Country Rules

Country Rules

ASIN: B000008TCY

Track Listings

1. Redneck Night

2. Snake Eyes on a Pair of Dice

3. Full Tequila Moon

4. Rattlesnake Snake

5. Cowboy Gator

6. Wildtires Burning

7. You're Everything I Wanted

8. Let's Follow Our Hearts

9. Last Call for Alcohol

10. Rose Song

Tracks:

J.D.'s Word Of Wisdom
Get Up John
I Hope You've Learned
Think Of What You've Done
Another Night
Drunken Driver
Little Maggie
Amanda Jewell
If I Lose
Ridin' That Midnight Train
Rank Stranger
Somehow Tonight
Rawhide
Well Glory

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"Country rocks ... but bluegrass rules." If Ricky Skaggs was looking for a manifesto for his long-awaited bluegrass comeback, he couldn't have done much better than this disc's five-second preamble. Contractually barred from recording bluegrass for more than 12 years, Skaggs has obviously been champing at the bit. After the aforementioned introduction, he promptly unleashes an instrumental "Get Up John" that still has smoke wafting from my CD player. Dandy versions of "Little Maggie," "If I Lose," and "Rank Stranger" follow, to single out just a few. The musicianship here is uniformly superb, especially Skaggs's own mandolin playing, the guitar work of Bryan Sutton, Bobby Hicks's fiddling, and even a nice guest turn from Jerry Douglas. If there's any justice, the commercial success of Bluegrass Rules will send a strong message to record companies: Bluegrass music can and does sell records, especially when it's as flawlessly executed as Skaggs's latest. Let's just hope we don't have to wait as long for the next one. --Mary Park

Customer Reviews:

wow!.......2007-01-13

This has not left my CD player since I purchased it. I know it was done a few years back; but, it is definately worth every single penny. Ricky Skaggs is just amazingly talented.

wow........2006-12-22

wow. there really isnt much more to say. if you have any appreciation for talented musicians playing beautifully composed pieces of music in any genre then you'll love this right off the bat. i know you're not supposed to be able to wear out cd's but i've gotta be getting close with this one. throw this one in and just drive and let all the troubles of the world be lifted.

i love ricky's country but his bluesgrass rules.......2006-08-14

this is one of those bluegrass albums. you cant be without, i love everysong from this album not a bad one at all. bluegrass albums are my favorites by him i was raised on bluegrass music. and i know alot about ricky skaggs, from my dad who is also a mandolin picker and singer and he had the great joy of meeting ricky's sister at a studio once... would love to meet the man himself someday if your a bluesgrass or a rickyskaggs fan then get the album you'll be glad you did.

Pretty good, certainly not their best.......2006-03-02

but the band is tight and sounding as good as ever. The material (selections) is a bit weak overall and the first and last cut add nothing. The length is disappointing at 35m er so. Their LIVE at the Charleston Music Hall and Brand New Strings are both much better efforts. The LIVE album is particularly good and even more surprising that it's a LIVE album to begin with. You can feel their energy in that...that's one of the things missing here. Still a good listen but look for a discount on it (I got it for under $10 on the music streamer I use) as the length and a $15+ price tag would have wound me up. ;-) ...enjoy...Dave

Not for the faint of heart.......2005-09-25

This is an exceptional CD. The instrumental talent and Ricky Skagg's one of a kind voice makes this a must have CD for anyone who enjoys BlueGrass. For anyone new to BlueGrass this is an excellent example of the genre. Find somewhere comfortable to sit with a nice breeze and just lean back and listen. If there was a school where the new pop singers of country(and I use that term country loosely for the new generation)could learn about country's roots. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder would be the schools masters and this CD the book to read from.

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wonderful
Inspiring
A worthwhile sleeper
Rosanne is cooler than her cohort
Rosanne Cash's Amazing Journey

Rules of Travel
Rosanne Cash
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
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King's Record Shop

ASIN: B00008BX1F
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

Beautiful Pain (featuring Sheryl Crow)
44 Stories
I'll Change For You (featuring Steve Earle)
Rules Of Travel
September When It Comes (featuring Johnny Cash)
Hope Against Hope
Will You Remember Me
Three Steps Down (featuring Teddy Thompson)
Closer Than I Appear
Western Wall
Last Stop Before Home

Amazon.com

It's oddly coincidental that Rosanne Cash's first No. 1 country hit was "Seven Year Ache." As it turns out, it's been seven long years since her previous album, 1996's 10 Song Demo, and though she'd written an album's worth of songs after that, her voice suddenly gave out due to a polyp on her vocal chords. Thanks to voice therapy, Cash was able to resume singing and recording, and the result is the hauntingly beautiful Rules of Travel. Tastefully produced by husband John Leventhal and featuring guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, Steve Earle, Teddy Thompson, and Johnny Cash, the album is a showcase for Cash's trenchant, soul-baring songs about love and mortality. Nearly every song is infused with a brooding melancholy, even the ones with sweet musical hooks ("Closer Than I Appear," "I'll Change For You"). When you hear the poignant "September When It Comes," a duet with her father and one of the album's highlights, you can't help but be stirred hearing them sing, "When the shadows lengthen and burn away the past/they will fly me like an angel to a place where I can rest." Rules of Travel is an impressive musical return from one of our most gifted singer-songwriters--and her voice, by the way, sounds as good as ever. --David Hill

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Customer Reviews:

wonderful.......2007-03-24

i haven't heard rosanne cash in far too long. this is a wonderful re-introduction to a very talented singer songwriter. i thuroughly enjoyed it

Inspiring.......2006-05-12

This album inspired me to get into more rootsy, more down home music that I usually don't listen to. Roseanne Cash has developed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful career with her own personal brand of country, pop, rock & folk and more. I saw her perform most of these songs on Austin City Limits and a couple of music videos and was very impressed. I'm glad I've rediscovered her smooth, soulful voice again. "Rules of Travel" is a piece of pop and country music that is just great. This album is rockin, soulful, joyful and mournful. The arrangements of the songs are really good. When you strip away all of the glitter, glossy production, and record company push in popular music, you get something honest and real, something like "Rules of Travel". I really like this album to to point that I listen to it every day.

A worthwhile sleeper.......2005-08-16

I've had this CD for a couple of years, and I have to admit, when I first got it I wasn't terribly impressed. It wasn't "Seven Year Ache" and it wasn't "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" and I was listening to a lot of Melissa Etheridge. This album doesn't jump up and grab you by the throat, but it has staying power. I listen to it more now than I did when I first got it. How often can you say that about an album?

Rosanne is cooler than her cohort.......2005-08-02

I saw her perform most of these songs on Austin City Limits. I must admit I hadn't paid much attention to her since her debut album, back when I was playing in country bands.
Much of this material is kinda introspective, but hey, on the plus side you get great vocals, well crafted songs, tons of sincerity and just flat out integrity from this great artist who doesn't have to pretend she is anything she isn't. And these days, that is pretty refreshing!
I think I am becoming a fan.

Rosanne Cash's Amazing Journey.......2004-04-26

I had kind of forgotten what a unique voice Rosanne Cash has been over the years until I saw her play a brief live set on our local cable channel in Philadelphia. As soon as I heard her sing the wonderful title song and the poignant "Last Stop Before Home," I knew I had to find this CD. I'm glad I've rediscovered her emotive, husky voice again, especially having heard the backstory about her near seven year fight to regain her voice after polyps were discovered on her vocal cords.

"The Rules Of Travel" is easily Rosanne's best album since the dark "Interiors," the chronicle of her breakup with then husband Rodney Crowell. Eleven ruminations on the pain of love and loss, her voice conveys the deep-hued melancholy that first struck me with its honesty back when "Blue Moon With Heartache" made me a fan. Producer and new husband John Leventhal frames each song with great care, making the guest appearances sound like more than random duets. Steve Earle adds his gritty tone to "I'll Change For You," underscoring that song's ultimate falsity. As much as the change is wished for, there's no way it's ever going to come. Teddy Thompson (son of folk legend Richard Thompson) has picked up the same kind of wanderer's eloquence his father has mastered over the years for "Three Steps Down." (Which, by the way, is one of three songs Rosanne did not have a hand in wirting, but was cowritten by Marc Cohn of "Walking in Memphis" fame. Jakob Dylan of the Wallflowers and Joe Henry also contribute good work.)

But the best of the lot has to be "September When It Comes," a duet with Rosanne's father Johnny. It certainly becomes hard to remain separated from the song when the elder Cash sings "They will fly me like an angel to a place I can rest." It's an amazing moment on a great album. Maybe Rosanne won't break back into the spotlight with "The Rules Of Travel," but if you're reading this, you can certainly do your part by getting yourself a copy.

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Jesse can do it all!

Bending the Rules
Jesse McReynolds
Manufacturer: Oms Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0006HBZN8
Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

Bending the Rules
Witch Grass
Blowin' Up a Storm
Vicious Circle
Night Runner
Cumbanchero
Waltz of Joy
Limehouse Blues
Sweet Georgia Brown
Water's Edge
Alabama Jubilee
Okeechobee Wind

Album Description

On this recording Jesse is joined by a true fiddle genius, young Travis Wetzel. Travis pushes Jesse to new heights and together the two create exciting arrangements of eight original Jesse McReynolds compositions, and four other traditional songs.

Ed Morris (CMT) named Jesse McReynolds' OMS Release "Bending The Rules" as one of the "TOP 10 Country Albums" of 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Jesse can do it all!.......2005-11-11

Bending or breaking the rules doesn't always guarantee the creation of great music, but in this case the "bending" has made the music soar. Two great artist traded energy and licks to produce a cd of diverse music. Each piece has just the arrangements of mandolin and fiddle. From the speed demon "Blowin' up a Strong" to a standard that I thought I would not want to hear again, until now, "Sweet Georgia Brown."
I saw Jesse and the Virginia Boys recently, at Fort Bledsoe Bluegrass Festival, playing at 9:30 of a cold, cold night, but his hot playing, found on this cd, heated audience! Highly recommended!

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Not to be missed
Excellent, fun music

Cowgirls (1996 Original Cast)

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

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Colette Collage (1994 Studio Cast)
Brownstone the Musical (2003 Studio Cast)
Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman
The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast)
Mary Poppins (2005 Original London Cast)

ASIN: B0000014ZE
Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

Overture (Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique, Opus 13)
Three Little Maids (Gilbert And Sullivan)
Jesse's Lullaby (Music By j. Brahms)
Ode To Connie Carlson
Sigma, Alpha, Iota
Ode To Jo
From Chopin To Country (Music By Frederic Chopin)
Kingdom Of Country (Music By C. Converse/M. Murfitt)
Songs My Mama Sang (Traditional Hymn, Addidtional Music By M. Murfitt)
Heads Or Tails
Love's Sorrow
Don't Call Me Trailer Trash
Honky Tonky Girl
Every Saturday Night
Don't Look Down
They're All Cowgirls To Me
Saddle Tramp Blues
It's Time To Come Home
We're A Travelin' Trio
Sunflower
Concert Medley
House Rules
Cowgirls

Customer Reviews:

Not to be missed.......2007-06-24

I never tire of listening to this CD. I saw the show in Atlanta several years ago and then again in Nashville--featuring Mary Murfitt herself--and think it is wonderful. I'm always surprised at how such a hilarious/silly premise can set the stage for a moving exploration of friendship, relationships between parents and children, and the joy that comes in facing and conquering our fears. I remember sitting at the side of the theater in Nashville and watching the audience, which previously had been rolling with laughter, be spellbound when the cast began "Songs My Mama Sang" with that gentle mandolin strumming in the background. It was magic--and this "little" show with great writing and thoughtful performances made it happen. I only wish it were performed more often, but then it takes a really talented cast to make it work. There will always be the CD, though.

Excellent, fun music.......2000-05-03

This is a strong woman's musical with great music that doesn't get tiring to listen to. I'd recommend it for anyone wanting to perform a great musical for theatre.

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Recent Trash From NatLamp Purchasers
Awesome! The Best Gay Trucking CD Ever!

National Lampoon's Rules of the Road
National Lampoon
Manufacturer: Uproar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000C0FA5
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

What Goes On On The Road
Thumbin'
Bone-Smugglin' Son Of A Gun
Cock Smoking Across The USA
Weiners And Waffles
Pig-Bottom Texan Truck Driving Man
Caught In The Grill Of Loneliness/Flying High Into The Sky
Antiquin'
There's No 'I' In Teamster
Mamma Mia That's a Truck
Free As A Truck
Why Can't I Drive To Hawaii

Amazon.com

As if Van Wilder wasn't clue enough, the National Lampoon's once-vaunted imprimatur on a comedy project is hardly the guarantee of satirical reverie it once was. This first album of new material to bear the NL logo in a couple decades should be cause for celebration instead of mere chuckles--and perhaps a little head-scratching. It's not that the slickly-produced tracks on this faux greatest hits collection (authentic down to mock artist bio's and illustrated lyric sheet) don't work as amusing white trash send-ups, it's just that in their prime, the Lampoon might have seen fit to season an album with but one of these rambunctiously obnoxious trucker jibes. The satire is mostly all-too-predictable--trucker as lonely, sexed-up deviant/crossdresser/closet homo/drug abuser/fat ass, etc.--and one in which the socio-politico (the off-key sing-along "There's No I in Teamster") and surreal (the furniture-tweaked mall-prowlers of "Antiquin'"; the boozy Dean Martin send-up, "Mama Mia That's a Truck") jabs that once characterized Lampoon projects in their prime get decidedly short shrift--or is it shift? Indeed, parodying the likes of C.W. McCall in the age of Eminem may be its most sublime joke. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Recent Trash From NatLamp Purchasers.......2006-08-13

The National Lampoon name has been purchased by a group that has no sense of humor whatever but intends to market old properties and mix in new junk, betting you can't tell the difference until after you buy it. Basically this includes anything put out after 2002. There was ONE Five Star Review up until mine -- Guess what a Shlock Meister might do to sell such a CD! Hint, a ___ and his ___ are soon ___. I recommend that people who have heard this CD and know what it contains get some reviews in as well.

Awesome! The Best Gay Trucking CD Ever!.......2003-09-07

Of course, it's also probably the only album filled with gay trucking songs, but never mind -- this is funny! The best thing the Lampoon has done in years.

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Everything Counts/Truck N Roll Rules
The Bosshoss
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000PWRCI6
Release Date: 2007-06-25

Tracks:

Everything Counts * King Calavera
Truck'n'roll Rules
Ride On
Everyting Counts * Whiplash

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Go To Blazes Plus

Boarding House Rules
Tom Heyman
Manufacturer: Invincible Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

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Deliver Me

ASIN: B00004YL8N
Release Date: 2000-11-22

Tracks:

Till I Forget Her Name
Eggs And Whiskey
Baby Likes
Bottle Full Of Wishes
Boarding House Rules
Born To Bleed
Gravedigger
Sixteen Blocks To Go
Out Of My Mind Again
Sweet Siren Song
The Loving Kind

Customer Reviews:

Go To Blazes Plus.......2001-02-27

What can be said about the guitar playing history of Tom Heyman,cutting his chops on the DC/Philly scene in classic alt-rock legends Go to Blazes? His playing in Map of Wyoming,or on his own,on this solo disc? Tom is a master at the styles he knows and lives.Period. The GTB cds that came out,the live concerts that ended way too late,and the alcohol consumed both onstage and in the crowd are the stuff of local legend. I'm waiting to see the return to the East of Tom either on his own or with bandmates MOWY. Buy it and drink one for me.

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wonderful
Inspiring
A worthwhile sleeper
Rosanne is cooler than her cohort
Rosanne Cash's Amazing Journey

Rules of Travel
Rosanne Cash
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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Black Cadillac
The Wheel
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The Very Best of Rosanne Cash
King's Record Shop

ASIN: B00008NEGF
Release Date: 2003-03-25

Tracks:

Beautiful Pain - Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow
44 Stories
I'll Change for You - Rosanne Cash, , Steve Earle
Rules of Travel
September When It Comes - Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash
Hope Against Hope
Will You Remember Me
Three Steps Down - Rosanne Cash, Teddy Thompson
Closer Than I Appear
Western Wall
Last Stop Before Home

Amazon.com

Rosanne Cash Photos

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10 Song Demo
Black Cadillac
The Very Best of Rosanne Cash

Customer Reviews:

wonderful.......2007-03-24

i haven't heard rosanne cash in far too long. this is a wonderful re-introduction to a very talented singer songwriter. i thuroughly enjoyed it

Inspiring.......2006-05-12

A worthwhile sleeper.......2005-08-16

Rosanne is cooler than her cohort.......2005-08-02

Rosanne Cash's Amazing Journey.......2004-04-26

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I thought I would try something different !

Country Rules
The Wolves
Manufacturer: Fox
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000008TCY
Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

Redneck Night
Snake Eyes on a Pair of Dice
Full Tequila Moon
Rattlesnake Snake
Cowboy Gator
Wildtires Burning
You're Everything I Wanted
Let's Follow Our Hearts
Last Call for Alcohol
Rose Song

Customer Reviews:

I thought I would try something different !.......2000-01-27

If you want to try a different style of country, I suggest you try "Country Rules". I think you will find this an historic CD -- especially if you like the sound of Garth Brooks.

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No Rules
Michele Moore
Manufacturer: Prairie Wolf Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAA2LK
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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