The Wilburns add their glowing harmonies on the bluegrassy "Way Up on the Mountain" which boasts lots of infectious banjo licks. Other notables found on the record include Jordan and Jonathan Wilburn. With the brilliance of the parables of Jesus, the song unfolds along a conversation between an older and a younger man and their varying perspectives of how each would deal with a troubling situation. Two of country music's greatest writers Paul Overstreet (Alison Krauss & Kenny Chesney) and Don Schlitz (Kenny Rogers & Randy Travis) get represented by the delightful fiddle-led stepper "I've Got No Rocks to Throw." The song is a wizened parable of how we need to be gracious in the way we view others. Yet, the album's sophomore cut "I'm Ready to Go" not only speaks clearly of death, but it even finds the duo singing with a joyous confident that death is not to be feared if we have Jesus as Lord.
Normally, singers who are at James Easter's age would keep a thousand mile distance from any song that even remotely hints at death. Yet, the greatest value of the song is the Godly advice the duo give to us with regards to raising a Godly family. Rather, with a smirk of humor the difference between the two (James being a suit and tie guy while Jeff prefers donning his jeans) is unabashedly noted. With a transparent honesty, "Like Father, Like Son" doesn't just depict a rosy bond between the two. She wrote the cornerstone track of the record "Like Father, Like Son." Paced as a three quarter time country waltz, this beautiful paean details the relationship between both father and son. Sheri Easter who normally sings with Jeff as one half of Jeff and Sheri Easter is not absent from the record. For there is nothing more important for us than to cement a foundation of Godliness for the next generation to build upon. Rather, listening to how the father and son interact with each other trading lines that exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and the wholesomeness of Godly parenting is itself an object lesson for all of us. Thus, to hear Jeff Easter (of Jeff and Sheri Easter) singing together with his 81 year-old dad James Easter (of the Easters) is more than just an exercise in sentimentalism.
According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, boys without fathers are twice as likely to drop out of school, twice as likely to go to jail and nearly four times as likely to need treatment for emotional and behavioral problems as boys with fathers. Social science has caught up with what the Bible has been saying all these years: a child (especially a male) growing up in a splintered home without a dad is more likely to lead broken and troubled lives. Whether it is the physical or emotional absence of a father, more and more children today are growing up without the influence and instructions of a dad. We live in a culture of the absentee dad. It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Result? The son did good.(Photo :James and Jeff Easter "Like Father, Like Son" Album Cover ) Songs such as Miami, Other Men’s Girls, Palm Trees, Carla’s Got a Boyfriend and Oi (which should really be called Hit Me With Your Memory Stick, such are the parental reference points) brim with dodgy doses of high life and too many comedowns. Resemblances duly noted (and if you can ever remove the obvious influences and the uncannily familiar spoken-word style from your head), there is a cheery, idiosyncratic, disco-like continuation of his father’s observational work, although the worldview here is scarred by far less benevolent London scenarios. It was probably always going to be that way for Baxter Dury.Īs the son of the reasonably successful late-1970s British pop star Ian Dury (who had three Top 10 UK singles and two Top 5 UK albums in that era), he was hardly going to ride along on the coattails of his father, was he? Surely, Dury snr’s cockney linguistics and ribald music hall ditties (we think you can guess what he might have rhymed that word with) would be a once-off? Apparently not, as Dury jnr is the epitome of an apple falling not very far from the tree. Such is the way for many songwriters and singers these days when their work is defined in creative and not commercial terms. Note the “best of” tag and not “greatest hits”. Mr Maserati - Best Of Baxter Dury 2001-2021
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