The Best of the Best of Bluegrass
The Best of the Best of Bluegrass
ASIN: B0000005G3
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1. How Mountain Girls Can Love - The Stanley Brothers
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2. Freeborn Man - Jimmy Martin
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3. Long Black Veil - The Country Gentlemen
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4. Hills of Home - Ralph Stanley
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5. Dark Hollow - Larry Sparks
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6. I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still) - Reno & Smiley
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7. I Still Write Your Name in the Sand - Mac Wiseman
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8. Rabbit in the Log - Jimmy Martin, Ralph Stanley
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9. Willow Garden - Charlie Monroe
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10. Devil in Disguise - J.D. Crowe, New South
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The Best of the Best of Bluegrass,Various Artists,Federal,Bluegrass,Contemporary Bluegrass,Country,Country & Western,Pop,Progressive Bluegrass,Traditional Bluegrass,Truck Driving Country
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- EXCELLENT!
- Add this to your collection!
- Another vote for Emmylou's voice....
- To touch the heart.
- One fault---this needed to be a two-disk set!
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The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches and Highways
Emmylou Harris
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ASIN: B0009NR7YU
Release Date: 2005-07-19 |
Tracks:
- Love Hurts -- with Gram Parsons
- Boulder to Birmingham
- Making Believe
- Pancho & Lefty
- One of These Days
- (Lost His Love) On Our Last Date (Live)
- Born to Run
- Beneath Still Waters
- If I Could Only Win Your Love
- Together Again
- That Lovin' You Feelin' Again -- with Roy Orbison
- To Know Him Is To Love Him -- with Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt
- Two More Bottles of Wine
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Calling My Children Home
- Green Pastures
- Orphan Girl
- Michaelangelo
- Here I Am
- Connection
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Less than two years after the death of her mentor, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris recorded her first album for Reprise. Pieces of the Sky inaugurated a suite of four mid-'70s albums and a surprising number of hits: her sound was clearly traditional, but also tastefully up-to-date with folk-rock and singer/songwriter styles, and her crystalline, febrile vocals took standards such as "Love Hurts" and "If I Could Only Win Your Love" back up the charts. This compilation brings together her biggest hits, and shows why Harris is important and why she continues to make adventurous country music. Through unfailingly tasteful song selection, brilliant occasional songwriting, and her cool, velvety soprano, Harris extended Gram Parsons's vision of "cosmic American music" and made it her own. --Roy Kasten
Album Description
Masterful at rock, country, folk, bluegrass, and more, Emmylou Harris is one of the most distinctive and visionary voices in contemporary music. The artist's lucid, achingly gorgeous vocals and a string of celebrated albums-many featuring her acclaimed "Hot Band"-have earned Harris eleven Grammys and made this alt-country/roots-rock innovator a legend in her own time.
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EXCELLENT!.......2007-06-14
I thoroughly enjoy every song on this CD, and listen to it often.
Add this to your collection!.......2007-01-13
I originally bought this CD for 1 or 2 songs. I saw her perform with Elvis Costello singing "Love Hurts" and I thought it was fantastic. I was disappointed when I couldn't find this duo singing; but, decided to purchase this CD. It really is very good. I am amazed by her talent.
Another vote for Emmylou's voice...........2006-08-25
I definitely agree, that listening to the best of this CD, is pure heaven...and to my ears, if you buy this beautiful album, just enable the following cuts and listen to them over.....and over...that's heaven....
Boulder to Birmingham
Pancho and Lefty
To Know Him is to Love Him
Orphan Girl
Michaelangelo
The Connection
Of course, if you buy this CD, you will probably have some different cuts that you also love. Emmylou Harris, we all love you and your voice, and your music...
Heavenly Heartaches & Highways...
To touch the heart........2006-07-18
The fact that Emmylou Harris is breathtakingly beautiful distracts only very slightly from her amazing grace as a singer. She is truly touched and truly moving.
One fault---this needed to be a two-disk set!.......2006-05-30
Otherwise, it's wonderful. Really does span the years, but I think there are some places where more emphasis is needed and would have preferred to see a second disk to do it.
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- Great Compilation
- Sounds Good but It is miss something!
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There You'll Be: The Best of Faith Hill
Faith Hill
Manufacturer: Wea International
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00005TO3A
Release Date: 2001-10-22 |
Tracks:
- There You'll Be
- This Kiss
- Breathe (Tin Tin Out Radio Mix)
- The Way You Love Me
- Let Me Let Go
- Piece Of My Heart
- If My Heart Had Wings
- There Will Come A Day
- Love Will Always Win
- My Wild Frontier
- You Give Me Love
- Somewhere Down The Road
- Over The Rainbow
- Breathe
- The Way You Love Me (Love To Infinity Remix)
- If I Should Fall Behind
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After immeasurable success in the U.S., Faith Hill finally comes to Europe, and There You'll Be is a sort of catch-up for the best bits we may have missed along the way (or, in other words, a greatest hits collection for the uninitiated). A dozen songs which map the path of the Georgia singer, it includes the massive hit for which she has come to be known over here--"There You'll Be," from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack--together with some pop anthems like "The Way You Love Me (Love to Infinity Mix)." However, the style she delivers most convincingly is that of her roots in country, with "Let Me Let Go", "Piece of My Heart," and "You Give Me Love" from the earlier albums being the clear highlights of this collection. --Gunther Matejka
Album Description
Exclusive import only best of collection includes two tracks unavailable on the Euro pressing, 'The Way You Love Me (Love To Infinity Remix)' & 'If I Should Fall Behind'. Other tracks include, 'There You'll Be', 'This Kiss (Pop Radio Version)', 'Breathe (Tin Tin Out Remix)', 'The Way You Love Me', 'Let Me Let Go', 'Piece Of My Heart', 'If My Heart Had Wings (Single Version)', 'There Will Come A Day', 'Love Will Always Win', 'My Wild Frontier', 'You Give Me Love', 'Somewhere Down The Road (From Princess Of Egypt O.S.T.), 'Over The Rainbow (From For Our Children Too O.S.T.)' & 'Breathe (Pop Remix)'. 2001.
Album Details
Includes Three Tracks More Than Other International Versions, Including Pop Remix of "Breathe", the Love to Infinity Mixof "The Way You Love Me" and a Cover of Bruce Springsteen's "if I Should Fall Behind".
Customer Reviews:
Not Good Enough.......2007-04-07
I write this knowing how much I love to hear Faith Hill sing , and knowing how much of her Music that I own , and have listened to over the
years , this supposed to be Greatest Hits Ablum that leaves out some of her Hits ,adds these New Songs does away with what the Album is Called , and suppose to be , "The Best OF Faith Hill" , I DON'T THINK SO!
Just the good stuff.......2007-03-09
I am not a huge country western fan, but there are certain artists I really like. I like when an artist comes out with a greatest hits CD that really is filled with greastest hits. If you are a Faith Hill fan, but want to buy just one CD, then buy this one.
Very Disappointed.......2007-03-08
Thought it would be a greatest hits CD of all her original music. Would not have purchased if I had heard CD before I ordered it.
Great Compilation.......2006-11-12
This import CD by Faith Hill is a great compilation of her hits, it also includes never before released songs such as "over the rainbow" which she performs with great diversity. Although a little pricy, well worth the money for true Faith Hill fans.
Sounds Good but It is miss something!.......2006-09-16
This cd sounds good but it is missing some of her best songs! 'It Matters To Me' is my fav and it is not to be found on Faith Hill's Best of! She has some good ones with Tim McGraw also not on this cd! So I would wait!!!!!!!!
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Reasons Why: The Very Best (CD + DVD)
Nickel Creek
Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country]
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ASIN: B000ICLRAW
Release Date: 2006-11-14 |
Tracks:
- The Lighthouse's Tale
- Out Of The Woods
- When In Rome
- helena
- Smoothie Song
- Somebody More Like You
- Reasons Why
- Can't Complain
- I Should've Known Better
- This Side
- Jealous Of The Moon
- When You Come Back Down
- You Don't Have To Move That Mountain
- The Fox
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While "progressive bluegrass" might sound like an oxymoron, it's a good description of this dynamic acoustic trio's approach. Fans of traditional string-band music might flinch at Nickel Creek's experimentation, but there is little doubt that the threesome has attracted the largest crossover audience to the genre since Jerry Garcia. Still, the rigors of working together since they were teens have prompted an open-ended sabbatical at the end of their 2007 tour. Cue the Christmas 2006 hits package--it's the perfect time to cash in on the catalog with the band still hot as an active unit. Since Nickel Creek has recorded just three albums for Sugar Hill, it does seem a bit premature for this recap. But the label has done an admirable job by adding a bonus DVD of the act's seven videos and arranging the audio tracks in non-chronological order to enhance the flow. If anyone had any doubts that these youngsters were the future of bluegrass, Reasons Why should erase them. They never let their instrumental virtuosity on guitar, fiddle, and mandolin get in the way of writing terrific material such as "When in Rome"--a should-have-been hit on the order of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"--and they also deliver the goods in concert. A nine-minute live version of "The Fox"--one of two previously unreleased performances that close this collection--proves they can mash up Bach, Bill Monroe, and Dylan with such cool aplomb, one can only imagine what the future holds. Until then, we have this compact reminder of Nickel Creek's strengths and potential--a superb collection that is as classy and challenging as the group itself, and leaves the listener wanting more. --Hal Horowitz
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Very Best Of Travis Tritt
Travis Tritt
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B000KN7BK4
Release Date: 2007-01-30 |
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- Take It Easy
- Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
- Anymore
- Country Club
- Help Me Hold On
- Where Corn Don't Grow
- Best Of Intentions
- I'm Gonna Be Somebody
- Can I Trust You With My Heart
- Foolish Pride
- Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man
- Nothing Short of Dying
- More Than You'll Ever Know
- Sometimes She Forgets
- This One's Gonna Hurt You (For A Long, Long Time) -- Marty Stuart featuring Travis Tritt
- Tell Me I Was Dreaming
- Drift Off To Dream (edit)
- The Whiskey Ain't Workin' -- duet with Marty Stuart
- T-r-o-u-b-l-e
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A comprehensive hits collection from chart-topping country superstar Travis Tritt.
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The Very Best of Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Manufacturer: Sony / Bmg Import
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ASIN: B000MTOQAY
Release Date: 2007-03-19 |
Tracks:
- 9 to 5
- I Will Always Love You
- Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers
- Jolene
- Coat of Many Colors
- My Tennessee Mountain Home
- Here You Come Again
- Baby I'm Burnin'
- Love Is Like a Butterfly
- Bargain Store
- Potential New Boyfriend
- Everything's Beautiful (In It's Own Way) - Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton
- Silver Threads and Golden Needles - Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette
- To Know Him Is to Love Him - Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt
- Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That
- Romeo - Mary Chapin Carpenter, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kathy Mattea, Dolly Parton, Pam Tillis, Tanya Tucker
- Tennessee Homesick Blues
- Dumb Blonde
- Applejack
- Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
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20 Track Anthology that Concentrates More on the Tennessee Country Queen's Pop Chart Successes, a Truer Set of "Greatest Hits" Than Other Collections that have Apeared on the Market. This One Includes "9 to 5", "i Will Always Love You", "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", "Islands in the Stream" (With Kenny Rogers), "Here You Come Again", "Baby I'm Burning", "Potential New Boyfriend", "to Know Him is to Love Him" (With the Trio)", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" and Many More!
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The Very Best of John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery
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ASIN: B0000AQS53
Release Date: 2003-08-26 |
Tracks:
- Be My Baby Tonight
- Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
- Life's A Dance
- I Swear
- The Little Girl
- If You've Got Love
- I Love The Way You Love Me
- Cover You In Kisses
- Rope The Moon
- I Can Love You Like That
- How Was I To Know
- Hold On To Me
- No Man's Land
- Home To You
- Friends
- Angel In My Eyes
- Long As I Live
- 'Til Nothing Comes Between Us
- Cool
- One Day Less
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Bound for the airwaves, Montogomery's first-ever TV-marketed career-spanning compilation features all the hits, signature ballads, and two new, 2003 songs, 'Cool' & 'One Day Less'. Slipcase. WB Records.
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When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of The Louvin Brothers
The Louvin Brothers
Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
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ASIN: B000002Z94
Release Date: 1995-05-23 |
Tracks:
- Broadminded
- The Family Who Prays
- When I Stop Dreaming
- Pitfall
- Don't Laugh
- I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
- Hoping That You're Hoping
- The First One To Love You
- In The Pines
- Knoxville Girl
- Cash On The Barrelhead
- You're Running Wild
- My Baby's Gone
- I Wish It Had Been A Dream
- While You're Cheating On Me
- If I Could Only Win Your Love
- You're Learning
- The River Of Jordan
- The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea
- Southern Moon
- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
- The Great Atomic Power
- Wreck On The Highway
- Stuck Up Blues
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The great irony of the Louvin Brothers, today considered by many the best of the brother duos, is that they peaked at a time when the form was almost dead. Their vocal sound was as old as the Alabama hills, and they kept alive such archaic tunes as "Knoxville Girl" and "In the Pines." Yet their studio bands were up to date, if not exactly Nashville Sound knockoffs, and much of their material, including "You're Running Wild," was fairly contemporary. Traditionalists or modernists? When it's this good, who cares? And besides, who's going to argue with guys who knew Sin the way Charlie and Ira Louvin knew Sin? --John Morthland
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The Best Kept Secret
Jerry Douglas
Manufacturer: Koch Records
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ASIN: B000AA4IOY
Release Date: 2005-09-20 |
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- She Makes Me Want To Sing * With Derek Trucks
- Who's Your Uncle? * With Sam Bush And Bela Fleck
- Back In Love Again * With Alison Krauss
- A Remark You Made
- The Best Kept Secret
- Lil' RoRo * WIth Bill Frisell
- Swing Blues No.1 * With John Fogerty
- Snow's First Fall
- Ya Ya Etc.
- U R My Flower
- Sir Aly B
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As further proof that the virtuosity of Jerry Douglas knows no categorical bounds, the biggest surprise on his predominantly instrumental The Best Kept Secret is a revival of the disco-era smash "Back in Love Again," with Alison Krauss supplying as much vocal funk as she can muster. The undisputed master of the shimmering Dobro (and a featured member of Krauss's band Union Station), Douglas also applies his artistry to the jazzy atmospherics of Weather Report's "A Remark You Made," pays homage to Celtic fiddler Aly Bain on the reflective "Sir Aly B," trades licks with guitarist Bill Frisell on the twangy "Lil' Ro Ro," and enlists John Fogerty for guest vocals on "Swing Blues #1." The album additionally showcases Douglas on lap steel, with guitarist Derek Trucks providing rock propulsion on the opening "She Makes Me Want to Sing." A breakdown with banjoist Béla Fleck and mandolinist Sam Bush on "Who's Your Uncle?" finds Douglas on more familiar turf at his bluegrass best. --Don McLeese
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Heaven Bound: The Best of Bluegrass Gospel
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Time Life Records
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ASIN: B0000A1HTX
Release Date: 2003-08-05 |
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- Get In Line Brother (If You Want To Go Home) - Earl Scruggs
- Precious Memories - Bill Monron And His Blue Grass Boys
- God's Coloring Book - The Country Gentlemen
- How Great Thou Art - The Osborne Brothers
- Vision Of Mother - Ralph Stanley/Judy Marshall/Alison Krauss
- Ship From King's Harbor Shore - Larry Sparks
- I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap - Reno And Smiley
- Talk About Suffering - Ricky Skaggs
- Land Of Beulah - The Isaacs
- Prayer Bells Of Heaven - Jimmy Martin
- Green Pastures - Emmylou Harris
- The White Dove - The Stanley Brothers
- I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road - Mac Wiseman
- Were You There? - Bill Monroe
- On The Sea Of Life - Quicksilver
- Working On A Building - The Seldom Scene
- Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem - Ralph Stanley
- Across The Miles - IIIrd Tyme Out
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The Best Of Doc Watson 1964-1968
Doc Watson
Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
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ASIN: B00000IIW2
Release Date: 1999-04-20 |
Tracks:
- Muskrat
- Country Blues
- Rising Sun Blues
- Tennesse Stud
- Down In The Valley To Pray
- Dill Pickle Rag
- Otto Wood The Bandit
- Windy And Warm
- Little Sadie
- Blue Railroad Train
- Omie Wise
- Intoxicated Rat
- Tom Dooley
- Alberta
- Beaumont Rag
- Shady Grove
- My Rough And Rowdy Ways
- The Train That Carried My Girl From Town
- Black Mountain Rag
- Grandfather's Clock
- The Cyclone Of Ryecov
- Doc's Guitar
- Crawdad Hole
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Few musicians are as adept as Doc Watson is at making the remarkable seem routine. Song after song on this 23-track label retrospective demonstrates effortless flat-picking virtuosity. Listen to the fleet, precise picking on "Beaumont Rag," and you'll immediately recognize why the North Carolinian's skills are the envy of just about anyone who's ever tried to master folk guitar. Yet his plainspoken baritone vocals on "Tennessee Stud," "Shady Grove," "Little Sadie," and others speak of his devotion to his songs. Watson in his prime could play rings around just about any picker alive, but he's never gone in for hollow showboating. Culled from six of the nine albums Watson recorded for Vanguard between 1964 and 1971 (though the most recent inclusions here are from 1968), this album is a condensed alternative to the four-disc Vanguard Years box set. Four previously unreleased tunes add to the value of this worthy intro to an American master. --Steven Stolder
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