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One of the Boys

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Gretchen Wilson

Release Date May 21, 2007
One Of The Boys,Gretchens 3rd album has a slight change in direction from her previous 2 albums.It's more mellow,easy listening country.
It includes the ballad Come To Bed which features John Rich on harmonies,the smart witty uptempo If You Want A Mother(great lyrics to this)and the tongue in cheek uptempo There Goes The Neighbourhood.
Other standouts are The girl I Am,One Of The Boys,Painkiller(great ballad)and Good Ole Boy.
The theme of this album is most definately about Gretchen given the listener a more personal insight into the woman she really is!
Not her strongest album,compared to Here For The Party and All Jacked Up but it is still a great album that should be included in your country collection....

CD-Charts Position 212
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The Awakening

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Melissa Etheridge

Release Date September 24, 2007
I am an ardent fan of Melissa ... been to her concerts here in the UK and in the States, and actually even feature on her Live And Alone DVD in a meet and greet session. So I know what I'm talking about when I say ... this is Melissa at her best. We are lucky to be walking her journey with her as she plays the soundtrack to her life, and ours. Or indeed, creates it. A deep sense of spirituality pervades this album, as well as a consciousness of herself, her place in the world and the change she dreams of effecting by becoming. 'Threesome', 'Imagine that' and 'Kingdom' are brave, revealing and powerful, each for very different reasons in different contexts. But tonight walking home from Oxford Street in London, I turned the volume on my iPod as ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 213
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Surrender to the Rhythm: Best of Brinsley Schwarz

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Brinsley Schwarz

Release Date June 05, 2000
Brinsley Schwarz were named after their lead guitarist, surprisingly enough called Brinsley Schwarz but are most remembered for songwriter, bassist and lead singer, Nick Lowe. Nick was to later find fame as solo artist and in-house producer of the fledgling Stiff record label however he served his apprenteship with the Brinsleys as did their manager and later Stiff Boss, Dave Robinson.

The Brinsleys were an amateur band when Dave took over managing them and instigated what is still considered to be the worst publicity stunt the music industry has ever witnessed. Dave booked the band to play the Fillmore in New York and flew out the British rock press to cover the event. The thirty six hour journey overshadowed the bands performance and the rest ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 214
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Dwight Sings Buck

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Dwight Yoakam

Release Date October 22, 2007
Dwight says that Buck Owens was perhaps the biggest influence on his Music life. Well he has gone a long way to repaying Buck, and preserving his memory with this fantastic album. The songs are all Buck Owens numbers, but Dwight has given each song his own unique twist, with brilliant results. My favourite album now.

Patrick Dunlop

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Landing On Water

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Neil Young

Release Date March 20, 1999
This record is really strange and it should have labelled "only for fans" on its cover. However, having said that, the album has a couple of very good songs like "weight of the world" and "hippie dream". MAny other NY albums have just a couple of great songs and the rest sucks: Sleeps with Angels, Old Ways, Trans, Broken Arrow, Mirror Ball, Silver and Gold...plus a few others who have zero good songs like Are You Passionate or Living with War. Pls note NY is my hero and I'm a great fan of his, but you have to be objective sometimes. And this album is no worse than others and in fact has a couple of very good songs.

CD-Charts Position 216
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I, Flathead (Deluxe Edition)

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Ry Cooder

Release Date June 23, 2008
I'm not what you'd call a die-hard Cooder fan, but anyone who likes his older stuff (especially back from the 70's) will love this concept album. What really makes it for me is the combination of his sense of humour combined with some of his best music in years (IMHO).

As he writes in the notes (in his alter-ego, "Kash Buk"), "You got your hard times, your good times, a dog story... and a forbidden-race-love song."

First time I played it I wondered what it was all about - background music it ain't - but stick it in the car CD player (as Kash recommends) and it comes to life.

I've only played it about half a dozen times but I'm singing the songs already.

With regard to the first review, I'm not over 60 but I ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 217
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Broken Arrow

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Neil Young

Release Date June 24, 1996
I love this album. Slip Away and Scattered are two of the best songs Neil Young has ever done. The whole thing is grungy and chugging, but the melodies are still there, underpinning it all. If you like Silver and Gold, it might not be for you, but for anyone who loved Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, this natural successor is for you.

CD-Charts Position 218
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Western Wall

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt

Release Date September 13, 1999
This 1999 collaboration between Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt is more folk rock than country in its unique atmospheric sound. It opens with Loving The Highwayman, where the two share lead and harmony vocals. Written by Emmylou, Raise The Dead has her on lead, harmony and electric guitar on a moving tribute to Hank Williams and Bill Monroe.

They lovingly interpret Rosanne Cash's Western Wall, whilst 1917 is a slow melancholy ballad with some lines sung in Latin. The tempo picks up a bit on He Was Mine, a gorgeous display of interweaving voices, and on Sweet Spot, which is a type of brooding rock ballad. For me, the highlight of the album is definitely this evocative cover of Sisters Of Mercy. The simple arrangement does not stray too far from Cohen's ... Read More:

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Nightfall of Diamonds: Live at Meadowlands New Jersey 16 Oct 1989

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Grateful Dead

Release Date January 17, 2005

Being my third Dead collection, and it's two decades on from the other two. And it shows. The sound is somehow richer, and there are synths to supplement the other keyboards. This gives the possibility of a wider range of effects - what sounds like a trumpet on Deal, Andean pipes on Playing In The Band. It also makes possible the synth-dominated Space, which maybe suggests that the members of the band were not entirely "substance free".

So although there are enough differences to avoid the accusation of resting on laurels, the Dead are still the Dead. So in amongst the new songs such as the excellent opener, Picasso Moon, there are Dead standards like Uncle John's Band, Playing In The Band (twice) and, of course, Dark Star, also twice, and on both ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 220
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Songs of the Louvin Brothers [Us Import]

CD-Charts > Music > Country Rock
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 21, 2003
Gram Parsons first introduced me to the Louvin Brothers, via his take on Cash On The Barrelhead. This compilation features immaculate musicianship, stellar vocal performances and a selection of very fine tunes. As far as I'm concerned any CD featuring a duet by Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell is worth having but they excel themselves here on My Baby's Gone. The entire album overflows with great singing from the likes of Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, James Taylor and Merle Haggard. Any country fan will be familiar with these names but the less well known (too me at least) prove to be of a similar high standard. I'm not sure this version of If I Could Only Win Your Love by Ronnie Dunn and Rebecca Lynn Howard is as good as an earlier reading by Emmylou, in fact I know it isn't, ... Read More: