Ain't Comin' Back (this year) [Explicit Lyrics]

Track Listings
1. Ain't Comin' Back (This Year)    
2. Another Unknown Soldier    
3. Windmills    
4. Clayton Comes to Town    
5. The Dunes of Lisdoonvarna    
6. Delaware County Line    
7. The Cherokee Kid    
8. Sing Me the Sky    
9. Who Could Ever Say?    
10. Welcome Home    
11. Flutter-Bys    
12. The Fargo Stable Fire    
13. The Widow McDaid    
14. Protection    

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Fred Bailey grew up on a dirt farm at the base of the Oklahoma Panhandle, went to town, discovered folk music, won a key to the Executive Washroom, moved to New Orleans and was promptly drafted on Thanksgiving Day, 1965. Introduced to the Southeast Asia combination of Cavalry and aviation, he discovered the full-circle rainbow and chose aviation. Then things really got weird. Now he's retired to the Ohio suburbs and processing it all. This CD is his first public statement.

Album Description
A singer/songwriter who processes the 60's "folk scare" by producing acoustic stories of personal experience without excessive emotional baggage. These are hard-edged observations and narratives of ordinary people and things thrust into sometimes extraordinarily picayune circumstance. The raw grain shines through a minimum of organic varnish. The viewpoint of these stories is often historic, ranging from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the shores of Ireland and back again into the burgeoning suburbs of modern America.

Ain't Comin' Back (this year), Music, Fred Bailey, Not just another gol durn singer/songwriter, but a world-traveled storyteller with deep roots in Northwest Oklahoma who uses his music to look at an unpredictable, sometimes insane world with a wry eye, humor, and a sense of pathos.
Ain't Comin' Back (this year)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The real thing
  • Wonderful things
 Ain't Comin' Back (this year)
Fred Bailey
Manufacturer: Fred Bailey
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066SZ2
Release Date: 2002-04-26

Tracks:

  1. Ain't Comin' Back (This Year)
  2. Another Unknown Soldier
  3. Windmills
  4. Clayton Comes to Town
  5. The Dunes of Lisdoonvarna
  6. Delaware County Line
  7. The Cherokee Kid
  8. Sing Me the Sky
  9. Who Could Ever Say?
  10. Welcome Home
  11. Flutter-Bys
  12. The Fargo Stable Fire
  13. The Widow McDaid
  14. Protection

Album Description

A singer/songwriter who processes the 60's "folk scare" by producing acoustic stories of personal experience without excessive emotional baggage. These are hard-edged observations and narratives of ordinary people and things thrust into sometimes extraordinarily picayune circumstance. The raw grain shines through a minimum of organic varnish. The viewpoint of these stories is often historic, ranging from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the shores of Ireland and back again into the burgeoning suburbs of modern America.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The real thing.......2003-02-01

I have to say that I'm not a folk music fan, probably because so many of the songs seem overly sentimental and so many of its singers--I guess because of their quest for an "honest" sound?--come across as vocally ugly. So this CD was a wonderful surprise. Energetic, tuneful, musical, authentic, true to folk traditions without being trite, the "real McCoy"--all these come to mind as I listen to the terrific lyrics, beautifully performed from the heart by the very talented Bailey and his ensemble. "Welcome Home", "Windmills" and "The Widow McDaid" are probably my favorites but since all fourteen songs are winners, it's a matter of picking from among the best which ones you like the most. Superlatives are in order for this fine recording.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful things.......2002-08-10

When Howard Carter broke the last seal on Tut's tomb, he was asked, "What do you see?" Carter's reply: "Wonderful things." Break the seal on this album and you'll find the same. Bailey is an extraordinary musical storyteller; these songs let you stand on a hot, dusty rise on the Great Plains, in a Midwest backyard, a street in Northern Ireland, a chilly beach in the west of Ireland. No wispy sentimentalism here. This is folk music of the highest order, the kind that illuminates the importance of individual lives. There is the lilting tragedy of the widow McDaid, the roaring independence of Clayton as he comes to town and a tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale for all. (Take the "Explicit Lyrics" warning with a grain of salt. The "language" used is milder than what you'll hear on commercial radio.) Some of the music is simply Fred and his guitar; on much of it there are lovely background vocals and vibrant instrumentals by local friends. So. Sit down. Just...listen.
Kickin' the Clouds Away
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • Straight Off the Old Player Piano Roll!
 Kickin' the Clouds Away

Manufacturer: Klavier
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000059RVW
Release Date: 2001-02-06

Tracks:

  1. Kickin' the Clouds Away
  2. I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful) [Ballad]
  3. Whip-Poor-Will
  4. Sweet and Low Down
  5. Ain't You Comin' Back to Dixieland?
  6. Swanee
  7. Tee-Oodle-Um-Bum-Bo
  8. That Certain Feeling
  9. Grieving for You
  10. Some Sunday Morning
  11. Left All Alone Again Blues
  12. Make Believe - George Gershwin,
  13. Land Where the Good Songs Go
  14. Drifting Along With the Tide
  15. For Your Country and My Country
  16. So Am I
  17. Whose Baby Are You?
  18. Rock-A-Bye, Lullabye Mammy
  19. Rhapsody in Blue

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Straight Off the Old Player Piano Roll!.......2003-02-27

Buyer beware. I purchased the CD anticipating interpretive versions of his most famous pieces played by Gershwin himself. But instead, the CD consists of reproduced player piano rolls--very mechanical, no change in tempo, and just plain irritating to listen to, after the novelty of the first track wears off. I looked back at the product detail to see if I had missed the mention of "player piano versions", but found none. Big disappointment.

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