Cowsill was the lead singer for the eponymous family band that was the inspiration for the television series “The Partridge Family.” The Cowsills had three Top 10 hits on the Billboard charts in their American homeland, hitting No. One was a hard-living former child star with a reputation for unpredictable behaviour, the other a hard-working songwriter with a reputation for craftsmanship. The collaboration of Cowsill and Hatcher is one of the more unlikely pairings in Canadian music.
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“He called it the thing he was proudest of in all his professional career.” “I talked to him before he died, and he said he really wanted it to come out again,” Mr. Cowsill’s death, Bumstead Records has re-issued the album with previously unheard outtakes and cover songs. Now, 17 years after its original release and four years after Mr. The clever songwriting and the jangly guitars made it an alternative-country masterpiece. The release eventually went out of print, though its reputation grew as time passed. The sound was said to be too rock for country radio and too country for rock radio. The album, released by a major label, received terrific reviews, but little airplay and few sales. Others suggested Cowsill and Hatcher sounded like the Everly Brothers performing Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The recording earned praise for a quartet who described their own sound as “Hank (Williams) goes to the Cavern Club,” as though the honky-tonk master was sitting in with the Beatles in Liverpool. “On the Floor of Heaven” was hailed as a slice of country-rock genius on its release in 1993. The pair worked on the song, which came to be titled “If It Ain’t Rockin’.” It appeared on the debut album of The Blue Shadows. Cowsill, he remembers, “sagged almost completely onto the stage floor.” He was quickly told it was a joke. Hatcher arrived for the next night’s show, he told his bandmate he’d finished the tune. “Don’t finish it on your own,” replied Billy Cowsill.
At the end of a sweaty set, while packing up on stage, Jeffrey Hatcher plucked on his guitar the melody of an unfinished song.
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