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Round Here
Kick Ass Texas Music
Joel Melton
©2005
“Round Here” is the fifth
studio album from Austin area based Texas singer/ songwriter Joel Melton.
As is the case with Joel’s previous musical offerings, “Round Here” retains
an intimacy that smells of wood smoke and spicy Texas Bar-B-Que washed down
with ice-cold beer. The songs on this strongest to date compilation cover
the spectrum of personal experiences to political musings.
Having met and later performed with Texas singer/songwriters that set the
standard of the genre, like Michael Fracasso, Jimmy Lafave, Kevin Welch, and
Ray Wylie Hubbard, Melton is continually inspired to write not only personal
songs but also stimulated to create character driven protagonists that
highlight the humanity in all of us. From
the perfect example of a heartfelt expression of idyllic love in the song,
“Girl and She’s Living With Me” to the humorous and true story of gender
confusion in “Spike”, Joel remains honest to his personal artistic voice
expressing deep abiding life notions while never taking itself to seriously.
Recorded at The Zone in Wimberly Texas, “Round Here” is destined to become a
singer/songwriter favorite while crossing over to a wider audience. Joel’s
songwriting continues to be an earnest observation of the truth of living
life to the fullest.
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