Crown of Jewels

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How does someone creating their first album attract such stellar guests as Vince Gill, Joan Osborne, Roger McGuinn, Bruce Hornsby, John Prine, John Hiatt, and Mary Chapin Carpenter? Well, it helps if you're a Grammy Award winner and one of Nashville's most prominent producers and guitarists. Randy Scruggs won a Grammy Award for his rendition of "Amazing Grace" on the acclaimed album Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2. He's also produced top albums by Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss. On his first solo album, Scruggs concentrates on beautiful melodies and optimistic messages. The strain between art and commerce sometimes shows: The songs aimed at radio stick out like billboards in an art gallery. Overall, though, the album nicely balances sharp instrumentation and catchy, uplifting arrangements. --Michael McCall

Entertainment Weekly
...[A] mostly thrilling melding of talent.

Tracks:

Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
My Fairy King
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock N' Roll
Son And Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas Of Rhye...

Tracks:

Procession
Father to Son
White Queen (As it Began)
Some Day One Way
The Loser In The End
Ogre Battle
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
Nevermore
The March of the Black Queen
Funny How Love Is
Seven Seas of Rhye

Tracks:

Brighton Rock
Killer Queen
Tenement Funster
Flick Of The Wrist
Lily Of The Valley
Now I'm Here
In The Lap Of The Gods
Stone Cold Crazy
Dear Friends
Misfire
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisted

Tracks:

Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
I'm In Love With My Car
You're My Best Friend
'39
Sweet Lady
Seaside Rendezvous
The Prophet's Song
Love Of My Life
Good Company
Bohemian Rhapsody
God Save The Queen

Tracks:

Tie Your Mother Down
You Take My Breath Away
Long Away
The Millionaire's Waltz
You And I
Somebody To Love
White Man
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Drowse
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Tracks:

We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Sheer Heart Attack
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings
Fight From The Inside
Get Down, Make Love
Sleeping On The Sidewalk
Who Needs You
It's Late
My Melancholy Blues

Tracks:

Mustapha
Fat Bottomed Girls
Jealousy
Bicycle Race
If You Can't Beat Them
Let Me Entertain You
Dead On Time
In Only Seven Days
Dreamers Ball
Fun It
Leaving Home Ain't Easy
Don't Stop Me Now
More Of That Jazz

Tracks:

Play The Game
Dragon Attack
Another One Bites The Dust
Need Your Loving Tonight
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Don't Try Suicide
Sail Away Sweet Sister
Coming Soon
Save Me

Customer Reviews:

Great collection, interesting packaging, essential listening........2007-07-16

This is the box set for those ready to dive feet-first into the back-catalog of queen. After many years of being in the mainstream through "Best-of" compilations, this collection offers fans (old and new) something compelling. The packaging is a solid attempt to capture the days of Vynal two-fold packaging and included lyrics. All said, a great value and essential to any classic rock library.

Box Fit For The Kings Of Rock,Queen.......2007-06-28

Some good reasons to get this box set:1)Eight albums from Queen's most popular and fruitful years:Queen(1973),Queen II(1974),Sheer Heart Attack(1974),A Night At The Opera(1975),A Day At the Races(1976),News Of The World(1977),Jazz(1978) and The Game(1980) all in cool,attractive mini-original LP-style jackets 2)Most of the band's biggest and best-loved hits are here,including "We Will Rock You","We Are The Champions","Bohemian Rhapsody","Another One Bites The Dust","Killer Queen","Somebody To Love","You're My Best Friend","Crazy Little Thing Called Love","Bicycle Race" and "Fat Bottomed Girls",plus their most prized classic album tracks like "Keep Yourself Alive","Seven Seas Of Rhye","Stone Cold Crazy","39","Tie Your Mother Down","Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy","Get Down Make Love","Its Late","Dragon Attack" and many more.3)Excellent remastered sound,much better than the individual 1991 Hollywood CDs.Even Queen I and Queen II,which suffered from substandard production,now sound better than ever. 4)No bad bonus tracks with awful "remixes"! 5) No mastering errors like on the separate 1991 ones with the chopped guitar intro to "It's Late",the screwy opening to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and the chopped part 30-seconds into "In The Lap Of The Gods".6)Nice booklet featuring lyrics to every album contained here.and 7)It's a real steal to get all these great Queen albums at the price of $89.99 and under.That may be steep,but considering the artifically high prices of the individual ones at $13.99-16.99,and the fact that this box set has such superior sound quality over the ones still on the shelves(still with those horrid bonus tracks!),its worth every penny!

Queen .......2007-06-24

Great boxed set. Dark Blue velvet box with logo. "nice" Each CD is in an carboard replica jacket of it's album. It would've been a perfect set if the CD's were in an hard case instead of cardboard.
8 CD's and a companion booklet with all the lyrics and some pictures.
If you like Queen's music this is a great collection. I love it.

The Ultimate Highlight of Queen's Reign.......2007-01-20

Any true Queen fan knows that these first eight albums represent the epitome of one of the greatest rock bands of the 1970s. The remastered albums are of excellent sound quality, and the sleeves are cardboard replicas of the original album covers. Queen II, Night at the Opera, Day at the Races, News of the World, and Jazz are accurately reproduced in their original gatefold format. Jazz even includes a miniature reproduction of the original notorious poster of nude female bicycle racers! The accompanying booklet has all the original lyrics, as well as some great photos. All of this is beautifully packaged in a blue velvet covered box. Although not inexpensive, you get a lot for your money, musically and otherwise. For anyone who loves Queen, this set is a must!

Brilliant Queen Collection.......2006-12-16

An absolutely brilliant collection. After "The Game", Queens music became more erratic and eccentric. This is the real meat and bones of the Queen cds. Hell, my childhood lies in this box set! The Album re-creations are brilliant, and the inner sleeves in each one protects the cds from dislodging. They sound incredible and at some of the prices i see this being sold by used/other sellers its an absolute bargain! Even the $95 that amazon sells it new as is a bargain considering this is 8 cds. work it out. Not to be missed on any level.
If you RIP your music onto computer as i do, you play the cds once and have an immaculate collection to be cherished forever. The 'Real' Queen music in its own storage unit, each individually captured in its original LP artwork (including gate-fold) the booklet gives info and lyrics to each cd! I cant speak enough of the value and quality of the set by one of the most under-appreciated bands in history!

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Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band

Crown Jewels
Crown of Thorns
Manufacturer: Frontiers
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0006FU4RS
Release Date: 2004-12-13

Tracks:

Winterland
Rain
Hike It Up
I Won't Wait
Dirty Talk, Dirty Walk
Crown of Thorns
Dying for Love
No You Don't
Standing on the Corner
Healer
Secret Jesus
'Til the End
Night
Never Enough
I'm Burnin' Up
Hang on Sugar
Killing Time
Man on a Tightrope
Little Stone House
Are You Ready '95 [Radio Edit]

Tracks:

Over My Head
Don't Let Me Down
Only One Who's Lonely
Breakthrough
You
Writing's on the Wall
Lost Cathedral
Live and Die
Lyin'
Greed of Love
Wasted Prime
Birds on a Wire
End of the Century
Here She Comes
Missinary Remedy

Tracks:

Heaven Tonight
Long Way Hom
Believer
'Til You've Had Enough
My Sweet Lord
Shed No Tears
Before It Slips Away
I'm Sorry
Once in My Life
Oh Holy Night [*]
All I Want for Christmas Is You [*]
Jean Beauvoir Interview [CD-ROM Track]

Album Description

Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of 'Crown Jewels', the first & most complete best of from the mighty band Crown Of Thorns on a stunning 3 CD box set in digipak covering all the best songs from the band's repertoire & adding plenty of rare material, two newly recorded Christmas tracks & one 25 minutes exhaustive video interview with band leader Jean Beauvoir who encompasses the band's entire career. After all these years of exciting news & an action packed career, it was surely time for a best of package. It wouldn't be Crown Of Thorns if this wasn't special. First, the band recruited Sebastian Kozak to design an all-new stunning artwork. Then, all tracks of the album were remastered. After all, this is the ultimate Crown Of Thorns package- a must for every fan of this amazing band! Digipak. Frontiers. 2004.

Album Details

Top Drawer Three CD Retropective from Jean Beauvoir's Hard Rock Outfit.

Customer Reviews:

Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band.......2006-09-20

Crown of Thorns is another quality AOR/melodic rock group on the Frontiers label. Led by singer/guitarist Jean Beauvoir, who has ties to bands as varied as the Plasmatics and the Ramones to Doro and KISS, the band plays fairly straightforward, not too heavy, melodic rock with a few quirks. To my ears they sound like the offspring of TNT and Enuff Znuff with some trace elements of King's X thrown in for good measure.

The 3-disc compilation Crown Jewels provides a nice overview of the band's career, and features a total of 46 tracks (including two new Christmas songs), all of which have been digitally remastered. A 24-minute video interview with Beauvior is also included, which is a nice addition. This is a great way to become familiar with the band's work, though it does have a somewhat hefty price tag. It's also a nice collection for long-time fans, as it is the first time we get to hear these songs with such improved sound quality.

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Not his first album
Randy Scruggs
TGI Scruggs
Fantastic!
truly a crown of jewels!

Crown of Jewels
Randy Scruggs
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

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All the Way Home
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3
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ASIN: B000007ND8
Release Date: 1998-07-14

Tracks:

A Soldier's Joy
It's Only Love
I Wanna Be Loved Back
Amie
Travel On
City Of New Orleans
Wildwood Flower
Lonesome Ruben
Passin' Thru
My Secret Life
Crown Of Jewels
Both Sides Now

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How does someone creating their first album attract such stellar guests as Vince Gill, Joan Osborne, Roger McGuinn, Bruce Hornsby, John Prine, John Hiatt, and Mary Chapin Carpenter? Well, it helps if you're a Grammy Award winner and one of Nashville's most prominent producers and guitarists. Randy Scruggs won a Grammy Award for his rendition of "Amazing Grace" on the acclaimed album Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2. He's also produced top albums by Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss. On his first solo album, Scruggs concentrates on beautiful melodies and optimistic messages. The strain between art and commerce sometimes shows: The songs aimed at radio stick out like billboards in an art gallery. Overall, though, the album nicely balances sharp instrumentation and catchy, uplifting arrangements. --Michael McCall

Customer Reviews:

Not his first album.......2006-04-02

Despite the editorial review, this is not Randy Scruggs first album. He and his brother, Gary, released two albums in the 70's, as the Sruggs Brothers. The first (which is the best and as good as Crown) ia apparently unavailable. The second is available on Amazon. Search "scruggs"

Randy Scruggs.......2005-09-16

I have loved this album since it first came out and I would be hard pressed to pick a single cut that would be my favorite. It's a joy from start to finish.

My question is why hasn't he recorded another album since this one. I've done a search on here and can't find one. I remember him from the Earl Scruggs review and was impressed with his guitar playing (Earl wasn't bad at playing the guitar either but not flashy; I could always tell when he was playing guitar on the Circle album.)

Great album.

TGI Scruggs.......2005-03-09

This album contains the excellent guitar picking of one of the finest studio musicians to come from Earl's genes. A Soldiers Joy is one of the best examples of this work. This album features some of the best vocals in country music today...Rosanne Cash, Mary Chapin Carpenter,etc. Get this one.

Fantastic!.......2002-06-07

This has quickly become one of the favorite CD's in my collection. I would highly recommend it. Everyone I know who listens to it, goes and buys it!

truly a crown of jewels!.......2000-11-11

Every song on this cd is a gem. The instrumentals are first class.Many of my favorites take part on this cd including Mary Chapin Carpenter(who sounds awesome in It's Only Love), Trish Yearwood (giving great harmony to I Wanna Be Loved), Matraca Berg, Gary Chapman, Amy Grant, John Hiatt (all singing background vocals on City Of New Orleans), Emmylou Harris & Iris Dement (Beautifully dueting on Wildwood Flower), Joan Osborne (burning it up on the Johnny Cash co written Passin' Thru), Roseanne Cash (singing a gorgeous My Secret Life). Reading the notes from Randy Scruggs one can see his love of writing and recording these songs, but even more so from the performance he and his co-horts bring to this project. There is not one bad song on this cd. If you like good country music, or just plain good heartfelt music, you can't do amy better than this recording.

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Spitshine

Manufacturer: Thunderdog Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000091S6S
Release Date: 2002-02-12

Average customer rating:

Exceptional Lyrics + Great Music = An Awesome CD
Exceptional Lyrics + Great Music = An Awesome CD

Linoleum
Crown Jewels
Manufacturer: Thunderdog Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000IQ7A
Release Date: 2000-04-21

Tracks:

Lovers On Earth
Toughest Girl In The Neighborhood
Last Confession
Believe Me Camille
He's So Zen
Strawberry Velvet Fifty Cent Shoes
Heart Shaped Glasses
Peace

Customer Reviews:

Exceptional Lyrics + Great Music = An Awesome CD.......1999-06-03

Take one listen to the Crown Jewels' sophomore album and you'll be hooked.

The brothers Conte, singer/guitarist Steve and bassist John, know how to deliver a great album. Early '90s rock fans may remember the Conte boys from the New York City-based Company of Wolves - originally signed to Mercury Records.

After the group split, the Contes formed Crown Jewels and released the debut album, "Spitshine," a few years back (check it out). However, their new Linoleum CD is well worth the wait!

The standout track is "Last Confession," with a rockin' sound and catchy hooks. You'll dig the slow grooves of "Strawberryvelvetfiftycentshoes." And you might relate to loving the "Toughest Girl in the Neighborhood."

If you think the songs sound awesome on CD, they sound even better played live. Pick up a copy of Linoleum and see the Jewels perform when they come to your town!

Exceptional Lyrics + Great Music = An Awesome CD.......1999-06-03

Take one listen to the Crown Jewels' sophomore album and you'll be hooked.

After the group split, the Contes formed Crown Jewels and released the debut album, "Spitshine," a few years back (check it out). However, their new Linoleum CD is well worth the wait!

If you think the songs sound awesome on CD, they sound even better played live. Pick up a copy of Linoleum and see the Jewels perform when they come to your town!

Crown Jewels
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Crown Jewels

Manufacturer: Green Horse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA48RY
Release Date: 2004-07-20

Average customer rating:

Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band

Crown Jewels
Crown of Thorns
Manufacturer: Frontiers Italy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0007D4MFO
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Customer Reviews:

Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band.......2006-09-20

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Bleed Together
The Contes
Manufacturer: Thunderdog
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00009AQAC
Release Date: 2003-01-14

Tracks:

So Much for Love
Out of My Head
Bleed Together
My Brilliant Star
My Crossing Lady
Bossa Nova Sunday
Still Not Dead
Diner Song
Bad Jesus
As Sane as Jane
Hand Me Down Days
Don't Tempt Me

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Linoleum
Crown Jewels
Manufacturer: Thunderdog Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000256N8
Release Date: 2001-10-09

Tracks:

Lovers on Earth
Toughest Girl in the Neighborhood
Last Confession
Believe Me, Camille
He's So Zen
Strawberryvelvetfiftycentshoes
Heart Shaped Glasses
Peace

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Baroque music is not be feared

17 Jewels in the Crown of the Baroque

Manufacturer: Omega Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000002395
Release Date: 1993-04-07

Tracks:

Masterpiece Theatre Theme: Fanfare For Trumpet
Adagio For Strings
Solomon: Sinfonia Act III: Entrance Of The Queen Of Sheba
Cantata No. 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
2nd Suite For Flute And Strings In B Minor, BWV 1067: Polonaise
The Four Seasons, Op. VIII, Nos. 1-4: Winter: Adagio
Concerto In G For Two Mandolins, R.532: 1st Movement: Allegro
Canon In D
Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, R.537: 1st Movement: Allegro
Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 In F Minor, BWV 1056: Largo
Orleo ed Euridice: Dance Of The Blessed Spirits
Suite In A Minor For Flute And Strings: Rejouissance
Cantata No. 208, Schleicht, spielende Wellen: Sheep May Safely Graze
The Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
Suite For Orchestra No. 3 In D, BWV 1068: Air
Jeptha: Sinfonia
Xerxes: Largo

Customer Reviews:

Baroque music is not be feared.......2000-08-13

Musics of the Baroque Era is perhaps the most general of classical music. You can always find a vast quantity of baroque music in any classical store. Of course, the largest works composed by Mr. J.S. Bach. Here is his sinfonia and Arrival from the Queen of Sheba. The Arrival is very popular. Its allegro measure of strings is very festive, eventhough it is supposed to be the re-telling of the Solomon and Sheba encounter in the Bible. The works of other Baroque masters can be found here such as Handel and Gluck. The Dance of the Blessed Spirits is a magnificent piece. These are all famous Baroque works. If you're a beginner of classical music, and wish to hear Baroque, this cd is a good start-up cd.

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