Honky Tonk Reprise
In 1987, California's "Rockabilly Filly," Rosie Flores, got signed to Warner Bros. amidst the excitement over such alternative-country acts as Dwight Yoakam and Steve Earle. She cut some rocking sides with Emmylou Harris's Steve Fishell and Tom Petty's Howie Epstein as producers in 1986, some with Yoakam producer Pete Anderson in 1987, and some more conventional country numbers with producers Ray Baker and Paul Worley in Nashville in 1988. Ten of the Anderson tracks were released as the Warner Bros. albumRosie Flores, in 1987, but it didn't sell well enough to convince the bean counters to approve a second.Rosie Flores, an out-of-print collector's item, has now been reissued asA Honky Tonk Reprisewith six bonus tracks from the 1986 and 1988 sessions.--Geoffrey Himes