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Hype sticker notes; Featuring Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Janis Ian, Willis Alan Ramsey, Dave Alvin, The McCrary Sisters, and many others.

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Deeper Well - Lucinda Williams
2.
Sister Angelina - Steve Earle 03:17
3.
Voices on the Water - The McCrary Sisters
4.
Jerusalem Tomorrow - Buddy Miller
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If My Eyes Were Blind - The Steeldrivers 03:38
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Women Across the River - Willis Alan Ramsey
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1917 - Mary Gauthier
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Always the Stranger - R.B. Morris
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If It Wasn’t for the Wind - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
10.
Running From Love - Anana Kaye
11.
That’s My Story - Greg Brown
12.
Sonnet #40 - David Olney
13.
Titanic - Afton Wolfe
14.
Steal My Thunder - Dave Alvin with the Rick Holmstrom Trio
15.
Delta Blue - Jim Lauderdale
16.
She’s Alone Tonight - Janis Ian
17.
Illegal Cargo - Townes Van Zandt 03:10
about
New West Records is proud to release Can’t Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney, to be released July 26, 2024. This album features new versions of David Olney songs recorded by Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Willis Alan Ramsey, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Mary Gauthier, Jim Lauderdale, and Buddy Miller among others. The tracklist is also highlighted by a never-before released live recording by Townes Van Zandt, and produced by Gwil Owen.

Originally from Rhode Island, Olney moved to Nashville in the early ‘70s and fell in with a group of songwriters including Townes Van Zandt, John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, and Rodney Crowell. With his rock band David Olney and the X-Rays he toured tirelessly. He went on to release a string of brilliant albums and his songs were recorded by Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Del McCoury, Linda Ronstadt, and many others. But the bright lights of stardom never shone on David, and he died the way he lived: onstage in a club, far from home, singing a song.

This album gathers some of David’s friends and colleagues to pay tribute to his unique vision. Many of these artists are legends in their own right; all are here because of their deep admiration and respect for the man and his Songs.

“David Olney tells marvelous stories, with characters who cling to the hope of enduring love, all the while crossing the deep divide into that long, dark night of the soul.” – Emmylou Harris

“Mr. Olney never had a hit single or won a Grammy Award, but in folk-rock and Americana circles, he is revered for his poetic sensibility and gruff-voiced storytelling, especially by his fellow songwriters, including his musical hero, Townes Van Zandt.” – The New York Times

“Anytime anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are, I say Mozart, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I’ve ever heard.” – Townes Van Zandt
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releases October 18, 2024

Deeper Well
(David Olney)
Lucinda Williams
Stuart Mathis: guitar
Joshua Grange: baritone guitar
Steve Mackey: bass
Fred Eltringham: drums
Produced by Ray Kennedy & Gwil Owen
Recorded & Mixed by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board Studio Nashville TN
Assistant Engineer-Sage Tichenor

Sister Angelina
(David Olney)
Steve Earle
Brad Pemberton: drums & percussion
Jeff Hill: bass, harmony vocal, guitar solo
Produced by Steve Earle
Recorded by Ray Kennedy at Sound Emporium and mixed at Room & Board

Voices on the Water
(David Olney/Gwil Owen)
The McCrary Sisters
Ann McCrary, Regina McCrary, and Alfreda McCrary Lee; vocals and handclaps
Justin Amaral: drums
Dan Seymour: bass
Gwil Owen: rhythm guitar
Mike Henderson: lead guitar
Jack Irwin: electric piano
Neal Cappellino: organ
Lilly Olney: handclaps
Produced by Gwil Owen
Recorded and mixed by Brett Ryan Stewart at Wirebird Productions, Madison TN

Jerusalem Tomorrow
(David Olney)
Buddy Miller
Viktor Krauss: bass
Steve Hindalong: percussion
Recorded and produced by Buddy Miller

If My Eyes Were Blind
(David Olney)
The Steeldrivers
Tammy Rogers: fiddle and vocal
Mike Fleming: bass and vocal
Brent Truitt: mandolin
Richard Bailey: banjo
Matt Dame: guitar and vocal
Recorded at Playloud Studio by Mitch Furr, mixed by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board
Produced by The Steeldrivers

Women Across the River
(David Olney)
Willis Alan Ramsey
Tammy Rogers: fiddle and mandolin
Viktor Krauss: bass
Tommy Goldsmith: guitar
Recorded and mixed by Ray Kennedy at Room & Board
Produced by Willis Alan Ramsey & Ray Kennedy

1917
(David Olney)
Mary Gauthier
Jaimee Harris: harmony vocals
Lex Price: bass
Ross Holmes: violin
Juan Solorzano: pedal steel
Neilson Hubbard: piano
Produced by Neilson Hubbard
Engineered and mixed by Dylan Alldredge at Skinny Elephant Recording, Nashville

Always the Stranger
(David Olney/John HadleyP
R.B. Morris
Dan Seymour: bass
Justin Amaral: drums & percussion
Anana Kaye: electric piano
Iraki Gabriel: electric guitar
Gwil Owen: acoustic guitar
Skip Cleavinger: uilleann pipes, bass tin whistle
Produced by Gwil Owen
Recorded and mized by Brett Rhyan Stewart at Wirebird Productions
Uilleann pipes and tinn whistle recorded by Matt Coles at Compass Studio

If It Wasn’t for the Wind
(David Olney/Joe Fleming)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Rich Brotherton: guitars, bass
Warren Hood: fiddle
Rick Richards: drums
Produced and recorded by Rich Brotherton at Ace Recording, Austin TX

Running From Love
(David Olney)
Anana Kaye
Irakli Gabriel: electric guitar
Joe McMahan: lead guitar
Gwil Owen: acoustic guitar
Dan Deymour: bass
Justin Amaral: drums & percussion
Tony Crow: organ
Produced by Gwil Owen
Recorded and mixed by Brett Ryan Stewart at Wirebird Productions
Organ recorded by Matt Coles at Compass Studio

That’s My Story
(David Olney)
Greg Brown
Bo Ramsey: electric guitar
Produced by Bo Ramsey
Recorded and mized by Dana Telsrow at Flat Black Studios, Lone Tree, IA

Sonnet #40
(David Olney)
David Olney
Irakli Gabriel: all instruments
Produced by Irakli Gabriel & Brett Ryan Stewart

Titanic
(David Olney)
Afton Wolfe
Dan Seymour: bass
Justin Amaral: drums
Gwin Owen: rhythm guitar
Joe McMahan: lead guitar
Tony Crow: piano
Jim Hoke: harmonica
Produced by Gwil Owen
Recorded and mixed by Brett Ryan Stewart at Wirebird Productions

Steal My Thunder
(David Olney)
Dave Alvin with the Rick Holmstrom Trio
Gregory Boaz: bass
Steve Mugalian: drums
Rick Holmstrom: guitar
Produced by Craig Parker Adams & Dave Alvin
Dave Alvin appears courtesy of Yep Roc Records

Delta Blue
(David Olney/Gwil Owen)
Jim Lauderdale
Justin Amaral: drums
Dan Seymour: bass
Ward Stout: fiddle, mandolin
Thomm Jutz: acoustic guitar, resonator guitar
Gwil Owen: acoustic guitar
Rosemary Fossee: harmony vocal
Produced by Gwil Owen
Recorded & Mixed by Brett Ryan Setwart at WireBird Productions
Thomm Jutz guitars recorded at TJ Tunes, engineered by Finn Goodwin Bain

She’s Alone Tonight
(David Olney/Janis Ian)
Janis Ian
Viktor Krauss: bass
Tammy Rogers: violin
Produced by Gwil Owen
Mixed by Neal Cappellino at The Dog House, Nashville

Illegal Cargo
(David Olney)
Townes Van Zandt
Recorded live at the Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC, 03/11/1977
Audio restoration by Michael Graves, Osiris Studio
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Lyrics (even if we aren't putting them in the album package)
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Executive Producer: Gwil Owen
Mastered by Ray Kennedy at Zen Masters
Cover photo:
Ricky Rogers-USA TODAY
Back Cover Photo: Scott Housley
Album Design by Brad Talbott

Management
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Special thanks to:
Lucienne Reed
Gine Olney
Redding Olney
Jim Rooney
Siobhan Kennedy
Mary Sack
Herve Oudet
Dave Pomeroy
Connie Ashton
Nancy Sefton
Sherbe Green
David Wykoff
Brydget Carrillo

If the form is true
It is strong enough to hold
The whole universe

My father’s songs were true, they were strong, and they were enough to hold him. Death is tragic and reckless and still somehow his passing was a rare and beautiful event. A final magic trick, a sort of perfect symmetry played out. Flame snuffed out while a gentle apology was uttered into this cruel and glorious world. He was a dark eyed man, tender, comedic and profound; tapped into life in a unique and expansive way. Driven to roam, the lonely highway kind and yet incredibly empathetic. He was deeply of this world and also outside of it – observing it. His gaze was honest, seeing both darkness and light. He was angry and he was hopeful. He spoke in many voices – gentle and vicious, ashamed and joyful but always simple and beautiful, always genuine. He did not use people, he did not use stories, he lived within them. And he died the way he lived – in a song. This project shines a light on those songs. The friends and comrades on this album knew and loved my father through and because of his songs. They have come together to make this beautiful tribute to him and his words in their own voices. A song is a dream –A dream is sometimes a prayer – You hope they are heard. I hope these are heard. – Lillian Olney

(Haikus written by David Olney)

I met David Olney in the winter of 1973 when I’d just turned 18 and he was not quite 26. I was opening for Eric Taylor at the University of Houston Coffee House, and Richard Dobson, on a visit home from Nashville, brought him by and they both played guest sets. Dave palyed three songs, two of which were SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING and ILLEGAL CARGO. My failure to remember the third number is probably less about the quality of that particular piece than my own inability to recover from just how stunning the first two were. I had begun contemplating my own assault on Music City months before, but it was only in that moment that I even began to understand how much I would have to up my game when I headed east. I mean, I’d been playing coffee shops and clubs around Texas for a few years, and I knew Townes Van Zandt, but here was a guy who wrote rings around me who had been scuffling around Nashville for a while and never even managed to make a record. What were the powers that be on Music Row fucking thinking? From that moment I became positively evangelical about the songs of David Olney and I preached that gospel to anyone who would listen. We were roommates for a short time when I finally made it to Nashville and before long I knew damn near every word he’d ever written by heart. Whenever a guitar was going around a room late at night and I ran out of songs of my own to play, my fallback position was either Townes or Olney, if David wasn’t around to represent himself. One night (well actually it was about 3 in the morning) Jerry Jeff Walker banged on my door on 16th avenue. He said “Hey Neil’s up at the Spence Manor with Grant and Ginger Boatwright and a bunch of folks and I want you to play him that song you played me.” I had no idea WHO the fuck “Neil” was but Grant and Ginger held the best pickin’ parties on the Row so I pulled on my boots and climbed in the shotgun seat for the short roll up the block. “Which Song?” I wondered, out loud. “The Mexican one,” Jerry Jeff replied. Hell, I had a lot of those. We got up to the room and it was jammed with people and I knew all of them but one. It wasn’t until Jerry Jeff handed me his guitar and my eyes adjusted to the low light filtered through dense cigarette and pot smoke that I realized that “Neil” was Neil Young, sitting right across from me. Jerry Jeff was on a mission. “Play him that song, the one you played at Guy and Susanna’s. The one about the smuggler and the airplane and the girl…” The other shoe dropped like a bomb. Jerry Jeff Walker had dragged me out of bed in the middle of the night to play a David Olney song for Neil Young. So I played it. I can’t say my feelings weren’t hurt but I played it and I’ve played it literally hundreds of times since, the last time being at 30A festival in Florida on the first anniversary of David’s death there in the middle of a performance, hell in the middle of a song. And I’ll continue to play it whenever I need to be reminded of where I come from as an artist and why the bar for my contemporaries and myself is so high. Because David Olney was the best of us.

Steve Earle
New York City
January 2024

Media Condition:  Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country:   US
Released:  26 Jul 2024
Genre: Blues, Folk World & Country
Style: Country Blues, Country, Folk

Track listing:

1. Lucinda Williams - Deeper Well
2. Steve Earle - Sister Angelina 3:17
3. The McCrary Sisters - Voices On The Water
4. Buddy Miller - Jerusalem Tomorrow
5. The SteelDrivers - If My Eyes Were Blind
6. Willis Alan Ramsey - Women Across The River
7. Mary Gauthier - 1917
8. R. B. Morris - Always The Stranger
9. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - If It Wasn't For The Wind
10. Anana Kaye - Running From Love
11. Greg Brown - That's My Story
12. David Olney - Sonnet #40
13. Afton Wolfe - Titanic
14. Dave Alvin with the Rick Holmstrom Trio, Rick Holmstrom Trio - Steal My Thunder
15. Jim Lauderdale - Delta Blue
16. Janis Ian - She's Alone Tonight
17. Townes Van Zandt - Illegal Cargo