Roky Erickson ALL THAT MAY DO MY RHYME - Vinyl

Personnel: Roky Erickson (electric guitar); Lou Ann Barton (vocals); John Reed (acoustic & electric guitars, guitarra); Harry Hess (acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica); Speedy Sparks (acoustic guitar, bass); Carey Bowman (electric guitar); Charlie Sexton (guitar, organ); Paul Leary (guitar); John Hagen (cello); Sumner Erickson (tuba, background vocals); Barry "Frosty" Smith, Ernie Durawa (drums); Lynn Gathright (tambourine).
Producers: Casey Monahan, Speedy Sparks, Stuart Sullivan.
Engineers: Stuart Sullivan, Lynn Gathright.
Recorded at Music Lane Studio, Austin, Texas from September 1984 to February 1985; Arlyn Studio, Austin, Texas from October 1993 to April 1994.
ALL THAT MAY DO MY RHYME includes six new songs and five remixed tracks from a 1984 recording session.
On this 1994 release, Erickson revisits a number of his more familiar and (for the most part) prettier songs. Indeed, this album is free of any overt demons, with a decidedly hopeful romanticism taking center stage and Erickson's loud guitars-and-feedback (see "Haunt" for a throwback to this earlier style) psychedelia giving way to country-tinged rock.
Half of ALL THAT MAY DO MY RHYME was originally released in the mid-'80s as the French CLEAR NIGHT FOR LOVE EP. The new tracks were recorded with sympathetic accompaniment (including Charlie Sexton on guitar) in Erickson's native Texas. "Starry Eyes" is presented twice, in versions recorded a decade apart, the newer rendition a duet with Lou Ann Barton. New songs by Erickson were few and far between throughout the '80s and '90s, but this set happily includes two standouts in "Please Judge" and "We Are Never Talking

• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Pop