Honkytonk Angels [Import]
Honkytonk Angels [Import]
ASIN: B000055YLE
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1. Ruby (Dont Take Your Love To Town) - Kenny Rogers
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2. Makin Believe - Dolly Parton
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3. Ruben James - Kenny Rogers
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4. Just Dropped In - Kenny Rogers
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5. Release Me - Dolly Parton
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6. Shine On Ruby Mountain - Kenny Rogers
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7. Elvira - Kenny Rogers
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8. It Wasnt God Who Make Honkytonk Angels - Dolly Parton
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9. Me And Bobby McGhee - Kenny Rogers
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10. Little Blossom - Dolly Parton
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11. Poem For A Little Lady - Kenny Rogers
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12. Letter To Heaven - Dolly Parton
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13. Tulsa Turnaround - Kenny Rogers
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14. Two Little Orphans - Dolly Parton
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15. For The Good Times - Kenny Rogers
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16. Girl Left Alon - Dolly Parton
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17. Ticket To Nowhere - Kenny Rogers
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18. Where Does Rosie Go - Kenny Rogers
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Weton-Wesgram. 2000.
Honkytonk Angels,Rogers/Parton,Country
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- memories
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TV Land Presents: Favorite TV Theme Songs
Cyndi Grecco , and Jones, Jack
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00006EXIL
Release Date: 2002-08-20 |
Tracks:
- I Love Lucy Theme - Wilbur Hatch
- Dragnet - Ray Anthony
- The Twilight Zone - Rod Open
- Bonanza - Al Caiola & His Orchestra
- The Andy Griffith Theme - Earle Hagen
- The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Earl Scruggs
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- Green Acres - Eddie Albert
- Jeannie - Hugo Montenegro
- Batman Theme - Neal Hefti
- (Theme From) The Monkees - The Monkees
- Star Trek (Main Title & Closing Theme) - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Mannix - Lalo Schifrin
- Hawaii Five-O - Mort Stevens & His Orchestra
- Theme From The Brady Bunch - The Brady Bunch
- Come On Get Happy - The Partridge Family
- Those Were The Days - Carroll O'Connor
- And Then There's Maude - Donny Hathaway
- Good Times - Jim Gilstrap
- Movin' On Up - Oren Waters
- The Rockford Files - Mike Post
- Them From S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage
- Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
- Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco
- Chico And The Man - Jose Feliciano
- Welcome Back - John Sebastian
- What's Happening!! - Henry Mancini
- Barney Miller - Jack Elliott
- Charlie's Angels - Jack Elliott
- Love Boat Theme - Jack Jones
- Angela (Theme From 'Taxi') - Bob James
- It Takes Diff'rent Strokes - Gloria Loring
- Theme From Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys) - Waylon
- Theme From Magnum, P.I. - Mike Post
- The Theme From Hill Street Blues - Mike Post
- Theme From Dynasty - Bill Conti
- Theme From 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It Or Not) - Joey Scarbury
- Thank You For Being A Friend - Cynthia Fee
Album Description
TV Land brings you 40 of your favorite evening show theme songs. Highlights include 'Happy Days', 'The Greatest American Hero', 'Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)', 'Laverne & Shirley', 'I Dream Of Jeanie', 'I Love Lucy', 'Welcome Back, Kotter', 'The Love Boat', 'Hawaii Five-O', 'The Golden Girls' and many, many more. 2002. Rhino.
Customer Reviews:
memories.......2007-02-22
This cd is excellent it has a lot of very good music and true to the original sound, Am getting a lot of enjoyment,highly recomended
TV Theme Songs.......2007-01-13
This is a great CD for people who watch a lot of TV -especially TV LAND and reruns of old shows when shows had actual theme songs. I took the CD to work and everyone loved trying to figure out what show the songs were from.
TV themes.......2006-07-05
Not all what I expected, not all of the tunes are the original recordings you remember as the TV themes.
Deja Vu.......2006-02-17
Listening to these familiar themes as performed by the original artists certainly brings back wonderful memories! I was particularly pleased, not only with the quality of the pieces, but with the actual performances themselves, just as we remembered them!
Batman and Munsters.......2005-09-08
Despite what I've read in many of the other reviews, Batman and the Munsters ARE NOT the original versions that we heard on the intros to the shows themselves. To hear the original themes for those songs, go to the TV Land Theme song home page.
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City Of Angels: Music From The Motion Picture
Gabriel Yared
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000062VP
Release Date: 1998-03-31 |
Tracks:
- If God Will Send His Angels - U2
- Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
- Red House - Jimi Hendrix
- Feelin' Love - Paula Cole
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- Angel - Sarah McLachlan
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This soundtrack to City of Angels has a mighty tall order to fill. The film is a remake of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, and the German director is known for his effective use of music. But where Wenders can call on his friends such as R.E.M. and Elvis Costello to contribute songs, City of Angels feels more like a marketing device. No less than half the selections are by Warner Bros. artists, including some new music by Alanis Morissette, her first since Jagged Little Pill. That song, "Uninvited," is the album's highlight, a restrained modal ballad in the mode of Zeppelin's "Kashmir." The rest alternates between other female stars such as Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan and bluesy selections from Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, and Eric Clapton. --Steven Mirkin
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Angels of Shanghai
Bob James
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000025WPI
Release Date: 2007-04-10 |
Tracks:
- Celebration
- Gulangyu Island
- Endless Time
- Theme 'Onara' From 'DAEJANGKEUM'
- Dream With Me
- Angels' Theme: The Invention Of Love
- The Magic Paintbrush
- Melodia: A Quiet Place For Two
- Butterfly Lovers
- Dialogues: The Universal Language
- Angela With Purple Bamboo
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This project pairs smooth jazz keyboardist/composer Bob James and his Fourplay bandmates bassist Nathan East (who sings on the ballad "Endless Time") and drummer Harvey Mason, with guitarist Jack Lee and the Angels of Shanghai, who are masters of the er-hu, a two-string violin, the lute-like pipa, a harp-zither called a guzheng, and the dizi bamboo flute. James' sympathetic pianisms best blend with the Sinocentric sonorities and syncopations on the hip-notic "Gulangyu Island" the Asian and French-inflected "Melodia: A Quiet Place for Two" and "Angela with Purple Bamboo," a Silk Road update of James' beloved theme from the TV show Taxi. "By combining the spirit of American jazz with the beauty of traditional Chinese instruments by absorbing and learning from this rich Eastern cultural heritage,"" James writes in the liner notes, "I have sought to explore ways that we would communicate openly and freely; improvising and sharing our discoveries." --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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Arc Angels
The Arc Angels
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000003TA6
Release Date: 1992-04-14 |
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- Paradise Cafe
- Sent By Angels
- Sweet Nadine
- Good Time
- See What Tomorrow Brings
- Always Believed In You
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- Spanish Moon
- Carry Me On
- Shape I'm In
- Too Many Ways To Fall
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Concept: Charlie Sexton in dream date with a second killer guitarist/vocalist (Doyle Bramhall II), Stevie Ray Vaughan's rhythm section and producer Little Steven. Result: A can't-fail combo that swings like vintage Stones/Bad Company. --Jeff Bateman
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Gifts of the Angels
Steven Halpern
Manufacturer: Inner Peace Music
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000003IVB
Release Date: 1994-10-18 |
Tracks:
- Gifts Of The Angels
- Radiance
- Ode To Orpheus
- Celestial Prophecy
- Eternally
- Awakening
- Pachelbel's Canon
- Sand Dance
- Angels On High
- Inner Peace
- Earthrise
- Higher Ground
- Crystal Suite
- The Light In Your Eyes
- Starborn Suite
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Steven Halpern has more than 60 recordings in circulation, including audio projects ostensibly designed to enhance memory, wealth, and weight loss. He even has his own trademarked slogan--the Halpern Effect(tm)! (Take that, Mozart.) Thus, it's easy to view Halpern's high-volume output since 1975 less as art and more like a commodity. Gifts of the Angels, a 68-minute compilation (sampling eight albums and adding two original pieces), offers a few nuggets that suggest Halpern's music at times can stand on its own merits, detached from all of its deep-bliss, New Age pretensions. "Celestial Prophecy," is a nicely detailed (which is not to say complex) excursion on solo piano that briefly stirs the senses, and the title track from Higher Ground is a delicate space-music standout. Meanwhile, the 1970s-flashback tonality of Halpern's electric piano (one piece, "Earthrise," can be traced to Halpern's debut release, Spectrum Suite) dates several of the tracks included here. Nevertheless, the disc's pace, which drifts deeper into the ether on each of the last five tracks, is nicely constructed for those aiming to nod off into a state of contented nothingness. --Terry Wood
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We Don't Need to Whisper
Angels and Airwaves
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000F8DTDC
Release Date: 2006-05-23 |
Tracks:
- Valkyrie Missile
- Distraction
- Do It For Me Now
- The Adventure
- A Little's Enough
- The War
- The Gift
- It Hurts
- Good Day
- Start The Machine
Album Description
Tom DeLonge knows how he'd like people to listen to We Don't Need to Whisper, the debut album from his new group, Angels and Airwaves. "I really want the room to be dark, with black light or a candle," he says. "People should have headphones on, and they should be really comfortable, maybe sitting on the floor, leaning against the bed. I spent a year and a half working on this record, trying my hardest to give people a moment of escapism. All I ask is 50 minutes of a lowered heart rate."
In just over a decade with Blink-182, DeLonge went from the San Diego suburbs to the top of the world. The band sold over 20 million records worldwide, won a wide assortment of MTV awards, and sold out arenas everywhere from London to Tokyo.
So in early 2005, with Blink-182 on a break, DeLonge came to a crossroads. Rather than do a solo album or another version of his well-reviewed side project, Box Car Racer, DeLonge decided to start a new band. He recruited Box Car Racer guitarist David Kennedy, bassist Ryan Sinn (formerly of the Distillers), and drum god Atom Willard (previously of Rocket from the Crypt and the Offspring). The quartet headed into the studiowhere they would try anything to find a new sound or a new song.
The name Angels and Airwaves popped into DeLonge's head while he was driving. He wasn't certain about the name at first, but then he realized that "Angels and Airwaves" abbreviated as "AAA"and that if he inverted the middle A, it spelled AVA, which is also the name of Tom's daughter.
"This is the next half of Tom DeLonge's life. If you liked anything that I did in the past, this is very much the next step."
"The magic of Blink-182 was that the three of us came together to create this amazing band," he says. "But now there's no holds barred. I get to be me completely with a new group of talented musicians. We are on a different intensity level with this record, and it's something that we can't wait to share with the rest of the world.
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American Angels
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0001ADB4Q
Release Date: 2004-02-10 |
Tracks:
- Holy Manna
- Abbeville
- Wondrous Love
- Sweet Hour Of Prayer
- Jewett
- Dunlap's Creek
- New Britain
- The Morning Trumpet
- Resignation
- Poland
- Wayfaring Stranger
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- Shall We Gather At The River
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This, Anonymous 4's final recording, is a break from their usual "early music" periods and locations; it presents American music, religious in nature, from the 18th and 19th centuries. And it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Their normal, exquisite technique and purity here blend to sound the way we imagined the ladies' choir in church meetings in America past might have sounded: sweet, sincere, and with harmonies recognizable yet somehow fresh. Some of the songs begin with the women singing "fa, so la" exercises, which was called "shape note" singing because some places taught singing with notes as shapes--circle, rectangle, diamond, triangle. But it's the music that counts, and there are treasures here. They include two versions of "Amazing Grace," one familiar, one with an unusual melody and a piece called "Blooming Vale" which is as sophisticated as anything on their previous albums. "Shall We Gather at the River" is performed with a clarity and loveliness that makes us forget that it's normally sung as background to movies about the Great Depression. The foursome sometimes sing in rich harmonies and occasionally alone or in pairs or trios. This is glorious Americana and highly recommended. --Robert Levine
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Seven Angels on a Bicycle
Carrie Rodriguez
Manufacturer: Back Porch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000GPI1AA
Release Date: 2006-08-15 |
Tracks:
- Seven Angels On A Bicycle
- Never Gonna Be Your Bride
- Dirty Leather
- He Ain't Jesus
- Waterbound
- '50s French Movie
- I Don't Want To Play House Anymore
- Before You Say Another Word
- Big Kiss
- Got Your Name On It
- He's Already Gone
- St. Peter's
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Although this is officially singer/fiddler Carrie Rodriguez's solo debut, her musical mentor Chip Taylor--with whom she has recorded three previous discs of duets--is an integral ingredient. Taylor wrote or co-wrote all but one track and is also the album's producer. With Seven Angels on a Bicycle, the partnership that worked so well on Red Dog Tracks, The Trouble With Humans, and Let's Leave This Town has yielded another winner. The songs shift between folk, country, and even jazz, the latter aided by the amazing Bill Frisell, whose delicate, restrained textures and effects create an introspective mood as much as Rodriguez's lovely, sensitive voice. Much of this atmospheric release floats by with barely-there percussion, haunting tunes, and a languid yet exquisite sense of subtlety rare in contemporary music. Rodriguez goes into hoedown mode only once--on the frisky "Never Going to Be Your Bride"--but her fiddle colors these songs in muted shades that perfectly enhance their emotional concerns. She's a stirring singer--somewhat like Suzanne Vega--whose vocal innocence in tracks like "This Kiss" provides a perfect counterpoint for lyrics predominantly concerned with lost love and lovers. This is a stark, beautiful set of pensive songs that results in a low-key jewel of an album made for listening, not dancing. The talented Rodriguez needs no further proof that she is very much ready for prime time. --Hal Horowitz
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Passover
The Black Angels
Manufacturer: Light In The Attic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000EPF76S
Release Date: 2006-04-11 |
Tracks:
- Young Men Dead
- The First Vietnamese War
- The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven
- The Prodigal Sun
- Black Grease
- Manipulation
- Empire
- Better Off Alone
- Bloodhounds on My Trail
- Call to Arms
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Every now and again a band capable of not just capturing the spirit of a bygone era but portraying it with uncanny authenticity and accuracy arrives, and in an era where music lovers seem increasingly ravenous for psychedelic-inflected rock, Austin's the Black Angels are precisely that act. Following on the heels of their recent Turn On, Tune In, Drone Out EP, the quintet transports listeners to a land of napalm-bright LSD flashbacks with an elegantly unholy sound that proves both eerie and ethereal. "Young Men Dead" and "The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven" walk the line between celebratory dance and grief-filled dirge. These tracks unnerve the conscious mind with unsettling drones and vocals that seem to have emerged from some parallel universe where the struggle, strife, promise, and even the seedy underbelly of the Love Generation lives on in each primal drum beat and louder-than-loud bent note from a guitar that could not have been built anywhere on Earth, but has been drenched with the sweat and blood of a generation on the verge of either victory or collapse. If there is an act in American popular music with a future brighter and vaster than the cosmos, the Black Angels are it. --Jedd Beaudoin
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- One of the best albums of the year so far
- MELEE is a great band
- You must buy this album!
- Great Musicians with Outstanding Songwriting
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Devils & Angels
Mêlée
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000NQ28CY
Release Date: 2007-04-03 |
Tracks:
- Built To Last
- Rhythm Of Rain
- Frequently Baby (She's A Teenage Maniac)
- For A Lifetime
- Drive Away
- Can't Hold On
- Imitation
- Love Carries On
- She's Gonna Find Me Here
- Biggest Mistake
- You Got
- Stand Up
- You Make My Dreams
Album Description
Devils & Angels is modern rock influenced by the melodic craftmanship of singer-songwriter piano men containing a sharp sense of pop hooks and harmonies. This album showcases frontman Chris Cron's soaring vocals and expressive piano playing and elevates Melee to heavenly places far beyond indie-alternative-pop-punk.
Customer Reviews:
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-05-25
Finally beautiful melodic pop music circa 2007. And I really thought Pop was surely headed for the dumpster with non melodic drone like pieces of hooks.
Songs! finally, real songs!
Melee, you have restored my faith in American pop music once again. I no longer have to rely on Brit pop for my craving for melody. There is still hope....
One of the best albums of the year so far.......2007-05-12
This album is amazing. It's one of the best ones I've bought this year. I mean, I knew it'd be good, but I didn't know it'd be that good.
MELEE is a great band.......2007-05-12
Loved the entire CD. Easy listening and very good songs. Makes you want to dance and sing along.
You must buy this album!.......2007-04-17
After hearing Melee's previous album, Everyday Behavior, I was really excited to hear what Devils & Angels would sound like. I was anticipating a great album, and I wasn't disappointed. These guys are true artists. Their songwriting is virtually flawless. There's songs to dance to & there's songs to chill to, but every song is just as amazing as the next.
Favorite Songs: Built to Last, She's Gonna Find Me Here, Can't Hold On, Love Carries On
Get this album; you'll be thrilled that you did!
Great Musicians with Outstanding Songwriting.......2007-04-13
I came to this album with no preconceived notions; my teenaged son is a big fan of their previous album and asked me to preorder this for him from their website. He has taste similar to my own, so when he suggested that I listen to it (with, in retrospect, a strange grin on his face) I was more than happy to comply.
I was totally unprepared for how impressed I would be. This album is absolutely tremendous. There are so many good things to say about the band as a whole and the album in particular that it's hard to know where to start. They're more than just good musicians - they're good musicians who've obviously worked hard at creating a unified sound. Rather than being a collection of soloists they truly play together. Lead guitarist Ricky Sans, for example, is clearly a talented player but he never beats you over the head with solos designed to highlight his skill. His work supports and adds highlights to well designed arrangements. Vocalist/pianist Chris Chron is a great singer, and his piano playing runs the gamut from elegant lead work to an energetic channeling of the late Nicky Hopkins.
None of that counts for much without good material. Well, they've got good material. In fact, they've got GREAT material. The temptation is to say that the songwriting is the star of the album, but that denigrates the musicianship. All of the original songs (cowritten by Chron and Sans and arranged by the whole band) have wonderful melodies that you'll be humming for days, and mature well thought out lyrics. For one example, the opening lines of "Drive Away" are "I bet you want to know who's coming/Coming to the party tonight/My friends are drinking satisfaction/I've been mixing tonic and spite."
I won't pretend that I can give you a list of the best songs on the album, since that list changes day by day. (There hasn't been a single day since the album came in the mail when I haven't heard at least a few of these songs.) The best I can do is this: my favorites today are "Built To Last," "For A Lifetime," "Drive Away" and "Stand Up." When it came time to chose the songs I'd add to my (moderately small) iPod, I chose every song on the CD, something I've never done before!
One word of caution: Warner Brothers Records has done a horrible job of promoting or even distributing this album. I check for it in stores all the time, and have yet to find it, including in stores that carry the band's first album from a much smaller label. Since I clearly hope that you'll buy this album, let me suggest that you order it right here, right now. This is a "Can't Lose" purchase.
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- I'll Be Alright [Import]
- If I Could Only Fly
- In A Nineteenth Century Lifetime
- Indian Boy
- Island Time
- Juke Box Boogie [Import]
- Just Another Phase [CD-single] [Import]
- Kin to the Wind: Memories of Marty Robbins
- ...Like an Atheist in Nashville [Explicit Lyrics]
- Lisa Hewitt
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