Western Beat (Reis)

1. Early Summer Rain

2. Other Side

3. I Look for You

4. Happy Ever After (Comes One Day at a Time)

5. Something 'Bout You

6. Sam's Town

7. Webelo Waggle

8. Same Old Rain

9. Train to Birmingham

10. Restless Kind

11. Me and Billy the Kid Never Got Along

12. End

Western Beat (Reis),Kevin Welch,Dead Reckoning,Country,Pop,Popular Music

Average customer rating: His First Album

John Anderson John Anderson Manufacturer: American Beat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: John Anderson 2 Easy Money Wild & Blue Backtracks Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 ASIN: B000OVLB7Q Release Date: 2007-04-03

Tracks:

1. Havin' Hard Times
2. Something Borrowed, Something Blue
3. Shoot Low, Sherriff!
4. Girl at the End of the Bar
5. Low Dog Blues
6. 1959
7. She Just Started Liking Sheatin' Songs
8. Arms of a Fool
9. It Looks Like the Party Is Over
10. If There Were No Memories
11. Your Lying Blue Eyes
12. You're Right, I'm Wrong, I'm Sorry

Customer Reviews:

His First Album.......2007-06-05

In January 2006, John Anderson's 4th Warner Brother Album, Wild & Blue, was issued on CD for the first Time. A year later his first album has finally been reissued. Six songs from this CD went Country Top 40 and for a debut, Anderson has already set the blueprint for the (then) return of traditional Country Music. Like George Strait, Randy Travis and Rick Skaggs, Anderson played a pivotal role in the retrn of Pure Country to the charts. There are no liner notes here, but the sound is excellent, and if you're a fan of hard-core Country this will be an excellent addition to your library.

Average customer rating: Some good old friends an some discoveries!

Country & West Coast: The Birth of Country Rock Various Artists Manufacturer: Big Beat UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Reprise Sessions Hard Workin' Man - The Jack Nitzsche Story Volume 2 Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers The Studio Albums 1967-1968 John the Wolfking of L.A. ASIN: B000FG5NHE Release Date: 2006-07-07

Tracks:

1. Im On My Way Home Again - THE EVERLY BROTHERS
2. Beware Of Time - THE CORVETTES
3. Time Between - THE BYRDS
4. Why Not Your Baby - DILLARD & CLARK
5. Luxury Liner - THE INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE BAND
6. Your Gentle Ways Of Loving Me - GUILBEAU & PARSONS
7. Sugar Babe - THE YOUNGBLOODS
8. Georgia - THE GOSDIN BROTHERS
9. One Hundred Years From Now - THE BYRDS
10. Tears - PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE
11. Nobody Knows - THE DILLARDS
12. Sin City - THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS
13. Willin - JOHNNY DARRELL
14. Nine Times Blue - MICHAEL NESMITH & THE FIRST NATIONAL BAND
15. Ooh Las Vegas - GRAM PARSONS
16. April Anne - JOHN PHILLIPS
17. Hong Kong Hillbilly - CLARENCE WHITE
18. Time - BLACKBURN & SNOW
19. You Better Think Twice - POCO
20. Tried So Hard - GENE CLARK
21. Take Care Of Business - IAN & SYLVIA
22. Make Up Your Mind - THE SPENCERS
23. Butchies Tune - THE LOVIN SPOONFUL
24. Shell Game - JERRY JEFF WALKER

Product Description

1. I'm On My Way Home Again
2. Beware Of Time
3. Time Between
4. Why Not Your Baby
5. Luxury Liner
6. Your Gentle Ways Of Loving Me
7. Sugar Babe
8. Georgia
9. One Hundred Years From Now
10. Tears
11. Nobody Knows
12. Sin City
13. Willin'
14. Nine Times Blue
15. Ooh Las Vegas
16. April Anne
17. Hong Kong Hillbilly
18. Time
19. You Better Think Twice
20. Tried So Hard
21. Take Care Of Business
22. Make Up Your Mind
23. Butchie's Tune
24. Shell Game

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Some good old friends an some discoveries!.......2006-08-22

Essential 60's-early 70's country-rock collection. Before owning this, in my record collection there were Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Bros, International Submarine Band, and Gene Clark records (a man whose music, personally, I love as much as Gram Parsons'). But I suposse it's difficult to find/own/have heard before many of the gems contained in this CD. I have bought it recently, and in my first listenings I've been amazed by the Corvettes tune or the Praire League, and by the songs of some people who didn't made too much country rock stuff: John Philips and my beloved ones, The Loving Spoonful. And there are songs that I've compilled for me and my friends and relatives many, many times: Gene Clark's Why not your baby and Tried so hard (such a wonderful song which has been covered by the Fariport Convention, The Flying Burrito Bros, Yo la Tengo... a song I will never get tired of). Perhaps, the only thing I miss is some Buffallo Springfield-early Neil Young songs which I thing could have shared the spirit of the compilation. Anyway, I must say that (compiller and folk-rock-garage-pop erudite) Alec Palao has given us again a must for the 60's music aficionado. He sure had disscussed the tracks for hours with Sid Griffin, maybe one of the few other people who I would trust on doing this compilling work.

Average customer rating: A Tribute to a Tribute Album

A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World/It's All in the Movies Merle Haggard , and Merle Haggard & the Strangers Manufacturer: Beat Goes On ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Back to the Barrooms Same Train, Different Time Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights... Again Portrait of Merle Haggard/Keep Movin' On Strangers/Swinging Doors & The Bottle Let Me Down ASIN: B000EBGBKI Release Date: 2006-04-10

Tracks:

1. Brown Skinned Girl (With Narration) - Merle Haggard
2. Right or Wrong - Merle Haggard
3. Brain Cloudy Blues - Merle Haggard
4. Stay a Little Longer - Merle Haggard
5. Misery - Merle Haggard
6. Time Changes Everything - Merle Haggard
7. San Antonio Rose - Merle Haggard
8. I Knew the Moment I Lost You - Merle Haggard
9. Roly Poly - Merle Haggard
10. Old Fashioned Love - Merle Haggard
11. Corrine Corrina - Merle Haggard
12. Take Me Back to Tulsa - Merle Haggard
13. It's All in the Movies - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
14. Nothing's Worse Than Losing - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
15. After Loving You - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
16. Stingeree - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
17. I Know an Ending - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
18. This Is the Song We Sing - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
19. Living with the Shades Pulled Down - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
20. Hag's Dixie Blues, Pt. 2 - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
21. Let's Stop Pretending - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
22. Cotton Patch Blues - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
23. Seeker - Merle Haggard & the Strangers

Album Description

Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition that Combines the Tracks of Two Original LP Classics on to a Single Compact Disc. "Tribute..." Was Recorded Shortly after Famed Bandleader Bob Wills Had Been Cited by the Texas Legislature and Taken Ill Shortly After. Haggard Made it his Mission to Heighten Public Awareness of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Contribution to Modern Music by Reuniting as Many Members of the Original Band that Would Participate in These Sessions Along with his Own Band the Strangers. The Album Accomplished It's Goal and Became the Precusor of Many Tributes by Others that Would Follow in the Years to Come. "it's all in the Movies" was Just One of Two Album Releases in 1975 and Finally Makes Its CD Debut on this Set. Includes the Hit Title Track and the Bob Wills Inspired "Living with the Shades Pulled Down".

Customer Reviews:

A Tribute to a Tribute Album.......2007-02-07

Not to worry this is a CD that takes two of Merle Haggard's Capital Record albums from the 1970's and puts them on one CD. In a way its amazing that Record buyers from the 60's and 70's bought albums with 30 minutes of music, but today we can reap the benefits of two albums plus some well worth bonus tracks on one CD. As to the Music its a pure delight. Merle Haggard plays tribute to his musical idol Bob Wills on the 1st half of this CD. Its great and many of the original Texas Playboys play too. This has been out of circulation for awhile. The other half of the CD is pure Haggard at his best.

Average customer rating:

John Eddie John Eddie Manufacturer: American Beat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rumble/Guitar Trouble Who The Hell Is John Eddie? Wonderland I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon Stand in the Fire ASIN: B000P46PAA Release Date: 2007-05-01

Tracks:

1. Dream House
2. Pretty Little Rebel
3. Hide Out
4. Just Some Guy
5. Please Jodi
6. Cool Walk
7. Jungle Boy
8. Stranded
9. Waste Me
10. Romance
11. Buster
12. Living Doll
13. Mary's Ghost [Single Version][*]
14. Waste Me [Single Version][Live][*]

Average customer rating:

Texas in My Soul Willie Nelson Manufacturer: American Beat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Last of the Breed The Best of Buddy Alan Owens Live in Concert-Travis Tritt Compadres: An Anthology of Duets From the Cradle to the Grave ASIN: B000MM0KWE Release Date: 2007-02-27

Tracks:

1. Dallas
2. San Antonio
3. Streets of Laredo
4. Who Put All My Ex's in Texas
5. Hill Country Theme
6. Waltz Across Texas
7. Travis Letter
8. Remember the Alamo
9. Texas in My Soul
10. There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas
11. Beautiful Texas

Average customer rating: Great Balls Of Fire Nobody does it better

Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits 1 & 2 Jerry Lee Lewis Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Oldies & Retro | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Killer Country Taste of Country/Ole Tyme Country Music Country Songs for City Folk/Memphis Beat The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis The Killer Rocks On/Boogie Woogie Country Man ASIN: B000069RE1 Release Date: 2002-08-12

Tracks:

1. Wonder Where You Are Tonight
2. Im So Lonesome I Could Cry
3. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
4. Four Walls
5. Heartaches By The Number
6. Mom And Dads Waltz
7. Sweet Dreams
8. Born To Lose
9. Oh Lonesome Me
10. Youve Still Got A Place In My Heart
11. I Love You Because
12. Jackson (Duet With Linda Gail Lewis)
13. I Cant Stop Loving You
14. Fraulein
15. Hell Have To Go
16. More And More
17. Why Dont You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)
18. It Makes No Difference Now
19. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
20. One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
21. I Get The Blues When It Rains
22. Cold Cold Heart
23. Burning Memories
24. Sweet Thing (Duet With Linda Gail Lewis)

Album Description

Full title - Sings The Country Music Hall Of Fame Vols. I & II. UK two-fer for the rock & roll icon. Highlights include 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', 'Four Walls', 'Jambalaya (On The Bayou)', 'I Can't Stop Loving You' & 'More & More'. 2002.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of Two Albums on a Single CD, Originally Released in the 1960's. Lewis Had Always Wanted to Sing Country and He Got his Chance in 1969 Thanks to Producer Jerry Kennedy. Includes Two Duets with Little Sister Linda Gail Lewis, who Would Later Duet with Van Morrison in 2000.

Customer Reviews:

Great Balls Of Fire.......2002-12-06

I Highly reccomend this CD. I like to hear Jerry Lee sing ballads and on this Cd he sings his best.He is in a catagory all by himself. Buy this one if you are a fan, you won't be sorry.

Nobody does it better.......2002-09-07

A lot of country stars used to sing "covers" of songs originally performed by others, and the results were usually not as good. Here, Jerry Lee Lewis sings a lot of old "standards" which technically are "covers" but with his unique vocal style and piano playing, it winds up being a new creation well worthy of attention. I originally bought both LP records containing the music on this CD, and they are two of my most treasured records of Jerry Lee's country period, which I think is his best genre. It is nice to have the CD so I can retire them from active playing. If you like the old standards, you will like the way Jerry Lee does them, I'm sure. I think he has more musical talent than any other performer of his generation and could have been greater than Elvis had he not made a few PR mistakes or if Elvis had not been so sexy looking to the women. But then again, he wouldn't have been Jerry Lee Lewis, the Icon. If folks would have only judged him on his music!

Average customer rating: Sophomore isn't a slump..big improvement over debut Jump & Jive BR5-49, what can i say... amazing! Yee-haaaaa If you're just gettin here...

Big Backyard Beat Show BR5-49 Manufacturer: Arista ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: BR5-49 Tangled in the Pines Coast to Coast Dog Days This is BR549 ASIN: B000008USW Release Date: 1998-07-14

Tracks:

1. There Goes My Love
2. Wild One
3. Hurtin' Song
4. Out Of Habit
5. Storybook Endings (If You Stop Believin')
6. Wheels And A Crowbar
7. Pain, Pain Go Away
8. You Are Never Nice To Me
9. Goodbye, Maria
10. Seven Nights To Rock
11. My Name Is Mudd
12. You Flew The Coop
13. Change The Way I Look
14. Georgia On A Fast Train

Amazon.com

Big Backyard Beat Show is aptly named, since it takes the down-home retro twang of BR5-49's earlier releases and punches it up with big, old-school rock & roll beats. That doesn't make this record any less country, though; these boys know that rock & roll was country all along. To wit, rollicking covers of "Wild One" and "Seven Nights to Rock" are hillbilly boogie and rockabilly, respectively, only with the guitars--both electric and pedal-steel--cranked and twisted to contemporary levels. The only real weakness here is that the originals of frontmen Chuck Mead and Gary Bennett aren't as strong this time around as last, but even then the shuffle "My Name Is Mudd" and the driving "You Are Never Nice to Me" come awfully darn close. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

Sophomore isn't a slump..big improvement over debut.......2005-04-27

BR5-49 returns for their sophomore effort with more honky-tonk tradition, a sprinkling of rockabilly, and a Western swing number. Unlike Amazon's reviewer, I feel the originals from Gary Bennett and Chuck Mead (with an assist from Shaw Wilson on "18 Wheels...") are STRONGER this time out, making for a better CD than the debut.

HIGHLIGHTS:
A cover of Buck Owens' "There Goes my Love" gets things off to a good start. A cover of the Killer follows with "Wild One" and it's nice, though not as manic as Lewis himself. "Out of Habit", written by the band's Chuck Mead, toasts bar hopping. ("I can't be held responsible/it helps me unwind/She said it was another bad habit of mine") Gary Bennett's "Storybook Endings" is a wonderfully bittersweet portrayal of a divorcee determined to keep looking for 'happy ever after'. ("Storybook endings and white picket fences/Castles and tales where the prince finds the princess ain't real/if you stop believin'"). "18 Wheels and a Crowbar" is a trucker's fantasy revenge on cellphone totin' yuppie scum. Love and pain intertwine in Bennett's "You are Never Nice to Me" while accordion lends a Tejano flavor to Mead's "Goodbye, Maria". "Seven Nights to Rock" is solid rockabilly. "You Flew the Coop" is a novelty Western swing number.

LOWS:
"Pain, Pain Go Away" isn't awful but it's less compelling than most of the material here. "Georgia on a Fast Train" isn't bad, but Shaver's original is better. "change the Way I look" is somewhat tepid.

BOTTOM LINE:
14 cuts here...11 of them are at least good. This is where I'd start if you're trying to find out why people hype this band.

Jump & Jive.......2004-11-15

"Big Backyard Beat Show" bursts with energy & some of the hottest country/rockabilly licks you're likely to hear! My favorite track is "Wild One" with its totally infectious joyful rocking beat, "I never went to school, I was way too cool, I got the jump, I got the jive, I got the message I'm alive." "Out of Habit" is another bouncing romp, "I went out drinkin' & don't you know, I didn't come home til a quarter to four, I got the boogie fever & the woogie release, she said, 'How come you always the last one to leave?'" "Seven Nights to Rock" is another great flat-out rocker with an infectious beat. Even when they slow it down a bit like on "My Name Is Mudd," Don Herron's steel guitar weeps like a juke box 25 miles out of Nashville on a Saturday night. BR5-49's set pops and bounces joyfully in some of the most infectious country you're likely to hear! Enjoy!

BR5-49, what can i say... amazing!.......2003-01-30

This band rocks, live and recorded... buy this if you have good taste!

Yee-haaaaa.......2000-05-05

Well golly-bob-howdy. Ya gotta love a band that names themselves after a Hee-Haw comedy skit. I'm no Country Music fanatic, but these guys are as genuine as it gets, and awful fun to listen to. If you even remotely like genuine American music, pick this one up. You won't be disappointed.

If you're just gettin here..........1999-10-30

...you've missed a lot. This is the best band in the world today. Anyone who has seen them live knows that Chuck Mead is probably one of the ten best guitarists in the world right now. He plays so effortlessly, though, you might miss it. Donnie Herron is an inspired musician, someone who has been blessed with amazing talent. Shaw and Jay are the best rhythm section since Watts and Wyman. Gary is just the ghost of every true honky tonk singer that has ever lived and died pouring his heart out. If you don't buy all three CD's right now, you'll be missing a great deal from your musical collection. If they come to your town, and you don't go see them, you will have missed a golden opportunity. I pray to God that they never break up.

Average customer rating: The original vinyl is an ancient memory... If Buddy could hear the music now Honky Tonkin' Terrific Texas Music and Essential Joe Ely's Country-Rock Masterpieces

Joe Ely/Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live at Antone's Love & Danger Lord of the Highway Old No. 1/Texas Cookin' West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes ASIN: B00004U682 Release Date: 2000-09-11

Tracks:

1. I Had My Hopes up High
2. Mardi Gras Waltz
3. She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
4. Gambler's Bride
5. Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin
6. Tennessee's Not the State I'm In
7. If You Were a Bluebird
8. Treat Me Like a Saturday Night
9. All My Love
10. Johnny's Blues
11. Cornbread Moon
12. Because of the Wind
13. Boxcars
14. Jericho (Your Walls Must Come Tumbling Down)
15. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
16. Honky Tonk Masquerade
17. I'll Be Your Fool
18. Fingernails
19. West Texas Waltz
20. Honky Tonkin'

Album Description

UK reissue combines the country outlaw's first two albums, ' Joe Ely' (1977) and 'Honky Tonk Masquerade' (1978), together on one CD. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered 2-On-1. One of the Clash's Favorite Rocker's First Two Brilliant Albums from his Progressive Country Days. Includes 'I Had My Hopes Up High', 'Fingernails' & 'West Texas Waltz'. Features Butch Hancock.

Customer Reviews:

The original vinyl is an ancient memory..........2006-03-04

...but Joey's early music is timeless. Alternately simple and musical, toe-tapping and lyrical, or occasionally loud and rockin', Ely's early band did a little bit of it all. But the predominant styles are rockin' honky-tonk and ballads.

Looking back on it now, living in Lubbock when Joey and the boys first took flight was a distinctly treasured time. Whether at the old Cotton Club on Highway 84, or the long defunct (and always funky) Fat Dawg's on 4th Street, his band never failed to bring the house down. Just like Stevie Ray Vaughn at Stubb's B-B-Q on east Broadway, as good as Joey's early recorded music is, it only hints at the foot-stomping jaw-dropping good-timing sessions his crew could lay down in a small club atmosphere.

As mentioned elsewhere, Jesse "Guitar" Taylor and Lloyd Maines each made their presence well-felt while Joey belted out the vocals. Lloyd's pedal steel wailed when called upon. Before hearing Lloyd, I used to think the only electrified guitar worth listening to hung from a shoulder. And the accordian-squeezing land surveyor P. Bone always added just enough funkiness to the mix so that you didn't completely lose your head. Guest appearances by other local talent, including my ex-boss, Tommie Anderson (may he rest in peace), always added a little bit of variety to make each show unique. You always knew where you were eventually gonna' get to with Joey, you just never quite knew exactly how.

It's too bad they won't let you listen to the samples here. This studio disc captures what it can of that early Ely music, and it's still a favorite. The two-fer is a great deal. Buy it, listen to it a couple times with a beer or two in tow, and just try not to smile. Go ahead and sing along...it won't hurt ya'.

If Buddy could hear the music now.......2006-02-26

Rockabilly/Country-Western-Swing/Tex-Mex. It's all here. Combining the past with the present. It's like Bob Wills teaming up with Buddy Holly and Doug Sahm. And anybody can dance to it, even if you don't have rhythm in your heel's. Texas music at it's best

Honky Tonkin'.......2005-07-14

Ex. Flatlander Joe Ely is one of the most important country artists ever. When the Flatlanders (Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Joe Ely) broke up, he went solo and first two albums that are featured on this cd (Joe Ely and Honky Tonk Masquerade) are fabulous. Ely wrote most of the songs and included few songs of Butch and Jimmie Dale. So here you can find such classics as Hancock's She Never Spoke Spanish To Me, Tennessee's Not The State I'm In, If You Were A Bluebird (later covered by Emmylou Harris), Gilmore's Treat Me Like A Saturday NIght and Ely's own compositions like Fingernails, I Had My Hopes Up High...
Honky Tonk Masquerade was picked by Rolling Stone as one of the best albums of the 1970s. This disc contains some of the best work Joe Ely has done.

Terrific Texas Music and Essential.......2003-07-28

This disc is a great bargain because you get two fantastic albums on one. The out-of-print album "Joe Ely" contains a number of fine songs, including "If You Were a Bluebird," "Treat me Like a Saturday Night," and "Tennessee's Not the State I'm In." Several songs were written by Butch Hancock and one was written by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, both of whom were in the Flatlanders with Ely. A great album!

"Honky Tonk Masquerade" is even better, though. It's songs are full of rich imagery and a sound that mixes honky tonk, Tex-Mex and rock and roll into a satisfying brew all its own. I never get tired of listening to these albums. And with both on one disc, it makes it even sweeter. You can't go wrong getting this disc!

Joe Ely's Country-Rock Masterpieces.......2001-02-07

These two late-Seventies albums (his 1977 debut and 1978 follow-up) are watershed marks in Joe Ely's career. Ely and his band combine country, honky-tonk and Tex-Mex sounds with a rock 'n' roll attitude and churn out an exciting blend of country-rock music.

On both albums the band included lead guitarist Jesse Taylor and steel guitar player Lloyd Maines. Accordian player Ponty Bone was brought on board for the second album (tracks 11-20). While these two albums may not have quite the same energy level as 1981's Live Shots, these two albums come awfully close.

In addition to being a powerful singer, Ely is an excellent songwriter. He wrote ten of the tracks here, including the rocking "Cornbread Moon," the plaintive "Honky Tonk Masquerade" and the Jerry Lee Lewis-inspired "Fingernails." Except for the Hank Williams classic "Honky Tonkin'," the other nine tracks were written by his former Flatlanders bandmates and fellow Texans Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Hancock wrote the gorgeous "She Never Spoke Spanish To Me" and the hilarious "West Texas Waltz," among others. [Note: On 1995's Letter To Loredo, Ely recorded Hancock's follow-up song "She Finally Spoke Spanish To Me."] Gilmore contributes "Treat Me Like a Saturday Night" and "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown."

While Ely's record sales never matched his critical acclaim, these are essential purchases. Almost twenty-five years later, Ely still is making quality music--his latest is last year's Live At Antone's--but this is the place to start. ESSENTIAL

Average customer rating: This is what country music is all about One of his best! As Good As It Gets That song it sure does fit me. When Country was Real

Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat Buck Owens Manufacturer: Sundazed Music Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: I've Got a Tiger by the Tail You're for Me Buck Owens (Sundazed) Before You Go On the Bandstand ASIN: B000003GY6 Release Date: 1995-05-17

Tracks:

1. My Heart Skips A Beat
2. Close Up The Honky Tonks
3. I Don't Hear You
4. Save The Last Dance For Me
5. Over And Over Again
6. Truck Drivin' Man
7. Together Again
8. A-ll
9. Ain't It Amazing Gracie
10. Getting Used To Losing You
11. Storm Of Love
12. Hello Trouble
13. Love's Gonna Live Here
14. Act Naturally

Amazon.com essential recording

This 1964 standout is named for the double-sided single that was the first 45 to place both cuts atop the country charts. In fact, they owned the top two spots on the chart three weeks running, swapping positions in the middle week! "Together Again," a ballad distinguished by Tom Brumley's weeping steel, and "My Heart Skips a Beat," a midtempo shuffle featuring Don Rich's biting guitar licks and high harmony vocals, were both written by Owens himself and perfectly exemplify the Owens writing style: simple and bright-sounding songs aimed at working-class honky-tonk patrons who wanted to forget the real world for a few hours. The remainder of the LP maintains these high standards, thanks to a strong set of original Owens tearjerkers and a number of well-chosen covers--"A-11," "Hello Trouble," "Close Up the Honky Tonks," and "Truck Drivin' Man"--that remain defining, hard-driving Bakersfield classics. Sundazed adds a pair of chart-topping singles from the previous year--"Act Naturally" and "Love's Gonna Live Here"--making this CD release a fundamental entry into any country enthusiast's collection. --Marc Greilsamer

Album Description

Full Title - Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat. Named after his double-sided number one hit single of early 1964, 'Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat' is one of Buck Owens' strongest albums of the '60s, as well as one of his few records to stick firmly in the honky tonk camp. Now Sundazed brings you this reissue with 2 bonus tracks 'Love's Gonna Live Here' and 'Act Naturally', both of which were originally released by Capitol as singles. 1995.

Customer Reviews:

This is what country music is all about.......2007-05-26

From the first tune to the last,Buck Owens and his Buckaroos will have you hooked on some the best country tunes out there.Buck and Don harmonize perfectly.Three of Buck's steel guitar players strut their stuff here,most notably, Tom Brumley on Together Again.His seamless turnaround on the steel is a major cause of the songs success and beauty.Ralph Mooney "steels" the show on many of the tunes.Jay McDonald is also a major presence on a few of the tracks.You can't call your collection complete without this CD in it.

One of his best!.......2007-04-11

"Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat" was on the top of my "must have" Buck owens albums....this album satisfies all my hard-core honky tonk tendencies, song for song it has to rate among his best, from the opening tracks shuffle beat followed by my personal favorite track on here the classic "Close Up The Honky-Tonks", then there is the unbelievably credible country version of "Save The Last Dance For Me" (sounds as if it were written as a country song).."A-11".."Storm Of Love"..they are all good..nary a clunker here...if your a Buck fan?..Order this as fast as you possibly can!...a MUST have!

As Good As It Gets.......2006-08-23

I can't understand how anyone could give this album less than five stars. It just doesn't get any better than this. In fact, it will probably never be this good again.

That song it sure does fit me........2006-08-08

This album by Buck Owens was released in 1964. The title songs were from a single that saw both sides become #1 hits. That was the first time both sides of a single reached #1 on the Country charts. The album included one other hit song, which was a cover of the Drifters' song "Save the Last Dance For Me". Other than the hits, there were a number of other great songs on the album, including "Close Up the Honkey Tonks", "Truck Drivin' Man", "A-11", "Hello Trouble" and "Ain't It Amazin' Gracie" (the latter became a hit when Buck re-recorded it nine years later). The CD adds two bonus tracks, which are the #1 hits "Love's Gonna Live Hear" and "Act Naturally". This is one of Buck's best albums.

When Country was Real.......2006-05-30

Another fine Buck Owens Cd released by Sundazed Records; they've done a great job of re-releasing his collection. This Cd was originally released in 1964, but the sound is incredibly clear. "Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat" provides 14 of Buck's songs, including a few of his biggest hits: "My Heart Skips a Beat", "A-11", "Hello Trouble", and the greatest Steel Guitar solo yet, "Together Again". The world lost one of the finest stylists ever when Buck recently passed away.....here's your chance to own a little bit of that magic. I'm not sure how long these albums will remain available, but you'd be wise to grab them while you can.

Average customer rating: Two old albums of some of the best early Newgrass! Good blugrass always holds up. Byron and Alan -- absolute monsters!

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Tracks:

1. Lost Indian
2. Keep on Pushin'
3. I Wish You Knew
4. Hot Burrito Breakdown
5. I Might Take You Back Again
6. Forget Me Not
7. Tried So Hard
8. Anna
9. If You're Ever Gonna Love Me
10. Aggravation
11. Sound of Goodbye
12. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
13. Huckleberry Hornpipe
14. The Fallen Eagle
15. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
16. Deputy Dalton
17. Teach Your Children
18. My Oklahoma
19. Down the Road
20. Winterwood
21. Honky Cat
22. Snowball
23. Lonesome Blues
24. Singing All Day (And Dinner on the Ground)

Customer Reviews:

Two old albums of some of the best early Newgrass!.......2003-01-24

Hippie-era newgrass doesn't get more genial or good-natured than this lively outfit, which featured banjo whiz Alan Munde, fiddler Byron Berline, bassist Rober Bush and singer Kenny Wertz, along with an amorphous cast of high-powered pals such as Clarence White, Herb Pedersen and Al Perkins. The band was an on-again, off-again project that got squeezed in between the demands that various bands such as the Dillards, Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers placed on the Gazette members... Although lumped in with the whole early-'70s country-rock scene, Country Gazette were clearly more traditionally and bluegrass oriented in musical terms, even if their song selection ranged from the Louvin Brothers and Flatt & Scruggs to Steven Stills and Elton John. Fortunately for us, they managed to eke out these two fine major-label albums, which radiate a keen sense of humor, a flair for showmanship and a profound understanding of musical history which keeps these recordings sounding fresh as can be, decades down the line. A nice prelude to their later indie-label works... highly recommended!

Good blugrass always holds up........2002-11-08

When I was a high school kid in the mid-70s I hung out at this little acoustic instrument shop in Phoenix called "Mike's Music." Mike was a bluegrass-addicted picker with dreams of owning a music store. As store managers went, Mike was a great musician. The store didn't last long but while it did, I knew I could drive over there, play the Martins on the wall and listen to some great bluegrass music emanating from the stereo.

Mike had a real attraction to these two albums by Country Gazette. They were where I first became aware of that amazing fiddler Byron Berline, and although nearly 25 years went by between hearing these albums in Mike's music store and getting them on CD, I found that they'd lost none of their punch.

"Traitor" is my favorite of the two LPs here. The songs just seem to have a better flow with each other, but the playing on both albums is stellar.

Favorites include "Lost Indian," "I Wish You Knew," "Sound of Goodbye," and their interesting take on Elton John's "Honky Cat."

But it's all good. I've lost track of Mike, but a lot of the music he shared with me is on this CD. If you're the kind who likes to sit around pickin' on a Saturday afternoon, this is definitely a CD you should check out.

Byron and Alan -- absolute monsters!.......1999-09-01

Sure, the two albums are a little too California for the majority of most east coast bluegrassers, but if you grew up listening to the (original) Dillards, Kentucky Colonels, and Vern & Ray, then you'll understand what drives this band. Alan Munde is just a monster -- absolutely rock solid, with licks that banjoists then, and banjoists now, can only dream of nailing. And playing off him is Byron's fiddling (with hands like hams, how the heck can he play such intricate double and triple stops?). Two of the best 70's bluegrass albums on the same CD. How CAN you lose??

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1. Wide Open Spaces [Live]
2. Xmas Gonzo Style
3. You're My Best Friend - Big Hits Live [Import] [Live]
4. 1000 Nadelstiche, Vol. 7 [Import]
5. 3 Byrds Land in London [Live]
6. After the Rain
7. American Cajun
8. Angel Town
9. Bastard Child
10. Best of Floyd Tillman

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