Sound of Country

Sound of Country

ASIN: B0000AC8OV

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Roy Acuff

2. Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline

3. Oh, Lonesome Me - Don Gibson

4. Mama Tried - Merle Haggard

5. King of the Road - Roger Miller

6. Big Midnight Special - Stoney Cooper, Wilma Lee

7. When I Stop Dreaming - Hank Williams, Jr.

8. No Help Wanted - Bill Carlisle

9. Sweet Memories - Frank Ifield

10. It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Louisiana Man - Doug Kershaw,

2. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind - Whitey Shafer

3. Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard

4. I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven

5. First Few Days of Love - Lorrie Morgan

6. Sweet Dreams - Don Gibson

7. Tennessee Waltz - Redd Stewart

8. Honky Tonk Merry Go Round - Patsy Cline

9. Night Train to Memphis - Roy Acuff

10. Torture - Kris Jensen

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Night Life
Hello Walls
Crazy
Funny How Time Slips Away
I Never Cared for You
The Party's Over
Good Times
Me And Paul
Shotgun Willie
Bloody Mary Morning
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Good Hearted Woman (with Waylon Jennings)
If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
Uncloudy Day
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Waylon Jennings)
Georgia on My Mind
Blue Skies
All of Me
Heartbreak Hotel (with Leon Russell)
Help Me Make It Through the Night
Whiskey River (live)
Stay a Little Longer (live)

Tracks:

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Faded Love (with Ray Price)
On the Road Again
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Always on My Mind
Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard)
To All the Girls I've Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias)
City of New Orleans
Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles)
Forgiving You Was Easy
Highwayman
Living in the Promiseland
Nothing I Can Do About It Now
Graceland
Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris)
Slow Dancing (U2 featuring Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael on harmonica)
Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack)
One Time Too Many (with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith) (previously unreleased)

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With 41 tracks drawn from nine record labels, the two-disc Essential Willie Nelson is impressive in its breadth. Disc one is simply superb; it begins with 1961's "Night Life," recorded for the obscure Bellaire label, and moves on to several of Nelson's early 1960s Liberty recordings, an overlooked gem recorded for Monument in 1964 ("I Never Cared for You"), a cherry-picked selection of his RCA and Atlantic sides, and finally his mid-1970s hits for Columbia (where he found his greatest chart success, beginning, in 1975, with the No. 1 single "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"). Disc two, however, is hit-or-miss. Classics like "On the Road Again," "Pancho & Lefty," and "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" are offset by such lesser material as "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (recorded with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias), the phoned-in "City of New Orleans," and the sounds-better-on-paper "Highwayman" collaboration with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. (Just because they all made it to No. 1 doesn't make them "essential.") Nelson's two best albums of the 1990s, Across the Borderline and Teatro, are represented by a paltry two songs. The disc ends with collaborations with U2, Lee Ann Womack, and Steven Tyler and Aerosmith (the previously unreleased "One Time Too Many"). None is particularly worthy of a best-of collection. Still, while it doesn't quite live up to its billing, the Essential Willie Nelson offers an excellent career overview of one of country music's true legends. --David Hill

Customer Reviews:

This will do--til I can buy every CD he's done.......2007-07-06

I didn't like Willie Nelson til I moved to Austin. You can't live there, hear all the good things he's done, and then listen to him and not start liking him. Someone has a problem, there's a storm, a fire--whatever, Willie's there playing and singing his heart out and getting as many of his fellow musicians out doing the same. Now, I want the whole collection because the B-sides are as good as some other folks' A's.

Absolute must have!.......2007-06-28

Great collection of Willie's best. Note though that the songs on the label of the 2nd CD are not the actual order they are recorded on the CD.

How sweet!.......2007-06-15

I am really disappointed with most of the cuts in this collection. For example, I had never heard "Pancho and Lefty" with violins and chorus. Not the Willie I want to hear.

The Essential Willie Nelson.......2007-06-08

I absolutely love this CD. If you are a Willie Nelson fan then you need to add this one to your collection

The Grand Old Man.......2007-04-18

Hard to imagine a world without Willie Nelson's music. This might be the only album you need on a desert island.

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Farrar bares his influences.
Appalling
Good album, but buy it on ITunes
A Beautiful Progression for Jay Farrar
Strong diverse outing for Jay & Co.

The Search
Son Volt
Manufacturer: Transmit Sound/Legacy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MNOXXA
Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

Slow Hearse
The Picture
Action
Underground Dream
Circadian Rhythm
Beacon Soul
The Search
Adrenaline And Heresy
Satellite
Automatic Society
Methamphetamine
L Train
Highways And Cigarettes
Phosphate Skin

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Five albums into Son Volt's career--and a pair into the band's rebirth following leader Jay Farrar's several solo ventures--it's time to bury the encumbering "alt-country" moniker that has dogged Farrar since his days in the genre-setting Uncle Tupelo. While the inexhaustible songwriter relied on guitars to drive 2005's rock-heavy Okemah and the Melody of Riot, Son Volt amends its familiar arrangements on The Search, balancing the instrumentation with piano, organ, and dabbles in a horn section. "Feels like drivin' 'round in a slow hearse," Farrar pleads over repetitive piano and East Indian guitar loops in "Slow Hearse." It's a pensive opener that suggests something is askew, but the horns that kick off "The Picture" literally scream it from the Stax vaults. Farrar dives in and out of genres, tingling the ivories to add subtle alterations to both the gorgeous "Underground Dream" and Imagine-like "Adrenaline and Heresy," turning his band into Gang of Four for the 134-second rocker "Satellite" and singing alongside Shannon McNally on the soulful "Highways and Cigarettes." While it may be impossible for this Son Volt to ever reach the pinnacle of their 1995 debut, no one can accuse Jay Farrar of going through the motions. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

Farrar bares his influences........2007-07-10

After listening to the first 5 songs I was hailing this as his masterwork.When I listened to the whole album I was convinced it was the best complete album I have heard in 20 years.It stayed in my cd player 3 days.The only reason I took it out was to loan it to a friend.It seems to me Jay let some of his influences peek out.The 1st song sounds like a Beatles song.The second song sounds like a Van Morrison tune.The third song sounds like a Led Zeppelin song.The fourth and my favorite has lush backgrounds that remind me of those great Moody Blues songs with mellotron layering.Every song is a treat on this one.Buy it.

Appalling.......2007-06-27

Dull, trite (especially the hard-hitting commentary on the depredations of Chimpy McBushhitlerburton and his Cheneyboy puppetmasters) and did I say dull, and distinguished by an utter absence of melody, inventiveness, or anything that makes music fun to listen to?

It's been ntoed that there's a Farrar camp and a Tweedy camp. I never cared much for Tweedy - but you gotta admit, the guy does try to push the envelope and consistently sets what we capitalists call "stretch targets." Not so Jay, who since the brilliance of Trace seems resolved to produce the same lame album over and over again. That his fans find some deep aesthetic purpose therein speaks less of their delusion than how great a record Trace was: certainly someone who threw this thinderbolt can make lightening strike at least once more time. But it's not to be, and will never. Proof? Quick, hum something from Straightaways or Wide String Tremolo. Or Sebastopol. That's right, you can't, can you? Nor would you want to, if you could. Or nor could you, if you wanted: there's nothing hummable.

Alas, it ain't to be. Jay had one good record in him, that was Trace, and we shall never see its like again. I am starting to believe that his "brilliance" in Tupelo was the result of good old capitalism competitoin with Tweedy, who modest though his talent may be, does make excellent use of it. Jay, unmoored from his old Belleville pal, reveals himself as a lazy, pompus slacker, the sort of boring nut you see journaling in independent coffee houses with a copy of some Said or Chomsky trash under his elbow. The brilliance of Trace, in retrospect, is starting to strike me as dervived less from a spark of the divine within Farrar than the principle that if a monkey sits at a typewriter long enough, he'll produce Shakespeare. By some weird change of evolution and chance, it happened early for Farrar.

Two stars because no mmatter how wretched Jay is, at least he's not Ryan Adams.

Good album, but buy it on ITunes.......2007-06-18

The I Tunes version has bonus tracks bundled into the album price. Two of those bonus tracks - Bicycle Hotel and Carnival Blues - are as good as anything Jay has ever written.

Jay's Gob Iron album, released a few months earlier, is slightly better than The Search.

A Beautiful Progression for Jay Farrar.......2007-05-25

I always suspected that Jay Farrar had a masterpiece in him, but the ever-diminishing payoff I experienced with most Son Volt releases left me feeling less and less certain of my conviction. After listening to "The Search" for two solid weeks, I'm fairly convinced that this is the miracle I've been hoping for. As is usual for a Son Volt record, I required multiple listens before the songs began to sink in, but like a cautious friend, the underlying logic of "The Search" slowly started to reveal itself. This album is deeper than most, so it justifies a lot of playtime, and the more I listened, the more I realized that this is a disk you can keep in your player for a few weeks without growing tired of it, or restless.
As a lyricist, Farrar was never one to reveal himself recklessly, but I notice a few shifts in his methods here that aid in conveying his expressive side. First, the lyrics are more poetic than usual, which does not necessarily mean that they are opaque. Depending on the song, Farrar's words veer from the oblique to the direct and literal. For example, on "Action," he sings, "Break up the old drug pound story, Tortured soul wears an ego sleeve. Heavy hearts and heavy hitters, Bards disease finds the killing floor." These words might not ever mean anything literal to me, but they conjure up rich imagery, while the melody deepens their impact. Elsewhere, on "Adrenaline and Heresy," Farrar sings "She said I still love you, I don't know if I want to spend the rest of my time with you," which is as direct a statement as can be made about a failing relationship. Farrar sings these words with a striking sense of resignation that resounds long after the song ends. "Highways and Cigarettes" is also full of literal imagery ("Best to clear the mind with a Mexicali radio station. Keep an eye out for the border patrol, checking for drugs and so called aliens." He's still very self-serious, but the wordy phraseology and energized interplay of the new band adds an element of fun that had been lacking on previous Son Volt projects.
These words might not resound on the page, but "The Search" benefits immensely from Farrar's melodic sense, which appears to have grown suddenly, and significantly. He is no longer limited by the ideas on his palette, and all sorts of textures help the listener to retain interest. A horn section spices up the high-energy romp of `The Picture," while tasteful keyboards add flavor throughout. Interestingly, there also seems to be an abundance of backward-looped guitars to add a spooky, otherworldly feel to songs such as "Slow Hearse" and "Phosphate Skin." It may take some patience to realize it for yourself, but "The Search" is a beautifully constructed work and I'm finally able to say with some certainty that Jay Farrar and Son Volt have created a minor masterpiece. A Tom Ryan

Strong diverse outing for Jay & Co........2007-05-01

I wasn't exactly sure what to expect with this album, with the pre-release reports that Son Volt was moving in a new direction, adding new instrumentation. Would it be some weird new experimental, unlistenable thing?

After listening for myself, I'd have to to call the new direction more of an enhancement than a departure. The traditional elements of a Son Volt record are still here -- great songs and melodies, sorrowful pedal-steel guitar, some inscrutable social commentary lyrics, and a solid dose of Americana.

But this record is somehow more than other SV albums. It has diverse sounds that we haven't heard on SV songs before, like horns and piano, that blend very nicely with their sound. There are rocking tracks, slow burn tracks, and moody introspective tracks. Every song on this record is strong, which is a lot more than I can say for "Okemah". This is an excellent record from start to finish.

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Classic Cowboy
Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best
Great CD
More than just "El Paso."
Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs

Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000296J9
Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

Big Iron
A Hundred And Sixty Acres
They're Hanging Me Tonight
Cool Water
Billy The Kid
Utah Carol
The Strawberry Roan
The Master's Call
Running Gun
El Paso
In The Valley
The Little Green Valley
The Hanging Tree
Saddle Tramp
El Paso (Full-Length Version)

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A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "Big Iron" (also a Top 30 hit), "Running Gun," and Western classics like "Cool Water," "Billy the Kid," and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release, including "Saddle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). --Colin Escott

Customer Reviews:

Classic Cowboy.......2007-05-27

Although Frank Sinatra is credited with creating the first "concept" album. Columbia might have one-upped Capital with this unique "Old West" collection. Although its been almost 50 years since this jewel was first recorded, it sounds like it was made yesterday. Marty Robbins has had many hit albums in the C/W top ten, but none of them has been as endearing as this 1959 classic. You get "El Paso, "Cool Water" "The Hanging Tree" and 12 more ballards sung by one of Country/Western all-time favorites. I can guarantee, you will continue to listen to these cowboy story songs for years to come.

Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best.......2007-03-20

The lable attached to the CD says "All Time Country Classic". It's misleading. This is an all time classic, period. I first bought this collection as an LP. The front said "High Fidelity", not "Stereo High Fidelity," but as a kid in 1959, I didn't care. "El Paso" was #1 on the pop charts. Marty Robbins had been a "cross-over" artist making the charts with "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation," so I was primed when this album hit. Grammy-winning "Gunfighter Ballads..." set Marty Robbins apart. It isn't country, it isn't '50s pop, it might be Americana or folk music. It is cowboy or western music, I suppose. There are more reasons to own this album than "El Paso." "Cool Water," "The Master's Call." Utah Carol," "and "The Strawberry Roan" are all great songs interpreted by a great voice. "Gunfighter Ballads ..." is what it now says on the CD jacket, a "classic." Marty Robbins died in his early sixties, so many younger ears may not know him. They should, especially if they collect the good stuff from all eras.

Great CD.......2007-03-08

I grew up listeniing to Marty Robbins, and the Gunfighter Ballads is my favorite album and I just had to get this CD...because I use to listen to the music on LP, back in the 80's and I haven't heard the songs for over 15 years...with great imagination, listening to these songs would make it seem like you're watching a very interesting Western movie.

More than just "El Paso.".......2007-01-28

If you want to buy this CD just for "El Paso" you'll be plenty happy. If you allow yourself to listen to the remaining tracks, you'll be very happy. This was Marty's best effort, IMHO.

The remastering is done very well, although the source recording, being in 1959, does have its limitations. Overall, a very enjoyable CD, and well worth the work done to remaster and restore it!

Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs .......2007-01-18

I find the quality of the CD GUnfighter Ballads & Trail Songs to be fantastic. I never thought I would ever find this album in a CD form. This was one of my favorite albums I loved listening to when I was little. My dad loved this album as well and now that my dad passed away. Everytime I listen to this CD I think of my dad. Thanks Amazon for having it on hand for me to purchase it.

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Patsy is timeless!!!!
WONDERFUL!!!
This is a great collection!
Beautiful Collection
What a voice.

Patsy Cline - The Definitive Collection
Patsy Cline
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Essential Willie Nelson

ASIN: B0002B163W
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

Walkin' After Midnight
A Poor Man's Roses (Or A Rich Man's Gold)
.Lovesick Blues
I Fall To Pieces
True Love
San Antonio Rose
Crazy
Strange
She's Got You
Heartaches
Half As Much
When I Get Through With You (You'll Love Me Too)
Imagine That
So Wrong
Why Can't He Be You
Leavin' On Your Mind
When You Need A Laugh
Back In Baby's Arms
Faded Love
Always
He Called Me Baby
Sweet Dreams

Customer Reviews:

Patsy is timeless!!!!.......2007-05-12

Whether you are country or not this is an excellent CD!!! Patsy Cline is one of the great classics of all times!!! Great selections on this CD!!! Definately Definitive!!!! Worth owning and listening to!!!

WONDERFUL!!!.......2007-01-17

This collection is "wonderful". Also, try to see the live show, "Always....Patsy Cline" when it comes to your area. The show is much more than just singing as a "fan" tells the story of her supposed "involvment" with Patsy. Both this CD and the show are "the greatest!"

This is a great collection!.......2006-11-10

I looked for awhile to find a colllection that included almost all the songs I remembered from my younger days. This CD pretty well does that. I have heard a lot of imitators over the years, but no one has come very close to her great style and sound.

Beautiful Collection.......2006-08-30

This is a terrific collection with a wide range of songs from one of the most spectacular voices the music industry has ever heard. Patsy Cline's gorgeous voice and the emotion she put into her songs makes them heartbreaking to listen to, or if an upbeat song, especially fun to listen to. She just can't be topped. I only wish there were a Patsy Cline Christmas album available. I highly recommend this CD to any Patsy Cline or country music fan. Great selection of hit songs!

What a voice........2006-07-30

I just love listening to this old style of music. Patsy Cline has such a pure tone to her voice. I have to remind myself that even though some of these subjects are a little degrading to women it was a different era and it's the lady's voice that I love. I experienced some volume fading and getting louder in few of the songs. But, that's my only complaint.

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LIberal Democrat the Loves Real Country
Awesome!
beautiful song.......
Great GIft
Is ok.

Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits
Johnny Horton
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000026AG
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

North to Alaska
Whispering Pines
Johnny Reb
The Mansion You Stole
I'm Ready If You're Willing
When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
Honky Tonk Man
The Battle of New Orleans
All For The Love Of A Girl
Sink The Bismarck
Comanche (The Brave Horse)
Jim Bridger
Johhny Freedom

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While Louisiana Hayride star Johnny Horton's 1956 Top 10 debut "Honky Tonk Man" strode the line between rockabilly and honky-tonk minimalism, he found his niche in 1959 with a short-lived phenomenon known as the saga song: newly penned tunes, based on or inspired by historical events. The song that rendered Horton immortal? A rousing rendition of folksinger Jimmie Driftwood's War of 1812 number "The Battle of New Orleans," which topped both the country and pop charts for weeks. Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle. He died in a Texas car crash in early November 1960, days before his next single, "North to Alaska" (from the John Wayne film of the same name), hit the charts. While saga tunes understandably dominate this collection, it also includes "Honky Tonk Man" and the ballads "Whispering Pines" and "The Mansion You Stole." There's no better introduction to Horton's seminal recordings. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews:

LIberal Democrat the Loves Real Country.......2007-05-21

The current generation probably doesn't realize that real country was anti-establishment. I loved Johnny Horton and Jimmey Dean (Remember his song PT-109 about "commie-pinko" Jack Kennedy, who acutally FOUGHT in a war?) when I was a kid. Songs about people with gumption-- not mindless clones whose goal in life is to be a religious/corporate lackeys. You have no idea what it is to be an American... although you think you do.

Awesome!.......2007-01-18

When I was younger, my father had a cassette with all of these songs on them, but my mother sold it in a garage sale. Of course I was upset when I looked for it years later, and I was so excited to find this CD! I remembered all the songs and still listen to it frequently. I couldn't be more satisfied.

beautiful song....... .......2007-01-12

I had decided to purchased this cd when I heard some of Johnny's song in the radio.Its a wonderful song and good for easy listening..........

Great GIft.......2007-01-10

Great gift for someone who loves Johnny Horton, It has all of the best and most loved hits.

Is ok........2007-01-06

Buy it for "Battle of NEw Orleans" and "sink the bismark." Enjoy it for "whispering pines" and "north to alaska."

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Everyone should be obliged to have this CD!
Finally!!
Great Album ruined by digital "remastering"
Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Great CD!

Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Patsy Cline
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ASIN: B0000BWVO3
Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

Walkin' After Midnight
Sweet Dreams (Of You)
Crazy
I Fall To Pieces
So Wrong
Strange
Back In Baby's Arms
She's Got You
Faded Love
Why Can't He Be You
You're Stronger Than Me
Leavin' On Your Mind

Amazon.com essential recording

In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline's biggest hits--all of them from the country singles market--including "Walkin' After Midnight," "Sweet Dreams (Of You)," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces." Producer Owen Bradley surrounds Cline's full-throated, emotionally charged vocals with lush, sophisticated arrangements that set the standard for Nashville's "countrypolitan" sound. Before Shania Twain found a new (though not necessarily improved) way to combine country and pop in the 1990s, this was the top-selling country album of all time by a female artist. --Rick Mitchell

Album Description

This is the longest selling album in the history of country music. Released in 1967, this collection of a dozen gems from country music's greatest female voice raced to #5 on the country charts upon release and has spent over 630 weeks on the country catalog charts since reissue on CD in 1988. Digitally remastered/HDCD. MCA. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Everyone should be obliged to have this CD!.......2007-06-11

This original record from 1967, the best selling one in country history,
was released for the first time 4 years after Patsy's tragic death. It
was then remastered in 1988 and now we have this 2003 re-remastered
copy of those 12 worldwide known songs. The quality is so outstanding
that it seems to have Patsy singing it in your living-room right in
front of you. Her voice as well as the music backed up with the Jorda-
naires sounds so perfect and clear that it's unbelievable that these
songs were recorded between 1957 and 1963. Patsy has become an icon
since the day she died in that plane crash. At that time she was at
the peak of her success (after surviving from a terrible car
accident a year earlier) with 9 top ten hits in both the C&W and Top 100 hits
in less than a 24 months period.
She was the first female "cross-over" artist; that means her country
hits also scored on Billboard's POP/Rock charts.
Those who just enjoy beautiful music, should owe this special edition from 2003
of the queen of "country blues". She was the inspiration of artists like Brenda Lee,
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dottie West, Wanda Jackson etc. etc.
Absolutely A MUST!

Finally!!.......2007-05-30

I have owned the vinyl LP of this album since I was about 11 (I'm now 40) and I am thrilled to finally find that someone has released a version that is true to the original album as far as the artwork and the way "Walking After Midnight" was done on that album. I have a copy of what was supposed to be her greatest hits album from the early 90's and I've got to tell ya, it left alot to be desired, just from the crappy artwork and the cut of "WAM" they used. Not to downplay that version (all her music is just wonderful), but when you are used to something, you feel sorta cheated after you've spent your money and then get something different with no warning.

Great Album ruined by digital "remastering".......2007-03-22

All the songs on here are Patsy's most requested. Although I prefer her earlier work to her "hits", this truly showcases her most heartfelt way with ballads.

Unforunately, you're not hearing it the way it was recorded, thanks for digital touching and compressing.

If you want to hear Patsy's music the way it should sound, get yourself a good turntable and look for her vinyl LPs.

Older records don't sound good on compact discs.

Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits.......2007-02-17

Patsy's beautiful voice & delivery is true pleasure & every song on this CD is an absolute Winner!

Great CD!.......2007-01-04

If you like Patsy Cline, you have GOT to get this. It has a terrific line up of her classic songs.

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What a great album of music
The Very Best of Dwight Yoakum
Also a gift
I would have given 10 stars
Great Album!!!

The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00028HOP4
Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

Honky Tonk Man
Guitars, Cadillacs
Little Sister
Little Ways
Please, Please Baby
Streets Of Bakersfield - Buck Owens
I Sang Dixie
Long White Cadillac
Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose
You're The One
Suspicious Minds
It Only Hurts When I Cry
Ain't That Lonely Yet
A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Fast As You
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
I Want You To Want Me
Things Change
The Late Great Golden State
The Back Of Your Hand

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Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently released six-song EP, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., added to the buzz and helped land him on Warner Bros./Reprise. Now, twenty years later comes The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, a superb single-disc distillation of the four-CD box, Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years. With 20 tracks spanning his recording career and sequenced in chronological order, the set rolls along with gusto and verve. While not covering every one of his releases (the Christmas and covers releases are omitted, for example), there are some singles and soundtrack entries that fall nicely into place. --David Greenberger

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What a great album of music.......2007-06-29

Dwight's unique style and approach make this an album you won't tire of listening to. I enjoy using the shuffle play feature with this album. Each song becomes a nice surprise.

The Very Best of Dwight Yoakum.......2007-03-09

Dwight Yoakum's voice is soulful in sexy sultry waves over the listener.

Also a gift.......2007-01-28

This was a gif tfor my Sister. I have not heard any complaints as to the quality of the CD as of yet.

I would have given 10 stars.......2006-09-16

Best CD in my collection. Terrific backing.
Congratulations on all those who made this recording possible.

Great Album!!!.......2006-09-15

I'm not a BIG fan of Country Music now a days. But when I listen to this Album, it's a different story. Being from Kentucky Myself it's good to have a Country ICON from here. If you like flat out Country Rock N Roll, please buy this album you want be sorry.

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Bluegrass at it's best
Bluegrass music
Great Bluegrass
TOE TAPPING PLEASURE
This is one of my all-time favorite CDs

Appalachian Stomp: Bluegrass Classics
Various Artists
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ASIN: B0000033GO
Release Date: 1995-02-28

Tracks:

Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweet... - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
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You Don't Know My Mind - Jimmy Martin
Rocky Top - Osborne Brothers
Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Orange Blossom Special - Stanley Brothers
The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
Dooley - The Dilliards
Nine Pound Hammer - The Kentucky Colonels
Roving Gambler - The Country Gentleman
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Del McCoury
Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe & The New South
Little Cabin Home On The Hill - Ricky Skaggs
Love You In Vain - Alison Krauss & Union Station

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Appalachian Stomp is an ideal starter disc for those just beginning to explore bluegrass. Mostly this is because its 18 selections are so immediately accessible. The "classics" here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience. That explains why along with timeless standards such as Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and the Osborne Brothers' "Rocky Top" we also get "Dueling Banjos" from the film Deliverance, a cut that is to classic bluegrass what Walter Murphy is to Beethoven. There are less immediately obvious choices too, though. If your previous exposure to bluegrass doesn't go beyond the Holy Trinity of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers--for example, if you've never heard J.D. Crowe & the New South's stellar example of progressive bluegrass, "Old Home Place," or experienced Jimmy Martin lay down the law on his rousing "You Don't Know My Mind"--then you're in for a high-lonesome surprise. --David Cantwell

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Bluegrass at it's best.......2007-05-08

Great CD with top bluegrass artists and great soundtrack. Definitely worth buying.

Bluegrass music.......2007-03-27

It's the best 'Bluegrass' CD that I've heard in quite a while...I would suggest it to anyone who loves Bluegrass!!!

Great Bluegrass.......2007-01-10

This is a real hand clapping foot stomping collection. I play it at least twice a week.

TOE TAPPING PLEASURE.......2007-01-06

This is a great introduction to Bluegrass Music for anyone interested in the genre. It gives you a feel for the high lonesome sound Bill Monroe made famous. The songs will have you tapping you toe in no time!

This is one of my all-time favorite CDs.......2006-07-17

If you love bluegrass at its best, this CD is for YOU!
Slow, fast, and in between beats!
Love it!

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All Time Greatest Hits: Roger Miller
Great Songs, Just As You Remember Them!
Roger Miller
Big River
Truly a classic!

All Time Greatest Hits: Roger Miller
Roger Miller
Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008WI8H
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

Dang Me
Chug-A-Lug
Do Wacka Do
In The Summertime (You Don't Want My Love)
King Of The Road
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
Engine Engine #9
One Dyin' And A Buryin'
Last Word In Lonesome Is Me
Kansas City Star
England Swings
Husbands And Wives
I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone)
Walkin' In The Sunshine
Little Green Apples
Me And Bobby McGee
Where Have All The Average People Gone
South
Tomorrow Night In Baltimore
River In The Rain

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All Time Greatest Hits: Roger Miller.......2007-06-11

Music preview helped sell the product, fast delivery and condition just as described. Great doing business A++

Great Songs, Just As You Remember Them!.......2007-05-30

I remember my father listening to Roger Miller when I was 6 or 7 years old. He had a small reel to reel tape that we took to the beach with us. It was the kind where you had to feed the tape onto the empty reel, and then rewind it when it was done. I know, dinosaur technology, but I have fond memories of those days.

This album of Roger Miller's best songs sound as great today as they did back in the 1960s. I've had "King of the Road" stuck in my head for days, thanks to this album. I also love the aw-shucks sound of "Dang Me", "Chug A Lug" and "Do Wacka Do". My kids loved listening to "You Can't Roller Skate In a Buffalo Herd" until I actually refused to play it again.

Not all Miller's songs are funny or nonsensical, though. He sings about heartbreak and true love in "In the Summertime" and "Little Green Apples". He also does an impressive version of "Me and Bobby McGee".

In all, there are 20 classic Roger Miller songs on this album. There's also a great CD insert telling about Miller's life and his untimely death from throat cancer. I was surprised to read that Miller wrote most of his own songs, and that he was a gifted fiddle player and guitarist. So take a walk down memory lane - anyone who grew up in the 60s will remember these songs! And it's great that his albums can entertain another generation.

Roger Miller.......2007-05-19

This album is better than I remembered. I was not a country western fan in the late 70s and 80s, but I did have a Roger Miller album than used to get into the mix now and then. I remember liking it more than I expected so I ordered a new copy recently and was surprised at how much more I enjoy it now.

Big River.......2007-05-07

Great selection and finally River In The Rain from Big River again available.

Truly a classic!.......2007-01-17

Roger Miller was a talented artist and this CD is a joy to listen to. Yes, a fond trip down memory lane each and every time we hear it. The songs possess a sense of humor and a sensitiviy for the human condition.
We highly recommend this collection of superb timeless music.

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Wanted: The Outlaws
One of the Classics!
Texas music
Original Was Better
Awesome!

Wanted! The Outlaws
Waylon Jennings , Willie Nelson , Jessi Coulter , and Tompall Glaser
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000002WWJ
Release Date: 1996-04-30

Tracks:

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - Waylon Jennings
Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me) - Waylon Jennings
I'm Looking For Blue Eyes - Jessi Colter
You Mean To Say - Jessi Colter
Suspicious Minds - Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter
A Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Heaven And Hell - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Me And Paul - Willie Nelson
Yesterday's Wine - Willie Nelson
T For Texas - Tompal Glaser & Band
Put Another Log On The Fire - Tompal Glaser & Band
Slow Movin' Outlaws - Waylon Jennings
(I'm A) Ramblin' Man - Waylon Jennings
If She's Where You Like Livin' (You Won't...) - Jessi Colter
It's Not Easy - Jessi Colter
Why You Been Gone So Long - Jessi Colter
Under Your Spell Again - Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter
I Ain't The One - Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter
You Left A Long, Long Time Ago - Willie Nelson
Healing Hands Of Time - Willie Nelson
Nowhere Road - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

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Less successful when it's sentimental (Waylon Jennings' "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys") than when it's wry (Willie Nelson's myth-puncturing "Me and Paul"), this cash-in compilation of previously released cuts was just in time to grab the first platinum record ever awarded a country album. It's not bad, but both Jennings' contemporaneous Dreaming My Dreams and Nelson's Red Headed Stranger are more nuanced tastes of the good-bad-but-not-evil-ol'-boy lifestyle. (Not to mention much of Tompall Glaser's own Outlaw compilation.) This 1996 CD reissue adds nine more tracks from the era as well as a new Jennings-and-Nelson version of Steve Earle's "Nowhere Road." --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Wanted: The Outlaws.......2007-05-28

I think this reissue of the 70's classic is a perfect example of less being more. I am not certain if any of the new additions make this CD better than the first version. In fact, to be honest, I think the first version is a 5 star classic, while this reissue overall deserves a solid 4 stars. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys is the best of the bunch here, while the cover of Suspicious Minds is outstanding. I always loved the two songs from Colter, and I think the addition of more from her lessens the overall impact of You Mean to Say and Looking for Blue Eyes. A great CD. The sound here is fantastic.

One of the Classics!.......2007-03-09

I have wore mine out. I need to buy a new copy.

Texas music.......2007-03-08

A real gem and the heart of the outlaw country music movement. The recent re-release with the songs added that didn't make the first album is a nice addition to any collection. Makes you wonder why they didn't include them the first time around. Who knows. If you thought it was great on vinyl you'll love it on cd, just a Fantastic album!

Original Was Better.......2007-02-28

In agreement with most of the reviews here, if you love the 70's country music so-called outlaw movement, you will love the music here, I have the original on a still working 8 track, I was very excited to get an
expandanded edition of this on disk, but to be honest, the longer edition looses something for me, I do "like" Jessi Colter, but as we all know, she does not carry this album, extra tracks included 3 Jessi solos in a row, then 2 Jessi duets with Waylon, that part of the Cd was a bit much for me, but besides that one pont, this is still a great set of tunes and an essential part of country music history to own.

Awesome!.......2007-02-24

I grew up listening to this album on 8-track with my dad. I love every song. Brings back the best memories.

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