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album : ain't it something

By the time James Talley issued his fourth album for Capitol, his sound had been transformed from a simple fusion of folk, country, and blues to a hotbed of steaming R&B, funky New Orleans second-line rhythms, country, and even rock. These 11 tracks suggest that Talley was moving honky tonk and folk music into a new era, one that would explode just a few years later. But Talley was ahead of his time and Ain't It Somethin' didn't even chart. Ultimately it doesn't make a difference, because Talley went on to do alright for himself as Nashville's number one real-estate broker and developer and has continued to record. Despite the changes in arrangement and style, Talley's songs are still about the same people he wrote about on his first record: the poor, working class, day laborers, farmers, factory men and women just doing everything they can to make a life for themselves. The only politics in Talley's songs come from his experience as a social worker, a farmer, and growing up in Torreon.