Marty Raybon

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Marty Raybon, lead singer of the now-defunct Shenandoah, is one of country music's greatest unsung singers. His high-baritone-to-low-tenor voice is imbued with tenderness, honesty, and sweet Southern soulfulness. On his debut solo album, Raybon has counted on his long-time collaborator, Muscle Shoals producer Rick Hall, to light up these 10 tunes, all devoted to love: love lost, love regained, love imagined, and love remembered. Raybon consistently delivers the emotional goods, whether on tortured laments like "If I Didn't Love You" and Hugh Prestwood's achingly lovely "That's That," or songs of sultry nostalgia and romantic remembrance like "Deep Summer (In the Deep South)" (another Prestwood gem) and "Summertown Road." The gentle mix of sensuality, vulnerability, and wounded innocence he serves is bound to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Bob Allen

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Average customer rating: Cohesive, enticing songs that showcase his impressive vocal talent Awsome music ! Worth every penny!!!

When the Sand Runs Out Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Aspirion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: For the Love Straight from the Heart Right About Now Love's Funny That Way Heaven and a Dixie Night ASIN: B000IFSFXG Release Date: 2006-11-21

Tracks:

1. Looking For Suzanne
2. Shenandoah Saturday Night
3. You Ain't Going Nowhere
4. When The Sand Runs Out
5. You Can't Throw Dirt
6. Who Are You
7. Come Early Morning
8. I Wish I'd Never
9. Right Where I Belong
10. I Know Love
11. We All Came Through The Blood
12. Down The Road

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Cohesive, enticing songs that showcase his impressive vocal talent.......2007-05-27

Playing Time - 42:11 -- Marty Raybon is trying to get past just being "the guy who use to sing with Shenandoah." Recording for Columbia and RCA, that 5-piece country band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama charted in the 1980s and 90s with a number of sensitive ballads and inspired up-tempo numbers about everyday struggles related to love, home, roots and family. While the entertainer still sings songs like "The Church on Cumberland Road" to please audiences, he's also simultaneously making his new mark as an eclectic musician who does it all -- country, bluegrass and gospel. Raised on bluegrass, Marty, his father and two brothers were all once part of The American Bluegrass Express. About 1985, Shenandoah burst on the scene. After winning many country music awards, the powerful and soulful singer was called to honor the Lord, as well as to form his own band called Full Circle, a name that represents his 360-degreemusical evolution and continuing genesis. With a number of trad-grass and gospel music albums under his belt (most recently "The Grass I Grew Up On"), Marty's mostly acoustic country project ("When The Sand Runs Out") has plenty of expressive messages suitable for both bluegrass and country radio airwaves. Written by Mike Curtis, "Who Are You?" is one example -- an engaging song that documents a man's key life stages from infant to rebellious teenager to elderly man stricken with Alzheimer's disease. Raybon likes songs about the continuous and cyclic nature of life, and here's one that tells a story about coming full circle.

Full Circle band members Shane Blackwell (lead guitar), Ashby Frank (mandolin), Glen Harrell (fiddle), and Edgar Loudermilk (bass) are all included. We also hear Nashville bluegrass session men Cody Kilby (guitar), Jim Mills (banjo), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Jim VanCleve (fiddle), Shad Cobb (fiddle), Rob Ickes (Dobro), Andy Hall (Dobro), Mark Fain (bass, guitar), Brent Mason (electric guitar), and Paul Schelton (drums). Liner notes don't acknowledge who plays the piano and synthesizer or who sings the harmony vocals. Perhaps Marty does them all, but he's also been known to sing with his brother Tim. The CD opens with a reflective ballad previously recorded by Buddy Greene. Written by Patricia Ann Walker, "Looking for Suzanne" relates the story of a trucker's twenty-year search for his daughter only to be sadly directed to a street corner to keep on looking. The set makes a rather dramatic jump into a raucous and electric "Shenandoah Saturday Night" where Marty exclaims "everything's goin' our way / the work's all done, and it's time to play." The album's veins run primarily with grassin' blue blood. With drums, the acoustic cover of Dylan's "You Ain't Going Nowhere," Bob McDill's "Come Early Morning," and Tim Menzie's "You Can't Throw Dirt" come across as rollicking folkish offerings with warmly nostalgic flavorings of bands like Poco or Buffalo Springfield. Previously recorded by Rascal Flatts, the title cut makes a strong declaration about living life for all it's worth. You might also remember the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's rendition of "Down the Road."

Singing Josh Leo's "Right Where I Belong," Marty says that he doesn't need much - one good woman, a few good friends, supper on the table, and a sermon on Sunday morning to keep strong. Of course, we also know that being on stage drives Marty's ambition. The album's closing numbers reinforce his beliefs about love, faith, family, and life's adventures ahead. With the guidance of the Lord, Marty's vision is to play many kinds of venues and cross-market his genre-spanning music. Still driving in the fast lane, Marty Raybon continues to successfully present cohesive, enticing songs that showcase his impressive vocal talent. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

Awsome music ! Worth every penny!!!.......2007-05-22

Great, wonderful and worth every penny! This CD has it all, from the up beat ("Shenandoah Saturday Night") to the sad song ("Who are you" ).
This CD has a variety of songs styles. Country contemporary , Gospel and a little Blue grass too! So hard to pick my favorite song because the CD is chocked full of great music. Go ahead and buy this CD. I know it will soon become one of you faves, as it has become one of mine!!!
Enjoy!
NewFaithMember

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Marty Raybon Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Chordant ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Country Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: Marty Raybon ASIN: B0000288WI Release Date: 1995-07-18

Tracks:

1. Searching for the Missing Peace
2. Sittin' on a Goldmine
3. I Can't Go for That
4. Summertown Road
5. That's That
6. Don't Tell Me You're Not in Love
7. She Doesn't Need Me Anymore
8. Cracker Jack Diamond
9. If I Didn't Love You
10. Deep Summer (In the Deep South)

Average customer rating: Shenandoah Lead Vocalist Returns to Bluegrass with Style An inspired album that will knock your bluegrass socks off! An inspired album that will knock your bluegrass socks off

Full Circle Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Doobie Shea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Country Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: When the Sand Runs Out Marty Raybon ASIN: B00008DKBP Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Down The Road
2. Everything
3. That's One
4. Summertown Road
5. Rocky Road Blues
6. All In The Hands Of Jesus
7. Home Run Man
8. Next To You, Next To Me
9. Ghost In This House
10. White House Blues
11. Webster's Definitition
12. Prayer Bells Of Heaven
13. The Last Song

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Shenandoah Lead Vocalist Returns to Bluegrass with Style.......2004-06-25

The road between Marty's hometown on the outskirts of Jacksonville Florida and Nashville is populated by many who flit back and forth between "mainstream country" which will get airplay, sell records and fill arenas, and the music they love and grew up on: acoustic Bluegrass.

Marty was well-known to the North Florida Bluegrass circles before heading for Nashville to record many hits with the fine Country Group Shenandoah. Shenandoah has gone the way of the LP album and Marty returns to his roots here to record an album of Bluegrass that has great tunes, hot pickers, and harmony vocals that will raise the hair on the back of your neck - all woven in with the soulful baritone of Marty Raybon. "Ghost in this House" was recorded by Shenandoah, then redone by Alison Krauss, but here Marty redoes it in an "unplugged" version that demonstrates that Marty Raybon OWNS this song.

Up-tempo tunes are mixed in with ballads and newer material is mixed in with old Jimmy Martin and Flatt and Scruggs.

In the studio musicians frequently concentrate so much on the *perfectness* of their playing that they forget how important it is to the performance to have fun, enjoy it, and "let it hang out" a little. I don't mean to imply that the musicians and Mr. Raybon himself don't perform perfectly on this recording - they do - I just want to make it clear that they also obviously had a doggone good time doing it, and that shows up on every track.

An inspired album that will knock your bluegrass socks off!.......2004-01-16

Since his long and successful stint with the band Shenandoah, singer Marty Raybon has released a duo album (with his brother), some gospel albums, a solo country album, and now a peppy bluegrass album. Raybon is a talented music veteran who was solidly grounded in bluegrass music early in his life as a member of his family band, the American Bluegrass Express. He then moved to Nashville and went country in 1984. He has shown that he can choose good material, assemble first-rate musicians, write excellent songs, and sing them with genuine and warm sincerity. "Full Circle" offers newly-arranged traditional favorites from Flatt and Scruggs (Down the Road), Bill Monroe (Rocky Road Blues, White House Blues), and Jimmy Martin (Home Run Man, Prayer Bells of Heaven, The Last Song). In addition, the album includes remakes of two Shenandoah hits (Ghost in this House, and Next To You, Next To Me) and one cut from his solo country album of 2000 (Ghost in this House). Three new songs were written or co-written by Raybon (That's One, All in the Hands of Jesus, Webster's Definition) including one (Everything) featuring guest vocalist Sonya Isaacs.

The album also features some stellar bluegrass musicians with David Talbot (banjo), Bryan Sutton (guitar and mandolin), Donnie Allen (rhythm guitar), Shad Cobb (fiddle), Rob Ickes (resonator guitar), and Terry Smith (bass). Harmony vocalist Paul Brewster also assists. The result is an inspired bluegrass album that will knock your socks off. "Full Circle" offers some grandacious 'grass. In addition, the album has the added bonus of various bright and breezy, slower acoustic country offerings interspersed between the high-geared bluegrass. Watch for Marty Raybon on the road. You'll be in for a highly entertaining and professional show once he assembles a bluegrass band to tour and promote this album project. It's great to see him back among the bluegrass fold. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

An inspired album that will knock your bluegrass socks off.......2003-03-13

Since his long and successful stint with the band Shenandoah, singer Marty Raybon has released a duo album (with his brother), some gospel albums, a solo country album, and now a peppy bluegrass album. Raybon is a talented music veteran who was solidly grounded in bluegrass music early in his life as a member of his family band, the American Bluegrass Express. He then moved to Nashville and went country in 1984. He has shown that he can choose good material, assemble first-rate musicians, write excellent songs, and sing them with genuine and warm sincerity. "Full Circle" offers newly-arranged traditional favorites from Flatt and Scruggs (Down the Road), Bill Monroe (Rocky Road Blues, White House Blues), and Jimmy Martin (Home Run Man, Prayer Bells of Heaven, The Last Song). In addition, the album includes remakes of two Shenandoah hits (Ghost in this House, and Next To You, Next To Me) and one cut from his solo country album of 2000 (Ghost in this House). Three new songs were written or co-written by Raybon (That's One, All in the Hands of Jesus, Webster's Definition) including one (Everything) featuring guest vocalist Sonya Isaacs.

The album also features some stellar bluegrass musicians with David Talbot (banjo), Bryan Sutton (guitar and mandolin), Donnie Allen (rhythm guitar), Shad Cobb (fiddle), Rob Ickes (resonator guitar), and Terry Smith (bass). Harmony vocalist Paul Brewster also assists. The result is an inspired bluegrass album that will knock your socks off. "Full Circle" offers some grandacious 'grass. In addition, the album has the added bonus of various bright and breezy, slower acoustic country offerings interspersed between the high-geared bluegrass. Watch for Marty Raybon on the road. You'll be in for a highly entertaining and professional show once he assembles a bluegrass band to tour and promote this album project. It's great to see him back among the bluegrass fold. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

Average customer rating: This is great! Marty's voice is wonderful! Marty is back better than ever One of Nashville's Finest Singers

Marty Raybon Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Tri Chord Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: Marty Raybon ASIN: B00004NRX9 Release Date: 2000-02-15

Tracks:

1. Searching For The Missing Peace
2. Sittin' On A Goldmine
3. I Can't Go For That
4. Summertown Road
5. That's That
6. Don't Tell Me (You're Not In Love)
7. She Doesn't Need Me Anymore
8. Cracker Jack Diamond
9. If I Didn't Love You
10. Deep Summer (In The Deep South)

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Marty Raybon, lead singer of the now-defunct Shenandoah, is one of country music's greatest unsung singers. His high-baritone-to-low-tenor voice is imbued with tenderness, honesty, and sweet Southern soulfulness. On his debut solo album, Raybon has counted on his long-time collaborator, Muscle Shoals producer Rick Hall, to light up these 10 tunes, all devoted to love: love lost, love regained, love imagined, and love remembered. Raybon consistently delivers the emotional goods, whether on tortured laments like "If I Didn't Love You" and Hugh Prestwood's achingly lovely "That's That," or songs of sultry nostalgia and romantic remembrance like "Deep Summer (In the Deep South)" (another Prestwood gem) and "Summertown Road." The gentle mix of sensuality, vulnerability, and wounded innocence he serves is bound to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Bob Allen

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This is great!.......2002-02-23

I love this CD! Every song is wonderful, yet they are all different. Buy it!

Marty's voice is wonderful!.......2001-12-19

I have enjoyed this CD and I am very upset that I am not hearing Marty Raybons songs on the radio. Everyone can relate to this music. Some are lively, some tender, and some from heartbreak.
This cd became stuck in my trucks cd player, I was so glad it was Martys. I listened to it for two weaks and did not get tired of it. I listen to it often, I love his voice. I feel that Marty Raybon sings his songs with such feeling, as though he has lived each song.
I highly recommend this cd.
Carol Davis

Marty is back better than ever.......2000-09-30

We recognize the voice right off. How can you not know the voice behind the Shenandoah hits? I listen to this album at least twice a week. I like Marty's voice because I feel he sings sincerity better than anyone in the industry. "That's That" written by Hugh Prestwood is lyrically perfect and no one could sing it better than Marty. This man deserves to be heard on a major label. Marty is one of if not the most talented singer around and does not get the credit he deserves. To me this album was underproduced but with Marty's voice and talent, it is not noticable unless you are a music critic like me but it still gets five stars from me because of the material on this album. Yea, I think Marty should not have left Shenandoah but they too were wearing out and it is time this guy gets the attention he deserves as the major singer on his own. Buy it.. it is worth every cent.

One of Nashville's Finest Singers.......2000-09-20

Marty Raybon's new self titled album is awsome. All of the songs on it are very good. I especially love "Searching For The Missing Peace", and "Sittin' On A Goldmine". Marty was the best when he was the lead singer in the gruop Shenandoah. I think they were the best group. But that's the reason why he gets 4 stars instead of 5 for this album in my book. Because he was just a little better as a member of Shenandoah.

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Guideposts (Reader's Digest) Music Presents Then Sings My Soul: The Greatest Hymns of the Church Brenda Lee , Don Hustad Chorale with the NBC Orchestra of Chicago , Choir of the Royal Navy College Chapel , The Jack Halloran Male Chorus , Pat Boone , Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt Chorale & Orchestra , The Larry Dalton Singers; Gwen Alley and Kyle Owen , The Fireside Singers , John Denver , and Choir of St. Marys Episcopal Cathedral Manufacturer: Readers Digest Association ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MUOMIO

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Track Listing: Disc #1: 1. WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS, Brenda Lee 2. ABIDE WITH ME, The Don Hustad Chorale with the NBC Orchestra of Chicago 3. GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST, Choir of the Royal Navy College Chapel 4. I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY, Pat Boone 5. NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE, The Jack Halloran Male Chorus 6. HOW GREAT THOU ART, Lee Greenwood 7. BLESSED ASSURANCE, The Old Village Choir 8. A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD, Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt Chorale & Orchestra 9. HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION, The Larry Dalton Singers 10. ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt Chorale & Orchestra 11. FAIREST LORD JESUS, The Jack Halloran Male Chorus 12. TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE, The Larry Dalton Singers; Gwen Alley and Kyle Owen 13. MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE, The Fireside Singers 14. FAITH OF OUR FATHER, Larry Dalton, His Chorus & Orchestra 15. HE LEADETH ME, Pat Boone 16. I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR, The Nathan Scott Singers 17. WORSHIP THE KING, The Fireside Singers 18. BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS, The Fireside Singers 19. BE STILL, MY SOUL, The John McCarthy Chorus 20. THE LORDS PRAYER, Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt Chorale & Orchestra Disc #2: 1. PRECIOUS MEMORIES, The Old Village Choir 2. TENDERLY CALLING, John Denver 3. IN THE GARDEN, David Houston 4. PEACE IN THE VALLEY, The Jordanaires 5. ON THE WINGS OF A DOVE, Ferlin Husky 6. THE OLD RUGGED CROSS, Mickey Gilley 7. ONE DAY AT A TIME, Marty Raybon 8. THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION, The Tennessee Gospel Society 9. JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE, Brenda Lee 10. FAMILY BIBLE, Claude Gray 11. HE TOUCHED ME, The Larry Dalton Singers 12. THE LITTLE BROWN CHURCH IN THE VALE, The Gaslight Singers 13. WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN, The Old Village Choir 14. THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD, Pat Boone 15. COME, ANGEL BAND, The New Faith Trio 16. TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD, Bill Shepherd Male Quartet 17. WHISPERING HOPE, Jim Ed Brown 18. FARTHER ALONG, Rachel Robinson Plus 2 more CDs w/ 37 more songs!

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'The Gospel in Black and White MARTY RAYBON AND FULL CIRCLE Manufacturer: Synchoro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LB2ROA

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1. SHOW' EM YOUR SERMON 2. WHERE I STAND 3. DRIVE ANOTHER NAIL 4. TRAVELING ON AND ON 5. PEACE OF LOVING YOU 6. TAKE JESUS AS YOUR LAWYER 7. ANGELS ROCK ME TO SLEEP 8. MASTER OF THE WOOD 9. GET UP IN JESUS NAME 10. SHINE HALLELUJAH SHINE 11. PEACE(HIS WONDERFUL PEACE) 12. BEULAH LAND 13. DADDY TALKS TO JESUS

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In Harmony with the Homeless Brenda Russell , Eric Lowen , Dan Navarro , David Morgan , Laura Harding , Dan Bern , Jonathan Cain , Tiffany , Box Town , and Carl Anderson Manufacturer: Miramar ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FMPHMO

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In Harmony with the Homeless //Songs written by formerly homeless men and women in collaboration with professional songwriters. 1. Heart of the City - Brenda Russell 5:47 2. How Much More - Eric Lowen & Dan Navarro 4:24 3. Before You Get the Meal - David Morgan 4:47 4. Song for Thomas (Lay It Down) - Laura Harding 4:06 5. Party by Myself - Dan Bern 3:35 6. Hope Is Alive and Well - Jonathan Cain 4:44 7. You Don't Belong Down Here - Tiffany 4:33 8. Homeless - Box Town 4:19 9. This Blue Tattoo - Carl Anderson 4:19 10. Turn It Around - Mavis Staples 4:19 11. When I Find You - Marty Raybon & Lisa Stewart 4:49 12. A Building Condemned - Barbara Weathers 3:43 13. Heart to Heart - Rita Coolidge & Richie Havens 4:17

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When the Sands Run Out Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Dakota Sky Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000NE8IN4

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Grammy Award winning singer- songwriter MArty RAybon is back even better than the first rodeo . Marty was the lead singer for the group Shenandoah with hits from Two Dozen Roses, to Mama Knows, Church On Cumberland Road, If Bubba can Dance, Ghost In This House, I Wanna Be Loved Like That, and lots of other well known songs made famous by Marty Raybon and Shenandoah. This new album released on the new Label imprint Dakota Sky, is a masterpiece. Produced by Raybon, you can hear and feel his presence all over it, it's almost like he's in the room with you . Marty Raybon has been and still is a favorite at COuntry Radio. His career has taken him from Country, to Bluegrass, To Gospel, and then back again to his Country Roots. SHenandoah Saturday Night will remind you of his Shenandoah days, and the sound is the same only better. Looking for Suzanne will pull at your heartstrings, as he sings about a dad who was seperated from his daughter and looks for her over the years and never stops until he finds her. Another heartbreaker is the Powerful ballad written by AWard Winning songwriter Michael A. Curtis "Who Are You", if this one dosent get you, just wait, I KNOW LOVE will. Marty Raybon delivers his soul on this one, and will melt the heart of anyone who has ever searched until they've found true love. Wrapped all up in a package for you, this is an album that you will treasure for a lifetime. Marty Raybon is a legand in his own time, He is timeless, The legand, The singer, The Man.........Marty Raybon 1 Suzanne 2 Shenandoah Saturday Night 3 You Ain't Going No Where 4 When The Sand Run Out 5 Throw Dirt 6 Who Are You 7 Come Early Morning 8 Wish I'd Never 9 Right Where I Belong 10 I Know Love 11 All Came Through The Blood 12 Down The Road

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Marty Raybon Manufacturer: Tri Chord ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002528O4 Release Date: 2000-02-15

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