The Revealer - CD

Jesse Dayton's ninth studio album, The Revealer, is a barn burner gumbo of country, blues, and punk, all mixed together into Americana. Produced by John Evans and engineered by Steve Christiansen at the legendary Sugar Hill Studios in Houston, it was quite a homecoming for Dayton to return to the studio where he did his first recording session. Dayton, along with Evans and Christiansen, recorded the majority of the record live.  "You could feel the ghost of George Jones, Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm, and Jerry Lee Lewis (who recorded there with producer Huey Meaux), in the room while we were working!" Dayton says, "I wanted to get great live rootsy sounds, like the records I loved growing up, but with a real Texas songwriter, story-telling, approach to the lyrics."  With The Revealer, Dayton certainly goes back to these roots. The Beaumont, Texas-born Austinite's pedigree is not only impressive, but varied, to say the least. His eight previous solo albums only scrape the surface. Dayton p