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 Darryl WorleyHere and Now Release Date: 2006 11 21 Label: 903 Music Rating:  |
"I got drunk in Raleigh and I played too long/Word got back to Nashville before I got back home/The record label said, 'Boy, you better straighten up your act'/The lawyers told me, 'Son, that's what the contracts say'/So I got good and sober and I stayed that way/Still you couldn't find a Worley record on the rack/I did everything they asked me to do/And still they went and cut me loose" -- that's how Darryl Worley begins Here and Now, his fourth album and the follow-up to his huge debut, Have You Forgotten?, whose post-9/11 anthem made Worley a brief sensation in the early days of the Iraqi War. "Do You Remember" made Worley omnipresent for a while there -- the song was on the radio, scorned by liberals, and embraced by Republicans -- which would seem to be enough to guarantee Worley another shot at a major label, but if the story he lays out on "Jumpin' off the Wagon" is even a quarter true, he wasn't ready to play by the rules -- which isn't necessarily the same thing as being a bona fide outlaw. Worley pretty much plays by the rebel handbook, swaggering to a blueprint as he rocks his country just enough to not be pop but not enough to truly surprise. Frankly, he's just a bit too well groomed -- not just in image but in sound -- to have this outsized outlaw persona fit, as his voice isn't muscled enough, all the guitars are bit too well scrubbed, and the rhythms are just a bit too clean and tight. That said, Here and Now is a significant step forward for Worley, because even he doesn't feel as gritty as he'd like to be -- it's not quite the "country music with a nasty groove" that he sings about on "Party Song" (which is itself a dead ringer for the Faces' immortal end-of-the-party anthem "Had Me a Real Good Time" -- he's not only more fun in this incarnation, but his songs are generally stronger too, particularly that statement of purpose "Jumpin' off the Wagon," which provides him with a mission statement that he valiantly tries to fulfill here. If he doesn't quite do it, at least he's headed in the right direction. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Jumpin' off the Wagon | Varble, Worley, Poythress | 3:47 |
| 2 | Nothin' But a Love Thang | Worley, Stapleton, Leslie | 3:03 |
| 3 | Free | Worley, Rogers | 3:22 |
| 4 | It's the Way You Love Me | Rogers, Worley, Worley | 3:46 |
| 5 | Party Song | Brown, Worley | 4:23 |
| 6 | Living in the Here and Now | Worley, Jones | 4:19 |
| 7 | Do You Know What That Is | Worley, Brown | 3:25 |
| 8 | Thing I'll Never Do Again | Leslie, Stapleton, Worley | 4:00 |
| 9 | Slow Dancing with a Memory | Poythress, Worley, Varble | 3:44 |
| 10 | Whisky Makes the World Go Round | Worley, Hannan, Varble | 3:42 |
| 11 | Lowdown Women | Aldridge, Worley, Stapleton | 3:37 |
| 12 | Nothin' to Lose | Worley, Jared | 4:15 |
| 13 | I Just Came Back from a War | Worley, Varble | 5:27 |
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