Tracklist

A1	No Use To Grieve	2:54
A2	Drinkin' Spree	2:23
A3	Bad Dreams	1:55
A4	Hey Mr. Lucky	1:45
A5	It's All Over Between Us	2:05
A6	Lettin' My Emotions Go	1:27
B1	I Can't Get You Off My Mind	2:35
B2	Ten Bottles Of Whiskey	2:15
B3	I'm So Glad We're Back Together	2:21
B4	Too Busy Hurtin'	2:29
B5	Empty Glass	2:09
B6	I Can Hear The Bells Ringing	2:34

Notes

Rare 60's Country Album from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Review via WAXIDERMY--
Louisiana is a unique place. Only the backwoods of Mississippi, Alabama and South Texas can come close to the vibe that emanates from places like Alexandria, Crowley, Lake Chales and all the surrounding backwater towns. Dark back roads lined with run down bars and roadhouses where people work hard and drink harder. In Nashville they cried in their beer, in Richard Gibbs world it was blood that filled their shot glasses. In the early 60′s, long before there was loner/loser folk, Richard wrote of loneliness, booze and a need to escape a life of despair. Gibbs voice is half bayou/half barroom as he tells stories like “Drinkin’ Spree”, “Empty Glass”, Too Busy Hurtin’” and “Ten Bottles Of Whiskey”. But it’s the title track that exposes the raw nerves of our storyteller’s psyche~ as he treats his immortality like a plastic cup from “Nickel Beer Night”. Richard is a drunk, bruised, sad sack of a character who stumbles home after lamenting his love-life and losing at fisticuffs. I don’t know of any LP that captures the depths of emotion and feeling of gloom that “No Use To Grieve” exudes. Even amongst the hardest core Country collectors this LP is unknown. I’ve had 2 copies and gave one to a good friend who also holds it in the same esteem that I do. To my knowledge Richard never did much else, but this tribute to grief and sorrow is quite a monument to misery……and I love it.