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Country Boy

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by: Daniel O'Donnell

Release Date October 27, 2008

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Rhinestone Cowboy: the Best of Glen Campbell

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by: Glen Campbell

Release Date January 06, 2003
Yet another greatest hits album, but what the hell, this contains every decent track he has ever recorded. Many collections are padded out with gastly stocking filler tracks, not this one. I must admit that I really liked at least 20 of the tracks on this. Enough said.

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Ring Of Fire: The Legend Of Johnny Cash

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by: Johnny Cash

Release Date November 21, 2005
I bought this album because I like a lot of the songs on the album and just wanted a general overview of Cash's career. I was also thrilled to see a cover of One by U2 on it (one of my favourite songs by them), and a couple of live songs; A Boy Named Sue in particular, because he was just such an incredible showman and it was great to listen to this imagining being there to witness him delivering such great performances.

This is a brilliant album and brilliant value for money; a great introduction to, or overview of, Cash's career.

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The Unreleased Recordings

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by: Hank Williams

Release Date October 27, 2008
It's rare than an artist whose been turned into an icon can ever again be seen in mortal form. But such is the case for the Hank Williams heard on these three CD's of transcriptions from 1951. With these fifty-four previously unreleased tracks, the dark saint of country music is delivered from fifty-five years of canonization as a hard-working musician striving to please his audience. Williams' much anthologized commercial recordings will forever keep his star aloft, but these newly released live-in-the-studio renderings, waxed under the sponsorship of Mother's Finest for radio broadcast, crackle with a level of intensity and vocal clarity not always captured in MGM's studios. Best of all, 1951 was a "career year" for Willliams, a year in which ... Read More:

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The Very Best Of Dolly Parton

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by: Dolly Parton

Release Date June 16, 2008
Has much has i Like Dolly Parton, I do wonder how many more times are her managers going to release her Greatest Hits & Best Of Albums.
I think she should come back and do something New!!

I brought Dolly Partons Greatest Hits back in 1999 The Album i have is a 2x Disc version With the same songs and same listings in the exact same track listing order has these 2 seperate Albums!! Why it has been Re-released has two seperate Volumes is beyond me, Especially when the version i have is still avalible to buy.

I have given this a 4 Star if it was a New greatest hits it would have got a 5 Star, However it isn't. And plus it's not Dolly's thought i blame the record company!!! :-)

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Fearless

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by: Taylor Swift

Release Date November 11, 2008
Taylor Swift's Fearless debuts at No. 1 on Pop & Country Charts
Taylor Swift owns the charts this week. Her sophomore release Fearless debuts at No. 1, with 592,304 copies sold. This is enough to earn her a No. 1 at the Billboard Top 200 albums as well. This is the largest opening U.S. sales week for a female artist in all genres of music, and puts her at No. 4 behind Lil Wayne, AC/DC and Coldplay for the biggest debut this year. Lastly, her single "Love Story" holds the No. 1 spot on the Country Singles charts for a second week.

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The Man Comes Around [Bonus Tracks]

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by: Johnny Cash

Release Date April 14, 2003
If the Grim Reaper traded in his scythe and recorded an album of melancholic country guitar music this, one imagines, is what it would sound like. Johnny Cash's rich Fire N' Brimstone tones haven't diminished one bit despite his advancing years, but listen carefully and we now find it tinged with something soft and imperceptibly fragile. Something almost like regret (or relief) of a life lived through.

Cash is one of those rare artists that can take a song, any song, and turn it utterly on its head, allowing the dark stuff of life to ooze out and re-contextualize it in ways you'd never even considered. Just listen to his version of We'll Meet Again. It belongs right at the end of Dr Strangelove when all the nukes are going off and the whole world has ... Read More:

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All I Intended to Be

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by: Emmylou Harris

Release Date June 09, 2008
I liked this album a lot. It starts off strong and gets better through to the two songs at the end, which for me were the highlights. Beautiful lyrics, beautiful voice, beautiful music, beautifully produced. A melancholy album pretty much through and through I felt, and that would be my only criticism. Nothing pacey and upbeat to help mix it up a bit. Four stars from me.

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At Folsom Prison / At San Quentin (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD)

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by: Johnny Cash

Release Date January 30, 2006
I ordered this set after seeing it advertised in an email from Amazon. I was not very familiar with Johnny Cash, with the exception of Boy named Sue and Ring of Fire. This double CD really has blown me away. Cash's voice is great but the entertainment comes as much from his banter with the prisoners as from the songs, many of which have jail themes. All in all a great showcase for a natural performer. The sound quality is also excellent demonstrating better stereo effects than many modern albums.

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American V: A Hundred Highways

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by: Johnny Cash

Release Date July 03, 2006
This is a masterpiece, this is how records should be done, crisp sounds, a great and passionate voice, an intensity that is difficult to see in other records. I think this is his best performance ever, too bad he was not there to listen to it. His version of "Further up on the road" is just unbelievable, I think Springsteen might have cried when he listened to it. Similarly "four strong winds" is really good and better, for example, than Neil Young's version on Comes a Time.
A record that will make you cry, with passion and soul. I don't give 5 stars easily but this is just too good.