Back to the Country

Back to the Country

ASIN: B00000JPKG

Editorial Reviews
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Ben Krahne's Americana blend starts off with a solid bar of pure song. He then dips it in a rich and creamy country sauce and sprinkles on some sexy backing female vocals. His catchy Country Rock is well written and arranged with scratchy fiddle, twangy banjo, and his own sandy-textured vocals.

Product Description
This is the debut CD of the next Country Music legend Ben Krahne. Ben's original music is a mix of traditional country and "new" country with great lyrics and a full sound that will please any country music fan. Included are great vocals, Background singers, violin, banjo and harmonica. Have a listen. Similar to Dwight Yaokam, Charlie Daniels & Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.

Back to the Country

Tracks:

To Know His Is To Love Him - The Teddy Bears
Corrine, Corrina - Ray Peterson
Spanish Harlem - Ben E. King
Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee
Every Breath I Take - Gene Pitney
I Love How You Love Me - The Paris Sisters
Under The Moon Of Love - Curtis Lee
There's No Other Like My Baby - The Crystals
Uptown - The Crystals
He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals
He's A Rebel - The Crystals
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans
Puddin' N' Tain - The Alley Cats
He's Sure The Boy I Love - The Crystals
Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts - Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans
(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry - Darlene Love
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Heartbreaker - The Crystals
Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love - Veronica
Chapel Of Love - Darlene Love
Not Too Young To Get Married - Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans
Wait Til My Bobby Gets Home - Darlene Love
All Grown Up - The Crystals

Tracks:

Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals
A Fine, Fine Boy - Darlene Love
Baby, I Love You - The Ronettes
I Wonder - The Ronettes
Girls Can Tell - The Crystals
Little Boy - The Crystals
Hold Me Tight - The Treasures
(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up - The Ronettes
Soldier Baby Of Mine - The Ronettes
Strange Love - Darlene Love
Stumble And Fall - Darlene Love
When I Saw You - The Ronettes
So Young - Veronica
Do I Love You? - The Ronettes
Keep On Dancing - The Ronettes
You, Baby - The Ronettes
Woman In Love (With You) - The Ronettes
Walking In The Rain - The Ronettes

Tracks:

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers
Born To Be Together - The Ronettes
Just Once In My Life - The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
Is This What I Get For Loving You? - The Ronettes
Long Way To Be Happy - Darlene Love
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - The Righteous Brothers
Ebb Tide - The Righteous Brothers
This Could Be The Night - The Modern Folk Quartet
Paradise - The Ronettes
River Deep-Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
I'll Never Need More Than This - Ike & Tina Turner
A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday) - Ike & Tina Turner
Save The Last Dance For Me - Ike & Tina Turner
I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine - The Ronettes
You Came, You Saw, You Conquered - The Ronettes
Black Pearl - Sonny Charles And The Checkmates
Love Is All I have To Give - The Checkmates

Tracks:

White Christmas - Darlene Love
Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
The Bells of St. Mary - Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans
Santa Claus is Coming to Town - The Crystals
Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes
Marshmallow World - Darlene Love
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Ronettes
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Crystals
Winter Wonderland - Darlene Love
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
Here Comes Santa Claus - Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans
Silent Night - Phil Spector and Artists

Amazon.com

Among producers, his name remains the simile of choice. If some hotshot studio whiz emerges in, say, hip-hop, he's inevitably labeled "the Phil Spector of rap." That's quite a statement given that decades have passed since this boy from the Bronx remodeled rock & roll to suit his own visions of grandeur. The story of the girl-group auteur is a fascinating one. Spector composed a No. 1 hit at 17 (the Teddy Bears' "To Know Him Is to Love Him," its title inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone). By 19 he was head of A&R for Atlantic Records. By the time he was 22, he'd founded his own label (Philles) and was churning out Wall of Sound hits at an unprecedented clip, beginning with the Crystals' "He's a Rebel." The four-disc Back to Mono befits its singular subject in both presentation (the richly annotated booklet includes a piece by Tom Wolfe) and content (60 songs cut between 1958 and 1969, plus the entire classic Yuletide LP A Christmas Gift for You). --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Greatest bargain.......2007-05-16

A few months ago I ordered this set for only about $20 & it is the best CD bargain I've ever had. This set originally sold for about $75 back in the 90's (glad I waited to buy it!)& I keep wondering why it's so cheap now. (Is Spector not allowed to make money on his music anymore?) It is a BIG set in an LP size box (I store it with my old LPs on my shelf),comes with a great big book printed on high quality paper, comes with the Christmas album & even a button. Only thing not big about this set is the sound quality, it's typical 80s & early 90s thin-sounding CD quality, not exactly what I'd call a wall of sound. Also the book has the lyrics to all the songs except the ones on the Christmas album. So if you can get past the fact that Spector may have killed someone 40 years after these recordings (if he did,how could he? He produced John Lennon's "Imagine" for goodness sake!)this is still some of the 60s greatest music.

Cruisin' Music Extraordinaire.......2007-05-15

When I saw the "Back to Mono" box for 20 bucks, I first thought of the barrage of criticism that greeted this set when first released more than 15 years ago and, in particular, the near universal condemnation of the absolutely horrendous digital remastering that marred what should have been an unbeatable compilation. Then I thought, "So what? I LOVED this music 45 years - AUGH! - ago! This is the background music of my life! And a great collection! And I don't have much of it, vinyl or otherwise." So I bought it.

And yes, the remastering is indeed horrible, particularly when listened to through earphones. But if you can pump this music through a tinny 5-inch speaker, perhaps boosted from a '57 Chevy, it all sounds pretty damn fine. So: don't play it on your audiophile equipment: my vintage boom box does the music all the honor it requires.

And what music. A lot of this stuff didn't chart in the New York metropolitan area, so I'd never heard several tracks, but it's all vintage, no filler, hits and non-hits, lots of Ronnie Spector and the Ronnettes, the Crystals, and fewer, but important, sides from Curtis Lee), Ben E. King, Bob B. Soxx, the Righteous Brothers, the majestic Tina Turner and that sidekick of hers, and, of course, the patented Spector Wall of Sound, complete with timpani, maracas, glockenspiels, strings, horns, full brass section, yackety sax, everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink. On the tree of rock, Phil Spector is a taproot (and Bruce Springsteen the most celebrated emulator/branch).

But let's be serious: these are very basic sentiments, harking back to a very different, much simpler time, before Vietnam, Watergate, and universal irony really invaded our consciousness (the first 29 tracks before the Kennedy assassination). The Spector chronology tracks along through LBJ's "Great Society" and civil rights legislation, Nixon, and the onset of cynicism, skepticism, and the beginning of a much more complicated social and political fabric. Through all this, we underestimate the role this and other top-forty music played in shaping our imaginations: it played, constantly, to GROUPS of people in packed cars, at parties and dances, not to one solitary listener through iPod earphones, shaped romantic vocabularies, taught kids how to say "I love you" and how to rebel against parents who screamed "that guy's no good!" My wife's parents.

In short, this music and its peer recordings helped fill in pieces of our emotional identities. In this set we hear lots of 16 year olds pouring out their hearts into diaries via girl-group doo-wop. From the Righteous Brothers, a more mature, wistful kind of heartbreak with full choirs of strings. And from Ike and Tina, my god - River Deep, Mountain High has enough emotional energy to blow a bank of Marshalls, a clear high-point on a collection of high points.

The 96-page booklet is almost worth the price of the box. I didn't need the lyrics - many of them, goofy, saccharine, maudlin, trite as can be, are grafted into my brain, courtesy of that Chevy speaker - but the photos of those wonderful, innocent, vibrant faces, the essays (one by Tom Wolfe), and the discography are all splendid.

So: if you've ever loved this music - that's a significant qualifier: my kids (all in 20s and 30s) think it's virtually unadulterated corn (with the exception of River Deep, Loving Feeling, and a few other tracks) - forget about the atrocious remastering. (I'll bet Rhino will take care of that, sooner or later, and we'll hear these in gorgeous, layered monaural.) Just buy this now while you can get all four discs, the big booklet, and the huge box for 20 dollars or less. Then boogaloo or slow-dance your baby to these legendary tunes.

Essential Musical History.......2007-05-13

With his name in the news, it is easy to dismiss Phil Spector for current accusations, but you can never deny his place is Rock'N'Roll pantheon of musical touchstones.

This collection is an absolute must have for all those who love great rock and roll and the extras in this box are phenomenal. The booklet documenting these historic recordings is amazing, as are the collection musicians that sat in on these sessions (Sonny Bono, Brian Wilson, Leon Russell, etc.).

Just having the classic recordings of The Ronettes (Be My Baby, Walkin' In The Rain, Baby I Love You), The Crystals, Darlene Love -- along with Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" (referred to by George Harrison as the greatest single ever made) and the complete "Phil Spector's Christmas Album" -- makes this collection indispensable!!!

$15 is about right.......2007-04-08

I have no idea whether Mr. Spector is guilty of the serious charges against him, but he stands convicted of allowing his retrospective box to be released with some of the muddiest, dullest mastering in memory. Sound-wise, a total mess. Of course, many of the tracks are indispensable.

60 classic "Spector" produced tunes + His Christmas Album You'll get your "Phil" here with this awesome 4 CD Set!!!.......2007-03-25

Absolute classic rock and roll!!! With that awesome "Wall Of Sound"!!! Phil Spector produced some of the greatest classic tunes in history,nuff said,forget about his recent problems with the law,it's the songs that matter,like the 60 ones(on the first three CD's) contained on this 4 CD set which also includes His classic: "A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector" (on the 4th CD)!!! Classic sides from The Teddy Bears,Ray Peterson,Ben E. King,Curtis Lee,The Crystals,Bob B. Soxx and The Blue Jeans,The Alley Cats,Darlene Love,Veronica,The Ronettes,The Treasures,The Righteous Brothers,The Modern Folk Quartet,Ike & Tina Turner,and Sonny Chareles and The Checkmates!!! Absolute essential listening!!! A delight for the ear!!! They just don't make great music like this anymore!!! Includes a beautiful full-color 96 page book and even a red and white "Back To Mono" button,just like the one Spector wore himself in his Santa Claus garb!!! Way to cool!!! Over 3 hours of the finest music ever waxed!!! I can't believe I found this superlative box set for less than 20 bucks,quite a bargain!!! Two thumbs up!!! Way up!!! Five stars!!! A+

Average customer rating:

She can rock . . . she should rock more!
great cd
Back To Me Has Shown Kathleen Is Only Growing Stronger!
Excellent New Artist
Even better than her first CD

Back to Me
Kathleen Edwards
Manufacturer: Zoe Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007GAENU
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

In State
Back to Me
Pink Emerson Radio
Independent Thief
Old Time Sake
Summerlong
What Are You Waiting For?
Away
Somewhere Else
Copied Keys
Good Things

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The standout cuts on this follow-up to Kathleen Edwards's highly praised debut, Failer, serve notice that the Canadian artist has no intention of remaining a cult favorite in the States. The opening "In State" evokes the anthem-like sweep of Tom Petty's "Refugee," complete with signature organ by the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench, though its lyric of a prison-bound paramour smacks of déjà vu, Failure having opened with a similar narrative. The propulsive title track, with its irresistible double-entendre hook, deserves to be Edwards's breakthrough hit, while the yearning "Old Time Sake" and the buoyant yet bittersweet "Summerlong" expose a disarming tenderness underlying her tough-chick bravado. Over the course of the album, too much of the midtempo material sounds too much the same, more inspired lyrically than musically, failing to sustain the momentum of the opening tracks. The stripped-down intimacy of "Away" will likely rekindle comparisons to Lucinda Williams, but this artist sounds eager to outgrow those. --Don McLeese

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Album Description

Bursting onto the music scene in 2003 with her critically acclaimed debut album Failer, Kathleen Edwards quickly found herself performing on the Letterman and Leno shows, opening for The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and championed by Rolling Stone as one of the year's most promising acts. Now that the dust has finally settled, Edwards has delivered on the promise of Failer with a roots rock masterpiece. Back to Me confirms Kathleen Edwards as one of today's most talented new artists.

Customer Reviews:

She can rock . . . she should rock more!.......2007-05-07

I saw an Austin City Limits live performance of Kathleen that immediately sent me to Amazon to get her album and hear more. Unfortunately, other than a great first two songs the album is fairly forgetable. She can write and sing the hard stuff, yet spends most of the album space in more lala ballad land. These are not bad tunes, just not what make for her best, most compelling work.

great cd.......2007-01-05

The cd is great from start to finish. Keep up the good work, thanks Kathleen Edwards.

Back To Me Has Shown Kathleen Is Only Growing Stronger!.......2006-06-27

Kathleen Edwards has only gotten better in Back To Me, with some brilliant songs. Her lyrics are solid, mature and actually sound genuine coming from her. I feel some singers are pretty fake with what they sing but I do feel Kathleen is honest in her lyrics. Her voice can sometimes make a song feel dull, but at other times she truly draws you in with her singing regardless, yet that would have to be thanks to the strong beats and guitars that back her up on this album. All of her songs though are enjoyable from first to last, and yet a few stick out more than the others:

1) In State- B+- One of the less brilliant songs. I like it, but don't love it.
2) Back To Me- A- It's the song I heard first from her on the radio. I loved it and got me interested in the album.
3) Pink Emerson Radio- B+- Slower, but I like it.
4) Independent Thief- A+- Love it. I love the beat, the way she sings the song, everything. One of her most strongest moments on here to me.
5) Old Tim Sake- A+- Another brilliant moment on this album. This song is very beautiful in how it is done, and the lyrics really hit to your heart. Probably my favorite song here.
6) Summerlong- A- This album is at its best time in the middle of this album, and this is another great song. This song picks up a bit and has a great beat.
7) What Are You Waiting For- A- This song is one of catchiest on here, with some great background music.
8) Away- B+- A very slow, sad song that will pull at your heartstrings.
9) Somewhere Else- B- Meh. Probably, to me, her weakest song on here. It's not bad, but it's nothing remarkable either. All I like is the background music but Kathleen doesn't bring magic to it. It's kind of bland.
10) Copied Keys- A- I love this song because I can really relate to the lyrics. She made the song just right for the lyrics I think.
11) Good Things- B+- Not the best she song she has sung on here, matter of fact this song kind of comes off dull, but actually this song has some of the best lyrics on this album.

This is a pretty strong album. I think Kathleen has made a successful step forward with her music, and I can only see her growing stronger as long as she keeps to an honest road of music, which she is right now. Back To Me will bring her more fans, and I am among that group. Independent Thief, Old Time Sake, Copied Keys and Summerlong truly sealed the deal.

4/5 stars.

Excellent New Artist.......2006-03-12

If you're a Sheryl Crow and/or a Shannon McNally fan you'll love this inspiring new singer songwriter. This CD has a great blend of soft rock n' roll and good lyrics. Thanks Amazon for the recommendation!

Even better than her first CD.......2006-03-07

Any artist who lists Tom Petty and Neil Young as her main musical influences has got to be headed in the right direction. While I liked her first CD, This one is much better all around, Great songwriting, The best tracks include "In State", "Independent Thief" and The title track on the more uptempo side. A songwriting style similar to Lucinda Williams. This is one of those CDs that you can listen to and not want to skip over any tracks. One of the best CDs of 2005

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amazing collection
"What A Great Deal !
"Come in, Tommy..."
HERE THEY ALL COME!
Red Hot Jazz Cowboy blues band!

Take Me Back to Tulsa
Bob Wills
Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing
Recordings 1927-1933
Ride With Bob
The King of Western Swing: 25 Hits (1935-1945)
For the Last Time

ASIN: B00005TO15
Release Date: 2001-12-03

Tracks:

Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys
Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
Osage Stomp
Get With It
Spanish Two Step
Maiden's Prayer
I Ain't Got Nobody
Who Walks in When I Walk Out
Oklahoma Rag
Smith's Reel
Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff
No Matter How She Done It
Bluin' the Blues
Red Hot Gal of Mine
Steel Guitar Rag
What's the Matter With the Mill?
Sugar Blues
Basin Street Blues
Too Busy
Fan It
There's No Disappointment in Heaven
Swing Blues No. 1
Playboy Stomp
T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
Never No More Hard Times Blues
Oozlin' Daddy Blues

Tracks:

Black Rider
Pray for the Lights to Go Out
San Antonio Rose
Carolina in the Morning
Silver Bells (That Ring in the Night)
Beaumont Rag
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Whoa Baby
I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
My Window Faces the South
That's What I Like About the South
Waltz You Saved for Me
Prosperity Special
Don't Let the Deal Go Down
You're Okay
Lone Star Rag
Corrine, Corrina
Bob Wills Special
Time Changes Everything
Big Beaver
New San Antonio Rose
I Knew the Moment I Lost You
Twin Guitar Special
Take Me Back to Tulsa
Takin' It Home
Please Don't Leave Me
Cherokee Maiden
Dusty Skies
My Life's Been a Pleasure

Tracks:

We Might as Well Forget It
Home in San Antone
Liberty
Miss Molly
You're from Texas
Goodbye Liza Jane
My Confession
Texas Playboy Rag
Roly Poly
Stay a Little Longer
Just a Plain Old Country Boy
New Spanish Two-Step
I'm Feelin' Bad
Cotton Eyed Joe
Brain Cloudy Blues
Bob Wills Boogie
Fat Boy Rag
Good Man Is Hard to Find
Little Bit of Boogie
Along the Navajo Trail
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Betcha My Heart
Chinatown
Dinah
Frankie Jean
Hawaiian War Chant

Tracks:

I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
Milk Cow Blues
My Gal Sal
Red River Valley
Sugar Moon
Sweet Jennie Lee
Girl I Left Behind Me
At the Woodchopper's Ball
Blues for Dixie
Bubbles in My Beer
Can't Get Enough of Texas
Cotton Patch Blues
Cowboy Stomp
Crazy Rhythm
Deep Water
Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
Keeper of My Heart
Little Cowboy Lament
Thorn in My Heart
Ida Red Likes to Boogie
Boot Heel Drag
Faded Love
I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You
I'll Be Lucky Someday
I Didn't Realise
Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues
Jolie Blon Likes the Boogie
End of the Line

Album Description

UK budget-price box-set featuring the pioneer of western swing, he played blues, rags, stomps, ballads and jazz in a style that became much imitated. 119 tracks and including a 52 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2001.

Album Details

Compilation featuring 109 Tracks from the King of Western Swing. Includes Every Important Track Recordedbetween the Years 1932 and 1950 as Well as a 52 Page Booklet with a Biography, Session Details and Rarephotos.

Customer Reviews:

amazing collection.......2007-06-01

An incredible bargain ... the only surprise is that it doesn't have "Right or Wrong," which is on the one-disc "Essential" collection.

"What A Great Deal !.......2006-06-29

I own 2 other Bob Wills box sets - Anthology 1935 - 1973, which is a 2 CD set with a lot of good music on it, mostly old. I also have the box set "Encore" that has all Bob's newer stuff from the early 60's (when Tommy Duncan came back) to his recordings in the early 70's before his death (at this time in his career his band cosisted of a lot less members and no horns)both these sets are "pretty" good. But this set from Proper Records "Take me back to Tulsa" is one of the Best deals on the internet today. I paid about 18 bucks for this set "Brand New" and it has four CD's that are loaded with tons of great music going all the way back to when Bob was still playing with Milton Brown (Proper's box set "Milton Brown and his Brownies" is also pretty darn good,but it doesn't have that Wills Western Flair). Bottom line if you are a fan of Western Swing and can't afford at this time to put out about $700.00 for the two Outstanding Bear Family box sets then go for this one, over 100 Great songs you won't be disappointed....the price is right too! "Enjoy" Joe Kopeck - Parkville , MD.

"Come in, Tommy...".......2006-01-06

This boxed set is amazing for the sheer volume of wonderful music it proffers at a fraction of what one would expect to pay for it. Concentrating on the early years, it presents Bob Wills at the dawn of his recording career and continues through the height of his creativity. This is the cream of early Bob Wills, and contains about 60% of his very best material (I am long of the opinion that Bob Wills never made a bad record in his life, and he continued to be productive through his so-called "lean years" of the 1950's, 1960's and beyond). But these tracks are the classics that most fans cherish above all.

Tommy Duncan, Wills' favorite featured vocalist, appears here on many sides, including Time Changes Everything (my personal Bob Wills favorite) and many others. Besides the early Columbia sides, there are examples of his Decca years and other smaller labels. A few of my own favorites include My Little Cherokee Maiden (close runner-up to Time Changes Everything as my favorite Bob Wills record) Sunbonnet Sue (recorded with Milton Brown and His Brownies before Bob formed the Playboys) Maiden's Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, Basin Street Blues, San Antonio Rose, Silver Bells, Lone Star Rag (an overlooked masterpiece, and one of the catchiest instrumental tunes you've ever heard), Take Me Back To Tulsa, Miss Molly, My Confession, Roly Poly, Hawaiian War Chant, Sugar Moon, Bubbles In My Beer, Deep Water, Faded Love (which Bob wrote and Patsy Cline had a monster hit with) and I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You (what a great title!).

For anyone who doesn't know, Bob Wills was a fiddle player who played his first professional gig as a young boy, substituting for his father at a barn dance. Although he grew up around Western music, the Wills family lived in a poor area where there were many black families, and very early he was exposed to and grew to love the Blues and other forms of traditional African-American music. Legend has it that he once rode fifty miles on horseback to attend a Bessie Smith recital, and was the only white person in the audience. He was one of the founding members of Milton Brown and His Brownies, the band credited with creating the style of music now known as Western Swing. When he started his own band, the Texas Playboys, he took a cue from Count Basie and included Brass, Horns and rhythm instruments, and if he couldn't claim to actually invent Western Swing, he certainly perfected it. In the 1940's he was one of the highest paid bandleaders in the US.

Bob was most famous for his "calls" or "hollers". When the band got hot, he would frequently holler "Ahhhhh-hahhhh" or prod them along with such exclamations as "Take it away, Leon" or "Here's that old piano pounder". Or, if the band was playing below his expectations, he would shout, "Johnny in key, please" or virtually anything else that came into his mind.

For many years during the height of his popularity, Bob and his music were rejected by the orthodox country music establishment for being too "jazzy" and ignored by the jazz world for being too "hillbilly". Western Swing is a blend of jazz and western music - it is primarily dance music, with a strong emphasis on vocals (like country), but it also includes jazz instruments like saxophone and trumpets. What makes it most unique are instruments that are traditionally associated with country music (like fiddles and steel guitars), being employed in a "swing" or jazz fashion. Any performance by Bob Wills Texas Playboys incorporates spotlight solos, improvisation and other musical trademarks generally associated with jazz. In other words, his band and his music are totally unique.

Fortunately, there was a revival of interest in Bob Wills and his music which started in the 1960's and continues to this day. After his death in 1974, there was an explosion of new Western Swing bands, with young admirers anxious to copy the Bob Wills sound and keep Western Swing alive. Even country music has finally paid him his due, for today Bob Wills is proudly embraced and revered in country circles as a pioneer and a true original. He is now acknowledged as one of the first to incorporate African American rhythm and Jazz into country music, and his influence has been acknowledged by such diverse artists as Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and even Elvis Costello.

If you are not familiar with Bob Wills, you can't go wrong with this set as an introduction, especially at this price.

HERE THEY ALL COME!.......2005-09-13

Some of these songs aren't on any of the other CD's and if they are, they're different versions. A couple you will want to hear if you haven't already are "Fan It" and "Pray for the Lights To Go Out"- MAN, ARE THOSE OLD BUT GOOD!! "Cowboy Stomp" is another one I hadn't heard before that's in this collection. Anybody who loves Bob Wills should have this, it is worth every penny.

Red Hot Jazz Cowboy blues band!.......2005-01-13

Mix two parts twenties jazz, one part blues, one part swing, two parts honky tonk, and one part crooning music and what do you have? Bob Wills and His Texas Playboy Band! I was turned on to this band by their recording of "Too Busy," which sounds like a cross between early fifties rock and roll and dixieland jazz. These guys were hot! Bob Wills and his band were a perfect example of a group of musicians who played live several hours a day, perfecting their craft - not the talentless celebrities of today who rely on tape loops and beat machines. This set is an unbelievable value. You get four cds for 22$! And this isn't filler. Each cd has songs that you will want to download into your ipod. Excellent!

Back to Tulsa: Live and Loud at Cain's Ballroom

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Jesse
Great Collection of My Favorites
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Simply the Best
Rock and Roll is alive and well

Back to Tulsa: Live and Loud at Cain's Ballroom
Cross Canadian Ragweed
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ASIN: B000J2344S
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

Dimebag
Number
Lonely Girl
Late Last Night
Final Curtain
Sister
Constantly
Don't Need You
Fightin' For
When It All Goes Down
Anywhere But Here
Daddy's At Home
The Needle And The Damage Done
When Will It End
Back Around
Brooklyn Kid

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Cold Hearted Woman
Jimmy And Annie
Wanna Rock & Roll
17
Hammer Down
Alabama
Blues For You
Lonely Feeling

Customer Reviews:

Jesse.......2007-05-13

What can you say about CCR. Absolutly amazing. I own over 40,000 songs and this is one of my top 5 bands being that they are so original and you can tell they love their music. I love punk rock, grunge, and classic rock and these guys really are in their own genre. I love their remake of "Wanna rock'n'roll" This is really the CD you need to check out if you haven't heard these guys before... Its just to bad there is no "Boys from Oklahoma" ...

Great Collection of My Favorites.......2007-02-15

This double disc live CD includes all my favorite CCR songs, and also pulls up some of their friends to sing with them. Unlike most live CD's there is not a lot of talking, just a lot of great music. This live compilation is a vital for all CCR fans.

Cross Canadian Ragweed.......2007-01-10

If you like Cross Canadian Ragweed, buy this cd. It is a two disc set, with mostly previously recorded tracks, but also some new ones. We are really enjoying it!

Simply the Best.......2006-12-10

Finding out where some of the songs came from (inspiration) was great! I hope everyone read the thank yous...that was just as great as the cd itself. These guys and their families are some of the best people.

Rock and Roll is alive and well.......2006-12-06

If you think the days of true rock and roll are dead and gone, check out this CD. As someone who can barely stand to listen to rock radio anymore, Ragweed is a welcome sign that good music is still being made, whether the mainstream wants us to hear it or not. Cody Canada has really turned into a shredder on the electric guitar, and this CD is worth buying just for the sake of listening to his solos. Canada's playing makes Robert Earl Keen's "Lonely Feeling" into one of the most powerful rock ballads I've heard. All of the tracks show off the skills of this band, and it's amazing how far they have come since "Live at the Wormy Dog" (which is another great CD if you want to hear the early days). The last few songs on the first CD are acoustic, which gives you a chance to hear a side of Ragweed that you maybe haven't heard before. Canada's cover of Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done" really shows off his voice and acoustic guitar skills.

If I have one complaint about this CD, it might be that the CD is a true live CD (no remixing), and sometimes it's hard to hear the awesome musicianship or Canada's vocals over the noise of the crowd. A lot of people will probably love it for the same reason though. All in all, anyone who loves good old fashioned rock and roll will love this CD.

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Wohw. An Album Full Of Happines And Sorrows. Just Like It Is..
Back to the Barrooms
Haggard at his best
The best country album of the Eighties.
"Back to the Barrooms", Best Merle Haggard Album Ever!!!

Back to the Barrooms
Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: Mca Special Products
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Big City

ASIN: B00000DWFY
Release Date: 2006-08-22

Tracks:

Misery and Gin
Back to the Barrooms Again
Make-Up and Faded Blue Jeans
Ever-Changing Woman
Easy Come, Easy Go
I Don't Want to Sober Up Tonight
Can't Break the Habit
Our Paths May Never Cross
I Don't Have Any More Love Songs
Leonard
I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink

Customer Reviews:

Wohw. An Album Full Of Happines And Sorrows. Just Like It Is.........2007-01-12

This Album Gives You An Idea How It Is To Be A SUPERSTAR. Nobody Give You Any Sparetime. Allways Wahtcing What Ever You Do. Live While You Can. Enjoy The Life....

Back to the Barrooms.......2007-01-11

Great CD, and Amazon also did a great job. Thank You

Haggard at his best.......2006-11-27

This is probably the best Merle Haggard release ever. If there were two country albums I would recommend it would be this one and Haggard's "Serving 190 Proof." They are Haggard at his finest.

There is not an average cut on this album. They are all superb. For the price, you can't go wrong.

The best country album of the Eighties........2006-09-25

I've been looking for this album on CD for at least 15 years. Why? Because it's Merle Haggard's best ever album, and the best country album of the 1980s. It's an absolute classic by a musical genius at the top of his game. "Make up and Faded Blue Jeans" and Merle's remake of Hank Jr.'s "I Don't Have Any More Love Songs" are worth the cost of the CD by themselves. HIGHEST recommendation.

"Back to the Barrooms", Best Merle Haggard Album Ever!!!.......2006-01-14

This is the definitive merle Haggard album. Merle recorded this album in 1980 with MCA records and in fact the very first song "Misery and Gin" was in the motion picture "Bronco Billy" starring Clint Eastwood. It would be impossible to say which is my favorite song on this album because each one is a favorite to me, there is not a bad song on the disc at all. Merle Haggard is a class act and his music is some of the best in country music even today. If your a Merle Haggard fan and you don't have this album, I highly recomend you pick it up. Merle has other great albums as well but it is hard pressed to beat "Back to the barrooms". I also recomend his albums "The way I am" and "Going where the lonely go" but "Back to the Barrooms" is still the best. Hurry up!!! Amazon.com, get "Back to the Barrooms" on here for sale so the rest of the world can enjoy this musical legend like I enjoy him.

Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)

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Ready for a Hootennany?
A classic covers album that compliments the first instalment
Excellent Compilation
a flop
Between 3 and 4 stars

Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
Nanci Griffith
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Other Voices, Other Rooms
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ASIN: B000007SBD
Release Date: 1998-07-21

Tracks:

Wall Of Death
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
You Were On My Mind
Walk Right Back
Canadian Whiskey
Desperadoes Waiting For A Train
Wings Of A Dove
Dress Of Laces
Summer Wages
He Was A Friend Of Mine
Hard Times Come Again No More
Wasn't That A Mighty Storm
Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Yarrington Town
I Still Miss Someone
Try The Love
The Streets Of Baltimore
Darcy Farrow
If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

Some find the Texas thrush a bit precious. (Maybe it's the way she sings "When I woke up this mawwwwwnin'" on this album's "You Were on My Mind"). Still, the sequel to her popular Other Voices, Other Rooms provides an easy-to-take introduction to some classic folk songs and performers. The likes of Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and John Prine add depth and range to the good-natured song swap. --Steven Stolder

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Few performers these days take the time to pay tribute to the artists whose work shaped their sensibilities. Fewer still make the effort to track down those artists and include them in a project that calls attention to their greatness. Nanci Griffith, on the other hand, has done it twice. Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) is the sequel to Other Voices, Other Rooms, Griffith's first such collection, which was a triumph on almost every level. The new album is nearly its equal, featuring performances from more than two dozen guest artists, including luminaries such as Ian Tyson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Prine, Rodney Crowell, and Dave Von Ronk. The effect is not unlike that of an old-fashioned (albeit unusually large) guitar pull, with traded vocals, inspired musicianship, well-selected material, and genuine camaraderie. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews:

Ready for a Hootennany?.......2006-03-10

I might not spell it right, but I recognize a hootennany when I hear one, and that's what this is - from the song selection to the absolutely relaxed, kicked-back delivery of its many contributing Americana artists. It won't suit you if you're looking for hip, slick, cool and polished. But these artists are among the greats of Americana music - John Prine, Guy Clark, Jimmy Gilmore, many others (anothe review here names them) - and they're all longtime pros. Why bother dressing it up with a heavy production when you have people of this caliber contributing? This is a fine, fun, highly varied album. Very much worth getting.

A classic covers album that compliments the first instalment.......2005-04-24

Sweet Nanci has done it again! This follow-up to the excellent OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS also boasts an impressive line-up of guest performers and Nanci's fantastic vocals and guitar talent to boot. This was one of the first Nanci Griffith albums I heard and was taken aback with CANADIAN WHISKEY thinking 'where did this guy come from and what's THIS?' but this one's a grower, a classic folk song about a woman wronged by a man she thought loved her and became a recluse(drining the aforemnentioned booze, now I wonder why I like drinking the stuff now . . .). WALL OF DEATH(and other tracks) features Richard Thompson guesting, YOU WERE ON MY MIND is a 1960s pop cover which Nanci belts out with some gusto - loved the vocal delivery at the start! WALK RIGHT BACK, written by and featuring Crickets stalwart Sonny Curtis we all know from The Everly Brothers' hit single version, this I have to say is equally as great. Listen out for some fantastic vocal harmonies on WINGS OF A DOVE by Lucinda Williams, Nanci and Lee Satterfield. DESPERADOES has some funny Southern hillbilly vocals and is a bit cheesy, but entertaining nonetheless. The real tearjerkers for me on here WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES(for Sandy Denny) and HARD TIMES COME AGAIN NO MORE, this is enhanced by Celtic influences, both moving and uplifting. Other highlights - WASN'T THAT A MIGHTY STORM - loved the screaming vocals and the telling of the story in the song of the Galveston hurricane and floods in 1900 - you also get CAROLYN HESTER and EMMYLOU HARRIS guesting on here too(yesss!), and the wonderful and touching YARRINGTON TOWN along with the Hester and Harris daughters; DEPORTEE with the bit in Spanish and its harmonies, not to mention Odetta guesting; STREETS OF BALTIMORE with the entertaining John Prine on additional vocals and the(apparently) legendary HArlan Howard's VERY cheesy spoken word interlude and IF I HAD A HAMMER, an old standard done brilliantly which will have everyone singing along before you know it! Overall, this is a CD which can be enjoyed by all ages and many thanks to Nanci and her buddies for keeping these great and entertaining songs alive for future generations to appreciate!

Excellent Compilation.......2003-08-06

I've been a Nancy Griffith fan since her first recordings on Rounder Records and have seen her live more times than you can shake a stick at. When she left Rounder for the big time, I wasn't all that impressed. Fame, apparently, has it's costs. But time has treated her well and I really like this album. It has a ton of variety in both its songs and the musicians that participated. Nancy's voice is aging to perfection, with less of the cutesy nasality than in her youth and more body to the tone. This is a fun album of folk classics.

a flop.......2003-04-02

if your into more of Nanci's folkabilly work, stay away from this cd. I bought other voices first, then came back and bought other voices too, what a dissapointment "too" was too uptown for me

Between 3 and 4 stars.......2003-02-15

There are 73 minutes in this cd, but it could have been a much better cd at 50 minutes, some songs are great, others just are not so good, not enough to be in a CD. But this cd will always be important for collectors, in it you'll find the best version of Guy Clark's Desperadoes waiting for a train, with a cast including JJ Walker, JD Guilmore, S Earle, Guy Clark,
other in this cd include Lucinda williams, Tom Russell, Richard Thomspon, Ian Tyson, a great cast of songwriters and singers.

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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!
Persuaders Theme!
A Variety Of Classics!
Incredible Barry Collection
" one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry"

John Barry: The Collection

Manufacturer: Silva America
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005BADD
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

Zulu
From Russia With Love
From Russia With Love - 007
Goldfinger
The Ipcress File
The Knack
Mister Moses
Thunderball
The Wrong Box
Born Free
The Quiller Memorandum
You Only Live Twice
The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair
Deadfall

Tracks:

The Lion In Winter
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy
The Appointment
The Last Valley
Walkabout
Monte Walsh
Diamonds Are Forever
The Persuaders
Mary Queen Of Scots
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Dove

Tracks:

The Tamarind Seed
King Kong
Eleanor And Franklin
Robin And Marian
The Deep
Hanover Street
The Black Hole
Moonraker
Somewhere In Time
Raise The Titanic
Body Heat
Frances
Octopussy
The Cotton Club

Tracks:

High Road To China
A View To A Kill
Out Of Africa
The Living Daylights
Dances With Wolves
Dances With Wolves
Chaplin
Moviola
Indecent Proposal
The Specialist
The Scarlet Letter
Cry The Beloved Country
Mercury Rising
The James Bond Theme

Customer Reviews:

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!.......2006-11-09

Granted, they only need it for one composition (the last one, "The James Bond Theme") but still, without the guitar it's just not the same. Barry didn't compose this one so I suppose it was a bonus and I shouldn't complain, really. The rest of the music on all the CDs is fantastic. Some of the stuff I had heard before without realizing who had composed it. Very enjoyable, to say the least.

Persuaders Theme!.......2006-03-02

Buy it for the Persuaders theme, probably the best TV theme song ever written.

A Variety Of Classics!.......2005-12-06

John Barry has been composing film scores for over forty years and this is only scratching the surface of his productions. Never mind that the entire set is recorded by the Prague Philharmonic; it's pure to Barry's themes. While John Williams compositions ("Star Wars", etc.) are wild and flamboyant and Jerry Goldsmith's (Hoosier's, etc.) are mood pieces, John Barry crosses over all barriers and is amazingly diverse. Barry has recorded most of the exciting James Bond themes, melodramatic classics like "The Lion In Winter' and moody theme hits like "Midnight Cowboy". He also tugs at the heartstrings with compositions from, "Somewhere In Time", "Frances" and "Out Of Africa". He varies his themes for all types of films and few composers capture it so well.

There is over four hours of music in this set with a colorful and informative booklet.

Incredible Barry Collection.......2004-03-11

Any fan of movies will absolutley love this collection. Being a movie buff I couldn't wait to get this boxed set. Knowing Barry from all the James Bond movies, I did not realize his involvement with so many others. The orchestra is magnificent in all these themes. I'm listening to "High Road to China" right now and I'm drifting in the clouds in a Tiger Moth with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. If you are familiar with a movie it will definitely have you seeing it again, if not the scores are still beautiful. Any fan of classical music will be pleased as well. Travellers will defintitely enjoy it for a long drive. I know from when I use to travel that music like this made the miles float by faster. I highly recommend these four CDs even if you just know a handful of the songs.

" one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry".......2001-07-06

This collection of four compact discs...are worth their weight in GOLD! Barry creates visual moods for each film he scores...romantic, sentimental, action, adventure, suspense and mystery...the list could go on. Strings, brass and lush-velvet arrangements overlay each cue in his distinctive style of legendary scoring...we have ~ "John Barry:The Collection", Silva Screen's release traces 40 years of film music, featuring "The City Of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra" ~ conducted by Mr. Nic Raine (outstanding)..."Crouch End Festival Chorus" ~ David Temple, Choir Master...perform 56 selections, over four hours of symphonic suites with a full orchestra sound...all individually wrapped-up into one neat package...just the way "film-score-buffs" like 'em!

Must ask the following to take a bow ~ James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), always in their pitching, Reynold da Silva (executive producer), Nic Raine (conductor, arranger, orchestrator & associate producer), a tremen!dous asset to every project he undertakes...and the man who made it all possible...a legendary icon always leading the way in film scoring ~ JOHN BARRY!

Total Time: 258:76 on 56 Tracks ~ SSD-1128 ~ (2001)

You might try other albums from Silva Screen, all worthy of a good listen ~ "The Essential James Bond" (SSD-1034)..."Bond:Back In Action" (SSD-1100)..."Bond:Back In Action 2" (SSD-1119)..."Zulu" (SSD-1095)..."Raise The Titanic" (SSD-1102)..."Walkabout" (SSD-1120)...check out my reviews on amazon.com/music.

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not to great
Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$
You get what you pay for.
Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...

100 Favorite Patriotic Songs

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ASIN: B0000A1HT8
Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
Ballad of the Green Berets
On Top of Old Smokey
Coyote Warrior
Semper Fidelis
Breeze from Alabama
Onward Christian Soldiers
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Patriot
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Marines' Hymn
America Is
When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Happy the Soldier
American Trilogy
Home Sweet Home
Washington Post March
Enraptured I Gaze
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Yellow Rose of Texas
Over There
Simple Gifts
Liberty Bell
Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

God Bless the USA
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Katy Cruel
I Vow to Thee My Country
King Cotton
Beautiful Dreamer
America
American Patrol
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
Mohican Dream
Red, White and Blue
Some Folks
Liberty Song
Pomp and Circumstance
Hail to the Chief
Bennington Rifles
Peace on the Battlefield
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Under the Double Eagle
Red River Valley
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Camptown Races
Wild Blue Yonder
Hands Across the Sea
Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

Stars and Stripes Forever
Living in America
Home on the Range
Old Colony Times
Clementine
Invincible Eagle
Ring Ring de Banjo
Yankee Doodle
Largo from "The New World"
To a Wild Rose
Hail Columbia
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Gettysburg
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Capitan
Prairie Daughter
Little Brown Jug
Marching Through Georgia
Entertainer
Steamboat Around the Bend
Revolutionary Tea
Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Amazing Grace
Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

God Bless America
National Emblem
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
Anchors Away
Oh, Susannah
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Toast
Dixie
St. Louis Blues
Appalachian Spring
Bonnie Blue Flag
Old Hundreth
Swanee River
Battle Cry of Freedom
U. S Field Artillery
Sidewalks of New York
Chester
Auld Lang Syne
Kingdom Come
My Old Kentucky Home
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Shenandoah
Abraham's Daughter
This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.

Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992

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Great One Disc Compilation of ONJ's work and Surprisingly Great Sound!
Olivia Newton-John; Back To Basics 1971-1992
Probably only worth getting for the new songs
I honestly love her...Really. Great Olivia collection
It's Three! Three! Three Hits Sets in One!

Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971-1992
Olivia Newton-John
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Don't Stop Believin'

ASIN: B000000OSU
Release Date: 1992-06-09

Tracks:

Deeper Than A River
Not Gonna Be The One
I Want To Be Wanted
I Need Love
Twist Of Fate
Physical
Magic
Deeper Than The Night
A Little More Love
You're The One That I Want
Summer Nights
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Please Mr. Please
Sam
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Amazon.com

She started her career as an inoffensive pop singer who sang of the benefits of getting "mellow" ("Have You Never Been Mellow"). Her transformation into a brazen aerobics sex-throb with "Physical" is as radical as what happens to her character, Sandra Dee, in the movie Grease. Three cuts from which ("Hopelessly Devoted to You," "You're the One That I Want," and "Summer Nights") are featured here. Add a few other hits, "A Little More Love" and "Magic" and you've got a full spectrum view of what she can do. From syrupy ballad queen to workout addict, she got it on the radio. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Great One Disc Compilation of ONJ's work and Surprisingly Great Sound!.......2005-12-20

I have to say that for an unremastered album, the sound quality of this cd is remarkably good! I can only imagine how much better this would be if they would remaster it and make this a 20 track collection as I agree with most of the other reviewers here that some truly essential tracks are missing. That, I suppose, is inevitable given the volume of ONJ's work and the ability to only put so many tracks on one disc. Which is why I'm more forgiving of this version of her best of tracks and I'm going to say that the tracks here are a very good selection by themselves and there are 4 new tracks as well. ONJ has been very lucky in that she has had great songwriters write for here like John Farrar and great producers as well like David Foster enhancing her sound. There really isn't a weak track here and my favourites that are real gems of songwriting and performance are "Magic" (the great guitar harmonics still gives me goosebumps everytime), "A Little More Love" (one of the best bass lines ever composed) "Sam" (a great love song and written by one of the original members of the Shadows!)"Have You Never Been Mellow" and "I Honestly Love You" This is a very good ONJ compilation and for the price, 17 great track selections and surprisingly good sound quality a great bargain indeed. Highly recommended.

Olivia Newton-John; Back To Basics 1971-1992.......2005-06-01

Olivia Newton-John compilations have been in this household since the 70s and all I can say is she has always had songs that I enjoy listening to. To this day I still own her O.N.J. Greatest Hits MCA Records Inc. LP from 1976. Part of the tunes from that album are on this CD but not all. In other words the biggest problem I have with this 1992 Back To Basics disc is there's to many of her hits left off. Let Me Be There, Come On Over, Don't Stop Believin, and, Xanadu, are just four that are not here however there are several on this CD that most of you will recognize like, Physical, I Honestly Love You, Sam, If You Love Me (Let Me Know), and the sexy tunes, A Little More Love, and, Magic, plus it also has three songs from the highly popular motion picture, Grease, and they are, Summer Nights, You're The One That I Want, and, Hopelessly Devoted To You. There is also a nice catchy little tune on here that deserves honorable mention and is also pleasant to listen to being, Deeper Than A River, so I have to say that this is a decent seventeen track single disc that still packs a punch.
Of all the great songs Olivia has gave us over the years I still gotta say that my two favorites are songs with a country flavor from her earliest days and they are 1973s, Let Me Be There, and 1974s, If You Love Me (Let Me Know), and like I stated above, Let Me Be There, is not on this disc so I still have to listen to my ole O.N.J. Greatest Hits LP to hear that one. For years; when I would listen to one I would also listen to the other because they are back to back on the ole LP.
For Olivia I give five stars however due to some of Olivia's hits being missing I can only give this compilation three stars which rounds out to four. I can handle a few of her hits not being on this disc and you probably can to However; Am I aggravated at myself for purchasing this CD without one of my two favorite tunes by Olivia on it? Yep! and I can't get any more basic than that.

Probably only worth getting for the new songs.......2005-04-09

When looking at Olivia Newton-John's career, one must look at it from the perspective of her as a vocalist. You aren't going to find a lot of songs where Olivia is going to be the songwriter - and you aren't going to find her playing a lot of instruments. Olivia does what she does best - provide some outstanding vocals. Therefore, Olivia is going to have a strong reliance on good songwriting and good supporting musicians. What a lot of people probably don't remember is that when Olivia started out as a vocalist in the 1970s, she came up through the Country and Folk Music ranks. Olivia's crossover into a mainstream/pop artist would coincide with her film debut in the movie-version of "Grease". That film would establish her as a Superstar. However as fast as Olivia's Star rose, she would fall into oblivion by the end of the 1980s. However, Olivia's successful career has resulted in some nice collections of her vocal work. One such collection is "Olivia Newton-John: Back to Basics - The Essential Collection 1971-1992". It serves as a reverse chronology of Olivia's work starting with 1992 and going back to her early days as a Country artist.

There are two things that set "Back to Basics" apart from many of the other Olivia Newton-John compilations that are available today. For starters, it contains four new recordings that are unavailable on any of the other greatest hits sets. The other thing is that this compilation goes in reverse chronological order. Normally I prefer my Greatest Hits collections to have the tracks arranged in chronological order. This allows me to see how the artist has progressed and evolved over time. "Back to Basics" does the reverse. While I still would have liked to have seen this in regular chronological order, I found the reverse order to be an interesting twist. It fits very nicely with the title "Back to Basics".

"Back to Basics" isn't the most complete collection out there. While it does contain some nice songs, there are some very good Olivia songs that are missing. The songs I would have liked to have seen included are: "Don't Stop Believin", "Let it Shine", "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother", "Come on Over", "Take Me Home Country Roads", "Me and Bobby McGee", "Don't Cry for me Argentina", "Heart Attack", and "Make a Move on Me"

As mentioned, there are several other Compilations out there. The following lists some of the more popular compilations. Here are some important notes when looking at these compilations:

"Greatest Hits": This collection contains 12 songs covering all of the albums before "Grease". The songs on "Back to Basics" that precede the "Grease" songs are all included on this collection"

"Greatest Hits 2": This collection contains 10 songs from "Grease" to "Physical". While "Back to Basics" contains 7 songs from this period, "Greatest Hits 2" doesn't contain "Deeper Than the Night" or the duets with John Travolta - "You're the One that I Want" and "Summer Nights".

"Magic - The Best of Olivia Newton-John": This is a 21-song set that covers Olivia's career through 1983's "Twist of Fate" (the point where Olivia's career went into decline). All of the songs on "Back to Basics" (with the exception of the four new tracks) are contained on this collection. In addition, this collection contains the "Grease Mega Mix" that gained popularity a few years ago.

"The Best of Olivia Newton-John": This is a 18-song collection that goes deeper with Olivia's early work (i.e. early to mid 1970s songs).

As mentioned while this is not the most complete collection, it does contain four new songs by Olivia. I wouldn't do "handstands" for these new Olivia songs, but they aren't bad. Olivia gets some help from some industry "names" for these songs:

"Deeper than a River": This song was written and produced by Diane Warren. You can hear the maturity in Olivia's voice on this light pop-ballad song.

"Not Gonna Be the One": This is another light pop-ballad song. It almost has a 1990s Bee Gees feel to it.

"I Want to Be Wanted": This song is kind of a throwback song to Olivia's Country Music days. This song features a Pedal Steel Guitar giving a real nice country feel to the song. Robbie Buchanan, a well-known studio musician keyboardist is on this track as well.

"I Need Love": While not a total "Dance Song", this song has a definite R&B/Dance feel to it. To some extent - there even is a bit of Funk to it. Much of this is due to the fact that Giorgio Moroder is the producer of this song. Surprisingly, I found this to be the strongest of the four tracks. Olivia pulls this off well.

I was glad this song contained "Twist of Fate". While this song did mark the beginning of Olivia's decline, it is a Synth-Pop song and showed how Olivia came full-circle from her Country/Folk days of the early 1970s.

The liner notes are in the fold out fashion. One side opens up with a big picture of a 40something year old Olivia. The other side contains pictures of the albums from which each of the songs came from. Each of the song contains some brief credits. The four new songs contain the songwriting and production credits. While I did like the reverse chronology that is done on this collection, I felt "Back to Basics" was incomplete compared to what I could get on the "Magic" collection - in spite of the fact that this collection contains four new songs. Overall, if you are looking to get started with an Olivia Newton-John compilation, I'd recommend going with the "Magic" collection. I'd look at the other three collections if you are looking to go deeper with some of Olivia's greatest hits. I'd only look at this collection if you want to check out the new songs - or if you can get it a value price.

I honestly love her...Really. Great Olivia collection.......2004-03-21

Despite starting with folk and country roots, Olivia Newton-John came to the forefront with her relocation to North America and retooled herself to more pop standards, despite winning a Grammy for Best Country Female Vocal for "Let Me Be There." No, there was one more Grammy to be won, and that was Record of the Year (1974) for the tearful heartfelt piano and strings "I Honestly Love You," definitely the best song here.

That was from the If You Love Me, Let Me Know album, and the country title track is also included. The basso male backing vocalist provide a good balance with Olivia's winsome pop vocals.

As for the rest, it's the requisite collection of hits, of which there are plenty, as well as four new songs. The first one was penned and co-produced by Diane Warren, showing she has something in her magic pen for O N-J. "Deeper Than A River" belongs squarely in the 80's tradition of dreamy pop ballads, complete with synthesizers and strings.

"Not Gonna Be The One" could easily belong on one her Totally Hot album, as there are similarities to this and "A Little More Love." Produced by her longtime producer John Farrar.

Her cover of Brenda Lee's #1 hit, "I Want To Be Wanted,"--who doesn't want to be?--is my favourite of the four new songs here, showing her ability to put forth great ballads haven't diminished with her Grammy winner. And with Peter Asher (Peter of Peter and Gordon) as producer, how can she go wrong?

"I Need Love" is 80's soul/pop and synth fills set to a funky bass backbeat, with some monologue thrown in. In an ironic reference to an earlier hit, she sings that she holding out for something more than physical. Clearly it's something more permanent: "I'm not looking for a bandaid on loneliness." Aren't we all? And this is the most un-Moroder sounding Giorgio Moroder production I've heard.

In a twist of fate, many of her best-known songs turned out to be soundtrack hits. And because of that, N-J gets tarred with the epithet 70's cheese when many are asked to classify her. Two of them were from Grease, both duets with John Travolta. The bouncy "You're The One That I Want," penultimate number in the movie with the catchy bass setting the rhythm of the song, and a big hit in the US, spent nine weeks at the top in England. "Summer Nights," a song placed clearly in the musical genre, also went to #1 in the UK. The other #1, "Xanadu," is not on there, but "Magic" also from that movie, is.

Of the other movie tracks, the fast-paced pop of "Twist Of Fate," from Two Of A Kind, her second teaming up with Travolta, with its racing electropop bass synth and fuzzy guitar, definitely shows her staying power in 1983, and as far as this collection went, as material from Soul Kiss and The Rumour are excluded. The other, from Grease, is her soaring strings and steel guitar ballad, "Hopelessly Devoted To You," showing a mixture of pop and country instruments.

In the US, one of her last gasps at greatness was the smart and punchy title track to her "Physical" album, but singles like thatand lines like "let's get physical/let me hear your body talk" showed her embracing the naughty Sandy side of her. Small wonder the album cover, showing her flushed from an exercise workout, was mistaken for...well, physical things.

From Don't Stop Believin' (1976) comes the melting strings ballad "Sam." And from the previous year, "Have You Never Been Mellow?" taken from the album of the same name, was a leisure mid-paced number with strings, and showed Olivia adding her two cents to the feminist bandwagon: "someone else be strong" or "comfort from inside," reflecting the inner spotlight people began turning on in the 70's. Another song from that album is the country tune "Please Mr. Please," a pleading request to someone not to play a certain song for fear of being reminded of a past love.

Despite the subtitle 1971-1992, the earliest songs here date from 1974's If You Love Me, Let Me Know. For a first-time listen at Olivia, much recommended, and if you love her stuff, let me know. If not, let her be.

It's Three! Three! Three Hits Sets in One!.......2004-01-10

Olivia Newton-John's career can neatly be encapsulated in a few separate phases: early pop/country hits ("I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow"), a big splash in a cheesy movie ("Grease") with the corresponding hits, the sexy pop hits that followed ("Physical", "A Little More Love") followed by a gradual exit from the charts. (Sounds a lot like Sheena Easton - I suppose "Miami Vice" could substitute for "Grease").

I could easily put together two or three CDs worth of chart hits from Newton-John, but Geffen Records didn't offer me the chance, so this one-CD mishmash, featuring virtually no liner notes whatsoever, will have to suffice. It's missing some pretty good songs ("Suddenly," "Heart Attack") and some not-so-great ones ("Soul Kiss," "Tied Up"), but they bagged most of the good ones, including "Twist of Fate," which had basically been unavailable to those who didn't think to buy the "Two of a Kind" soundtrack on CD. Four nondescript songs recorded for this CD are included as well. This covers virtually all of her career, and most fans will accept it as such.

Late note: Universal's "Magic - The Very Best of Olivia Newton-John" now supercedes this set, as it includes all of these songs (save the four newly recorded tunes) and adds "Let Me Be There," "Heart Attack," "Make a Move on Me," "Xanadu," and "Suddenly."

Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love / Paint Me Back Home In Wyoming
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Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love / Paint Me Back Home In Wyoming
Chris LeDoux
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music
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Release Date: 2007-04-03

Tracks:

Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love
Silence On The Line
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Two classic Chris LeDoux CDs combined on one CD, 24-bit digitally remastered and presented with their original album cover art.

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awesome.......2007-06-13

haven't heard most of these songs and their are AWESOME

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