gunslingers, gamblers and sundry neer-do-wells. In this respect, the two key songs on
Outlaw are "Have You Seen Bruce Richard Reynolds?" - a cool, wordy, talking-blues summation of the career of the Great Train Robbery mastermind and serial jailbreaker - and the single, "Hello... Im Johnny Cash". The latter, set to Cashs trademark boom-chicka-boom beat, acknowledges the late Man In Black as the principal inspiration of
Outlaw, and is a fine and funny song in its own right.
Musically, Outlaw signals an end to Alabama 3s recent stylistic wanderings, returning from the overt, and occasionally oppressive, techno of Power In The Blood and the acoustic starkness of Last Train To Mashville to the slightly dance-ified country which characterised their first two albums. This is all to the good, as those first two were Alabama 3s best, until now. --Andrew Mueller
CD Description
Fourth album by unique London-based band probably best known for their song 'Woke Up This Morning', which became a runaway smash hit after being used as the theme to the TV show 'The Sopranos'. On this album their startling collision of techno with country & western finally sounds fully integrated,and it is being hailed as their best work yet. Features thesingle 'Hello I'm Johnny Cash'.