Lee Clayton
Border Affair The Capitol Years  




Label: Capitol/Evangeline/Acadia
Released: 2007
Recorded: 1977/1979/1980
Source: Original CD 
Size Torrent: 645 MB
Format: FLAC





Lee Clayton (born October 29, 1942 in Russellville, Alabama, U.S.) is a country musician, singer/songwriter and composer.

His style has been described as in between rock and country. Clayton grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and began to play harmonica and guitar at the age of 7. At 9 he received his first steel guitar.

After quitting the Air Force he moved to Nashville in 1968 and began his career as a songwriter. His first success was the song "Ladies Love Outlaws" which became a Number 11 hit in the Billboard Charts by Waylon Jennings in 1972. The country music style outlaw country was derived from that song. In 1973 he released his first album simply titled Lee Clayton, with which, as Clayton would later say, he was very dissatisfied. In the following years he continued his songwriting. He wrote songs like "Lone Wolf" for Jerry Jeff Walker or "If You Could Touch Her at All" for Willie Nelson. In 1978 his second album, Border Affair, was released. It was critically acclaimed but became a flop at the charts.

His most successful album was 1979's Naked Child. The albums' style was reminiscent of Bob Dylan and the single, "I Ride Alone", became very notable. In 1979, he went on a big world tour which became a huge success. In 1981 he released his last studio album, The Dream Goes On, which had a harder sound than his previous work. After that he published two autobiographical books and, in 1990, released a live album entitled Another Night which was recorded in Oslo. Also in 1990, The Highwaymen, an outlaw country supergroup comprising Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, had a minor hit with a song of his, "Silver Stallion", which had previously appeared on Border Affair. In 1994 he released the album Spirit of the twilight. Cat Power also covered "Silver Stallion" on the popular 2008 cover album "Jukebox". Today Clayton's career has largely gone silent.

"Border Affair The Capitol Years" contains the three Capitol albums "Border Affair", "Naked Child" and "The Dream Goes On".





Track Listing


Disc One

01 Silver Stallion  
02 If You Can Touch Her At All
03 Back Home In Tennessee 
04 Border Affair
05 Old Number Nine 
06 Like A Diamond 
07 My Women My Love 
08 Tequila Is Addictive 
09 My True Love 
10 Rainbow In The Sky 
11 Saturday Night Special 
12 I Ride Alone 
13 10,000 Light Years / Sexual Moon  
14 Wind And Rain



Disc Two

01 I Love You  
02 Jaded Virgin  
03 A Little Cocaine  
04 If I Can Do It (So Can You) 
05 What's A Mother Gonna Do
06 Industry 
07 Won't You Give Me One More Chance  
08 Draggin' Them Chains 
09 Where Is The Justice 
10 Whatcha Gonna Do
11 Oh How Lucky I Am  
12 The Dream Goes On