Our Country
Our Country
ASIN: B0006IIOOU
Track Listings
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1. Sweet Home Alabama [Live] - The Charlie Daniels Band
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2. Sunday in the South - Shenandoah
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3. Home - Joe Diffie
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4. P.T. 109 - Jimmy Dean
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5. 16th Avenue - Lacy J. Dalton
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6. Rise and Shine - Tommy Cash
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7. I've Been Everywhere - Lynn Anderson
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8. Private Wilson - Marty Robbins
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9. Eagle - Waylon Jennings
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10. City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson
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Our Country,Various Artists,Platinum Disc,Country,Country-Pop,Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan,Pop,V/a Compilations
Average customer rating:
- Outstanding Performance and Collection of Songs
- Great Patriotic CD
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American Anthems
Gramercy Brass , and Lambert
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000063COR
Release Date: 2002-08-27 |
Tracks:
- The US Field Artillery March
- America, The Beautiful
- Anchors Aweigh
- Amazing Grace
- The Marines' Hymn - From The Halls Of Montezuma
- God Bless America
- Stars And Stripes Forever
- The National Hymn - God Of Our Fathers
- The Thunderer
- The Liberty Bell
- Marching Through Georgia
- Americans We
- Eternal Father, Strong To Save
- The Star Spangled Banner
- America
- American Medley
- Battle Cry Of Freedom
Customer Reviews:
Outstanding Performance and Collection of Songs.......2006-03-29
I am impressed with the quality of the Gramercy Brass Ensemble's performance of these traditional American Patriot pieces.
Beautiful sound, outstanding musicianship, classic yet spirited arrangements, and wide variety from national anthems to branch-specific armed forces hymns.
I would recommend this recording to anyone looking to hear American Patriotic music at its best. A very nice CD.
Great Patriotic CD.......2004-02-21
This is a great CD if you ever need or want to have patriotic music. American music played by an American brass band. This group sounds terrific. For those of you unfamiliar with brass band, it is comprised of 25 brass players and 2 or 3 percussionists. You get a rich, full sonority and these guys play GREAT! This CD is HIGHLY recommended to all bras players who want to hear tone quality, timbre, intonation, and more. Band directors would be wise to use this as a model for their students for everything from pitch to phrasing. Everybody else would be wise to pick it up if you like Americana. I know people who use this for their commute because it is upbeat and uplifting. Excellent CD!!!! You may also want to check out their second CD entitled "Christmas Time Is Here". Also highly recommended.
Average customer rating:
- GREAT!
- A relaxing journey into our Colonial past
- Fantastic!
- Cold Mountain type music that's great
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Colonial America
Manufacturer: Maggie's Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000C9Z9X
Release Date: 2003-09-01 |
Tracks:
- Rickett's Hornpipe/ Fishers Hornpipe
- Maiden Lane/ Jack O' Lent/ Chestnut/Bonny Broom
- Parting Friends/Primrose
- Flowers of Edinburgh/East Neuke of Fife
- Prelude / La Catherine
- Planxty Browne/Planxty Burke
- Cutie Clat Her
- John Come Kiss me Now
- Scots Tune
- Carolan's Farewell to Music
- A Port
- Yeil, yeil
- Kedron/Saint's Delight/Promised Land
- Gird the Logie
- La Belle Cavalier
- La Luxillier/La Balanje
- Federal Overture
- Death & Life
Album Description
Spirited new sounds from across the sea to the shores of the New Land. From the first colonists to the American Revolution and the birth of our republic Hesperus Early Music Ensemble's music reflects a time of new ideas, freedom and vitality. In town and village, parlor and ballroom, from the Appalachians to the great concert halls hear the musical pulse of early American music performed on a wide variety of folk and early music instruments. Includes: lively country-dance tunes, evocative Shape Note Hymns, old time Appalachian fiddle tunes, graceful European parlor music, French cotillions, divisions and improvisations. Introduction -The English Colonies in America were a patchwork-not just of territories whose boundaries became state lines, but of people from different places and classes with widely different values and experiences. This recording presents music from that patchwork; from England, the Colonial homeland; Scotland and Ireland, the homes of the largest groups of immigrants outside England; and France, the ally of the Patriots, and music written in the United States. More recordings by HESPERUS from Maggie's Music are Celtic Roots featuring Scottish fiddler, Bonnie Rideout and Early American Roots. Hesperus Ensemble is THE sought after musical group for period music that is both authentic, and most important fun, lively and spirited. They are frequent performers at the Smithsonian's Institute of American Music and can be heard on the soundtrack or the Paramount film with Johnny Depp entitled Sleepy Hollow! Excerpts from liner notes:2.A Set of English Country Dance Tunes: Maiden Lane, Jack O'Lent, Chestnut, Bonny Broom - The visionary London music publisher John Playford first published his English Dancing Master in 1651. It was reprinted 18 times over the next 77 years and is still popular today. 3. Parting Friends/Primrose - These tunes have come down to us in choral arrangements called shape-note hymns .
Customer Reviews:
GREAT!.......2007-05-20
This cd travels everywhere with me and you can easily imagine a ball at Monticello given by Mr. Jefferson when you hear it.
Try not to daydream too much while driving as i had done several times..lol..it's hard not to with this cd..:)
Perfect for a colonial reenactment or party.
A relaxing journey into our Colonial past.......2006-03-16
I bought this CD to provide me with another dimension to my studies of period events. It truly contains a wealth of music, and takes it place as an important addition to my musical library. Living in the Mt Vernon area, I often travel with the CD playing while visiting historical places, and it provides a wonderful companion to "set the mood" for the myriad locations in the area. The quality of the sound is remarkable, the musicians superb, and the breadth of song selection provides a musical landscape for the period. Highly recommended!!
Fantastic!.......2004-03-04
I first heard the "Colonial America" CD by Hesperus when I visited Monticello recently (the home of Thomas Jefferson) where they were playing the songs in the gift shop. Imagine my dismay to find that only one cassette tape was left of the fabulous music of Hesperus; however, that tape held me spell-bound all the way home, from Virginia to North Carolina.
It was an incredible journey from the past that has stayed with me since, and every day I drive that one hour back and forth to work. This music has changed everything about the trips, and I can't wait for more.
Thanks to Amazon.com I was able to buy all three CD's, including "Early American Roots," "Colonial America" and the incredible "Celtic Roots" with the most beautiful violas imaginable.
Thank you Hesperus! Please play more!
Cold Mountain type music that's great.......2003-11-15
Novels and movies like Cold Mountain, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and Song Catchers are showing the growing interest in traditional music and this recording hits the mark. It is music from the days of early America--the time when the first colonists come to America. You can hear the fiddle playing tunes still popular in the Appalachian mountains today and also hear shape note music arranged by Hesperus as wonderful instrumentals. The music takes you to a time when folks were making music in their homes-before TV, before the internet! This recording is good for teachers or educational purposes too- with informative liner notes. All the music is played on folk and early music instruments and it's lively and an enjoyable listen.
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Our Mother the Mountain
Townes Van Zandt
Manufacturer: Fat Possum [Old]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000OZ2CZ2
Release Date: 2007-05-15 |
Tracks:
- Be Here to Love Me
- Kathleen
- She Came and She Touched Me
- Like a Summer Thursday
- Our Mother the Mountain
- Second Lover's Song
- St. John the Gambler
- Tecumseh Valley
- Snake Mountain Blues
- My Proud Mountains
- Why She's Acting This Way
Average customer rating:
- My Come Runneth Over With Love
- Amazing Ed
- Greatest Hits
- mary in the morning
- Enjoyable for fans of the Sixties style
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Who Will Answer? And Other Songs of Our Time/My Cup Runneth Over
Ed Ames
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000008BJ
Release Date: 1997-10-21 |
Tracks:
- Who Will Anwser?
- Blowin' In The Wind
- Yesterday
- Monday, Monday
- Pale Venetian Blind
- Massachusetts
- I Wanna Be Free
- Cherish
- The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)
- My Cup Runneth Over (From 'I Do! I Do!')
- In The Arms Of Love (From 'What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?')
- Au Revoir (From 'Sherry!')
- Don't Blame Me
- Watch What Happens (From 'The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg')
- Melinda (From 'On A Clear Day You Can See Forever')
- Bon Soir Dame
- There's A Time For Evrything
- True Love (From 'High Society')
- Our Love Is A Living Thing
- Edelweiss (From 'The Sound Of Music')
- Try To Remember (From The Musical 'The Fantastiks')
- Time, Time
Customer Reviews:
My Come Runneth Over With Love.......2007-06-11
I enjoyed the selections on this double album CD. The quality was very good.
Amazing Ed.......2006-08-28
A great CD that showcases the fantastic talents Of Ed Ames. Every selection is a hit. You will listen and enjoy this CD over and over again.
Greatest Hits.......2004-12-27
I'm also looking for Mary in the Morning. It is surprising the song is not on the greatest hits as it's still played on the radio.
mary in the morning.......2003-10-21
i am looking for "mary in the Morning by ed ames.. where can i find it
where can i find "mary in the morning" by ED Ames??/
Enjoyable for fans of the Sixties style.......2003-07-18
I disagree in the strongest possible terms with the reviewer who called the "But Who's To Answer" song almost laughable. In my opinion, it's the highlight of this cd. However, I was fortunate to see Ed Ames performing live in the mid 1990s where he performed this song a hundred times better than it sounds on this cd. That's not as much a criticism of the way the song sounds on this cd as much as how his voice (it was almost operatic at the live performance) improved with time and apparent training as well as what seemed to be additional or changed lyrics which were perhaps updated for the times but the socially conscious spirit of the song stayed the same. His performance and the lyrics of that song moved me so much that if I ever make it as a singer and can obtain the lyrics and music to that song, I will make it my theme song. "Watch What Happens" is an underperformed song that is another highlight of this cd. I hope Ed Ames will continue to perform and perhaps a recording of one of his later (1990s to present) will come out on cd. The other songs on this cd are nothing special, but just having the only version on cd (that I know about) of "Who's To Answer" makes this cd worth buying.
Average customer rating:
- Must have CD
- Perfect CD for all my children.
- For Our Children is much better
- A must have
- kids music adults can listen to
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For Our Children Too!: To Benefit Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Kid Rhino
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ASIN: B0000033UA
Release Date: 1996-09-03 |
Tracks:
- Brahm's Lullaby - Celine Dion
- The Greatest Discovery - Elton John
- If I Had A Hammer - Luther Vandross
- A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Cher
- If - Babyface
- My Buddy - Amy Grant
- Puff (The Magic Dragon) - Seal
- Over The Rainbow - Faith Hill
- You Are My Sunshine - Bryan White
- Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor
- Brown Baby - Toni Braxton
- Both Sides Now - Natalie Cole
- Come Take A Trip In My Airship - Natalie Merchant
- Angel's Lullaby - Richard Marx
- Snowflakes - Vanessa Williams
- Love Lights The World - David Foster
Amazon.com
The 1996 follow-up CD to For Our Children packs less romp and more hush. Although the stellar lineup includes Celine Dion, Seal, Faith Hill, Natalie Cole, Cher, Luther Vandross, and others, For Our Children, Too is really a lullaby album and its predecessor is a party record. There are more ballads, more R&B singers, and more arrangements mired in overproduction. That said, if you want a gentler collection of songs, this might be your first choice. Seal turns in a poignant rendition of "Puff the Magic Dragon," while Natalie Cole's "Both Sides Now" shows how universal that old Joni Mitchell classic really is. James Taylor and Carly Simon's memorable hit "Mockingbird" is also featured, along with Cher doing a predictable interpretation of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" from Cinderella. Celine gives "Brahm's Lullaby" her trademark Dion treatment and Luther Vandross turns the protest anthem "If I Had a Hammer" into a moving meditation on peace and equality. Did someone say this music might be too sophisticated for kids? Still, it's for a great cause. --Martin Keller
Customer Reviews:
Must have CD.......2005-10-21
I bought this cd for a friend many years ago. I am now having a baby of my own. This cd was a must have for my own child!!
Perfect CD for all my children........2004-12-11
I bought this CD 8 years ago when my daughter was born. She listened to it each night up until her brother was born in 2002. Now we're expecting to pass it on to their new sibling in Aug of 2005. Amazing how one CD can put 3 different children to sleep so peacefully!
For Our Children is much better.......2004-09-23
I was so disappointed with this CD I am writing my very first review for Amazon. The first CD in this "collection" is so fun and very charming. This one lacks on many levels.
A must have.......2004-01-30
We received this CD as a gift when our first child was born. I have bought it for all our friends who have babies since then. It contains the most beautiful renditions of many songs from our own childhood. Everyone who has received it, loves it!!! In addition, the few songs we were unfamiliar with turned out to be some of our favorites!
kids music adults can listen to.......2003-11-23
This CD, along with the original For Our Children, contains artists you know, singing songs you remember from your childhood. We had to replace our first version of this CD, because the kids played it so often that they scratched it beyond any use at all. My 5 year old son knows all the words to If I had a Hammer, and You are my Sunshine, and his favorite of all time is Puff the Magic Dragon- this version is the best I've ever heard. My personal favorite is the Elton John song about a boy who first meets his newborn brother. Stop now and go get this CD- you won't be sorry!!
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Modern Rock 1982-1983
1. Down Under -- Men At Work 2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -- Eurythmics 3. Come On Eileen -- Dexy's Midnight Runners 4. Hungry Like The Wolf -- Duran Duran 5. Shake It Up -- The Cars various artists , 6. She Blinded Me With Science -- Thomas Dolby 7. Too Shy -- Kajagoogoo 8. (She's) Sexy + 17 -- Stray Cats 9. Steppin' Out -- Joe Jackson 10. In A Big Country -- Big Country , 11. Love My Way -- The Psychedelic Furs 12. Mexican Radio -- Wall Of Voodoo Track Title 1. True -- Spandau Ballet 2. One Thing Leads To Another -- The Fixx , 3. Back On The Chain Gang -- The Pretenders 4. Vacation -- The Go-Go's 5. Love Plus One -- Haircut 100 6. I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow 7. Our House -- Madness 8. Always Something There To Remind Me -- Naked Eyes , and 9. Only The Lonely -- The Motels 10. I Ran (So Far Away) -- A Flock Of Seagulls 11. Goody Two Shoes -- Adam Ant 12. I Know What Boys Like -- Waitresses
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000NHZHKS |
Product Description
Year: 1982
Track Title
1. Down Under -- Men At Work
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -- Eurythmics
3. Come On Eileen -- Dexy's Midnight Runners
4. Hungry Like The Wolf -- Duran Duran
5. Shake It Up -- The Cars
6. She Blinded Me With Science -- Thomas Dolby
7. Too Shy -- Kajagoogoo
8. (She's) Sexy + 17 -- Stray Cats
9. Steppin' Out -- Joe Jackson
10. In A Big Country -- Big Country
11. Love My Way -- The Psychedelic Furs
12. Mexican Radio -- Wall Of Voodoo
Track Title
1. True -- Spandau Ballet
2. One Thing Leads To Another -- The Fixx
3. Back On The Chain Gang -- The Pretenders
4. Vacation -- The Go-Go's
5. Love Plus One -- Haircut 100
6. I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow
7. Our House -- Madness
8. Always Something There To Remind Me -- Naked Eyes
9. Only The Lonely -- The Motels
10. I Ran (So Far Away) -- A Flock Of Seagulls
11. Goody Two Shoes -- Adam Ant
12. I Know What Boys Like -- Waitresses
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- Red Steagall CD
- Two classic western albums
- Red's the Best!
- Best of Red Steagall
- good news and not-quite-good news
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Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music/For All Our Cowboy Friends
Red Steagall
Manufacturer: Koch Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00004785W
Release Date: 2000-03-14 |
Tracks:
- Lone Star Beer And Bob Wills Music
- My First Night Without You
- Under The X In Texas
- Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
- Neons And Nylons
- Truck Drivin' Man
- Alexis From Texas
- Whatever Made Me Think
- I Saw Your Face In The Moon
- The Walls Of This Old Honky Tonk
- Rodeo
- For All Our Cowboy Friends
- Dawson Legate
- Rodeo Blues
- Two Pairs Of Levis And A Pair Of Justin Boots
- Freckles Brown
- My Adobe Hacienda
- Bandito Gold
- The Night The Copenhagen Saved The Day
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- My America
Amazon.com
This CD pairs two prime Red Steagall records from the mid-1970s and reveals just why the Texan has become a pillar of Western music. The 1976 collection Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music marks the pinnacle of his recording career, offering a wonderful assortment of Western swing and Texas tonk. The title creed remains his biggest hit, but there are a number of other original songs--barroom ballads like "Neons and Nylons" and "Whatever Made Me Think" and two-steppers like "My First Night Without You" and "The Walls of This Old Honky Tonk"--that display his ample gifts as a direct, down-to-earth songwriter (he was a successful songwriter before he was a performer). Steagall enlisted a superlative cast of musicians including guitarist Leon Rhodes, fiddler Johnny Gimble, and steel man Sonny Garrish to help him carry out his vision. For All Our Cowboy Friends, from the following year, is a quaint and heartfelt tribute to the cowboy and rodeo lifestyle (he was a rodeo rider and horse breeder before he was a songwriter) that oozes personality and authenticity. Together, these two albums form a definitive Western music manifesto. --Marc Greilsamer
Customer Reviews:
Red Steagall CD.......2007-05-14
Lone Star Beer & Bob Wills Music is a good track, but For All Our Cowboy Friends is a GREAT track.
Two classic western albums.......2005-01-14
Red was never a big name in country music but he carved his own niche and made a good living in the process. He spent many years performing on the rodeo circuit. His main influences are western swing (especially Bob Wills) and cowboy music (especially Marty Robbins). The two albums presented here demonstrate Red's music superbly.
Lone star beer and Bob Wills music, the first album here, is a western swing album. Red wrote or co-wrote five of the songs here including the title track. One of the other songs is a brilliant cover of Truck driving man, perhaps the best-known song here. In its way, this album is a fitting tribute to Bob Wills although none of his songs are covered here.
For all our cowboy friends, the second album, is a collection of cowboy songs. Red wrote six of the ten songs here including the title track. There are covers of My adobe hacienda and Little Joe the wrangler but Red avoided all the cowboy classics. With original songs as good as Red contributed to this album, he had no need to record the oldies although I'm sure he could have done them superbly.
The albums presented here are far removed from the commercial mainstream but there is a significant market for this type of music. If you enjoy western swing music by such as Bob Wills or Asleep at the wheel, buy this. If you enjoy cowboy music by such as Marty Robbins or Michael Martin Murphey, buy this. If you enjoy traditional country music with plenty of steel guitar and fiddle, buy this. But if you don't enjoy any of those types of music, look for something else.
Red's the Best!.......2003-01-29
Are you a fan of western swing? How 'bout cowboys and rodeo? If you can answer yes to either of these, and you like western music then you owe it to yourself to check this out. Red, quite simply, puts out the best. I've been following him since the late 70's, used to follow him to honky-tonks and rodeos, from Sayre, Oklahoma to the NFR. Had both on albums but just now found these on CD. Try this CD and see if it's not the best combo of western-swing and cowboy music you've ever heard. Red, if you see this, wishing you all the best and a great big thank you for your music.
Best of Red Steagall.......2001-07-10
If you appreciate Red Steagall you will appreciate this cd. It has some of his best Texas Swing music and his very best Rodeo Songs. After thousands of miles my tape of "All My Cowboy Friends" finally wore out and I thought I would never find another copy. Now I have another copy to help me get down the road again. Steagall's music is not for everyone but if you like his music this cd is what your looking for.
good news and not-quite-good news.......2000-03-29
The first 10 cuts -- the ones that comprise the wonderful 1976album Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music -- are as close to perfectionas honkytonk swing gets. As I hear it again after a long separation, the album sounds as good as it did when I bought the LP version nearly a quarter-century ago and spent the next few years playing it down to the grooves. "Neons and Nylons" holds its own against any country song about drinkin', dancin', and chasin' women -- an inexplicably neglected masterpiece of hillbilly art and a surprisingly subtle evocation of both good times and melancholy reflection. "Under the X in Texas" and "Alexis from Texas" swing jauntily, and "Whatever Made Me Think" is as powerful a catch-in-the-throat country weeper as you're ever going to hear. With its brilliantly imagined and executed stripped-down sound, the album wastes not a note or a lick, and it lays end to end one magnificent song after another, reminding the listener just how good country music can be when placed in the right hands. Perhaps inevitably, Red Steagall's follow-up, included here (the last 11 cuts), is something of a letdown, a decent though hardly outstanding collection of cowboy (mostly rodeo) songs, none bad but none especially memorable; certainly none gets close to the standards Ian Tyson set long ago in his own rodeo tales, notably "Someday Soon" and "Old Cheyenne." Steagall's cover of "My Adobe Hacienda" is just plain uninspired; on the other hand, he proves that you can't go wrong with the venerable Western folk ballad "Little Joe the Wrangler." His "My America," though no "This Land Is Your Land," is better than its title would lead you to believe. Steagall's heart may be on the Western plains, but his soul is in the honkytonk.
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- Barbara Mandrell Christmas CD
- Barbara Mandrell--Christmas at our house
- Christmas Tradition
- Christmas at Our House
- Excellent CD!
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Christmas at Our House
Barbara Mandrell
Manufacturer: Mca Special Products
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000002Q7H
Release Date: 1995-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Christmas At Our House
- Winter Wonderland
- This Time Of The Year
- Santa, Bring My Baby Home
- One Night A Year
- I'll Be Home For Christmas
- It Must Have Been The Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)
- From Our House To Yours
- Born To Die
- The Christmas Story
Customer Reviews:
Barbara Mandrell Christmas CD.......2007-02-20
I had this album and love the title song...needed to upgrade to CD. Bought one for my daughter too!
Barbara Mandrell--Christmas at our house.......2006-12-27
I ordered this before Xmas at a total price of $8.42...Then got an email that it was out of stock--then after Xmas I look again and found it for $30-35 what gives?
Christmas Tradition.......2005-11-22
I was so excited to find this on CD! I have worn out my record from years and years of playing it. Even my 6 year old knows the words to "It Must Have Been The Mistletoe". To me, my Christmas season can't officially start until I play this and Elvis's Christmas album.
Christmas at Our House.......2003-12-22
This has been the number one favorite Christmas album of our family since we first bought it in 1984. We've worn out several copies and now our grown children are adding it to their collection.
Excellent CD!.......2003-12-09
When this recording was first issued in 1984, it's a shame that it never got the recognition it rightly deserved, being largely overshadowed by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton's "Once Upon a Christmas" album. Nonetheless, this CD features song of the most heartfelt songs sung by Barbara yet. There's the cheery "Christmas at Our House", the bluesy "Santa, Bring My Baby Home", my favourite: "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe", the poignant "Born to Die", to the sacred "Christmas Story", which closes the album and reminds us all what the season is truly about. I highly recommend adding this title to your holiday collection, along with CD's from The Carpenters, Anne Murray, and Kenny Rogers among others. Kudos to Barbara for such a timeless album.
Average customer rating:
- Cash at his best
- Great for Serious Johnny Cash Listeners, but No Memorable Hits, So New and Casual Fans Should Instead Get a Hits Collection CD
- Who's Gonna Cry?
- Soil Songs
- This album is like candy with medicine in the middle
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Songs of Our Soil
Johnny Cash
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B00006GO9B
Release Date: 2002-08-27 |
Tracks:
- Drink To Me
- Five Feet High And Rising
- The Man On The Hill
- Hank And Joe And Me
- Clementine
- The Great Speckle Bird
- I Want To Go Home
- The Caretaker
- Old Apache Squaw
- Don't Step On Mother's Roses
- My Grandfather's Clock
- It Could Be You (Instead Of Him)
- I Got Stripes (Bonus Track)
- You Dreamer You (Bonus Track)
Customer Reviews:
Cash at his best.......2007-03-09
Songs of Our Soil is one of the best Johnny Cash recordings ever! And, it's hard to find. This is a winner and what a price! Just love it and it was shipped in a timely and well packaged manner.
Great for Serious Johnny Cash Listeners, but No Memorable Hits, So New and Casual Fans Should Instead Get a Hits Collection CD.......2006-05-01
This CD is enjoyable if you are researching and studying the works of Johnny Cash, (like me, after seeing the movie WALK THE LINE), but I think that more casual fans and listeners will be better off buying one of his hit song collections, like THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH, or 16 BIGGEST HITS. I like SONGS OF THE SOIL, but I am also very interested in (and more patient with) Johnny Cash's lesser known works, which many listeners may not be interested in, at first.
Even with three bonus songs, SONG OF THE SOIL by Johnny Cash, from 1959, as a reissue is still under 30 minutes long. The songs range in length from 1:46 to 2:45 minutes. I am glad that Columbia has kept it in print, but it is probably only of interest to the most serious Johnny Cash fans.
Most of these songs were recorded in a single day, 12 March 1959, (but that is just an interesting fact, and does not reflect in any lesser quality due to the super fast recording session).
This album came two albums after his album called THE FABULOUS JOHNNY CASH, and is more enjoyable and memorable than the songs on that album, though both have now been similarly remastered and reissued with nice CD booklet liner notes. Actually, the Gospel album originally released between these two albums has been given the same reissue treatment, and is superior to both, in my opinion. I listen to HYMNS BY JOHNNY CASH more often than the other two, but that is just because I like the Gospel songs on that CD better than the mostly non-religious songs on FABULOUS or SOIL.
My main reason to buy SONGS OF OUR SOIL was because it was the first time I had seen the bonus song "I Got Stripes" on CD. It is in the WALK THE LINE movie, (sung in Las Vegas when Johnny kicks the stage light and collapses onstage), but it was originally a minor hit single, not on any album, though it was recorded on the same day as 12 of the 14 songs on this SONGS OF OUR SOIL reissue, 12 March 1959. This is a funny song that is also intense, about an idiot convict in jail. I feel I got my money's worth just by getting this song on CD, at last.
This reissue contains a few old photos and reprinted liner notes and updated info, but some info contradicts other info. I suspect that the songwriting credits are incorrect or incomplete, which list "J. Cash" as the sole writer on 10 of the 14 songs, and co-writer on one, and arrangement only on another. So only two songs do NOT list J. Cash as some form of songwriter, yet the liner notes say that there are traditional songs and "SOME" even written by Johnny Cash, himself. Confusing!
The CD incorrectly spells the title for the classic "The Great Speckle(d) Bird," forgetting the "d" in Speckled. This song was a hit for Roy Acuff in 1939, written by a Reverend, and based on Jeremiah 12:9 in the Bible, in a passage where Jeremiah compares his faith using different animals that are standing alone against the rest of the pack. Johnny's version of this song is very enjoyable, but also available on his Gospel CDs. The Bible uses the "d" in the word speckled, and so do many other CDs with this song on it.
"I Want to Go Home" is a West Indies (Jamaica) folk song which most people will recognize by the famous Beach Boys version, correctly titled "Sloop John B." The CD booklet says J. Cash is the sole writer, but it should have said he is just the arranger. Johnny Cash did not write this song all by himself. Johnny Cash bought a mansion in Jamaica in the early 1970's and lived there frequently for decades, among other homes he owned elsewhere.
"Five Feet High and Rising" is a true, autobiographical story written by Johnny Cash, about a flood that happened at the Dyess Colony, Arkansas (shown in the childhood scenes in the movie WALK THE LINE). "The Man on the Hill" is another song about living in the Dyess Colony, about having to get their supplies from the official of the colony, though they only got paid at harvest, once per year, and had to live off of the credit line for the Dyess Colony members. JOHNNY CASH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (with Patrick Carr) is a great book for new Cash fans, like me, which explains and contrasts many of the scenes in the WALK THE LINE movie, and explains some background on quite a few songs and albums by Johnny Cash.
If you are researching the career of Johnny Cash, then this is a good CD to get, but if you are looking for his most famous hits, then this CD will not please you at all.
Who's Gonna Cry?.......2006-02-22
This album features "folk songs" by Johnny Cash. Many of them are traditional folk songs, but there are also original folk songs written by Cash himself, like the classic "Five Feet High and Rising". Most of the songs are very good. I especially like "The Caretaker" and "Old Apache Squaw". It's worth noting that "I Want to Go Home" was later recorded by the Beach Boys as "Sloop John B" (although they didn't base their version on Cash's version). The CD adds two bonus tracks that were recorded at the same session as the album. "I Got Stripes" and "You Dreamer You" are great songs, and became hit singles, but they were left off of the album because they don't really fit the concept of the album. But after all this time, who cares? The CD is improved by their inclusion, so it's nice to have them here.
Soil Songs.......2005-10-18
"Songs of Our Soil" is a typical concept album from Cash - fairly short and packed with great songs. My favorites are "Great Speckle Bird," "Drink to Me," and "Five Feet High and Rising." He did a really good job picking these particular songs - they deal with death, family, problems, and caring for the land..thus, "Songs of Our Soil." The bonus tracks are also great, even though "You Dreamer You" is almost exactly the same song as "Oh, What a Dream!" on a different album. But I love all the tracks included, and they are very unusual and interesting. SOOS is a little longer than some of his themed albums, which is good news. So if you like Johnny Cash, or if you like old-fashioned songs about the good ol' days, get "Songs of Our Soil." It will be dollars well spent.
This album is like candy with medicine in the middle.......2005-04-28
I really mean that in a good way. It's like candy because the music is tight - very similar to early Beatle's stuff. Well-crafted, upbeat, hard to hate, 3 minute songs. It's the period right before Johnny got his edge. Here's the medicine: the upbeat music is very deceptive in that it hides some very sad and depressing topics. It's very much a Depression era album.
If you like the outlaw JC, the Don Law produced stuff, you might not like this right off the bat. But it is true Cash.
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- Jim Ford - an instant classic from a long time ago.
- The Mysterious Jim Ford
- A brilliant lost songwriter found ... and a stunning reissue
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Sounds of Our Time: The Harlan County Album
Jim Ford
Manufacturer: Bear Family
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ASIN: B000N4SHSA
Release Date: 2007-03-26 |
Tracks:
- Harlan County
- I'm Gonna Make Her Love Me
- Changing Colors
- Dr Handy's Dandy Candy
- Love On My Brain
- Long Road Ahead
- Under Construction
- Working My Way To L.A.
- Spoonful
- To Make My Life Beautiful
- Big Mouth Usa
- 36 Inches High
- Sounds Of Our Time
- Chain Gang
- I Wonder What They'll Do With Today
- Go Through Sunday
- She Turns My Radio On
- Mixed Green
- Happy Songs Sell Records, Sad Songs Sell Beer
- It Takes Two (To Make One)
- Big Mouth Usa
- Rising Sign
- Linda Comes Running
- Ramona
- Hanging From Your Lovin Tree
Album Description
The legendary ''Harlan County'' album, PLUS rare singles and previously unreleased masters! The first and last word on an underground roots music legend! Jim Ford's original album from 1969 has been described as the holy grail of country soul. Contains extensive liner notes that for the first time ever- tell the whole Jim Ford story. Includes ten previously unreleased recordings recently discovered at Ford's home. Only available here. Includes five songs from Jim Ford's ultra-rare 45rpm singles, never released on CD before. Previously unpublished photos personally supplied by Jim Ford. Jim Ford is the composer of Aretha Franklin and PJ Proby's 'Niky Hoeky', Bobby Womack's 'Harry Hippie', and - as revealed in the liner notes- he also wrote Bobbie Gentry's 'Ode To Billie Joe'. Includes a 40 page booklet.
Customer Reviews:
Jim Ford - an instant classic from a long time ago........2007-05-30
This is essential for any lover of late 60's, early 70's country-soul-funk. Amazingly, his album "Harlan County" has never received the attention it deserves. I heard of this through a friend. Nick Lowe confirms in the wonderful liner notes that Jim Ford was his biggest influence. As a huge Nick fan, it seems appropriate to dig into this stuff. The CD is in a great digipack form and includes an in-depth story and interview with Jim Ford by a guy from Sweden. So Jim is alive and well to appreciate this overdue collection.
The "Harlan County" record features a great band. It was recorded in 1969 and includes James Burton - he's played with Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison and tons others, Jim Keltner on the drums - who I've long adored as a drummer laying down possibly his best drum beats in 1969!! If you do a search on Keltner you'll see an incredible list or artists that he's played with and made their records better. Amazingly, not many Keltner discographies even mention this record! I've heard many Keltner performances - this is my favorite! Also features Dr. John on piano and keyboards. What's not to like with that band? Then the songs kick in. The title track is a classic romp through Jim's childhood in the coal mining hills of Kentucky. The rest of the album builds with slower tunes like "Changing Colors" which includes a lo-fi sound, but with string section and Jim singing wonderfully almost in a Glen Campbell style. Another classic is "Love On The Brain". Man, a great groove ala the Stones. Then it goes into overdrive with "Long Road Ahead", "Under Construction" and "Working My Way To L.A.". You won't hear three more soulful groovin', yet hard hittin' tunes in a row. Once again, I've never heard such impassioned drumming from Keltner! The album finishes up with a scathing take of "Spoonful" (the old Howlin' Wolf tune) and then Jim really lays out every bit of his vocal with "To Make My Life Beautiful". And that's just the "Harlan County" record. The rest of the tunes show more promise and get stuck in your head quite easily. "Big Mouth USA" is just classic country ala "Harper Valley PTA". "Ten Inches High" is a song I'd originally heard covered by Nick Lowe. Jim's version will give you chills. I'm not going song by song, but all of these rare tunes and outtakes ending with his first single "Hangin' From Your Lovin Tree" make this release ideal to any "real" lover of country-soul music! The interview and story with the CD are interesting. Sounds like a few breaks here or there - especially missing out on signing with Atlantic w/ Jerry Wexler (the classic producer of Willie Nelson etc.) hurt Jim's chances of making a great career. There may be more tapes out there with more tunes in hopes of unearthing for another lost Jim Ford collection.
This is the stuff of legends. But it's real - it's here. Pick it up. It's fantastic!
Spencer Marquart
The Mysterious Jim Ford.......2007-05-13
Friend of Sly Stone and Bobby Womack, revered by Nick Lowe and co-writer of the Swamp Rock nugget 'Nikki Hokey" should be enough to establish Jim Ford as an artist of renown. Possibly because much of his legacy can be traced to only one LP "Harlan County' it's difficult to get a proper handle on Ford. Now with Bear Family's "Sounds Of Our Time " compilation which expands on the "Harlan County" album with fifteen extra tracks ( rare 45's, abandoned album projects and demos)it's quite easy to comprehend why Lowe has such an admiration for this mystifying man. In essence Ford comes from the Country side of the Soul or R&B equation but one with a singular lyrical premise. The bonus tracks reveal Ford as a singer/writer who belongs in the same neighbourhood as Dan Penn, Eddie Hinton and Joe South. Tracks such as "Go Through Sunday" and "She Turns My Radio On" suggest a backwoods Van Morrison whereas "Rising Sign" evokes the Voodoo Swamp Funk of a Dr John. Anyone with even a passing interest in Southern white R&B needs to hear this. Also the CD's liner notes are easily the most comprehensive ever written on Ford with much input from the man himself. An essential re-issue.
A brilliant lost songwriter found ... and a stunning reissue .......2007-04-25
This CD is a revelation on several counts. Bear Family not restores the out-of-print cult classic ``Harlan County'' album in its majestic entirety and adds 15 superb, rare singles and unreleased masters, it also solves the mystery of this eccentric talent. Liner notes writer and reissue producer L-P Anderson tells the story of embarking on a search into the remote Northern California coastal hinterlands and finding the long-lost Ford living in a trailer park. Ford not only tells his fascinating story of why he disappeared from the music scene after a promising career start in the late 60s/early 70s, he reveals that he has scores of tapes of unreleased material ... enough to ``fill several future CDs with amazing stuff.'' Just getting all of the extra cuts on this disc is revelatory enough, because the additional cuts stand up so well against the Harlan County disc. How can one not become enchanted by a title such as ``Happy Songs Sell Records, Sad Songs Sell Beer.'' ``Big Mouth USA,'' presented in slow and fast tempos, is a scathing ditty on small-town religious hypocrites. The album closes with a number that leaves you yearning for more: ``Hanging From Your Lovin' Tree.'' But there are no weak tracks among the rediscovered gems, and the Harlan County cuts have already been established as underground delights.
The notion that more could be coming is almost too incredible to believe. Ford was simply an amazing songwriter in a distinctly Southern funky vein, and those who worshiped his talents were people as diverse as Sly Stone and Nick Lowe. Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack and the Temptations recorded his songs -- he wrote an entire album for the Temps -- and Ford says he also wrote the Bobbie Gentry hit ``Ode to Billie Joe'' during a time when he had a romantic fling with her. He reveals the unknown session players on the Harlan County album and they turn out to be some of the best session men in the history of the music business -- guitarist James Burton, drummer Jim Keltner and keyboardist Mac Renneback (Dr. John).
Now 65, Ford clearly is still an eccentric -- he loves restoring old Peugeots, for one -- but he seems happy that his music has been rediscovered. Hopefully, in future years, we will hear more of what made Jim Ford so special, but for now, this is a healthy slice of evidence. Such an important reissue. Anderson and Bear Family should be commended for such a fabulous, thorough job on this remarkable archival find. Nice to someone understands why it's worth searching the ends of the earth for great music. Essential for any comprehensive pop music collection.
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