Tryin' Like the Devil explained

Tryin' Like The Devil
Type:Album
Artist:James Talley
Cover:James_Talley_Tryin'.jpg
Released:1976
Recorded:1976
Studio:Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:Country
Length:34:46
Label:Capitol
Producer:James Talley / Steve Mendell
Prev Title:Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Blackjack Choir
Next Year:1977

Tryin' Like The Devil is the second album by the country singer-songwriter James Talley. It was recorded at Jack Clement Recording Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee.

Critical reception

Reviewing in (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Something about this record as a whole is slightly off—maybe it's Talley's humorlessness, or maybe it's that his voice is much better suited to the startling talky intimacy of his first record than to the belting bravado with which he asserts his ambitions this time. But every song works individually, and an audacious concept—returning a consciously leftish analysis to the right-leaning populism of country music—is damn near realized in utterly idiomatic songs like '40 Hours' and 'Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?' It belts good enough."

Track listing

  1. "Forty Hours" (Talley) – 3:05
  2. "Deep Country Blues" (Talley) – 4:30
  3. "Give My Love to Marie" (Talley) – 3:43
  4. "Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again" (Talley) – 3:18
  5. "She Tries Not to Cry" (Talley) – 4:11
  6. "Tryin' Like The Devil" (Talley) – 2:21
  7. "She's the One" (Talley) – 4:17
  8. "Sometimes I Think About Suzanne" (Talley) – 3:29
  9. "Nuthin' But the Blues" (Talley) – 3:07
  10. "You Can't Ever Tell" (Talley) – 2:45

Personnel

Production

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