California Country

California Country

ASIN: B0009VNDBS

Track Listings

1. You And Me Now

2. His Eyes

3. A Man's Mind

4. I'll Miss you When

5. Old Guitar

6. Feels Like Rain

7. Winter Street

8. I'm In Love

9. Everyone

10. You Will Know

11. Break Through

12. Pain Don't Live Here

13. I Might Forgive You

14. When Somebody Looses

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Jorie Raine, even her name says she is unique. Jorie is from Hollywood California, She is an acclaimed songwriter and entertainer. 2 of her songs have already made the national Indie Country and Christian Country Music Charts in Power Source Music Magazine. She has already gained fame with several major record labels in Nashville, Tn, where she performed at the CRS showcase in front of several majors. Her album California Country was selected as the 2nd top album for the month of Feb in Power Source, She has commercials aired on the Power sourcetop 20 Countdown, and she currently has a new single A Man's Mind at Music Row Radio now, Jorie's career has taken off in the last year, since the recording of her latest project all songs on the project were penned by Jorie Raine.

Product Description
This album contains 14 original songs penned by the lovely Ms. Jorie Raine. She has a smooth unique California blend of Modern Country, crossing the border into Pop and rocking Country. This album has something for everyone. From the mellow You and Me Now, to the already famous OLD GUITAR(This song drew attention from several major labels in Nashville, Tn, and brought her to the A&R offices of Capital Records. Her current single now at Music Row and debuting in at #49 on the Power Source Indie Country Charts is the attitude tell ya like it is tune A Man's Mind. it has all Music Row listening, it's an upbeat story song about a cheating lover. Other tunes to listen for are Winterstreet, Everyone and the soulful ballad ILL MISS YOU WHEN. For the country music lover that wants something different and unique this is the project for you.

Tracks:

Hotel California
New Kid In Town
Life In The Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim Of Love
Pretty Maids All In A Row
Try And Love Again
The Last Resort

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It's no accident that The Eagles Greatest Hits might one day pass Michael Jackson's Thriller as the best-selling album of all time-- the Eagles made great singles. By contrast, their albums could be spotty and strained by self-conscious artistry. Hotel California was arguably the band's best single album--it was certainly the Eagles' biggest original disc-- and it also underscored the band's need to make a big statement. The title tune reflected the album's theme of paradise lost in California, painting this picture with a musical arrangement that punctuated strumming guitars with dramatic drums, and perhaps the band's most famous lyric: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." "New Kid in Town" was an equally fine albeit much more traditional Eagles ballad. "Life in the Fast Lane" aspired to hard rock but largely gunned its engine without taking off. The rest is okay, but nothing more than secondary Eagles songs that happened to be nestled into the album that came to define the `70s supergroup. --John Milward

Album Description

From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Welcome to the Hotel California.......2007-06-10

This is quintessential Eagles. The CD is chocked full of tunes that made the Eagles famous. A fine collection any fan of the Eagles would enjoy. One of my favorite CDs in college. You can check out, but you can never leave. A classic line that really brought back my days of struggling through my first year adjusting to college and being away from home. A great CD, in my humble opinion.

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-07

the hotel california, baby. in my neck of the musical woods (been listening to a lot of john coltrane lately) you are supposed to dislike the eagles. pure snobbery. i will have none of it. this is a fantastic album. the closing number, "the last resort," is reason enough alone to have this thing in your home. an absolutely beautiful song. seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of exquisite songcraft. not really a dud song anywhere on the album, in fact. this is the eagles masterpiece. no doubt. commercial music that is heartfelt, emotional, and fine. don't be a snob. check it out.

This isn't Wasted Time.......2007-04-01

This is one of the Eagles two best albums(the other being Desperado) and that doesn't mean that their other albums weren't good, however, both of these albums really are great from beginning to end. Okay so the first three songs were/are played to death on the radio. This is another album that surprises me that it was a hit because it's so dark for the most part and doesn't sound like the other stuff that was being played on the radio at the time. A song like Wasted Time reminds me of an updated tourch song and not really anything like the Bay City Rollers or Tony Orlando And Dawn(big hits at the time). Originally this was going to be the last Eagles album but the record company had other ideas. This is also the first with Joe Walsh in the band and his main song on the album Pretty Maids All In A Row is the best song he's ever written. Randy should be pointed out for his tune Try And Love Again which is also the only song on here in which the band does it's country/rock thing. Once again, I would suggest going with the box set and getting the mini lp sleeve version.

Can't check out.......2007-03-13

Time has passed Bachman Turner Overdrive, Ted Nugent and thankfully, The Hansens by, for reasons that only the gods and Robert Hilburn know. Bands may have their peak, but they don't often stay at the summit for decades to haunt the listener with a new nuance or an unheard overtone or a lyric that takes on new meaning or a vocal that pulls a tear when years before it generated a giggle. Time proves the mettle of the band in the maelstrom of public opinion and in the pop culture mindset of society.

A review of Hotel California in the classic sense of a track-by-track critique is folly. It's like going to the symphony to discover that Mahler should be capable of more subtlety, or to take issue with the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. The CD (or the "album" as we remember it) is now a part of us. To take it down to its component parts is like pulling the cornerstone from the Chrysler Building out for inspection. Pick it apart all you like, but there's no replacing a masterpiece of memory. It's not going anywhere. It's the Petrified Forest of rock.

Great music, music that transcends, that transports, is for all time, and messing with the components risks an awakening of evil spirits, a cacophonous clash of cultural traps, a probable trip to the edge of the abyss. DON'T GO THERE. The Eagles are as they were, an aural collection, and recollection for the ages.

Eagles at their absolute height.... bring back Felder!.......2007-03-09

The title says it all. I scrouged $5 of pocket money from my parents in 1977 to buy the vinyl LP and it stayed on my turntable for about a year (only occasionally to be replaced for a breif moment by other greats such as Dark Side of the Moon). This is the Eagles at their peak and not a throwaway track on the album. 30 years later it is on my iPod. The title track is haunting and the ripping guitar solo at the end is a simply brilliant guitar interplay between two of the most under-rated and genius rock guitarists about, Joe Walsh and Don Felder. The album is a nice blend of hard ripping rock (Felder's solo on Victim of Love is simply "wicked" - supposedly done "live in the studio" with no overdubs) and lovely melodic softer tunes (I really like Randy Meisner's often passed over "Try and Love Again"). Only bands of the quality of the Eagles can do this variety on one album and pull it off. The guitars are alternatively, haunting (like Henley's vocals), melodic (like G.Frey) and hard edged. Lyics are bitingly cynical and still relevant today... how many people still say the famous line "...you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave?"
Eagles are also brilliant live. If you like this you will also like Joe Walsh's "You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind" CD and The Eagles Farewell 1 Live DVD (it's great except there's no Felder [boo-hoo], but otherwise Joe is great....). Try also Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island" for more cruisier stuff from the same year.

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In the Hills of California
Good stuff!
Outstanding!
What great Concert!
This is what music should sound like

In the Hills of California
Greg Brown
Manufacturer: Red House
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002O06Q2
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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The Way My Baby Calls My Name
Spring and All
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China
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Kates Guitar
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Rare is the voice that is both as deep and as warm as Greg Brown's. Though the veteran troubadour boasts the most weather-beaten baritone this side of Johnny Cash, there's sunshine in the smile of his wry phrasing and a disarming playfulness in his work. This two-disc set includes recordings from six years of California's annual Kate Wolf Music Festival and, while it lacks the flow of a single performance, the easy intimacy that the Iowa bard enjoys with his audience offsets any disjointedness from track to track. The generous selection of material (more than two and a half hours) includes nine songs Brown has never recorded before. Highlights range from the sly sensuality of "The Way My Baby Calls My Name" and "Slow Food" to the social commentary of "I Want My Country Back" and the droll evocation of life's ironies in "Where Is Maria." The conviction he brings to Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down" transforms familiar favorites into testaments of faith. --Don McLeese

Album Description

One of America's greatest singer/songwriters returns with one of the finest "live" CDs of roots music ever made...recorded at northern California's idyllic Kate Wolf Music Festival. The only artist to appear every year in the festival's history, he has a strong emotional connection to the event and these stunning performances reflect it. 9 tracks are previously unrecorded and the other 20 are classics with all-new and surprising treatments. Proceeds from this project go to support Jugalbandi, a "Music and Arts as Education" program in northern California.

Customer Reviews:

In the Hills of California.......2007-04-11

If you've never heard Greg Brown's live performance, this at least gives you a taste of what he can do. As I see it, live shows are Greg's forte, and I thoroughly enjoy listening to this 2 disc album. Greg has such a wonderful stage presence. I think more than anything it just feels authentic and honest with a simplicity to it all.

Good stuff!.......2007-01-10

The sound quality is not the same as his studio work, but for a live outdoor show it is very well done. The tradeoff is that you get an energetic, unscripted performance. Nice double CD set.

Outstanding!.......2005-12-09

This cd is a staple in my diet of "soul food". I have had this cd for a year now and I can never play it enough. I have found a profound love for the message, meaning, and feeling of greg brown's music.

What great Concert!.......2005-11-02

If you Love Greg's Studio Albums but have never seen him Live you Have to check this out. I sat down with my old friend the other day and threw this album on he had never heard of Greg Before but instantly loved it. Grab this album sit down with a bottle of good Whiskey and set the mood, and Greg Will do the rest.

This is what music should sound like.......2004-12-16

Greg Brown's newest release has already embedded itself into my list of one of the best Cds I've ever listened to. I just saw Greg at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco and was left with a warm fulfilling feeling that only great music can give you. Greg Brown has a way with words and has a voice that just takes you over. The fact that this CD was recoreded at different performances dosent take away from the continuity of the album, but im my mind adds to it. You can really get a feel for Gregs deep connection with Kate Wolf and the festival. I recommend "Kate's Guitar," "Lullabye," and "Two Little Feet."

The Best of the Gatlins: All the Gold in California

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All the Gold in California ROCKS!
Harmony at its best
Some of the greatest music of the 70's and 80's
Sure Feels Like Love didn't sound right
Gatlin music at it's very best

The Best of the Gatlins: All the Gold in California
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Release Date: 1996-03-12

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Customer Reviews:

All the Gold in California ROCKS!.......2007-04-07

I have no idea what this song is about but it's awesome. They play it on Music Choice - Classic Country (comcast digital cable 403) all the time!!

Harmony at its best.......2006-11-11

I love their harmony, every album is "good to the last drop" - or song. I am never disappointed by this trio.

Some of the greatest music of the 70's and 80's.......2006-05-05

The Gatlin Brothers became one of the greatest groups in country music with a polished sound that featured gospel-like vocal harmonies and creative musical arrangements. Larry, Steve, and Rudy can produce some of the tightest three-part harmonies you'll ever hear from any vocal group.

Like Ronnie Milsap, Larry Gatlin is truly among the most underappreciated musical talents of the past 30 years. Not only is he among the very best songwriters of ANY genre, he also possesses one of the finest voices in American music. The beautiful ballad "I've done enough dying today" is stunning proof of Larry's incredible singing and composing talents! This song went to #7 on the country charts, and yet it is probably the greatest pop ballad that never made the pop charts. The great melodies and poetic lyrics of Larry's songs stretch beyond the limitations of simple country music.

Gatlin wrote a career's worth of criminally underrated, grammy-calibre masterpieces such as "Broken Lady" {this one did win a grammy}, "The Heart", "Love is just a Game", "Take me to your lovin' place", "Statues without Hearts", "Night Time Magic", and "All the Gold in California". All of these songs are extremely well-crafted and blow away anything climbing the country charts today.

18 Gatlin classics fill this highly recommended greatest hits compilation that spans their prime years from 1973 to 1988. Any lover of vocal harmony and melodic songwriting who is not familiar with this music needs to be enlightened with a copy of this CD. This is some of the finest country music ever recorded...without an ounce of twang.

Sure Feels Like Love didn't sound right.......2004-03-01

I don't know if it's just my copy, but the song "Sure Feels Like Love" sounded like the tape was slowed down or something about a minute into the song.

Gatlin music at it's very best.......2000-11-14

One listen to this collection and you will hear exactly what sent this group to the top of the counrty charts! Larry's strong lead vocals and the perfect blending of the brothers harmonies are not the only draw here though. Larry's songwrting talents not only shine in the melodies but the lyrics as well. He combines wit and poetry and delivers it up with just some plain old good singing. My favorites include "Love is just a Game" and "I don't wanna Cry" You won't be disappointed

Gold In California: A Retrospective Of Recordings, 1975-1985

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Songs to remember, great band; but her voice grows dull
The music I listen to most......
The golden rolling hills of california oh kate we need you
Melancholy and Romantic
A true sharing into the soul of a great poet

Gold In California: A Retrospective Of Recordings, 1975-1985
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ASIN: B000003349
Release Date: 1993-09-28

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Kate Wolf died of leukemia in 1986, and listening to this exceptional, two-disc retrospective reminds us of just how much we lost. Her voice had a palatable ache, a lonesome grace, and she wrote so many thoughtful, finely shaped songs. Every song her makes clear how well she understood the deepest aspects of both country and folk idioms: "Like a River" flows like a classic bluegrass ballad, "The Sun is Burning" is an intense political meditation, and her finest song, "Unfinished Life" is a heartbreaking premonition of death. Fans of Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, and Iris Dement must hear these songs. With Kate Wolf, the well is more than deep: it never seems to end. --Roy Francis Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Songs to remember, great band; but her voice grows dull.......2006-03-23

The songs are richly varied and tuneful (classically American); imagery comes from a golden weathered, often New-Agey, bucolic idyll. Band is superb, and settings are well tailored to each song. But her vocal tone never varies, giving the album an overall monotonous feel despite the band and songs. She sings in an even, steady, close/engaged, but weary way that NEVER varies. Result: Her interminable melancholy yields a flat, dull affect that feels resigned to sadness, but determined to carry on. The even tone distances Wolf from her own affecting material.

The music I listen to most.............2006-01-11

I can't possibly enlarge on the beautiful, accurate, and thoughtful other reviews already here, concerning Kate Wolf's music and awesome talents.

Hers is the music I find myself playing most frequently, of ALL the hundreds of CDs I have, across all musical categories. This fact is the best statement I can make about Kate Wolf.

There are other CDs of Kate's that you can find on her family's website, (katewolf.com), but I have to recommend two retrospectives that you must have, if you love Kate's music.

One is called, "Treasures Left Behind, Remembering Kate Wolf", and the second is "A Kate Wolf Retrospective" (recorded live in 1996, in Sebastopol, California).

The golden rolling hills of california oh kate we need you.......2004-02-05

Kate's "Red Tailed Hawk" will always be inscribed on my brain its beauty its realness, its aptness, and the reality of the golden rolling hills of California. So perfect and beautiful even though I never had a tape or LP or a CD of it until 12 years after it came out, until after we lost Kate. Still its power comes to me as it did on an old radio sitting in an Oakland apartment, the signal fighting its way all the way up from KFAT ("because we need the bucks) down in Gilroy.

The vision of California that Kate weaves on all her records is preciseless, unique real, and a treasure even if much of it is sweetened myth.

I feel so bad that I lived in San Fransisco and Oakland and travelled up and down California and the West Coast in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Kate was doing her best work and only saw her sing once. When I hear something like Sweet love on this CD, I wonder why I am not always listening to Kate. There is something to her voice that gets through to me, something pure. Now that I sing and play guitar and banjo and fiddle, I tend to listen to any singer or player that I hear trying to scope them out learn something, evaluate, figure out how to put what they do into my performance. Even though Kate plays the kind of music I have always wanted to play, I just sit there and listen to the song and receive its thoughts in my heart and mind.

Part of Kate's magic is the superb arrangements and backup that she got from the musical genius Nina Gerber, her main accompaniest. Nina is now out there solo alot. If you like guitar and this kind music check out Nina too.

Oh Kate, why didn't we realize how much of a golden treasure you were when you were among us. In her memory think of a performer you might miss like we all miss Kate--well that isnt fair because thats a big ideal to measure up to--how about someone you would miss half or a quarter as much as I miss Kate, and make sure you go see them while you can, and maybe bring a friend, bring two.

Melancholy and Romantic.......2002-08-22

This CD, especially Volume 2, stayed in the CD alarm clock and became "wake-up" and "fall-asleep" music for about a year. Kate Wolf put this collection together as she was dying of leukemia. Songs like "Unfinished Life" allude to her coming to grips with mortality. Her lyrics are pure poetry infused with life wisdom. Her lovely voice is both soothing and tinged with a touch of sorrow.

My favorite song, "Here in California," contains wonderful maternal advice about falling in love:
"When I was young, my mama told mama told me,
she said, 'Child take your time.
Don't fall in love quickly,
before you know your mind.'
She held me 'round the shoulders,
and in a voice so soft and kind
She said, 'Love can make you happy
and love can rob you blind.' "

"Two-Way Waltz" evokes the pain and hope of the two lovers reuniting or considering a reconcilation after a difficult separation: "[T]he sweetest hello always comes after the hardest goodbye."

If you believe that the only way to cure a broken heart is to listen to the blues*, or if you are a hopeless romantic who can't hear too many love songs, "Gold in California" is a must. * Note: Kate Wolf is not a blues singer. Her style is modern folk.

A true sharing into the soul of a great poet.......1999-07-25

I have had this on cassette since 1985 and when I play it, I still get chills. Her song, "Trumpet Vine" made me think she'd somehow gotten into my soul and saw things about me. This is my favorite of all her work. Her album "Give Yourself to Love" is second best. She preferred performing to smaller crowds which always made her performances intimate. I met her a couple of times during intermissions. She liked to discuss her work with her fans. If you've ever lived in California, you know that she had the true feel of the land and its people.

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The album that forever changed my understanding of music.

Hotel California
Eagles
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Album Description

Import pressing of their 1976 album Hotel California. Vinyl replica CD comes housed in a slipcase. Rhino UK. 2006.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Special Limited Edition Issue of the Southern California Band's Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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The album that forever changed my understanding of music........2006-11-11

She'd taped a cool new song off the radio, a friend told me a little less than 25 years ago; she'd play it for me when I'd come to her place after school.

The song was "Hotel California," and my perception of music changed then and there, once and for all. I didn't even really understand the lyrics -- I had barely begun to learn English, and apart from everything else I sure as hell didn't know what "colitas" meant. But understanding all the song's words wasn't necessary. From the first chords played by Felder and Walsh, this song was different from anything I had ever heard before. The layers of electric guitar riffs alternating with and ornamenting Don Henley's vocals, soaring in the chorus and culminating in a moving and evocative duet, touched a spot deep inside me that required no further explanation. Nor, really, did the other songs on this album which I instantaneously knew I had to have. I got the message conveyed in the raw edges of "Life in the Fast Lane," Joe Walsh's riffs throughout the song, the two guitar solos and Don Henley's sneering vocals, as well as I could hear the sense of loss in "Wasted Time," "The Last Resort" and "New Kid in Town."

This is not to say, of course, that the lyrics didn't matter to me once I was able to fully understand them. Rather, that understanding deepened my appreciation for the album; and yet another level of insight was added when I came to California for the first time in 1991. By that time I was an ardent fan, and although the Eagles didn't even exist as a band back then, their music has become an inseparable part of my memory of those months - particularly the album which bears the state's name and is so often called the quintessential California rock album (not only of the 1970s) that this description in itself is bordering on clich now, true as it may once have been.

Since the release of their 1976 studio album, the Eagles have published several other versions of "Hotel California," and I love them all. (I even -- sometimes -- like the ska version Don Henley and his incredible tour band performed during their 2001 "Inside Job" tour.) But ultimately, it all comes back down for me to the duet of those two electric guitars which forever redefined the way I listen to music.

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The most unique "No Depression" act around.

California Country
I See Hawks in L.A.
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The most unique "No Depression" act around........2006-05-21

The best way to describe the sound of this brilliant band would be to imagine Michael Nesmith singing Uncle Tupelo. Can you picture that? Really, this is special stuff. The "Hawks" third release is their most consistant yet. While their first two releases were near perfect, they featured strong material throughout, but there was always two or three stand-out tracks that wouldn't leave your head for days. This one doesn't seem to have that, but overall, it seems the material is stronger as a whole. As my previous reviews stated, their music's been labelled "California Alt-country", and I don't know of any bands out today who have this sound. Priceless!

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Welcome to the Hotel California
4 1/2 stars.
This isn't Wasted Time
Can't check out
Eagles at their absolute height.... bring back Felder!

Hotel California
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From the original master tapes on 24 karat Gold disc. Booklet includes complete original artwork. Standard jewel case.

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Welcome to the Hotel California.......2007-06-10

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-07

This isn't Wasted Time.......2007-04-01

Can't check out.......2007-03-13

Eagles at their absolute height.... bring back Felder!.......2007-03-09

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Solid Picking
Early roots of a guitar god...
If you looove Tony's machine-gun styling, get this.

California Autumn
Tony Rice
Manufacturer: Rebel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000024B
Release Date: 1994-08-25

Tracks:

California Autumn
Bullet Man
Mr. Poverty
Billy In The Lowground
Red Haired Boy
Good Woman's Love
You Don't Know My Mind
Alone And Forsaken
Bugle Call Rag
Georgia On My Mind
Scarborough Fair
Beaumont Rag

Customer Reviews:

Solid Picking.......2003-12-30

This isn't among Tony Rice's best, but below-average Tony Rice is still fine music. Tony's picking is, as usual, both tasteful and astonishing in its virtuosity. He's joined by his brother Larry and by Tom Gray, Mike Auldridge, and Ben Eldridge of the Seldom Scene on most of the tracks, and their picking is also as fine as can be, as are the picking and singing of Ricky Skaggs, John Starling, J.D. Crowe, and Jerry Douglas on a track or two.

I personally don't think that Georgia On My Mind and Scarborough Fair fit in very well here, but the rest of the songs fit together well, and the playing is sublime on all the tracks.

Early roots of a guitar god..........2003-01-17

Flatpick guitarist Tony Rice is one of bluegrass music's most brilliant and influential stylists, having introduced a blues-inflected bent-note technique into the repertoire (borrowed from rock'n'roll, but it sounds mighty fine played acoustic...) Rice made his reputation playing in the jazz-oriented David Grisman Quintet, although he had, obviously been playing around for some time before Grisman scooped him up. This was his first solo album, and has been dutifully reissued and kept in print ever since. But, if the truth be told, it's hardly his strongest effort. Both the performances and engineering are a bit wobbly and uneven; you can hear Rice working out some of the musical ideas that would become familiar staples of his sound, but he also make a lot of mistakes and missteps. This sounds very much like an album produced on the cheap, with not enough money or time to go back and fix things up. Interesting for fans who want to check out Rice's early development, but it's not really the kind of record you'd want to hang onto or revisit frequently.

If you looove Tony's machine-gun styling, get this........1998-11-22

Although I count myself a big Tony Rice fan, this is not one of his more even albums. Some of the selected tunes can seem dreary, the kind of background music you have when you're boiling legumes and puttering around the house on a cold fall day in upstate NY. The incendiary licks are still here, though (Bullet Man, Red Haired Boy), and it's always nice to hear Tony's casual vocals drifting through the living room.

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Glad For Wasted Days
Country music for people who aren't morons.
Closest thing to Gram Parsons

Midnight, California
Dave Gleason's Wasted Days
Manufacturer: Well Worn Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001GWBU0
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Midnight, California
Pullin' Up the Tracks
Only One
Listen to the Wind
Some New Someone
Inspiration
Winner
Downside of Life
Hardest Part
I'm Still Crying
Backside of Love
How Am I Supposed to Live (Without You)

Customer Reviews:

Glad For Wasted Days.......2007-03-24

I am so glad to have discovered Dave Gleason's Wasted Days recordings. I can hardly believe my ears. The listening experience is like something out of California country rock's Twilight Zone,or perhaps, Back To The Future, which is saying something good.
Despite occasional surfacings of outlaw fringe and "trad" country the basic fluff-country pop sounds emanating from Nashville studios are odviously here to stay. The writers and "artists" have long been preaching and selling to that great mass middle ground common denominator. Everybody's happy, right? Wrong.

Review the reviews of this DGWD recording and the first. Gleason and his Wasted Days have been name dropped in to a pot of the finest honkytonkin',country rockin' alumni, and not without good reason.

If you're out searching for the next Gram Parsons, Dwight Yoakum, John Dawson, Buck Owens I gaurantee you will be glad to have discoverd the recordings of Dave Gleason's Wasted Days.

Country music for people who aren't morons........2006-01-31

I don't have much to add to the previous review, mostly just nod my head in agreement. The 'Flying Burrito Brothers' are definitely conjured up here, only 'Wasted Days' rocks out more and Gleason has a better voice than Parsons. Kind of like if Parsons had been backed up by Tom Petty's band or the Jayhawks. This is first rate cosmic country, furthering the trail blazed by Gram Parsons, New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Grateful Dead. The next time I find myself in a bar full of trailer park cowboys and bikers I hope Dave Gleason's Wasted Days are on the stage.

Closest thing to Gram Parsons.......2004-03-10

This guy Dave Gleason just blew me away with his new record "Midnight, California".

This guy is the real deal, nobody else has played California Country music this good in a long, long time. Nobody has played country rock this well in a long, long time.

His first record just called "Wasted Days" by the way included an unreleased Gram Parsons cover called "Funky String Quartet".

Getting back to the new record..
Listening to Dave reminds me a little of Gram, Wynn Stewart, and even a little Dwight.. but most of all he's very similar to Gram. This guy could even be a better songwriter than Gram was.

There is also some beautiful harmony on this record.. one song that sounds like an early Bee Gees song with twang.

Tracks:

I Got Fooled
No Need Of Running
I Feel So Good
Thinkin' And Worrying
I Love You, Baby
California Blues
Walkin' And Lyin' Down
First And Last Love
Christine
I Have Had My Fun
Whoppin' And Squallin'
Water Boy Cry
Motherless Child
Sportin' Life
John Henry
I'm A Stranger
Cornbread And Peas
Louise
I Done Done
Meet You In The Morning
Poor Boy From Home
Hudy Leadbelly
Something's Wrong At Home
Take This Hammer
Baby's Gone
Lose Your Money

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The vocal and acoustic interplay of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee is one of the most instantly recognizable sounds in the blues canon. Brownie's intricate fingerpicking and Sonny's colorful harp playing were forged from years of playing with pioneers like Blind Boy Fuller and Leadbelly. But while they recorded excellent material earlier in their careers, it wasn't until these recordings in 1957 that they were swept up by the folk movement and into the national spotlight. California Blues contains their first two albums for the Fantasy label, and folk-blues dominate the proceedings. Personalized versions of traditionals like "John Henry" and "Motherless Child" are affecting, but the true highlights are the playful tunes like "I Got Fooled" and "I Done Done," which showcase the duo's harmonizing. Repeated listenings reveal a lulling sameness to many of these tracks, but the playing is up to their usual high standards and Sonny's trademark whoops and hollers always entertain. --Ken Hohman

Customer Reviews:

Great Sonny and Brownie.......2005-09-22

There's some discrepancy over the correct recording dates for these two Fantasy albums included on this CD. Some sources say only the SONNY TERRY AND BROWNIE MCGHEE sides (#1-14) were recorded in 1957, the other album being recorded in 1961. Whatever the case may be, these are excellent performances. Sonny's singing is rougher and more old-fashioned than Brownie's. I GOT FOOLED is a terrific piece and THINKIN' AND WORRYIN' has an unusual form: 4-bar verses piled up one after the other - different and captivating. Sonny and Brownie sing duets on a handful of tunes. The second album is a bit more folky than the first, with the oft-recorded JOHN HENRY included as well as a version of TAKE THIS HAMMER. Both albums are excellent and will give much enjoyment.

Wonderful Folk Blues.......2001-02-04

This is actually a repackaging of two earlier Fantasy albums (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, tracks 1-14, and Blues and Shouts, tracks 15-26), both originally recorded in March, 1957. [They actually recorded 38 tracks at that session. The other twelve songs, all spirituals, were released as Just a Closer Walk With Thee.] There are no session musicians used here, just Terry on harmonica and McGhee on guitar; both provide vocals. They sometimes sing solo--it's McGhee's smooth vocal on tunes like "I Got Fooled" and "I Feel So Good," and Terry's rougher-edged voice on "California Blues" and "I Have Had My Fun"--but on many of the tracks they harmonize wonderfully, like on the McGhee-penned "Sportin' Life," which Baby Boomers will recognize as a song covered by the Lovin' Spoonful. They also harmonize on "John Henry," which was performed at the close of the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that featured both Terry and McGhee in the cast from 1955-1958.

This is wonderful folk blues and though not as strong as the other Fantasy re-issue Midnight Special, it is still a welcome addition to any Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee collection. RECOMMENDED

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