Twenty Year Blues

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After two decades, a couple of Grammies, and some personnel shakeups, the Nashville Bluegrass Band marks its 20th anniversary with an album that's a no-frills, less-is-more, tip of the hat to traditionalism. The quintet, recently bolstered by the return of original mandolin player Mike Compton and the addition of bassist Dennis Crouch, hones in with stalwart, minimalist fervor on 13 songs that are heavily weighted toward time-tested breakdowns, ballads, and blues laments by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Bill Carlisle, and John Hartford. They blend their voices with particular power on the a cappella revival of a hair-raising traditional gospel testimonial called "Hush" and on a reprise of Rodgers's world-weary "Gambling Barroom Blues." --Bob Allen

Twenty Year Blues,The Nashville Bluegrass Band,Sugarhill [Country],Banjo,Bass (Upright),Bluegrass,Country,Fiddle,Guitar (Acoustic),Mandolin,Pop,Progressive Bluegrass,Traditional Bluegrass,Vocal Harmony,Vocals

Average customer rating: new, but still the same Cause for joyous bluegrass celebration

Twenty Year Blues The Nashville Bluegrass Band Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: American Beauty Unleashed Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go So Long of a Journey: Live at the Boulder Theater 40 ASIN: B0002J4YL0 Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

1. Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
2. Travelin' Railroad Man Blues
3. That's All Right
4. Old Riverman
5. Pretty Red Lips
6. Sitting On Top Of The World
7. Luckiest Man Alive
8. Hush (Somebody's Callin' My Name)
9. Gambling Barroom Blues
10. There's A Better Way
11. Rockin' Chair Money
12. Crossing The Cumberlands
13. Tell Me Your Love Is Still True

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After two decades, a couple of Grammies, and some personnel shakeups, the Nashville Bluegrass Band marks its 20th anniversary with an album that's a no-frills, less-is-more, tip of the hat to traditionalism. The quintet, recently bolstered by the return of original mandolin player Mike Compton and the addition of bassist Dennis Crouch, hones in with stalwart, minimalist fervor on 13 songs that are heavily weighted toward time-tested breakdowns, ballads, and blues laments by the likes of Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Bill Carlisle, and John Hartford. They blend their voices with particular power on the a cappella revival of a hair-raising traditional gospel testimonial called "Hush" and on a reprise of Rodgers's world-weary "Gambling Barroom Blues." --Bob Allen

Customer Reviews:

new, but still the same.......2005-02-11

Fans of NBB who despaired at the exit of Roland White and Gene Libbea should buy this disc and give it a listen. All of musical class this band has owned for many years is still there. The instrumentals are brilliant to say the least,proving that they can nail "traditional bluegrass" as solid as ever. "Pretty Red Lips", composed and performed by newcomer Mike Compton is a deligthful instrumental. The vocal magic of Enright/O'Bryant shine through in songs like "travellin' Railroad Man Blues" and "Rockin' Chair Money". While still a bluegrass band as their name suggests, they aren't afraid to deviate into alternative music on this recording, like the vocal "Hush" and the Bill Dale song "Luckiest Man Alive"

All in all, evry fan of NBB needs to own this disc, and if you've never owed them, this would be a dany to start with.

Cause for joyous bluegrass celebration .......2004-08-23

Playing Time - 41:59 -- Calling this project "Twenty Year Blues," the Nashville Bluegrass Band celebrates two decades picking extraordinary bluegrass that has garnered them IBMA Awards for Vocal Group of the Year (multiple times), Entertainer of the Year, and Song of the Year. Banjo-player Alan O'Bryant actually started his professional music career a decade earlier in 1974 with James Monroe, while co-founder and guitarist Pat Enright had previously performed with Tasty Licks (from New England) and Phantoms of the Opry (from San Francisco). A fateful day in 1984 brought these two together to launch the Nashville Bluegrass Band. The band's current configuration still includes fiddler Stuart Duncan, seventime winner of the IBMA Fiddler of the Year Award. The band's original mandolinist, Mike Compton, returned to the group in 2001, and he reinvigorates the band's sound with his solid picking and vocals (singing lead on three cuts, and baritone on another). Compton also composed the fiery instrumental, "Pretty Red Lips." A new addition to the band is talented bassist Dennis Crouch.

A few other 20-year highlights in the Nashville Bluegrass Band's history include Grammy awards, touring to Red China, touring with Lyle Lovett, recording with actress/singer Bernadette Peters, performing on a soundtrack with Johnny Cash, Enright's yodeling being featured in the "O Brother Where Aart Thou" movie, and touring as part of the high-profile Down From The Mountain and Great High Mountain tours. "Twenty Year Blues" is really much more of a cause for joyous celebration than it is any cause to be sorrowful or sad, a theme found in many of the songs presented. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

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Alphabet Songs Jim Post Manufacturer: Reading By Ear ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Children's Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Children's Music | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Folk General | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Folk General | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie 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: Learning Basic Skills Through Music Vol. 1 ASIN: B00095UYR0 Release Date: 2005-03-15

Tracks:

1. Never Argue With An Ant
2. Big Brown Bear
3. Come to the Circus
4. Delbert the Dinosaur
5. An Echo Will Come Back to You
6. Frog Town Band
7. It's Great to Have a Giggle
8. Hazel the Hippo
9. Izzie the Inchworm
10. Jelly Fish Jamboree
11. I've a Kink in My Link
12. Oodles and Loads and Lots of Things
13. Mabel the Milk Cow
14. Name, Name, Everyone Has a Name
15. Oh! You Oughta Be An Otter
16. Purple Pig
17. Don't Be Afraid to Ask Questions
18. Red is a Rousing Color!
19. Singing All the Sounds
20. Toes, Toes, We All Have Toes
21. Ugh! It's a Bug!
22. Vegetables, Begetables
23. A Wish is a Wonderful Thing
24. Excuse Me!
25. Yellow Jump Rope
26. Lalla-pa-looza Zoo
27. Ch Song, Chick-a-dee Song
28. Th song, Luther, the Cowboy

Product Description

ALPHABET SONGS contains an original song for every letter in the alphabet, plus the sounds of CH and TH. There are 28 fun songs, rich in vocabulary and information from dinosaurs to insects, from echoes to giggles. It contains a wide variety of musical styles: reggae, jazz, rock folk, rhythm and blues and marches.Each song is dedicated to its target letter. (For example, the song,"Purple Pig," contains 65 words with the letter P in the beginning, midde or end position.) 60 minutes of fun, educational music!!

Average customer rating: More than an act of Willpower

Willpower: A Twenty-Year Retrospective Jack Bruce Manufacturer: Umvd Labels ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Somethin' Els Songs for a Tailor Underworld - Evolution (Widescreen Special Edition) Cream - Royal Albert Hall - London May 2-3-5-6 2005 ASIN: B000008DU6 Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

1. Willpower
2. As You Said
3. White Room
4. Rope Ladder To The Moon
5. Theme For An Imaginary Western
6. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune
7. Can You Follow?
8. Morning Story
9. Folk Song
10. Keep It Down
11. Pieces Of Mind
12. Without A Word
13. How's Tricks
14. Jet Set Jewel
15. Mickey The Fiddler
16. The Best Is Still To Come
17. Ships In The Night

Customer Reviews:

More than an act of Willpower.......2004-12-14

Jack Bruce's retrospective'Willpower'(1989), contains nigh on over two decades of his recorded artistry. Bruce's blues bent is inextricably linked to the writing of Pete Brown. It's no fluke that the 'cream' of representation here is from the stunning,'Songs For a Tailor', and 'Harmony Row' discs which brought the Bruce/Brown collaboration to full maturity. The perfection of these discs would surely disturb compilers forced to tamper with them to fit another whole. And I'd never suggest 'Willpower' could substitute for these superb discs. Bruce continues to record and the fruits are just as tastey even if the seasons are less frequent. Potent contrasts are integral to the vitality of his music. Not merely a 'white room with black curtains,' or the punster asked 'to a party to a house just by the moon. You gave me silver loving. The end was all too soon.' Bruce extended tonality in his playing, phrasing and voice as very few people did in the 70s and few do now. Soaring/plunging,raucous/hushed,elongated/compressed,accelerated/plodding - this is music that still takes me places.

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