Music Review

Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In (1998)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Don Walser; Genre: Country

Walser, a rotund, 63-year-old National Guard retiree, is the kind of honky-tonk singer radio programmers abhor. Their loss: His booming baritone is positively spine-chilling on Hank Locklin's ''Please Help Me I'm Falling,'' and he makes yodeling sexy on ''The Devil's Great Grandson.'' If you think country music's ailing, Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In is the antidote. A

Originally posted May 22, 1998 Published in issue #433 May 22, 1998 Order article reprints

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