T. HARVEY COMBO
$1 Beer, Free Pool, NO COVER! (THC)
For the price of this record, you can afford cover, pool, and
several beers at Hondo’s, where this was recorded last Valentine’s Day. The
same old tired blues that haunts Sixth Street day and night, there’s really no
point at all in listening to this at home. — Chris Gray
PATTY DAVID
Let Me Be the One (Nutshell Music)
Carefully polished, Texas-style C&W & R&B. Perhaps
too carefully. These songs could stand out more: “Don’t Start Over Again,” a
standard off-tackle R&B tune, begs for David to break loose. There is good
V-8 potential in her strong, low, and deceptively malleable voice, but she’s
traveling in a school zone. “A Person’s Face” brings out the passion needed.
—Stephen McGuire
DIABLO SOL
Rumble (Red Onion)
Although they’re suspiciously raw for what is essentially a hard
rock band, Diablo Sol may have just enough in the spiraling riffs and
disenfranchised lyrics departments to be alternative radio contenders. As for
being much more than filler between Collective Candlechair singles, the hooks
just aren’t here. — Andy Langer
MICHAEL BALLEW
You Better Hold On (Bear Family) This veteran of the Hill Country scene is certainly competent enough, but when it comes down to that crucial question — whether you should spend your money on it — it just doesn’t — Lee Nichols
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This article appears in November 3 • 1995 and November 3 • 1995 (Cover).