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David Olney covers Rudy's song "I Told You No Lies"

On his new album "One Tough Town" the American singer-songwriter David Olney covers "(I Told You) No Lies" from Rudy's first album "Real Real Gone"

Listen to Rudy van Dam    "(I Told You) No Lies"

Listen to David Olney      "No Lies"

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Rudy’s song “No Lies” by David Olney has been played on

this international radiostations:

*Country Bare

*Americana UK' s music charts

*WEB Radio

*RealCountryMusic.org RAM Radio Top 30

*Over de schutting VARA-radio

Jun 18 2007 1:56A
Oh, and I think No Lies is the best country music to come out of this town in ages. Had to look up Rudy, but kudos to him!
I'm just sayin'...
denise

The Blues, New Orleans, and Roots Rock Ruckus

One Tough Town Starts out with a gruff warning of a song, featuring Olney on train whistle/harmonica, and picks up with the rockier, more upbeat "Sweet Poison." He lands on Bourbon Street with "Who's the Dummy Now," which smacks you around with Olney on ukulele.

The album's title is wholly appropriate, as Olney's music is harsh and hard to love. Once it clicks, though, it's impossible to forget. Like a tough town, it introduces itself as a dark, unwelcoming place. This facade holds only long enough, though, until "No Lies" sets in. Here we find Olney singing, as if in the quiet dark of night, to a lost, unrequited lover.

One Tough Town

David Olney

(Red Parlor)

Olney's that rare singer/songwriter who can adopt the gravelly voice, dabble in myriad old-timey music styles ranging from honky-tonk to Tin Pan Alley and actually make it work. (Think Tom Waits.)

Olney's at his finest, though, when he drops the affectations and just issues a heart-wrenching ballad like "No Lies," a song about brown whiskey, tears and painful goodbyes. 3 stars –WT

 

Dutch Country Gazette (May edition 2007)

David Olney "One Tough Town"

..........David Olney has a week spot for Holland. He likes to perform here because his audience listens and understands his songs full of puns. A Dutch songwriter even managed to get a song on Olney's album, we wrote about it earlier. On this CD is "No Lies" by Rudy van Dam from Leiden. It is one of the better songs with a noticeable resemblance with the style of Townes van Zandt. It must be a great honour that a renowned singer/songwriter from the USA recognized the beauty of this song written by someone from Holland.....

by Hans van Dam (not related) 

 

Plato Mania on One Tough Town by David Olney

 .......Only a few times, like in the countryballad NO LIES, the singer gives way to sentimentality. This song deserves special attention because it is written by fellow Dutchman, Rudy van Dam, who, in his own right, in the past years, released 3 great records with alternative country........

by Dick Tersteeg

 

Review on David Olney’s performance in Eine, Belgium

.......Olney almost always sings his own songs but the times he strays from that path, he has good reason to do so. The beautiful, hurt little lovesong NO LIES is by Dutchman Rudy van Dam and hits you, like BIRDS, smack dab in the middle: it doesn’t even take an iceberg to make you go under.......

Folkroddels by Twan

 

Alt. Country.nl

........One Tough Town by David Olney contains 13 songs, including a cover by Dutchman Rudy van Dam. His NO LIES is done in typical Olney Style......

by Leo Katterstaart

 

HANX

........Compare a romantic Townes van Zandtlike song as NO LIES  (by Rudy van Dam from Leiden) to...........

by Bart Ebisch

City Paper on line May 22nd 2007

David Olney
 One Tough Town
(Red Parlor)
David Olney is alternately acerbic, tender, angry and reflective on this new collection, which contains several numbers spiced by either traditional jazz and classic blues influences. They range from “Who’s The Dummy Now” and “Oh Yeah (Dead Man’s Shoes)” to “Postcard From Mexico” and “Rainbow’s End,” although in each case the focus is on edgy collectivism rather than individual instrumental assertion.
Indeed it’s Olney’s biting, expressive delivery that adds the improvisational edge and punctuates their themes, augmented by outstanding clarinet/sax work from Jim Hoke, trombone/tuba solos from Bill Huber and Olney’s fine contributions on guitar, harmonica, ukulele and other instruments.
His cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Snake Song” inches more into country territory, while “One Tough Town” and “No Lies” are other outstanding selections on a fine date from a prominent singer/songwriter who stretches, challenges and expands musical frontiers.