Joyce Street Tied Down (Clear)

Release date:
March 31, 2023
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A '70s homemaker stuck between the studio and a getting dinner on the table, Joyce Street eked out an arresting countrypolitan discography in the margins of an otherwise traditional American life. With lyrics drawn from the pages of her diary, Street's stirring Mississippi warble led her into the fly-by-night world of custom studios, cutting tracks for upstart country concerns like Reena, Sonobeat, Revelation, and Arc. Channeling the honky tonk angel energy of Bobbie Gentry, Lorretta Lynn, and Jeannie C. Riley, Tied Down compiles a decade's worth of melodies disguised as lottery tickets.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Life Ain't Worth Livin' (If I Can't Have You)
  • 2. That Man of Mine
  • 3. Woman, Do Something Nice (For Your Brown Eyed Man)
  • 4. Mississippi Moonshine
  • 5. Don't Make Me Cry
  • 6. Tied Down
  • 7. With the Music Soft and the Lights Down Low
  • 8. California You're Slippin'
  • 9. The Good Book Says It's Wrong
  • 10. Back Streets of Your City
  • 11. Love in My Heart
  • 12. When You Belong to Me
  • 13. California You're Slippin' (Demo)
  • 14. Lost Highway