RSSSally Timms [extended]
- The Butcher's Boy Extended Player [T.I.M.S. EP, 1986] A-
- To the Land of Milk and Honey [Feels Good All Over, 1994]
- Cowboy Sally [Bloodshot, 1997] A-
- Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos [Bloodshot, 1999] **
- In the World of Him [Touch and Go, 2004]
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Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowgirls: The Butcher's Boy Extended Player [T.I.M.S. EP, 1986]
The most seriously country (or maybe just the most serious) Mekon exercises her pipes and her sensibility. "Long Black Veil," a folk song that isn't a folk song, and "Dover," a Dolly Parton cover that could just as well be, are up in Gram Parsons's neck of the stratosphere. One of the Langford-Timms originals comes close. A-
To the Land of Milk and Honey [Feels Good All Over, 1994]
"Homburg"; "Junk Barge"
Cowboy Sally [Bloodshot, 1997]
Piecing together an EP that looks (and probably is) every bit as casual as the rest of her solo noncareer, the old Mekon and new kid-TV star surveys fake authenticity at its weedlike best, from John Anderson's comeback-album title song to "Long Black Veil," which may just be the greatest phony folk song of all time--with Nashville punsters, No Depression punters, and "Tennessee Waltz" betwixt and between. Wryer than your professional country thrush. Kinder, too. A-
Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos [Bloodshot, 1999]
Alt-country songbook ("Cry Cry Cry," "Rock Me to Sleep"). **
In the World of Him [Touch and Go, 2004]