High Noon “Texas Style” 1994. 10″ EP on Exile Records. Country-swing and rockabilly complete with fiddle, steel guitar, stand-up bass, banjo and accordion, “a good half dozen farm-fresh ranch style delights played Texas style.”  They cover Willie Dixon on “Crazy Mixed Up World” with a sliding honky-tonk beat and get weepy with close harmonies on “Across the River.” The EP wraps up with “Red Barn Boogie” which is “a hot-rod wagon load of farmyard fun…to keep all the hands haystack hoppin’ til the rooster crows.” My favorite track is the upbeat yet sorrowful stomper “My Heart Cries Yes” as High Noon croon their gorgeous harmonies in minor to intricate banjo plucking.

We saw High Noon play at an off-site venue during South By Southwest in Austin in March of ‘94, not too long after they recorded this EP. Amazing show: the Frantic Flattops and Herman the German opened. (Still looking for something by Herman the German on vinyl or cd – all we have is a 2nd or 3rd gen tape recording from the early 90′s).