I am at work and really have no time to discuss the Sons. BUT, MY favorite era was the originals. The Roy years. Listen and you will hear jazz swing in a western suit. The Pioneer Trio (Len Slye, Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer)had all the vocal gifts a band could want. Then The Farr Brothers came along and created a musical and vocal force of nature.

Listen to the instrumental behind Blue Bonnet Girl or Navajo Trail. Drop the vocals and you have fine stand alone instrumental pieces. Then listen to the pure harmony behind those songs and Tumble Weeds and Water and Way Out There and remember this was decades before Auto Tune (Fix a flat)and they nailed those vocals in the studio with out over tracking lines.

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