CD-Charts Position 11
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Ring Of Fire: The Legend Of Johnny Cash

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Johnny Cash

Release Date November 21, 2005
I'd never heard of Johnny Cash until this cd appeared in the cd player at work. Needless to say, it came home with me about a week later, and has been in my car ever since. There's something about johnny Cash that is totally mesmerising, & i'm even more hooked since watching walk the line, which is one of my favourite films. This deserves a place in every CD collection.

CD-Charts Position 12
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Youth and Young Manhood

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Kings Of Leon

Release Date August 21, 2003
I was quite slow on the uptake with KOL, I only bought this album a year ago but it remains possibly one of my favourite albums and is rarely far from my CD player. I've never once got bored of it and can sit through the entire album without skipping a single track. Happy Alone, Molly's Chambers and California Waiting are possibly the best on the album. Can't wait to see them for the first time in Glastonbury! Utter brilliance.

CD-Charts Position 13
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Aha Shake Heartbreak

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Kings Of Leon

Release Date November 01, 2004
After the impact of their brilliant debut album, the Kings' follow-up album was eagerly anticipated. And they delivered BIG time!

Aha Shake Heartbreak (though an odd name for an album) simply solidifies the thoughts among many (myself included) that the KOL are the best rock band to have come out of America for a long, long time.

It is chock-full of lively, driving numbers, awash with Caleb's Southern, twangy drawl, Nathan's snappy and precise drumming (check out "Velvet Snow") and Matthew and Jared's solid bass-lines and catchy riffing.

Top tracks include "Slow Night, So Long", "The Bucket", "Velvet Snow" and "Taper Jean Girl". "Milk" is a bit of an odd song as it's hard to understand what the opening lyrics are about, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 14
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Lost Highway

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Bon Jovi

Release Date June 11, 2007
What a wonderful album. It really rocks.
You either love them or hate them; there is no maybe about Bon Jovi.
Every track is good in its own right and there are no "also ran" tracks just to pad out the album.
You will note that "Lost Highway" was included in the film "Wild Hogs".
Great for playing in the car!

CD-Charts Position 15
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Legend - The Best Of

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Willie Nelson

Release Date May 05, 2008
What a wonderful album. It really rocks.
You either love them or hate them; there is no maybe about Bon Jovi.
Every track is good in its own right and there are no "also ran" tracks just to pad out the album.
You will note that "Lost Highway" was included in the film "Wild Hogs".
Great for playing in the car!

CD-Charts Position 16
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The Felice Brothers

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Felice Brothers

Release Date March 03, 2008
Although these guys have adopted the hairy bearded look of the Band and occasionally sound Dylanesque they stamp their own identity firmly on this disc - a set of 15 songs without a dud to be found. Tales of the old and new West predominate as evoked in titles like Frankie's Gun, Whiskey in my Whiskey and Helen Fry. In a strange way the sound evokes not just alt-country legends like Green on Red but also the swirling organ and heavy back beat of the Wailers at their best. This is an outstanding collection which rewards repeated listening.

CD-Charts Position 17
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The Man Comes Around [Bonus Tracks]

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Johnny Cash

Release Date April 14, 2003
The five American Recordings comprise the most honest art I have found as a great man comes to terms with the human condition as his life builds to its close. If you add to them The Sound of Fury by Billy Fury you have the perfect bookends to the male life.

Ray Gill

CD-Charts Position 18
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Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Silver Jews

Release Date June 02, 2008
Hearing the Silver Jews have a new album out always leads to a short and dangerous drive to the nearest record shop for me. I can get from work to Avalanche records in Edinburgh in about 40 minutes if I push it: they close at 6...

I thought I had got passed this stuff now. Good God, my 'co-workers' give me funny looks as I try to tell them about David Berman's band - how funny and memorable his words are and how he puts them sleekly in such great tunes.
This is always going to be not so mainstream: unfair but true.

This one is pretty upbeat in comparison to the earlier records. David Berman is feeling better now. Whew!
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CD-Charts Position 19
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The Highwayman Collection: Round Em Up

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Highwaymen

Release Date November 06, 2000
Not much to say seeing as everyone has said it, but this is a brilliant album and has brought me to appreciate jennings and kristofferson (who i had not heard much of before)

CD-Charts Position 20
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Backwoods Barbie

CD-Charts > Music > Country
by: Dolly Parton

Release Date June 09, 2008
For the die-hard Dolly fans i'm sure this is a 5/5 all the way but for me, a 28 year old casual Dolly fan its not quite perfect.

The stand out tracks for me are definately the title-track Backwoods Barbie, Tracks of my Tears and I Will Forever hate Roses, which is classic Dolly Parton!

The rest are very good with the exception of two.

Jesus & Gravity is cringeworthy and I can't even listen to it all the way through and i'm surprised it made the album. Only Dreamin' is a very folksy song but very bland and again, i'm sure a lady of Dolly's talents has alot better than this.

The Lonesomes is a great little blues number and Cologne is another of the heart-string pulling songs which she does so well.

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