Orville Peck – Stampede (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:38 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Country, Country Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Critically acclaimed, Orville Peck has long dreamed of making ‘Stampede’, a duets album with singers, songwriters, and fellow musicians he’s long admired. And now, music icons, rebels and newcomers join hand-in-hand with Orville on his third full-length body of work to help create a two-part record that tips its hat to music’s past, present, and future.Country phenom Orville Peck wastes no time flexing muscle on his duets album, kicking off with a waltzing cover of “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other.” At 91, Willie Nelson sounds like he’s still having a hoot singing (as he has so many times before), “I believe in my soul that inside every man is the feminine/ And inside every lady, there’s a deep, manly voice loud and clear/ A cowboy may brag about things that he’s done with his women/ But the ones who brag loudest are the ones who are most likely queer.” Peck is queer, of course, and you can practically hear him winking alongside tremulous border ranchero guitar. It’s fun, and the record only gets better from there. Doing his flashy horns thing, Beck helps play up the Vegas Elvis camp of “Death Valley High” (co-written with Dan the Automator), while “The Hurtin’ Kind” drips with hip-swiveling Presley majesty. Both Peck and Midland’s Mark Wystrach hit the high-lonesome notes on harmonies that give Dan and Shay a run for their money. “Back At Your Door,” with newcomer songbird Debbii Dawson, evokes the crushed-velvet gothic of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sintra. Peck prowls like Mack the Knife on mischievous “Chemical Sunset,” a burlesque bit of New Orleans jazz with Allison Russell. And Noah Cyrus—with just enough twang in her voice to remind you of her legacy—wows on the truly excellent country-pop power ballad “How Far Will We Take It?” So does Mickey Guyton on “Where Are We Now?” Molly Tuttle is a lovely guest on a banjo-and-mandolin cover of Magnetic Fields “Papa Was a Rodeo,” and Margo Price plays it straight for “You’re an Asshole, I Can’t Stand You (and I Want a Divorce).” Bu Cuarón, the velveteen-voiced daughter of film director Alfonso Cuarón joins Peck for bilingual “Miénteme,” a soaring Latin pop song. Kylie Minogue coos on the Diplo-produced “Midnight Ride,” while Peck nails her “oh-a-oh-a-oh” disco affectation. Peck also does a good Elton John on “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” before the piano legend himself comes in. But part of Peck’s appeal is that he’s this slick, cool cucumber—not a fuzzy flamingo like Elton. So even when singing lines like, “A couple of the sounds that I really like/ Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike,” he sounds … not exactly sanitized, but mannered. Nathaniel Rateliff drops by for “Conquer The Heart,” a grand number that evokes Roy Orbison and packs a wallop of a sax solo. The two sound good together, but Rateliff—usually such a huge presence—is merely relegated to back-up singer status; Teddy Swims, however, gets more space on “Ever You’re Gone.” And Peck and Fancy Hagood sound great on a faithful “Rhinestone Cowboy,” but TJ Osborne steals the show. – Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1-1. Orville Peck – Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (03:38)
1-2. Orville Peck – The Hurtin’ Kind (03:06)
1-3. Orville Peck – Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) (04:11)
1-4. Orville Peck – Back At Your Door (03:32)
1-5. Orville Peck – Chemical Sunset (02:34)
1-6. Orville Peck – Death Valley High (02:40)
1-7. Orville Peck – How Far Will We Take It? (02:52)
1-8. Orville Peck – Miénteme (03:10)
1-9. Orville Peck – Papa Was a Rodeo (04:19)
1-10. Orville Peck – Midnight Ride (03:31)
1-11. Orville Peck – Ever You’re Gone (03:52)
1-12. Orville Peck – You’re an Asshole, I Can’t Stand You (and I Want a Divorce) (03:13)
1-13. Orville Peck – Where Are We Now? (03:38)
1-14. Orville Peck – Conquer The Heart (03:01)
1-15. Orville Peck – Rhinestone Cowboy (03:13)
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