Though none of the albums Wayne released in Finland where he and his wife lived for a time while she worked for the Nokia corporation's home office have seen release or wide distribution in the U. When you're the only guy doing it full-time for a living, you get most of the gigs that come down the pike. I had a lot of friends who'd say, 'Hey, can I come over there and make a living? It'd be nice to have somebody to talk to. I know a lot of songwriters over there who release an album a year, and they never tour.
They make enough money off royalties and airplay. Almost immediately Wayne hooked up with the HighTone label, which later released "Big Thinkin'," an album Wayne recorded a few months earlier with old friend Robbie Fulks, who co-produced and played on the recording, in addition to writing or co-writing all of its songs; Fulks as David Bowie to Wayne's Iggy Pop.
Something of an iconoclast, Fulks, 38, has been a phenom in alt. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. But the bulk of Here I Am In Dallas is a much more subdued album - though that doesn't mean it's any less enjoyable.
Where Big Thinkin' was an album filled with collaborations between Wayne and Robbie Fulks, Here I Am In Dallas features Wayne coming into his own as a songwriter, with solo credits on five of the 12 tracks. It's interesting, though, that he chooses to cover other artists' songs on this disc, something he didn't do on Big Thinkin'.
This is not a complaint, as the covers are well-chosen, such as "Hillbilly Jitters". Quite possibly the best song on the disc is one which is the most serious - "The Stuff Inside". I can't tell which side is more powerful, the verses, or the spoken word moments.
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