Artist: Derailers
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Dwight Yoakam – Dwight Sings Buck / Derailers – Under the Influence of Buck
Exactly twenty years have passed since Dwight Yoakam, playing the Kern County Fair, met his hero Buck Owens and coaxed him back onstage after years of semiretirement, leading to their 1988 #1 duet on “Streets Of Bakersfield” and a lasting, deep friendship. Beyond that, Yoakam consciously avoided recording any Buck covers, feeling that Owens, then [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Derailers – Soldiers Of Love
The Derailers’ first album without Tony Villanueva finds the band in fine form. Co-founder Brian Hofeldt is not as powerful a singer as his former bandmate, but he is a versatile and confident vocalist. Producer Buzz Cason, a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, wrote or co-wrote eight of the album’s fourteen songs. On [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Derailers – Genuine
Where so many alt-country buckaroos convey a holier-than-thou disdain for the country mainstream, the Derailers have always worn their commercial aspirations on their sleeve. Without forsaking the formative twang of Buck Owens on their second album for Lucky Dog, the band and veteran producer Kyle Lehning have fashioned a sound that flirts with the honky-tonk [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
The Derailers – Ticket to ride
The Derailers deliver one hell of a honky-tonk Saturday night. The band’s hard, swinging shuffle is nailed down tight by drummer Mark Horn, a flawless timekeeper in the Buddy Harman mode; Horn smiles so broadly throughout the Derailers’ sets that you’d swear he’s having even more fun than the fans who sway and dance along [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Derailers – Full Western Dress
While there’s still no mistaking the Derailers’ roots in the Bakersfield sound, the Austin honky-tonkers bare their ’60s pop souls more than ever on this follow-up to 1997 major-label debut Reverb Deluxe. The honky-tonk hallmarks are still there — pedal steel, fiddle, and shuffles such as “Lost And Found”, about a bar where “the barmaid [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #13 Jan-Feb 1998
Derailers – Continental Club (Austin, TX)
So what if the Derailers look and sound like Buck Owens & his Buckaroos, circa 1965. The Derailers write nearly all of their material (most of it first-rate), have an unwavering honky-tonk ethic, and finally boast a rhythm section that can put their mix of California and Texas twang over live. If that’s not enough, [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Derailers – The Buck stops here
Rural Oregon, off Highway 99: With all due respect and apologies to pater and mater Villanueva, one wonders if Buck Owens ever had a milk route that would have taken him through these parts ’round about the Summer of Love. Tony Villanueva grew up on a farm here, and half a track into the latest [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Derailers – The Derby (Los Angeles, CA)
With its gorgeous high-arched ceiling, velvet trim and art-deco elaborations, the Derby is pure cosmo glamour, and one of L.A.’s least-divey music joints. The Derailers are, well, they’re none of those things. They’re blue-collar Joes with slicked-back hair and Western suits. Nothing refined here, except maybe the oil in the fields surrounding the San Joaquin [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #3 Spring 1996
The Derailers – Roots run deep
The roots-rock tag sometimes can be a kiss of death, implying a backwards-looking, almost academic rehashing of sounds that once were. But the Derailers look backward with vigor. A museum piece they ain’t. “My grandpa worked on the railroads,” says singer guitarist Tony Villanueva in a reverential tone when describing the history of the band’s [...]
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