Greatest Country Album [Import]

Greatest Country Album [Import]

ASIN: B0002LNEN2

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
32 mighty fine country gems, on two CDs, from all time country superstars including Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, & Bobby Gentry. EMI Gold. 2004.

Tracks:

Watching the River Flow
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Lay Lady Lay
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
All I Really Want to Do
My Back Pages
Maggie's Farm
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Tracks:

She Belongs to Me
All Along the Watchtower
Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
If Not for You
It's All over Now, Baby Blue
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
When I Paint My Masterpiece
I Shall Be Released
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Down in the Flood

Album Description

Limited edition Japanese pressing of the remastered 1971 album features 2 CD's with the 21 original tracks packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Sony. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Several Different Styles Here, All Good.......2006-04-03

There is a song on this record "Tomorrow is a Long Time" which is just about one of the best songs I've every heard. It's from a concert that, if all of the performances were delivered this well, then I don't know why they didn't release the whole show. Also I agree that it would have been nice to have a whole record of Bob Dylan and Happy Traum together. It also would have been nice to have a whole record produced by Leon Russell, because as we see with the two songs he produced on this record, "Watching" the River Flow" and "When I Paint My Masterpiece" Mr. Russell knew how to get a good rocker out of Mr. Dylan. Still, even though we don't have the records it would have been nice to have, we have snippets here of what they could have been. Several different styles, all good, but then Bob Dylan is always reinventing himself, but to reinvent himself a couple times on the same record, amazing, simply amazing.

This is a Fine Collection, Mighty Fine.......2006-04-03

This originally came out as a double record which was not only a greatest hits record, but it had a lot of new songs on it as well. The three songs, "I Shall Be Released", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and "Down in the Flood", recorded with banjo player Happy Traum are just superb. I, for one, wish he would have recorded the whole album with him. What a joy that would have been. Dylan is in fine voice on those songs. They are so upbeat. What a great end to the set.

Then there is the beginning. The Leon Russell produced "Watching the River Flow" is quite a rocker and so is "When I Paint My Masterpiece" also produced by Leon Russell. There are plenty of Dylan standards on this record as well and one wonders how in the world they picked them, because to my way of thinking just about every song, from every LP released up to this time, could have been included. This is a fine collection, just fine. Mighty fine.

An Excellent Collection.......2006-04-03

This is a very interesting collection. The songs, though are all very good, just don't seem to flow as well (at least for me) as they do on "Greatest Hits, Volume 1." Sticing the acoustic, "Don't Think Twice" between the Rocking "Watching the River Flow" and "Lay, Lady Lay" just someone seems not right. I would have grouped the three early acoustic songs together along with the very excellent "Tomorrow is a Long Time" a live song that until this record came out, had been unreleased. It is such a good song and maybe should have been grouped with its brothers. All that being said, this is a very good collection with some outstanding songs you're just gonna love and even with my problem with the grouping, I still have to give this record five stars.

Plenty Jewels and Gems on Greatest Hits Two.......2005-10-30

This Double Record was a shocker when it came out, because it not only had some of Dylan's Greatest hits, but it had plenty of new stuff as well, and some stuff that had been left behind. "Tomorrow is a Long Time," one of Dylan's best acoustic songs, heretofore unreleased, is presented here live, taken from the 1963 Town Hall Concert that Columbia never released, but should've (If anyone from CBS/Sony is reading this, Town Hall would make an excellent addition to the official Bootleg Series). Two other unreleased gems are the hard driving, hard rocking, "Watching the River Flow," produced by Leon Russell and the beyond superb "When I Paint My Masterpiece" also produced by Mr. Russell.

But in my opinion, the three jewels of this album are the songs recorded with banjo player Happy Traum, "I Shall Be Released", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and "Down in the Flood". Oh, wouldn't it have been great if Dylan would have reworked a whole albums worth of those songs he'd done down in that basement with the Band. Not that the "Basement Tapes" aren't good, they are excellent, but I sure do love they way he's done these three songs. I guess they just wetted our whistles for "Blood on the Tracks." The Bob Dylan we knew and loved was coming back.

This record is packed with plenty more gems, like "The Mighty Quinn," taken from the Isle of Wight show with Bob singing in his countryfied voice, "She Belongs to Me" from "Bringing it all Back Home", "If Not for you," from "New Morning," and lots more. Thumbs up from me for this one.

Jack Priest, Writer from the Darkside

Some Great Stuff on this Album.......2005-10-30

Because there were only four albums between "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" and "Greatest Hits" a lot of people didn't think there was enough hit material for another record, but they were wrong, almost every song on "Highway 61" and "Bringing it all Back Home" are so called hit material. However, the folks at Colombia and Mr. D himself were aware of the criticizism they might get, so they included enough new stuff to keep his fans happy, such as three new recordings Dylan did with banjo player Happy Traum "Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)," "I Shall Be Released," and "You Ain't Going Nowhere." Also this is the only album where you'll find, the two songs Leon Russell produced for Dylan, "When I Paint My Master Piece," and "Watching the River Flow" and then there is that haunting version of "Tomorrow is a Long Time," recorded live. This is a must have five star record. Plus there is that nifty minature LP sleeve, a must for collectors like myself.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane