Just an American Boy [Live]

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This double live CD, recorded with the Dukes on their tour supporting Earle's 2002 album Jerusalem, takes its title from "John Walker's Blues," Earle's song about John Walker Lindh, "the American Taliban"--a song that got him Dixie Chick-ed off adult contemporary and country rock stations across the U.S. Subtitled "an audio documentary," the album coincides with the release of a feature film that follows Earle as he tours, mounts a play, and campaigns against the death penalty. Earle talks quite a bit between songs; his monologues are affable, entertaining, and leftist. Along with Woody Guthrie and D. Boon, Earle's one of those rare musical activists who understands that successful political songs must have music that's exceptional and politics that are personal. There are extraordinary renditions of some of his finest soapbox songs, including "John Walker," "Harlan Man," "Christmas in Washington," and "Billy Austin." A couple of tunes that sounded stiff on Jerusalem--"Ashes to Ashes" and "Conspiracy Theory"--receive far better, and more rocking, treatment here, while "Copperhead Road" is turned into a Scots-Irish reel, which works surprisingly well. The highlight is a take-no-prisoners cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding." --Mike McGonigal

Just an American Boy,Steve Earle,Artemis Records,Country-Rock,New Traditionalist,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Roots Rock,Singer/Songwriter

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Tracks:

1. Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
2. Summertime
3. I Could Write a Book
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. I Can Cook Too
6. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
7. If I Loved You
8. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
9. Thou Swell
10. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
11. There's No Business Like Show Business
12. South American Way

Tracks:

1. Shall We Dance
2. Ohio
3. Luck Be a Lady
4. Mack the Knife
5. There's a Small Hotel
6. Once in Love with Amy
7. Yodel Blues
8. Lazy Afternoon
9. There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love
10. You're Just in Love
11. Now Is the Time

Tracks:

1. Impossible Dream
2. Love Makes the World Go 'Round
3. Try to Remember
4. Put on a Happy Face
5. I Say Hello
6. Happiness
7. She Loves Me
8. What Kind of Fool Am I?
9. Shy
10. Consider Yourself
11. Poor Little Person

Tracks:

1. Magic to Do
2. They're Playing My Song
3. I Don't Know How to Love Him
4. I Won't Send Roses
5. Good Morning Starshine
6. Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
7. Hard Candy Christmas
8. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
9. Won't You Charleston with Me?
10. Applause

Tracks:

1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Memory
3. On My Own
4. Muddy Water
5. How Could I Ever Know
6. American Dream
7. I Know Him So Well
8. Dr. Jazz
9. Me and My Girl
10. Suddenly Seymour

Tracks:

1. Mamma Mia!
2. Popular
3. Seasons of Love
4. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
5. Whatever Lola Wants
6. Crazy
7. How Deep Is Your Love
8. Stars
9. People Like Us
10. I Go to Rio

Average customer rating: Steve is in the groove here A Window In Time Based on the Music - 5 more Stars for Independence Based on this disc Earle could well be the finest example of 5 Stars for Guitar Town, Lose a Star for Each One Since

Just an American Boy Steve Earle Manufacturer: Artemis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Alt Country & Americana | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Jerusalem The Revolution Starts...Now Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator Sidetracks The Hard Way ASIN: B0000AOV39 Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. Audience Intro
2. Amerika v. 6.0 (Tthe Best We Can Do)
3. Ashes to Ashes
4. (Paranoia)
5. Conspiracy Theory
6. I Remember You
7. (Schertz, Texas)
8. Hometown Blues
9. The Mountain
10. (Pennsylvania Miners)
11. Harlan Man
12. Copperhead Road
13. Guitar Town
14. (I Oppose the Death Penalty)
15. Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
16. Billy Austin

Tracks:

1. Audience Intro
2. South Nathville Blues
3. Rex's Blue's/ Fort Worth Blues
4. John Walker's Blues
5. Jerusalem
6. The Unrepentant
7. Christmas In Washington
8. (Democracy)
9. What's So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding
10. Time You Waste (Justin Earle)

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This double live CD, recorded with the Dukes on their tour supporting Earle's 2002 album Jerusalem, takes its title from "John Walker's Blues," Earle's song about John Walker Lindh, "the American Taliban"--a song that got him Dixie Chick-ed off adult contemporary and country rock stations across the U.S. Subtitled "an audio documentary," the album coincides with the release of a feature film that follows Earle as he tours, mounts a play, and campaigns against the death penalty. Earle talks quite a bit between songs; his monologues are affable, entertaining, and leftist. Along with Woody Guthrie and D. Boon, Earle's one of those rare musical activists who understands that successful political songs must have music that's exceptional and politics that are personal. There are extraordinary renditions of some of his finest soapbox songs, including "John Walker," "Harlan Man," "Christmas in Washington," and "Billy Austin." A couple of tunes that sounded stiff on Jerusalem--"Ashes to Ashes" and "Conspiracy Theory"--receive far better, and more rocking, treatment here, while "Copperhead Road" is turned into a Scots-Irish reel, which works surprisingly well. The highlight is a take-no-prisoners cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding." --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Steve is in the groove here.......2005-08-24

His songs here shoot from the heart and can be oh so related to. His political stancing is done in fine form through song and some dialogue with the audience. The album is chock full of good stuff to listen, it also sounds good in the process.

Let's put it this way if you like folk-country-hard-rock with some messaging to go along with it while you're taking a break from reading about Iraq and Bush then you need to get this. On the other hand if you are fine with Bush and Iraq etc. then you really need to get this. 'nuff said?

A Window In Time.......2005-04-12

If you've been fortunate enough to see/hear live Steve Earle over the years, then you know how much his live sound has evolved. This disc presents a pretty good picture of where Steve and the Dukes were at in late '02 into early '03: telling it as they saw the truth to be and not pulling a single punch. Sure, there are loads of people that don't want to hear politics blended into music, so you'll find plenty of scathing reviews for this set. I find it difficult to be too critical of Earle's positions, because he presents them from a knowledgeable perspective and he is no doubt a patriot.

But aside from all that, I tend to look at the music without worrying too much about whether I believe every ounce of every phrase he speaks. I allow him to be himslef and focus on what he creates from it. In the case of a live performance, I see them all as a slice of life - a view through a window into time. The topics of conversation between songs can get dated in live shows when big things are happening in the world, but we're still too close in my opinion for these to sound old, so they don't detract from the music itself. So, on to the music...

Amerika v. 6.0 is a strong opening - the sound is pretty true to the live Dukes on a rock tune these days - actually the sound is probably cleaner than what you'd hear live in most halls. Great tune! The cynical theme of the song is an indictment of our country and is not warm, fuzzy or comfy. And I find that to be very appropriate right now.

By the time we get to Conspiracy Theory, I recognize that the band is in its groove. One thing that's obvious to anyone that's seen a Steve Earle show is that he and the band take their space along with them everywhere they go and it permeates the air where they play. By this point in the show, the transformation is complete. The power of the band is presented well - this is an excellent live recording of real musicians playing real live music. It is dynamic and has excellent extension. Crank it up!

Through the next few tunes, the boundaries are framed and the songs provide texture. For example, "I Remember You", a ballad where Steve and Garrison Starr duet on vocals has an excellent balance that is rarely achieved in the studio, let alone live. The banter between songs here is from the same fabric - very personal, about real people's lives and together, "I Remember You" and the talk about living in Texas, perfectly set up the next two tunes (Hometown Blues and The Mountain).

This portion of the show is very illuminating about Steve Earle as a songwriter and storyteller. Hometown Blues seems to be culled from Earle's own real life experiences but it doesn't feel any more real than The Mountain, where Steve writes about a life he didn't live. One of his key songwriting strengths is his ability to get inside of the lives of people very different than himself and extract the core of their souls through the key elements of their existance. He has a rare gift.

Those preceeding tunes, followed by the Pennsylvania Miners banter, are an incredible set up for Harlan Man. First released on the bluegrass CD where Steve partnered with the Del McCoury Band, Harlan Man has had an incredible transormation over the last 7 years. Played in a rocking context with the Dukes, the song is just as real and vital as it was in a bluegrass setting and nothing is lost by rocking it to the core. The band really gets into this tune, it's easy to "see". Incredible. Outstanding. These days, the Dukes rock this tune even harder than they did just two years ago. The music continues to grow through the window in time.

The trail-out of Harlin Man is a mandolin melody that slowly transmorgifies into Copperhead Road and it's a perfect medley partner - another American anthroplogical study that comes across so real, you just know it's autobiographical - but it isn't! Amazing songwriting coupled to a vital performance. Following Copperhead Road, I find Guitar Town to be more than a bit out of place. But the band gets back into the groove quickly, finishing disc 1 with Over Yonder and Billy Austin, both making the dwindling lives of death row inmates seem real and showing how society can turn a deaf ear when adequate excuses exist.

Disc 2 doesn't click for me quite as much as the first and keeps me from giving a five-star rating. Don't get me wrong, I like this music very much and the performances are fine. Maybe it's that John Walker's Blues has never moved me much. So many Steve Earle tunes put me right into the mind of the person he's singing about, but this one has never done the trick for me personally. I've never managed to feel much of anything about John Walker Lindh other than the repulsion for the media that blew his life out of proportion.

The rest of the disc recovers to a degree but in my opinion never matches the power and immediacy of disc 1. "The Unrepentant" is a strong cut, no doubt about it. The Dukes are certainly not short on the kind of fuel required to rock out.

Following "Unrepentant" with "Christmas in Washington" provides excellent contrast and shows the hard/soft technique used often in Dukes shows. The banter gets the croud into it and the sing-along is captured well. Great protest tune and it's followed up with the largest dose of political commentary to set up "What's So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding". No doubt, these words will land on many sour ears, because it's not popular to question political motives these days. Most people want to sit back in the comfort of their homes and forget what's happened the last few years and what's going on right now. I'm the same way, but at the same time, I believe in the process where people that care ask the hard questions and toss them in the faces of those making the decisions that cost lives.

The set is closed out with "Time You Waste", sung by Steve's son Justin. It's a good tune, but I find it a bit of an odd finish to the live show. I'm left to wonder if "Sweet Virginia" or "Dead Flowers" were tossed onto the editing room floor, maybe along with "Revolution" or something similar. I'd bet money that the encores from the shows of this tour (which I missed) had some of that kind of action.

This is a talented band that is dedicated to their craft - and they are a very hard-working, cohesive unit. People going to Steve Earle shows these days get their money's worth and more, that's for certain. If anything can be pulled from this set, it is that the live Steve Earle and the Dukes experience is very real and powerful - and it is a vital commentary on the window into time right here and now.

Based on the Music - 5 more Stars for Independence.......2004-12-30

hey kids!

this is the rawest raunchiest alternative southern country rock to hit the market in 20 years!

I use the word "kids" after reading some of the political rants on other reviews. kids who obviously have been brainwashed by the government and forced into domination by a brainwashed society.

the idea of America exists only in the minds of people.
the reality of America isn't the same.

Steve Earle expresses himself! - don't you?


in the end
Steve Earle Rocks!
and so does this live album........

Based on this disc Earle could well be the finest example of.......2004-12-24

October 27, 2003
Steve Earle
Just An American Boy
Very Good EXCELLENT but not yet Great

Among musicologists "live" albums are rated separately from studio and greatest hits albums. Probably the most heralded live albums are The Who's, 'Live at Leeds' and then The Allman Brother's, 'Live at the Fillmore.' Steve Earle's latest, 'Just An American Boy: The Audio Documentary' deserves consideration as a landmark live album. While rappers have successfully turned their "art" into a money printing bling-bling caricature of the ghetto, it has been a long time since Rock Music has been this dangerous.

This is a two disc set and there is plenty of rambling on the microphone between songs. Make no mistake, while the music is excellent, what makes this record so interesting is that Earle uses his liberal political bantering to tie together his songs and give his performance a sense of continuity. If you are offended by overt political statements you won't enjoy this record; on-the-other-hand, those banterings are what make this album so inspiring: the listener's political beliefs are challenged in the best Woody Guthrie tradition.

In regard to the music, Earle has hit a stride of excellence. Earle is a powerful thought provoking song writer. Like the folk music of the '60's, Earle has tapped into the long forgotten art of anti-war protest. Earle can write "great" songs with poignant words and execute with brilliance. Originally marketed as a country artist Earle has become the political sage of edgy Americana. This record is dangerous because the words and the related call to action & thought are two things that the vapid FM rock music of today has forgotten. Based on this disc Earle could well be the finest example of Americana recording today.

5 Stars for Guitar Town, Lose a Star for Each One Since.......2004-07-18

Which should place this one into negative stardom...Oh boy, saw him live in NYC in 1997 and it was a disaster. With his talent long since AWOL, he's turned to politics that puts him in favor with the elitists in the recording industry, academia, mainstream newspapers, and well-to-do socialists. Siding with the political issues of agenda setters in the mass media is not brave, folks, and don't pretend Earle is singing for the common man. I've got two words to replace the respect I had for Earle circa 1986: Gary Allan! He's the real deal, and someone who is far more melodic, accessible, and fun. Dwight Yoakam also stands as a lesson to Earle in how authenticity matters.

Average customer rating: wow, out of print, going for big bucks!! Should you pay big bucks to complete your collection? Thank You Rhino Records

New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 7 { Various Artists } Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music 1980s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music 1980-1989 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 1 New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 3 New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 6 New Wave Hits of the 80's: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 9 New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0000033B1 Release Date: 1994-10-18

Tracks:

1. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut One Hundred
2. He Could Be The One - Josie Cotton
3. I'm Shakin' - The Blasters
4. Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Split Enz
5. I Need You - Paul Carrack
6. Love Is Just The Great Pretender - Animal NIghtlife
7. Ride Your Pony - Fleshtones
8. Blue Spark - x
9. Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
10. Samson And Deliah - Bad Manners
11. Chicken Outlaw - Wide Boy Awake
12. Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha - TriO
13. Party Weekend - Joe 'King' Carrasco & The Crowns
14. Love Shadow - Fashion
15. Flaming Desire - Bill Nelson
16. O Superman (For Massenet) - Laurie Anderson

Customer Reviews:

wow, out of print, going for big bucks!!.......2004-11-07

I had this vol. since i bought in fall of 1994, Had no idea its the only vol in the series thats out of print due to rights issues. I seen this thing going for $149.00 Wow. ok as far as the music on the disc, let me just say there are odd choices for this vol. Ok i grew up in philly listening to 98 WCAU -FM in 1982 when i was like 10 yrs old, and the only song i reconize on this vol from those days is pass the ducthie , which seems like a misplaced from this new wave song selction but it works however, but i never heard of alot of these songs. Some i got to know around 1993 listening a station called DRE that played classic new wave durning the 80's lunch hour. Like i know the valley girl josie cotton song from the movie being a big fan, and the DA DA DA DA song i never heard of, The other i came to know was haircut 100 song which seems to be an alternative version then what iam use too. O superman is an strange errie song i never heard of. and its werid its the full 8 minute version but rhino will chop a few seconds from other songs in their series, The paul carrack song is good but not new wave sounding enough. There is some ska stuff on here that kinda blows. And i never heard of X until i got vol. 6 . so i might have appreciated these songs on this vol alot more if i grew up in LA around 81 82. but i am not getting rid of it for the vaule collectors item feel to it now..

Should you pay big bucks to complete your collection?.......2004-10-26

Uh, no. I found it somewhat nauseating when I found that the only disc that I still needed to have the entire Rhino NWHOT80's collection was an OOP rarity, but my mood elevated when I got a look at the song lineup. Would someone out there actually pay in the area of $50 for the privelege of owning such a below average lineup of songs? A friend recorded this disc from a library copy that he located and I can honestly say that NOTHING on the sought after disc 7 is even close to being worthy of the big asking price. Check your local library and judge for yourself, then treat yourself to the other volumes and call your collection complete.

Thank You Rhino Records.......2000-09-01

Of the four or so of Rhino's "New Wave Hits" discs that I've bought so far, this one is probably my favorite (vol. 2 is a very close second). The entire series has a wonderful variety of new wave music, and at a good price. Yeah, its got that "da da da" song that's in that damn TV ad. And it covers the 80's nicely (about as well as you could do on a single CD), from slow Ska (Sampson and Delilah), to New Wave Surf (Party Weekend); from pure Wave (Favorite Shirts), to straight rock-punk (Blue Spark). Start with this disc, then buy vol. 2, then vol. 10, then ....

And don't forget to check Rhino's "D.I.Y." series for pre-Wave stuff, and "Have A Nice Day" series for 70's cheesey-pop-music.

Average customer rating: What ?? Nice Voice, but not a nice person...(read on, pls.) A let down The definitive Paul Robeson compilation

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Tracks:

1. Ol' Man River
2. Steal Away
3. Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
4. Water Boy
5. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
6. Deep River
7. Lonesome Road
8. Mighty Lak' A Rose
9. Rockin' Chair
10. When It's Sleepy-time Down South
11. Mah Lindy Lou
12. My Curly Headed Baby
13. Carry Me Back To Green Pastures
14. Lazy Bones
15. St. Louis Blues
16. Congo Lullaby
17. Canoe Song
18. Shenandoah
19. I Still Suits Me
20. Summertime
21. It Ain't Necessarily So
22. Just A-Wearyin' For you
23. Song Of The Volga Boatmen
24. Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day

Tracks:

1. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Minstrel Man
2. Git On Board, Li'l Children/Dere's No Hidin' Place
3. Go Down, Moses
4. Bear De Burden/All God's Chillun Got Wings
5. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
6. Got The South In My Soul
7. Blue Prelude
8. Fat Li'l Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes/Shortnin' Bread
9. Wagon Wheels
10. The Banjo Song
11. Love Song
12. Climbing Up (Mountain Song)
13. All Through The Night
14. Mood Indigo
15. At Dawning
16. An Eriskay Love Lilt
17. Trees
18. Jerusalem
19. The Cobbler's Song
20. A Perfect Day
21. Sylvia
22. Sea Fever
23. King Joe (The Joe Louis Blues)
24. The Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
25. My Old Kentucky Home

Customer Reviews:

What ??.......2006-12-10

The idiot from Virginia thought it a bit strange that an American black man would give the communists a chance. Looking back from modern perspective is easier than what he had to go on in the thirtes. Gee, I wonder why a black man would do that after all that southern hospitality, segregation, and steady work you gave the "black folk". Not to mention all those nighttime campfires you had going in their honor.
While I might be from New York I certainly would not be called a bleeding heart liberal but I can certainly understand why the poor soul was looking elsewhere. You are either ignorant of history and its influences on people or you are a totally unsympathetic jackass!!

Nice Voice, but not a nice person...(read on, pls.).......2006-01-07

Paul Robeson, who was brainwashed into
beleiving Communist rhetoric (which is
strange as hell for an Amer-I-can black
man). A good singing voice but all cover
songs! Come on, Paul!

A let down.......2004-09-24

I own several Robeson recordings and purchased this one with high hopes as it has a great selection of tracks. Unfortunately given the excellent recording quality of "Songs for Free Men" and "The Paul Robeson Oddyssey", the remasters from what I assume are 78's and possibly radio are a let down and mar what could have been an excellent album.

The definitive Paul Robeson compilation.......2003-09-19

This 2 CD set of Paul Robeson is the definitive collection providing a decent overview of his work in 50 tracks all wonderfully restored from 78s as usual for ASV, with spirituals, show tunes, Shakespeare-like readings, and more done with a trademark bass voice and orchestration that backs up Paul perfectly and he would later be one of the first civil rights activists. The first disc is a reissue of the single disc "Ol' Man River-His 25 Greatest" on ASV containing "Ol' Man River," "Mighty Like a Rose," "Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho," "Carry Me Back To Green Pastures," "Lazy Bones," and many more classics which is also available here at Amazon for those who only want a single disc of Paul's work and the 2nd disc contains 25 more classics including "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "The Old Folks At Home," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Wagon Wheels," "Git On Board, Little Children," and many more. In other words, all 50 of these tracks are essential to any early pop, folk, gospel, blues, etc. music fan and this is the set to introduce yourself to his work in a convenient 2 CD package with the usual great liner notes and details on the original 78s ASV provides with each CD released in their Living Era series.

Average customer rating: Spectacular Mantovani Music

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Tracks:

1. Stars and Stripes Forever
2. Estrellita
3. Theme from "A Summer Place"
4. Granada
5. Forgotten Dreams
6. Thunder and Lightning Polka
7. Zapateado
8. Londonderry Air
9. By the Sleepy Lagoon
10. Trumpeter's Lullaby
11. Green Leaves of Summer [From the Alamo]
12. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
13. My Old Kentucky Home
14. Camptown Races
15. I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
16. Old Folks at Home
17. Ringo de Banjo
18. Beautiful Dreamer
19. Home on the Range
20. Grandfather's Clock
21. Yellow Rose of Texas
22. Just A-Wearin' for You
23. Turkey in the Straw
24. Goodnight Irene

Customer Reviews:

Spectacular Mantovani Music.......2004-09-20

This is one of Vocalion's latest re-issues of two original recordings made by Mantovani and his Orchestra in 1960. It pairs the folk songs of the "American Scene" composed by Stephen Foster and others, along with concert gems, all brilliantly arranged by Mantovani and his collaborator Cecil Milner. Stephen Foster's time-honored music appears to be having a comeback these days and so will the utterly appealing orchestral interpretations given to these chestnuts by the masterful brilliance of the Mantovani sound and the artistry and discipline of his musicians. Some 45 years ago, Mantovani's American Scene LP remained 30 weeks on Billboard's Top 40 List and rose to a high position of number 11. Listeners now, as then, will enjoy the melifluous string-laden arrangements of Beautiful Dreamer, I Dream of Jeannie, My Old Kentucky Home, Grandfather's Clock, and Goodnight Irene, and they will tap to the lively, full orchestra arrangements of Camptown Races, Ring de Banjo, and Turkey in the Straw. Decca's "Concert Spectacular" CD, never issued and rarely heard in the United States, teases the listener with a distinctive waltz time arrangement of the popular Sousa march, Stars and Stripes Forever. Many will shed a tear when they hear the cathedral sound of languorous strings and woodwinds in Danny Boy. This Concert Spectacular offers the listener a plethora of musical imagery. With extraordinary and unique orchestrations, one will feel the fiery excitement of "Granada", sense the clash of thunder and lightning in Strauss's Polka, and march step and "fall" with the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. These two CD's together are truly spectacular, because their tracks are filled with the emotion and energy of the creative and distinctive Mantovani sound. This is "ultimate Mantovani", soothingly wistful moods and evocative melodies that make you want to listen to them with all the attentiveness of a concert goer, a paradigm for all today making light orchestral music of which Mantovani was truly the master.

Average customer rating: Robeson at his best

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Tracks:

1. Ol' Man River
2. My Curly Headed Baby
3. Water Boy
4. I'm Goin' To Tell God All O' My Troubles
5. Oh! Didn't It Rain
6. Little Pal
7. There's No Hiding Place
8. Poor Old Joe
9. Scandalize My Name
10. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
11. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
12. Just Keepin' On
13. Mah Lindy Lou
14. Steal Away
15. Mighty Lak' A Rose
16. Deep River
17. Hear The Lambs A-Cryin'
18. Get On Board, Little Children
19. Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
20. Witness
21. Oh! Rock Me, Julie
22. Li'L Gal
23. I Got A Home In That Rock
24. Lonesome Road

Customer Reviews:

Robeson at his best.......2001-03-24

This album consists of recordings Paul Robeson made in Britain durong the 1920s. He is accompanied by the great pianist Lawrence Brown or by a small orchestra led by Ray Noble. The songs on this disc are spirituals or pop songs of the era, and Robeson shines on every one of them. Robeson has an uncanny ability to make any song his own property, and this is especially true on his version of "Little Pal" - originally a saccharine semi-racist ballad written for Al Jolson. Robeson turns the song into a searing lament of an estranged father, and makes the song valid even today with his urgent, committed delivery. The majority of the songs on the cd are spirituals, and Robeson's versions are definitive in every sense of the word. All in all, there isn't a bad track here, and as an introduction to Robeson's work the record is priceless. The only aspect worth criticizing is the fact that the liner notes seem to shy away from the fact that Robeson was the first important black artist to actively fight for civil rights. The music here, however, is extremely beautiful.

Average customer rating: A Canadian Brass fan

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Tracks:

1. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
2. The Marriage Of Figaro: Overture
3. Canzona per sonare No. 4
4. The Four Seasons: l 'Spring' - Spring Has Come - Song Of The Birds - The Brook Flows - Thunderclaps - Song Of The Birds - ll - 'Autumn' - Sleeping Drunkards - lll - 'Summer' - Unlikely Summer Weather
5. The Dog-Gone Blues
6. Tuba Tiger Rag
7. Pete Meets The Beat
8. Kanon
9. Swan Lake: Tribute To The Ballet - Fanfare - Main Theme - Love Theme - Russian Dance
10. The Saints' Hallelujah
11. Boy Mozart

Customer Reviews:

A Canadian Brass fan.......2000-12-23

Their live album gives the listener a chance to hear the players truly perform. I loved Chuck's comments before each piece, which were informitive and entertaining. The last track, Boy Mozart, is a piece that I will remember for a long time.

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Just An American Boy - The Audio Documentary Steve Earle Manufacturer: Ryko ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000C41SP

Music Album:

1. Just Because I'm a Woman [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]
2. Kim Richey
3. Kindness of the World
4. Lessons Learned
5. Life [Original recording remastered]
6. Live at Liberty Lunch [Live]
7. Lost Herd
8. Mission Chapel Memories 1971-1975
9. Norman Blake and Sam Bush and David Holland
10. Now & Then

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