Old Enough to Know Better

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Baby-cheeked Wade Hayes may only be 25 years old, but he's been a professional musician for a dozen years and he has already developed that understated baritone drawl that served his heroes George Jones and Merle Haggard so well. Perhaps that's why Oklahoma's Hayes sounds like a seasoned honky-tonker on his debut album, Old Enough to Know Better, while so many of his fellow "baby hat acts" sound like hotel-lounge singers still trying to get used to the sound of a fiddle.

Don Cook, who leaned in a country-rock direction as producer for the Mavericks and Brooks & Dunn, tilts toward old-fashioned honky-tonk as Hayes's producer. Cook also contributes four of his own songs (including "Kentucky Bluebird," which he wrote for Keith Whitley), and Nashville legend Harlan Howard adds two more. Three of the best tunes, though, come from Hayes and his cowriter Chick Rains. As a result, Old Enough to Know Better boasts far better material than the usual hackwork given to young crooners in cowboy hats. Hayes digs into the songs with his deep, resonant baritone and ponders the conflicts that complicate a man's life. On Cook's ballad, "What I Meant to Say," Hayes holds out certain notes as if to suggest all the feelings he still can't find words for. On his own ballad, "I'm Still Dancin' with You," the reluctance in his voice describes his breakup with a recent lover even better than the lyrics. The title track, another Hayes-Rains composition, has a Brooks & Dunn-like dance rhythm, but Hayes's weary, guilt-ridden vocal undermines the words' carefree, partying attitude. --Geoffrey Himes

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Average customer rating: Terribly underrated Right up there in talent with Elvis A MASTER Great Country Cd One of the best singers ever!

Old Enough to Know Better Wade Hayes Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: When the Wrong One Loves You Right On a Good Night Highways and Heartaches Goodnight Sweetheart Thousand Memories ASIN: B000002ARK Release Date: 1995-01-03

Tracks:

1. Don't Make Me Come To Tulsa
2. I'm Still Dancin' With You
3. Old Enough To Know Better
4. Kentucky Bluebird
5. Don't Stop
6. What I Meant To Say
7. Steady As She Goes
8. Family Reunion
9. Someone Had To Teach You
10. It's Gonna Take A Miracle

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Baby-cheeked Wade Hayes may only be 25 years old, but he's been a professional musician for a dozen years and he has already developed that understated baritone drawl that served his heroes George Jones and Merle Haggard so well. Perhaps that's why Oklahoma's Hayes sounds like a seasoned honky-tonker on his debut album, Old Enough to Know Better, while so many of his fellow "baby hat acts" sound like hotel-lounge singers still trying to get used to the sound of a fiddle.

Don Cook, who leaned in a country-rock direction as producer for the Mavericks and Brooks & Dunn, tilts toward old-fashioned honky-tonk as Hayes's producer. Cook also contributes four of his own songs (including "Kentucky Bluebird," which he wrote for Keith Whitley), and Nashville legend Harlan Howard adds two more. Three of the best tunes, though, come from Hayes and his cowriter Chick Rains. As a result, Old Enough to Know Better boasts far better material than the usual hackwork given to young crooners in cowboy hats. Hayes digs into the songs with his deep, resonant baritone and ponders the conflicts that complicate a man's life. On Cook's ballad, "What I Meant to Say," Hayes holds out certain notes as if to suggest all the feelings he still can't find words for. On his own ballad, "I'm Still Dancin' with You," the reluctance in his voice describes his breakup with a recent lover even better than the lyrics. The title track, another Hayes-Rains composition, has a Brooks & Dunn-like dance rhythm, but Hayes's weary, guilt-ridden vocal undermines the words' carefree, partying attitude. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Terribly underrated.......2007-07-03

This guy is one of the best. It is a shame that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He sings with meaning and purpose, and his style is pure country. If you read his bio, he talks about being a perfectionist with his music. I guess so, because everything seems to flow so effortlessly and so smooth.

Right up there in talent with Elvis.......2005-07-02

I am not into country as I listen to more rock than anything but I do know excellant talent and Wade Hayes has IT! He also knows where credit is due!! This CD is one of his best but check out his other CD's as well he just cannot do a bad song on any of them. Just listen to the song on his CD HIghway & Heartaches "When The Wrong One Loves You Right" and will hear of how Wade Hayes is in the same league as Elvis. I just wish I was as lucky as others to have met him to thank him for such touching music not to mention very upbeat get you going catchy written songs. He sounds like such a nice person.
Warm wishes, Jolene Flemming

A MASTER.......2004-01-12

This CD as with all his others is amazing.. All the songs are well sung and hus voice is to die for. I still can't figure out why he isn't as big as say Kenny Chesney. I think he is more talented than most of the big names out there. I just finally ordered the McHayes CD and can't wait to hear it. I just with Radio and video channels would play him more.. he deserves it. He sings REAL music. He has REAL talent and it's music that is true to country imo

Great Country Cd.......2002-12-23

Wade Hayes is great, and I love all his Cds. I love What I Meant To Say and Old Enough To Know Better, and Don't Make Me Come To Tulsa.

One of the best singers ever!.......1999-05-29

I can listen to this CD for hours before I absolutely make myself turn it off and go to bed. Wade has the knack to make you cry and love and live along with each song he sings. It's no wonder everyone who comments, gives him five stars. I'm looking forward to seeing him on one of his tours. I'm a big Hayes fan!!!

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Old Enough To Know Better: The Worst of Barry Louis Polisar Barry Louis Polisar Manufacturer: Rainbow Morning Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Naughty Songs for Boys & Girls Juggling Babies ASIN: B000BZ8PQA Release Date: 2005-11-05

Tracks:

1. When Suzie Sneezed
2. I Cant Tie My Shoe
3. I Used To Have a Sister
4. My Dentist is An Awfully Nice Man
5. Reptile World
6. The Accident
7. The Witch
8. Thats What Makes the World Go Round
9. The Warning
10. Dont Leave Me in the House Alone
11. The Dinosaur Song
12. Ellen Grew a Beard
13. The Town of Round
14. Me and You
15. I Looked Into the Mirror; What Did the Mirror Say?
16. A Bee Will Sting You
17. Sally Eats Shoelaces, Straw and String
18. Stanley Stole My Shoelace and Rubbed it in His Armpit
19. Everywhere You Go
20. Shut Up in the Library

Tracks:

1. The Ant and the Grasshopper (What They Didnt Tell You)
2. Not So Good At Baseball
3. Poor Orville Thlap
4. I Never Did Like You Anyhow Stomp
5. Theres No Substitute For a Cat
6. Caterpillar
7. First It Bit My Behind
8. Barnyard Stomp
9. Im Bored
10. Im Late
11. The Craster
12. I Forgot
13. The I Eat Kids Polka
14. Siamese Twins
15. Get Your Hand Off of My Leg and Your Foot Out of My Shoe
16. One Big Happy Family
17. Five More Minutes
18. Fred
19. If You Know a Kid Who Complains All the Time
20. I Dont Believe Youre Going to the Bathroom

Product Description

Barry's new CD is not what you might think from the title. The popular children’s musician took a look back at his least favorite songs from his 1970s-era albums and reworked them into brand new songs. Barry’s teen-aged children – once the subjects of some of his songs – contributed to the project. His daughter helped edit and re-shape many of the lyrics and his son joined him in the studio, playing saxophone and clarinet. The result is this two-CD compilation capping his groundbreaking efforts and provides two CDs for the cost of one. Most people do a "Greatest Hits" album after twenty or thirty years. As Barry approached the 30th year of his career, he thought he’d try something different. "I talk a lot about the writing process in my school visits so I thought I’d challenge myself to take all my worst songs and see if I could re-write them." And so he did. Then he went into the studio and began recording the songs and adding instruments and branching out into completely new musical directions. In fact, after recording an entire CD of twenty songs, he decided to dig up more songs and see if he could turn them into something. Hence, a bonus CD is included in this collection with an additional twenty songs. "Ten years ago I had a chance to re-write and re-record my favorite songs," Barry says. "I began thinking about all the songs I had left behind. There were many songs I had written that I simply didn’t like anymore. I began tinkering with many of those older songs and poems, re-writing the lyrics and changing the melodies....sometimes I kept to the spirit of the original; other times I just used the opening line to write a totally new song....And once I began recording what I had written, I had so much fun I went back to the very bottom of the well -- finding songs that I disliked even more for a second disc." Why a double CD for kids? Polisar answers: "I just had so many bad songs!" So here they are...Barry Louis Polisar’s worst songs...but with a brand new twist! As Polisar says, "with forty different songs and poems, there’s something for everyone to dislike!"

Average customer rating: Bulemics are great DAMN THEY REALLY THINK THIS GUY CAN SING?

Old Enough to Know Better The Bulemics Manufacturer: Junk Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000I562 Release Date: 1999-03-30

Tracks:

1. Harlot From Beyond
2. Make Me Sick
3. Old Enough To Know Better
4. If I Only Had A Heart
5. Horny For Evil
6. Sweet Valley High
7. Blood Orgy
8. House On The Haunted Hill
9. Snuff Queen
10. Die Tonight
11. Dial 'M' For Murder
12. She Gets Around

Customer Reviews:

Bulemics are great.......1999-05-19

This is one gutsy record -- killer punk rock with a garage nastiness in the vocals that makes it more savage than any typical hardcore album. The guy who wrote this guy can't sing is right -- but that guy forgot this is PUNK ROCK. Hello! Johnny Rotten couldn't "sing" either. What he could do was transmit energy and attitude and make exciting noise. Same with the Bulemics. You want singers, go to Lilith Fair.

DAMN THEY REALLY THINK THIS GUY CAN SING?.......1999-02-23

THE MUSIC SEEMED REAL TIGHT.HOWEVER THE DAMN SINGER REALLY COULD USE SOME SINGING LESSONS.AND WHATS WITH THE PENTAGRAMS IN THE COVER?I THOUGHT HEAVY METAL BANDS USED THEM?WELL ALL IN ALL I SAY START LOOKING FOR ANEW SINGER BECAUSE THIS ONE SEEMS LIKE A DEAD BIRD TRYING TO HIS HARDEST.DONT QUIT YOURE DAY JOB PAL.HOWEVER THE MUSIC IS WELL DONE.GOOD LUCK WITH THE NEXT STEP."FINDING A NEW SINGER.

Music Album:

1. Old-Time Christmas
2. Old-Time Fiddle Tunes And Songs From North Georgia
3. One
4. One Step Ahead
5. Outlaw
6. Rear View Mirror
7. Ridin With the Legend
8. Second Wind/Keeper of the Flame
9. Shotgun Willie
10. Soul Sex: Wrestling the Angel/Versatile

Music Album