With Me or Without Me by Tom Heinl

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Traditional Country | Americana

10 tracks | 29 minutes

Released Oct 2003
on Leisure King Records

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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:25 Mama lyrics BUY MP3 03:25 Mama lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:25 Mama

sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:01 Pinto Suire lyrics BUY MP3 03:01 Pinto Suire lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:01 Pinto Suire

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Alt-Country Stereoke, Young Elvis with a voice like Johnny Cash and a dark sense of humor

Editorial review

Eugene, Oregon's Tom Heinl has managed to make a record in 2003 that sounds is if it is at least 30 years old. It's not that With or Without Me is retro -- the sad-sack country and truck drivin' album simply sounds like an artifact of another time and place. At first, it's difficult to determine if Heinl is being serious, though it hardly seems to matter when he crafts such contagious country-rock tunes, from the Seger-esque grit of "Pinto Squire," to the mobile home anthem "Trailer Fever." But by the time you reach the down-and-out country tune, "Three-Way," it's clear that Heinl is the Momus of country music -- serious and satirical (not wry satirical either, but totally off-his-rocker satirical). When Heinl sings "you know it kinda turned me on when you told me one time you had a three-way/and I thought that might be something I would like to try someday," it is devoutly Countrypolitan in tone (right down to the female backup singers) which makes it all the more hilarious. No need to feel left out, either. When this record ends it starts up all over again, and this time without vocals -- yes, Stereoke! (Momus did this on Little Red Songbook) so fans can perform songs like "Christmas Tree on Fire" themselves. Tom Heinl is crazy, but with the deep croon he copped from Lee Hazlewood and genuine songwriting talent, he's right up there with Ween, making ridiculous music that, as it turns out, is darn good. ~ Charles Spano, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

BIO

Tom Heinl has lived and travelled all over Eugene, Oregon and is a graduate of Roosevelt Jr. High school. His hobbies include Pinto Squires, getting drunk at IHOP, putting out burning Christmas trees with tube socks, making

"poor man's Bloody Marys" (beer and ketchup) and dressing up dogs in men's underwear. It's all chronicled here in his latest Cd "With or Without Me" from Leisure King Records. Here's a couple of reviews:

"Heinl sounds like some unholy combination of Buck Owens and Tom Waits, or maybe the reincarnation of Dick Curless loaded on bennies and laughing gas. Everything about this album is a hoot." ---Harp Magazine

"This Oregonian takes his thrift-store Tom T. Hall routine to the next honorably hokey level: you get the whole album twice, once with lead vocals and once in karaoke mode. Most of it's pure B comedy--with titles like "Peein' in an Empty"--but the opener, "Mama," could really make you cry if

you were drunk enough.