Originally from Alabama, currently living in Texas, the tattooed 47-year-old Dale Watson personifies the country music that has almost disappeared. Watson's masterly performed and sung "ameripolitan" tracks draw from the tradition of the father of country, Hank Williams, the honky tonk of Lefty Frizzell, the orthodoxy of Johnny Cash, the rebelliousness of Waylon Jennings and the ballads by Merle Haggard, but unfortunately they have currently been labelled by Nashville pop-country industry as alternative and pretty eccentric.