Nancy Apple - Outside The Lines

Nancy Apple plays honky-tonk and she plays country, and it is traditonal and it for real. But somehow on Outside The Lines Nancy manages to infuse some blues and some fun, managing to come up with a sound uniquely her own.

A near legend in Memphis, there is something about being out west of the home of country music that will forever mean Nancy is country of the alternative variety. Not alt.country as in shoegazing indie-rock, but an alternative to the formula-driven artificial pop that is often sold as country music.

If Twangy vocals, catchy melodies and top musicianship under a banner of feel good honky-tonk is your thing, then you could do worse than check out this release from 2000.

• Slide Me Some Sugar
• If Money's the Root of All Evil
• Fooled By The Heart
• My Exercise Program
• You're The Reason
• Why'd You Get So Gone
• Small Town Blues
• Bears in Them Woods
• Time for You
• I'm Here to Collect
• Draw the Line
• Outside the Lines
• Shiri Shiri Naka Jyoto Ne
• Truck Driver's Woman