The Real Sock Ray Blue!
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| The Real Sock Ray Blue! | ||||
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| Released | March 23, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, rockabilly, roots rock | |||
| Label | Shanachie | |||
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The Real Sock Ray Blue! is an album by the American musician Mojo Nixon, released on March 23, 1999.[1][2] Nixon was signed by Shanachie Records, which hoped that he would attract rock listeners to the label.[3] He supported the album with a North American tour.[4]
The album was facetiously subtitled "Texas Prison Field Recordings, Vol. 3"; Nixon considered himself to be a folk musician working in a rock style.[5][6] He was backed by his band, the Toadliquors.[7] "The Ballad of Country Dick", which borrowed from the folk song "Jesse James", is a tribute to the late musician Country Dick Montana; Nixon had to remove a line that mentioned Mike Curb.[8][3] "Drunk-Divorced Floozie (The Ballad of Diana Spencer)" ridicules the global grief over the death of Diana Spencer.[9] Nixon's critique of the "Rock n' Roll Hall of Lame" includes an imitation of Bruce Springsteen.[10] "Orenthal James (Was a Mighty Bad Man)" touches on the musical structure of the standard "John Hardy".[11]
