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Sleepless Nights(more) »rank: 234by: Patty Loveless
Our review: :As always, Patty Loveless connects with listeners, singing about their joys and sorrows. Sleepless Nights is her newly recorded homage to the classic country hits of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. She personally selected each song, country classics first made popular by George Jones, Hank Locklin, Porter Wagoner, Webb Pierce, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Conway Twitty. Born and bred country, Patty's pure crooning on these favorites is yearning and melancholy, enhanced only by sparse accompaniment. The new sessions feature several legendary band members: guitarist Harold Bradley, who played on the original hits of Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison; blind ... Detail |
22 More Hits(more) »rank: 549by: George Strait
Our review:Album Description:The unprecedented success that George Strait has earned throughout his illustrious 26-year-career could not be captured in the multi-platinum release of his number one hits alone. The King of Country Music has bestowed the perfect companion piece to his multi-platinum 50 NUMBER ONES with 22 MORE HITS. Scheduled for release November 13, 22 MORE HITS contains exactly that - 22 fan favorites and well known Strait hit singles that despite not quite reaching number one at country radio made a timeless impression on country music fans across the country. George Strait has made a career of giving his fans what ... Detail |
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Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets(more) »rank: 2586by: George Jones
Our review: :GEORGE JONES - BURN YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN: The Unreleased Duets is a collection of never-before-heard duets between Jones and an illustrious group of guest stars. The recordings range from the mid-70s with his ex-wife, the First Lady of Country Music, Tammy Wynette, to the most recent recording from 2007 with his daughter, Georgette, the only child from the union of George and Tammy. Duet partners include Keith Richards, Leon Russell, Mark Knopfler, Shelby Lynne, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Mark Chesnutt, Tammy Wynette, Jim Lauderdale, Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Georgette Jones (daughter), Detail |
Hank III Collector's Edition(more) »rank: 1936by: Hank Williams III
Our review:Album Description:Limited edition tin with three CD set. Parental Advisory for Explicit Content. As the name indicates, Hank Williams III is the third in a line of country music royalty, son of Hank Williams Jr. and grandson to the man they simply called Hank. While Hank III is certainly as much of a hell-raiser as his pop and grandaddy, his style of music owes much more of a debt to the traditional styles of Hank I than the rowdy country-rock of his father. That said, Hank III has a rock-&-roll spirit previously unimaginable in the Williams family. With his band Assjack ... Detail |
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Backwoods Barbie(more) »rank: 1202from: Dolly Records
Our review: :Parton's first mainstream album in 17 years appeals to all her fans without sounding insincere or compromising. The title track, a fiddle-and-piano colored two-beat that's a sympathetic bit of autobiography, belies her campy doll-like cover pose. The debut single 'Better Get to Livin'' is a page from her own upbeat canon, and when she's downhearted in the steel-guitar weeper 'The Lonesomes' and the cocktail lounge arrangement 'Made of Stone,' she draws on the influence of earlier country queens like Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline. Parton's vocal tones remain equally pure, distinctive, and captivating over grinding six-string power chords as she blasts ... Detail |
The Boxmasters(more) »rank: 2028by: The Boxmasters
Our review: :Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters sound combines the influence of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Kinks, and the Animals, fused with Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Roy Acuff and Hank Williams. Fashioned after a 1960 s-era mod band (including matching suits and ties!), The Boxmasters upbeat rhythms and infectious arrangements contrast sardonically with the very dark themes they explore lyrically. Detail |
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20 of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 2013by: Hank Williams
Our review: essential recording:Hank 101. Country 101. After 27 years in print as 24 Greatest Hits, Mercury kindly reduced it to 20 Greatest Hits. It's still excellent value, and it's still sobering to realize that Hank recorded just 66 songs during his lifetime, almost all of them essential. Here are those that serve as a working definition of country music, and as an admonition to artists who try to get too wordy or try to lose themselves in minor keys. 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' 'Honky-Tonk Blues,' 'Cold, Cold Heart,' 'Lovesick Blues,' 'You Win Again,' 'I Can't Help It,' 'I'm So Lonesome I Could ... Detail |
The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam(more) »rank: 2955by: Dwight Yoakam
Our review: :Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently released six-song EP, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., added to the buzz and helped land him on Warner Bros./Reprise. Now, twenty years later comes The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, a superb single-disc distillation of the four-CD box, Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years. With 20 tracks spanning his recording career and sequenced in chronological order, the set rolls along with ... Detail |
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Legendary Performances(more) »rank: 6455starring: Merle Haggard
Our review:Description:From the vaults of the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum, this collection features nearly two decades of Merle Haggard performances in his prime not seen since their original broadcast. Now, for the first time on DVD, experience the hits through a chronology of vintage live performances such as 'Branded Man' (Country Music Holiday,1968), 'Mama Tried' (Billy Walker's Country Carnival, 1968) and 'Okie From Muskogee' (The Porter Wagoner Show, 1970). When Merle Haggard left prison in 1960, he went on to achieve 38 #1 hits (to date) and establish himself as one of the greats in country music. But getting ... Detail |
Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 2792by: Johnny Horton
Our review:Description:From the vaults of the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum, this collection features nearly two decades of Merle Haggard performances in his prime not seen since their original broadcast. Now, for the first time on DVD, experience the hits through a chronology of vintage live performances such as 'Branded Man' (Country Music Holiday,1968), 'Mama Tried' (Billy Walker's Country Carnival, 1968) and 'Okie From Muskogee' (The Porter Wagoner Show, 1970). When Merle Haggard left prison in 1960, he went on to achieve 38 #1 hits (to date) and establish himself as one of the greats in country music. But getting ... Detail |