Bed by the Window

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Raw, high lonesome bluegrass is the language James King speaks best. King's road band, recording with him here for the first time, abet his singing ideally, especially the tenor of mandolinist Kenny Prater, who squeezes the heart with his harmonies on the title song. King's preference for a wailing, frayed vocal style nicely folds into his noted partiality for 1960s country and folk, represented here by tunes from the pens of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, and Stonewall Jackson. Old-timey bluegrass sprouts are everywhere, too. "Wear a Red Rose" kicks the CD off in high gear, and Damon Black's "Tall Pines" and Moon Mullican's lovely "Sweeter than the Flowers" offer a solid one-two succession with the hollering tune being followed by a somber waltz. King shares with Del McCoury and few others an equally rooted and fresh bluegrass vision. --Andrew Bartlett

Bed by the Window,James King,Rounder Select,Bluegrass,Contemporary Bluegrass,Country,Pop,Progressive Bluegrass,Traditional Bluegrass

Average customer rating: Excellent Bluegrass CD. Jes Plain Bluegrass the stuff of bluegrass greatness

Bed by the Window James King Manufacturer: Rounder Select 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 Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bluegrass Storyteller Thirty Years of Farming Lonesome & Then Some These Old Pictures The Grascals ASIN: B00000DC6J Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

1. Wear A Red Rose
2. Big House On The Corner
3. Bed By The Window
4. Tall Pines
5. Sweeter Than The Flowers
6. I Don't Do Floors
7. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
8. Pack Up Your Sorrows
9. Love Me One More Time
10. Yesterday's Winner Is A Loser Today
11. Called From Potter's Field
12. The Lonely Years Belong To Me

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Raw, high lonesome bluegrass is the language James King speaks best. King's road band, recording with him here for the first time, abet his singing ideally, especially the tenor of mandolinist Kenny Prater, who squeezes the heart with his harmonies on the title song. King's preference for a wailing, frayed vocal style nicely folds into his noted partiality for 1960s country and folk, represented here by tunes from the pens of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, and Stonewall Jackson. Old-timey bluegrass sprouts are everywhere, too. "Wear a Red Rose" kicks the CD off in high gear, and Damon Black's "Tall Pines" and Moon Mullican's lovely "Sweeter than the Flowers" offer a solid one-two succession with the hollering tune being followed by a somber waltz. King shares with Del McCoury and few others an equally rooted and fresh bluegrass vision. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Bluegrass CD........2003-07-07

I have been listening to playing bluegrass for over 10 years now.
This album is a very good example of raditional bluegrass.
Bluegrass is the root of all country music.
Keep Pickin'...

Jes Plain Bluegrass.......2001-01-26

In the days of Earl and Flat comes one that "strings" in their essence. One who tells it better but needs more musical background. Why I give it a 5 star rate. So much of bluegrass is commercialized with the hillbilly show and shown most of us as kinda down home folk with no sense on the "real world". James has mixed the both with some mind bogglin thoughts to his style. Surely and underated artist with lots of insights. Potters Field....is just one....then the way he pours his heart into "Bed By The Window" is just a small example of the man's talent.

the stuff of bluegrass greatness.......1999-01-02

The tradition of hard-driving, soulful mountain bluegrass lives on in James King, but this is not music for the faint of heart. Like the great bluesmen, honkytonkers, and Appalachian balladeers, his world is defined by heartbreak, despair, and death. It is hard to imagine a bleaker song than the title tune, a fable about the illusions that sustain us in the face of our shared mortality. I guess another way to put it is this: the bone-headed cliche about bluegrass -- that it's just "pickin' and grinnin'" -- doesn't apply here. King has the stuff of bluegrass greatness in him, an unflinching singer who gives the listener a sense of how George Jones would have sounded if, instead of Lefty Frizzell, he'd chosen to follow Bill Monroe. The material here, one should add, is uniformly first-rate. It's good to have Damon Black's too-seldom-recorded "Tall Pines" revived, and Richard Farina's folk-era standard "Pack up Your Sorrows," the closest King gets to anything hopeful, is a delight and a surprise. For all his obsession with death, King proves just how much life remains in the deepest veins of bluegrass.

Average customer rating: Baltimore Consort Box

A Baltimore Consort Collection Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Bach, P.D.Q. | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Michael Praetorius | Praetorius, Michael | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Baltimore Consort | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chansons | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001QBT Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

1. Over the hills
2. Kathren Oggie
3. In a garden so green
4. My heartly service
5. Scotch Cap
6. The flowres of the forrest
7. Kilt thy coat, Magge
8. Canareis
9. I will not go to bed till I suld die
10. Jockey loves his Moggy dearly
11. Our Father God celestial
12. Come my children dere
13. On the banks of Helicon
14. Prince Edward's Paven
15. Lyk as the dum solsequium
16. The Scots Marche
17. Support your servand
18. My Lord of March Paven
19. O lustie May
20. Doun in yon bank
21. Branles d'Ecosse
22. Joy to the person of my love

Tracks:

1. The Buffens - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
2. Nuttmigs and Ginger - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
3. Green Garters - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
4. There were Three Ravens
5. Howells Delight - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
6. Goe from my Window - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
7. Green Sleeves - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass
8. La Sampogna
9. Unto the Prophet Jonas I Read
10. The Carmans Whistle
11. Galliard Can Shee Excuse - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
12. Lachrimae Pavin - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
13. The Quadro Pavin - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
14. Singers Jig - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass
15. Grimstock - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
16. De la Tromba Pavin - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass
17. Jewes Daunce
18. Pavane Quardro and Galliard
19. Joyne Hands - The Baltimore Consort/Howard Bass/Ann Marie Morgan
20. Watkins Ale

Tracks:

1. J' ai vu le loup
2. Has tu point veu
3. Branle double
4. Branle de Montirande
5. Branle de la torche
6. Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
7. Frais et gaillard
8. Une m'avoit promis
9. Volte
10. Mes pas semez
11. Gaillarde d' escosse
12. Laroque Gaillarde
13. Alemande de Liege
14. Ma bergere, ma lumiere
15. Estans assis aux rives aquatiques
16. Prelude
17. Tant que vivray
18. Ung gay bergere
19. O Madame, pers-je mon tems
20. J'ay le rebours
21. Branles de village
22. Une jeune fillette
23. Une jeune fillette
24. Une jeune fillette
25. Une nimphe jolie
26. Jean de Nivelle

Customer Reviews:

Baltimore Consort Box.......2005-05-03

If you're lucky enough to actually find this collection scoop it up. I'll at least tell you what this collection really is, which they don't tell you above.

This is a three disk set of previously released albums.

Disk 1 is On The Banks Of The Helicon
Disk 2 is Watkins Ale
Disk 3 is La Rocque 'n' Roll

All deliver the rich vibrant sound that one expects from the Baltimore Consort, and contains a fair number SCA Dance tunes. If you're looking for a 'best of' collection to augment the BC CDs you already have, there isn't one. But if you're looking to get the CDs, these 3 come in this tidy package.

Music Album:

1. Best Ever Country Drinking Songs [Import]
2. Best of Barbara Mandrell [Import]
3. Borderland
4. Braver Newer World
5. Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown
6. Can't Run from Yourself
7. Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You/I'm the Girl [CD-single]
8. Classic Country: 1965-1969
9. Clinch Mountain Gospel
10. Collection [Import]

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