2 Guitars Country Style [Import]

Product Description:
Paper sleeve and remastered. NALYD. 2005.

2 Guitars Country Style,Speedy West,Jimmy Bryant,Vivid Sound,Country/Bluegrass,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: A Breath of Fresh Air Excellent Tunes Perfect Pure Alberta Country !

Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer Corb Lund Manufacturer: Stony Plain Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Five Dollar Bill Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch Snake Farm Unforgiving Mistress ASIN: B000ARKVIE Release Date: 2006-09-19

Tracks:

1. Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer
2. The Truck Got Stuck
3. Always Keep An Edge On Your Knife
4. The Rodeo's Over
5. Hurtin' Albertan
6. Big Butch Bass Bull Fiddle
7. All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards
8. The Truth Comes Out
9. Counterfeiters' Blues
10. Good Copenhagen
11. Trouble In The Country
12. Little Foothills Heaven
13. The Truck Got Stuck Talkin' Blues

Product Description

1. Hair In My Eyes Like
A Highland Steer
2. The Truck Got Stuck
3. Always Keep An Edge
On Your Knife
4. The Rodeo's Over
(featuring Ian Tyson)
5. Hurtin' Albertan
6. Big Butch Bass Bull Fiddle
7. All I Wanna Do Is Play Cards
8. The Truth Comes Out
9. Counterfeiters Blues
10. Good Copenhagen
11. Trouble In The Country
12. Little Foothills Heaven
13. The Truck Got Stuck Talkn' Blues
(featuring Ramblin' Jack Elliott)


Format: CD

Amazon.com

Corb Lund and his crackerjack band, the Hurtin' Albertans, lassoed a pen full of awards in the recent Canadian Country Music Awards (and the Western Canadian Music Awards), and for anyone just coming to Lund's brand of ranchin' and ropin' tunes, this album (ironically recorded in Nashville) serves as a fine introduction. The baby-faced Canuck blends a prairie upbringing with 10 years as an indie rocker in his last group, the Smalls, and throws in a smattering of acoustic blues, folk, rockabilly, ragtime, and country-rock to balance his traditional cowpoke leanings. While his subject matter generally hangs around the chutes and the plains, or follows the white line down the highway, Lund is so lyrically and rhythmically inventive that special guests Ian Tyson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Riders in the Sky's Ranger Doug and Too Slim probably begged to ride herd. Put your boots up, pull out a can of chew, and get acquainted with the brightest new star under the western moon. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews:

A Breath of Fresh Air.......2007-05-21

I first got hooked on Corb Lund after purchasing his last release ( Five Dollar Bill) and have been anticipating more.
Well, "Hair in my Eyes Like a Highland Steer", does not dissapoint to say the least.
Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans mix the introspective ( The Truth Comes Out, The Rodeo's Over) with the witty ( The Truck Got Stuck, Hurtin' Albertan) to produce a great album full of hooks you will be humming all day.
As a Texan and a rancher, I find it reassuring our "neighbors to the North" share many of our experiences and outlooks. "The Truck Got Stuck" in particular caught my ear, as I have had similar experiences in muddy pastures ( minus the canola seed.)
While these are mainly "cowboy" songs, I think anyone with a love of the West and rural life will find them enjoyable.

Excellent Tunes.......2007-01-15

If you are all about real country music then,you would love this CD!!!
I was very impressed that it was here before the scheduled date of arrival.
Thank you so much
BUY IT ALL YOU COUNTRY PEOPLE!!!!
Shelia Sale/VA

Perfect.......2006-07-09

I heard Corb Lund described as Canada's answer to Cake, but that's not really true. The Corb Lund band is as rooted in Alberta as Cake is in California, and both have smart lyrics, but (even though I don't much like country music) I have to give the nod to this album. Great musical hooks, wonderful lyrics, songs that get stuck in your head and make you smile for days afterward.

I think I'd compare Corb Lund more to Steve Earle, with a catchier bass/banjo line. BRILLIANT album.

Pure Alberta Country ! .......2005-10-18

I was in Canada this weekend and heard the 'The Truck Got Stuck" and I was hooked. I bought the CD and laughed and smiled from the beginning until the end. Buy this CD and ENJOY!

Average customer rating: Time to switch to Corb Lund Five Dollar Bill One of Canada's Finest

Five Dollar Bill Corb Lund Band Manufacturer: Stony Plain Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer Unforgiving Mistress Modern Pain Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer Shoot Out at the Ok Chinese Restaurant ASIN: B000069HUR Release Date: 2003-03-18

Tracks:

1. Five Dollar Bill
2. Expectation And The Blues
3. Short Native Grasses (Prairies Of Alberta)
4. 4 No Roads Here
5. Apocalyptic Modified Blues
6. Heavy And Leaving
7. Intro/ Jack Of Diamonds
8. Time To Switch To Whiskey
9. Roughest Neck Around
10. Daughter Don't You Marry
11. (Gonna) Shine Up My Boots
12. Buckin' Horse Rider
13. She Won't Come To Me

Product Description

1. Five Dollar Bill
2. Expectation And The Blues
3. Short Native Grasses (Prairies of Alberta)
4. No Roads Here
5. Apocalyptic Modified Blues
6. Heavy And Leaving
7. Intro/Jack of Diamonds
8. Time To Switch To Whiskey
9. Roughest Neck Around
10. Daughter, Don't You Marry No Guitar Picker
11. (Gonna) Shine Up My Boots
12. Buckin' Horse Rider
13. She Won't Come To Me

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Time to switch to Corb Lund.......2006-02-23

What's extraordinary with country music, is that owing to its large diversity, it allows us to discover bands like the Corb Lund Band. This Canadian band around Corb Lund is really surprising, their compositions are varied and original, telling a world they know well : the ranchers. Sheer bliss! That's the country music we like, sometimes influenced by whiskey with the splendid "Time To Switch To Whiskey" or the Canadan prairies with "Short Native Grass". 13 songs likely to give you a nice change of surroundings and really cheer you up for good. It's a piece of his soul that Corb Lund offers in this album, well, four generations of rodeo riders have left their marks. The Honky-Tonk influence is undisputable, but it is hard to classify this album where bluegrass stands next to more modern country tunes. That will keep a lot of people satisfied.This album is to listen to with one's ears as much as with one's heart. A real treat!
FACM ( French Association of Country Music - http://facm.free.fr)

Five Dollar Bill.......2005-11-14

One of a very few original, contemporary cowboy songwriters, Corb Lund's "Five Dollar Bill" is well-worth twenty bucks Canadian to anyone who can appreciate hands-on humor and imaginative musical scores. His lyrics are not laments about how things used to be, nor twenty-gallon rhymes for the Nashville scene, but upbeat and clever perspectives from the wide-open and semi-tamed spaces of Alberta that work just as well south of the Canadian border. Halter in hand, his ode to a hard-to-catch mare, "She Won't Come To Me," is a jewel while "Roughest Neck Around" walks the politically incorrect edge of the oilfields with due respect. Corb has an unusual way of incorporating introspection and humor that celebrates life, and he can put together fun songs like "Time To Switch To Whiskey","(Gonna) Shine Up My Boots" and "Buckin' Horse Rider" that never get boring. I've packed this CD in the pickup for ten months straight and continue to marvel at its originality that seems to fit any ranch landscape.

One of Canada's Finest.......2003-08-01

Corb Lund brings us country with a unique flavour. If you ever get the chance to see him live, you'd understand exactly what he can give to the audience. This stripped down album captures Corb's sound perfectly. Nothing interferes with his voice and guitar, the production of the album allows Corb's true musicality to shine through. "Five Dollar Bill" is a fun album; a great album to drive, drink, party, relax, (hopefully not at the same time). Corb captues Alberta and the prairies like no other artist can. You know he's well aqainted to the big sky of the prairies, the open roads, and the partying spirit we all cherish. This album is probably one of the best country albums I have had the pleasure to listen to. I highly recommend this addictive album to anybody, especially if you're not a country fan. You just might find yourself hooked to Corb's wonderfully catchy voice, and his simple, strong songs.

Average customer rating: Exceptional songwriting, vocal, arranging talent in a small group. Fabulous group, superb CD 5 stars plus Great music as always. girlyman

Little Star Girlyman Manufacturer: Daemon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Remember Who I Am Joyful Sign My Better Self Despite Our Differences Prom ASIN: B0008191GA Release Date: 2005-05-24

Tracks:

1. On The Air
2. Superior
3. Speechless
4. Young James Dean
5. Soldiers
6. I Wonder Where You've Gone
7. Commander
8. Bird on The Wire
9. Genevieve
10. Kittery Tide
11. I Know Where You Are
12. This Is Me

About the Artists

Nate Borofsky, Doris Muramatsu, and Ty Greenstein of the modern folk trio Girlyman scheduled the group's first rehearsal for September 11, 2001. Doris and Ty, who met in the second grade, had recently abandoned their former project as a duo; their friend Nate had just moved to New York after four solo years on the Boston music scene. When all three suddenly found themselves living in the same Brooklyn apartment, it seemed only natural to combine their talents into a new group. According to Nate, the rehearsal was quickly forgotten, but the events of September 11 helped shape the trio's vision: "It brought us in touch with our own mortality. We realized that we wanted to have fun, to do what felt right to us, and to not take ourselves too seriously. We started out by calling ourselves Girlyman."

Maybe it's this mix of earnestness and humor that has audiences nationwide falling in love with Girlyman, or maybe it's just that their soaring three-part harmonies are unlike anything you've ever heard. Maybe it's their folk-pop-bluegrass sound—something like Nickel Creek meets the B-52's, where the members switch off songwriting duties, lead vocals, and a range of instruments—or maybe it's the catchy, often haunting melodies. Either way, Girlyman is on a roll. After the group won an Independent Music Award for their debut CD Remember Who I Am, Amy Ray (one of the contest's judges) decided to sign them to her indie label Daemon Records. When the Indigo Girls invited Girlyman to join them on the road, the as-yet unknown opening act received standing ovations and sold so many CDs that the label had to make an emergency shipment...and when those sold out, another.

Since then, the buzz about Girlyman has grown to a low roar. Since signing with Daemon, Girlyman has appeared on internationally syndicated radio shows like Mountain Stage and has received dazzling reviews in dozens of national and regional publications. The trio's robust 2004 festival season included appearances at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Boston Folk Festival, and the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, where Girlyman was voted "Most Wanted to Return."

"The word about Girlyman is spreading like wildfire," says Ray, "and the kicker is that they've just begun."

Customer Reviews:

Exceptional songwriting, vocal, arranging talent in a small group........2007-07-09

This Little Star CD is one of the most enjoyable discoveries I've made lately. The songs are from the heart and head. The arrangements of instrumentation are very tasty. Nice use of mandolin and guitar - maybe the most subtle vocal backing instrumentation I've heard in a long time. All of that exists to give space for very tight vocal harmonies that work well in every song. All cuts are a pleasure, but in my estimation the particularly notables are: "I Wonder Where You've Gone", "Genevieve", "I Know Where You Are", and "This Is Me". Girlyman are vocalists first and foremost and I'm thankful for that.

Fabulous group, superb CD.......2007-04-02

Just got back from Northampton, MA concert. Sat through 2 sets. College crowd, banter appropriate to crowd, talented trio of musicians (all multi-instrumental), compelling music, great harmony...no, GREAT harmony. They position themselves as folk artists, and while this isn't folk the way this sixtysomething remembers it, I see their intent and they succeed at redefining the genre. Little Star loaded with quixotic themes, solid selections from 1 to 12. Just make sure you get to #12 -- it's a gem!

5 stars plus.......2006-09-06

Such a wide range of music types on one cd, everyone will like something. Most people will like them all. Indigo Girls are still my favorite, but Girlymans harmonies are "3" times better.
Im doing my part to spread the GIRLY word!!!!

Great music as always........2006-04-22

I saw Girlyman in concert with Dar Williams and let me tell you they stole the show...even though they weren't the mainliner band. I absolutely love this CD! It always give me chills to hear how well their voices harmonize. I'd definately love to see them again. You can't go wrong with this cd.

girlyman.......2006-03-23

great album and fun band. saw them open for dar williams -- even better live, but this album has most of their best songs. Great tongue in cheek humor

Average customer rating: mediocre COUNTRY DINO COUNTRY COOL

Country Style/Dean 'Tex' Martin Rides Again Dean Martin Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classic Vocalists | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Door Is Still Open to My Heart/(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You Dean Martin Hits Again/Houston French Style/Dino Latino Dream with Dean/Everybody Loves Somebody Gentle on My Mind/I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am ASIN: B00005REPN Release Date: 2002-03-12

Tracks:

1. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
2. Face In A Crowd
3. Things
4. Room Full Of Roses
5. I Walk The Line
6. My Heart Cries For You
7. Any Time
8. Shutters And Boards
9. Blue, Blue Day
10. Singing The Blues
11. Hey, Good Lookin'
12. Ain't Gonna Try Anymore
13. I'm Gonna Change Everything
14. Candy Kisses
15. Rockin' Alone (In An Old Rocking Chair)
16. Just A Little Lovin'
17. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
18. My Sugar's Gone
19. Corrine Corrina
20. Take Good Care Of Her
21. The Middle Of The Night Is My Cryin' Time
22. From Lover To Loser
23. Bouquet Of Roses
24. Second Hand Rose (Second Hand Heart)

Product Description

1. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
2. Face In A Crowd
3. Things
4. Room Full Of Roses
5. I Walk The Line
6. My Heart Cries For You
7. Any Time
8. Shutters And Boards
9. Blue, Blue Day
10. Singing The Blues
11. Hey, Good Lookin'
12. Ain't Gonna Try Anymore
13. I'm Gonna Change Everything
14. Candy Kisses
15. Rockin' Alone (In An Old Rocking Chair)
16. Just A Little Lovin'
17. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
18. My Sugar's Gone
19. Corrine, Corrina
20. Take Good Care Of Her
21. Middle Of The Night Is My Cryin' Time, The
22. From Lover To Loser
23. Bouquet Of Roses
24. Second Hand Rose (Second Hand Heart)


Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

mediocre.......2004-10-04

Being a lover of both country music and Dean Martin, this album was a natural choice. Dean Martin doing county music sounds like a great marriage. To add fuel to this theory, I remember seeing him do an amazing song in a Western movie which may have been Rio Bravo. Eventually, however, I quickly found out why the two albums on this disc were out-of-print. The song choices are good and Dean's voice is as velvety as ever. The problem lies in the production and treatment. All songs are filled with the thick backdrop of a cheesy 1960's symphony orchestra. I'm not sure if it hasn't aged well or always sounded corny. I think that had Dean stripped the arrangements down (or recorded it ten years earlier or later), it might have become a classic. Instead, this disc is the reissue of two albums that probably should have stayed out-of-print. If you go into this album as a die hard Dino fan, you'll probably like it more than if you jump into it as a county and western enthusiast. Get this if you're as curious as I was to actually hear Dino sing county, but avoid it if you can.

COUNTRY DINO.......2003-03-01

I must confess that i am not a so called country music fanatic.However,those two back to back 1963 lps reunited are just what i needed to start my exploration.Perhaps it is the laidback DINO attitude that contributed to my enjoyment,but the singer was a natural for the genre and the classics like I'M SO LONESOME I SHOULD CRY,I WALK THE LINE and HEY GOOD LOOKIN are given first class treatment.My feeling was: let's try a country cd for a change,and unexpectedly i was pleased with the results.Maybe you are like me and thought you wouldn't buy a country cd of your life.Well,this could also do the trick for you like it did with me.With the recent réédition of the whole REPRISE catalogue,DEAN MARTIN is bound to gain many new fans.Let's hope so!

COUNTRY COOL.......2003-02-20

Country music never sounded so good. Dino adds his touch to these great country standards. I always loved these songs but not being a real big country music fan I now get to appreciate them even more .

Average customer rating: Diamond in the rough

Unforgiving Mistress Manufacturer: Outside Music Canada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Five Dollar Bill Modern Pain Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer The Road Hammers Straight to Hell ASIN: B00004SPBB Release Date: 1999-12-18

Tracks:

1. Mora (Blackberry)
2. The Case of the Wine Soaked Preacher
3. Remains of You
4. Guitar From the Wall
5. Where is my Soldier?
6. Spanish Armada
7. I've Been Needin'
8. Young and Jaded
9. Engine Rewer
10. We Used to Ride 'em
11. The Oldest Rhythm

Album Description

Unforgiving Mistress, a country flavoured project, is an eleven track CD with songs written and arranged by Corby Lund, founding member and bass player for one of the most successful Canadian independent rock bands, the smalls.

Customer Reviews:

Diamond in the rough.......2000-09-06

This is one groovy, eclectic, folkie album, that will surprise. Call it alternative country or whatever you like. Second of two laid back country cds that represent what you might imagine true country to be, from an artist who also runs base for an excellent rocky/puckish/heady band called The Smalls. Mixes well with red wine, green ciqarettes and an album by the Super Suckers called "Must've been high"... Don't let that last reference discourage, these are perfect tunes for everyone...

Cheers from Victoria, B.C.

Average customer rating: i like this one a lot freakin bonres all over the damn place just when you think there's nothing new out there... Older music, Newer fan Great CD, lousy production values

That Much Further West Lucero Manufacturer: Tiger Style ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Mariachi | Latin Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lucero Tennessee The Hell You Say 12 Songs ASIN: B0000C237M Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. That Much Further West
2. Mine Tonight
3. Sad And Lonely
4. Across The River
5. The Only One
6. Hate And Jealousy
7. Joining The Army
8. Tonight Ain't Gonna Be Good
9. Tears Don't Matter Much
10. Coming Home
11. When You Decided To Leave
12. That Much Further West (Demo)

Customer Reviews:

i like this one a lot.......2006-03-02

my older brother listens to this because he got dumped by his girlfriend. it sounds ok, i think. he got over her he says because of this band and then he got a tattoo on his arm that says lucero so i think this is a good band. i just hope that they don't break up because then my brothers tattoo will be stupid. so are girls he says.

freakin bonres all over the damn place.......2005-07-05

This cd is amazing and it comes with a boner disk and its just a different version of the other cd. Lucero should be huge. They remind me of Nirvana but waaaay better. BONERS.

just when you think there's nothing new out there..........2005-05-15

...comes this record. a slight departure from their previous releases, this one still has the trademark lucero stamp through and through. although this album draws a line between lucero's past and future, stylistically, i doubt many of their old fans will be disappointed. the 3 records prior to this one were more "country" (for lack of a better term), and this one, as Rolling Stone pointed out, is more "Replacements". which is to say that the guitars are a little fuzzier, and just a little more "rock". yet this record doesn't sound quite like anything else out there. references to Uncle Tupelo have been made, but i feel those references apply more to the previous lucero recordings than this one.
lucero clearly has held onto their roots here, with the country twang seeping through, and the lyrics certainly fit the bill, being concerned mainly with heartbreak, drinking and fighting. the leanings toward rock have created a new chapter for this band. i think soon people will talk about "old lucero" and "new lucero", as the forthcoming record, "nobody's darlings" is an even further step away from the "country" tag. it could be said that this is the record that would the best "icebreaker" to introduce them to someone unfamiliar, leading that person to have to seek out the earlier work.
but you can't fault the band for experimentation, especially when it works so well for them. the increase in energy (such as in "hate and jealousy", tonight ain't gonna be good" and "tears don't matter much" seems to come so naturally to them, and resonates with the listener so well, that at the end of the record, any arguments of "selling out" that might've been there have simply been blown away. this record, like all of lucero's recordings, has an honesty that you just can't help but feel, and therefore can't argue with.

Older music, Newer fan.......2004-09-09

It just goes to show that there is always room to expand your mind and tastes. I recently had a dear friend turn me on to Lucero, and I cannot believe that I hadn't heard of them earlier. Their entire sound, the lyrics, the composition...it reaches me. I've attached events in my life to a lot of their songs already...lol. Basically, "Tennessee" and "That much Further West" have become the soundtrack for my life for the summer of 2004. Going to see them on September 21 at Oberlin college, and looking forward to the show. Looking forward to more music from them in the future.

Great CD, lousy production values.......2004-03-11

Great CD in the Ryan Adams, Replacements, Westerberg, Son Volt, Whiskeytown all American rock tradition. Only complaint is the production is muddled, but the material does make up for it

Average customer rating: A MUST BUY FOR ANY ROCK FAN The capabilities of small town wonder What a Great Album

That Much Further West Lucero Manufacturer: Tiger Style ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tennessee Lucero Death Songs for the Living A Blessing And A Curse Boys and Girls in America ASIN: B0001F7URU Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

1. That Much Further West
2. Mine Tonight
3. Sad and Lonely
4. Across the River
5. Only One
6. Hate and Jealousy
7. Joining the Army
8. Tonight Aint Gonna Be Good
9. Tears Don't Matter Much
10. Coming Home
11. When You Decided to Leave
12. That Much Further West [Demo Version]

Album Description

"Ben Nichols delivers raw heartache as his once rootsy band amps up the guitars. It's the country album The Replacements never made"--Rolling Stone. "...the most entrancing tracks...have the intensity of great rock with a slight twang, and the lesser tunes still sound like the best songs Pete Yorn never wrote"--Alternative Press.

Customer Reviews:

A MUST BUY FOR ANY ROCK FAN.......2006-09-26

Awesome, awesome, awesome. When I play this cd I usually spin it twice. The first line of the second song is worth the price alone, at least to me. This band is my second favorite alt/country band. Gin Blossoms being the first. Tears Don't Matter Much, Mine Tonight, Ain't Gonna Be Good, and That Much Further West are the standout tracks, but the whole album flows well.

The capabilities of small town wonder.......2006-02-02

When I initially heard this album, ironically I was getting a tattoo. I was blown away by the melody and straightforward approach. It is often attempted, but rarely executed properly. Lucero is capable of bringing to you, the southern midwest, as if it were penned on a typewriter and carried to you on a steam locomotive: With all of the grace and brevity of a fading violet, behind the opus of inspiration. I lived near Tennessee for almost five years (during my mid-teens), ten years ago, and this brings to light all of the ways I wanted to interpet it, but was unable to do so, without succinct focus. This thing is good all of the way through. However, I have read reviews attempting to describe these guys. One even said that Nichols conjures Shawn McGowan, of Pogues fame. However, I think Nichols' delivery is closer to that of Mr. Bachman, of Archers of Loaf fame (complete with ambiguous keys/chords and vocal snarl/shrapnel). And, at times, some of the guitar parts are very close to Jets to Brazil's later stuff. But, anyway you put it, even though they seem to sound like so many other bands, one cannot seemingly say that they really have heard anything like it before. In example, in "That Much Further West", Nichols states that, "These guys could do this without my help/the songs they write themselves " (or somehting of the like). This is the modest dignity we have come to expect, or anticipate from a guy who wants to be a star, but can't even get the courage to chase the girl that got away. Or, in "The Only One", he sets the tempo for the rest of the album: Grace through fire, where all of the the tears turn to long nights with a beer in hand, but exacts a price in return. In conclusion, this is a very good album, with staying power to boot. A great black and white, still-frame photo of goods, even though the hard ones are past, or right around the corner. Nichols could mumble, and you would get the same feeling. The best band I have never heard of, and the best music I have heard in a long time.

What a Great Album.......2004-08-28

I see that the magazine reviews compared this to the Replacements and Pete Yorn. That's some pretty good songwriting company.

To me, though, the better comparison is to Son Volt's first. Alt-country with no weak songs on the album.

One of the better albums I've bought in a long time.

Average customer rating: Some of Chet's very best "patented" fingerstyle guitar

Finger Style Guitar/Stringin' Along With Chet Atkins Chet Atkins Manufacturer: One Way Records Inc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: And His Guitar/The Guitar Genius Guitar Country/More of That Guitar Country Hum & Strum / Other Chet Atkins Guitar Picker/Finger Pickin' Good Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles ASIN: B000026FTR Release Date: 1998-11-24

Tracks:

1. Swedish Rhapsody
2. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
3. In the Mood
4. Heartaches
5. Glow Worm
6. Dance of the Golden Rod
7. Petite Waltz
8. Adelita
9. Govotte in D
10. Unchained Melody
11. Waltz in A Flat
12. Malaguena
13. Oh! By Jingo
14. Indian Love Call
15. Memphis Blues
16. Twelfth Street Rag
17. Galloping on the Guitar
18. St. Louis Blues
19. Main Street Breakdown
20. Hello Ma Baby
21. Alice Blue Gown
22. Blue Gypsy
23. Black Mountain Rag
24. Third Man Theme

Customer Reviews:

Some of Chet's very best "patented" fingerstyle guitar.......2002-07-23

There will never be another Chet Atkins. No one has ever earned the respect of guitar players from every field from all over the world the way Chet has. "Stringing Along With Chet Atkins" was the first Chet album I bought as a young boy. Chet put his personal touch on every tune starting with "O' By Jingo." The almost inhuman dexterity of Chet's right hand along with his unique ability to move down the neck of the guitar from one chord position to another, using open strings to tie it all together as only he could do it, will keep the most critical spellbound. From there it only got better with the 3/4 and 4/4 mixture on "Alice Blue Gown," and the silky smooth, very tastefully done "Hello Ma Baby," to the lightning fingered duel with Jethro Burns on the mandolin in "Gallopin' Guitar," and also "Main Street Breakdown." Chet along with Homer and Jethro was an unbeatable combination. The musical comedy team of Homer and Jethro were surprisingly good musicians in their own right. Of course Jethro was Chet's brother-in-law. All of the rest of this two-disc combination set is fingerstyle guitar at its best. It just doesn't get any better than this. If you ask real Chet afficianados which is their favorite Chet album, most will say either "Finger Style Guitar" or "Stringing Along With Chet Atkins." This is an unbeatable deal to be able to get these two classics in one set. Long live the legacy of this remarkable gentleman from east Tennessee known the world over as "Mr. Guitar."

Average customer rating: Two mid-60s RCA Camden LPs on one disc.

The Distinctive Piano Style Of/The Magic Touch Of Floyd Cramer Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Blue Skies Piano Masterpieces (1900-1975) The Essential Floyd Cramer The Piano Magic, Vol. 2 Forever in Love ASIN: B0002DRDHS Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo
2. For Those That Cry
3. Hot Pepper
4. (Theme From) Story of Three Loves
5. Suddenly There's a Valley
6. Sophisticated Swing
7. Marilyn
8. Shrum
9. Losers Weepers
10. Night Theme
11. Tuxedo Junction
12. Cryin'
13. Three Bells
14. All Night Long
15. Naomi
16. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
17. Tomorrow's Gone
18. Goin' Home
19. Kisses and Tears
20. Hong Kong

Album Description

This 22-track audio CD contains two Floyd Cramer albums originally released on the RCA Victor budget label Camden.

Customer Reviews:

Two mid-60s RCA Camden LPs on one disc........2004-09-11

I'd easily give this disc five stars because I think that the ten songs that comprise "The Magic Touch Of Floyd Cramer" are really good and the sound quality on these particular tracks ranges from good to excellent. But I have to deduct from the rating for other reasons. For one thing, I have to question Collectables decision to choose these two particular albums for this "two-fer". Both are really short mid-60s releases on the budget Camden label. Both are hodge-podge gatherings of tracks recorded several years prior to the albums' releases. Not to say that the music isn't good. A lot of Floyd's finest performances are included here, but why not pick two of his more cohesive RCA efforts like the two organ albums or two from the "Class Of..." series or an excellent title like "Country Piano, City Strings"? Maybe Camden is all BMG would license to them at this time. The inside of the cover lists 22 other recent Collectables releases and, looking over the titles, I believe most (if not all) of them are Camden albums.
Getting back to the sound quality, it should be noted that all of the tracks on this disc are in mono. This is understandable I suppose, because the original LPs were in mono. They were later reissued in stereo but for many of the songs, this meant fake "rechanneled stereo" since they were mono recordings. The few actual stereo recordings from the bunch could have been included here in stereo ("Shrum" is in true stereo on "The Essential Floyd Cramer") but they're mono. I don't really mind, and actually like having "Shrum" in both stereo and mono versions.
At any rate, the sound quality really takes a dive once the second album begins. There are so many drop-outs on "Tuxedo Junction" that the first half of the song is virtually unlistenable. After that song, the sound levels off and most of the rest of the disc sounds pretty good despite a little cloudiness to "Tomorrow's Gone" and "Naomi" and excessive treble on "Cryin'". The BMG Pair CD, "Country Classics" from 1988 also contained "Tuxedo Junction" and although the sound quality on that disc wasn't all that great, I don't remember all those drop-outs. I'm gonna make my own CD of these albums and replace this version with the one from the Pair CD.
Musically, this disc is all over the map. Aside from "Junction", Cramer knocks off covers of several other big band standards: "Sophisticated Swing", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", and his hit single version of "Chattanooga Choo Choo". "Sophisticated Swing" sounds much better here than it did on the aforementioned "Country Classics" CD. The sound quality is at it's highest on the Pete Drake tune "For Those That Cry". I'm glad because this track was one of the main reasons I wanted "Magic Touch" on CD. "Tomorrow's Gone", "Shrum", "Losers Weepers", "All Night Long" and "Kisses And Tears" are all Cramer originals. The track "Hot Pepper" is a remake of Cramer's 1958 hit "Flip, Flop And Bop". Two tracks, "Story Of Three Loves" and "Goin' Home" are retitled classical pieces by Rachmaninoff and Dvorak respectively.
So you can look at this disc two ways. It's either a pairing of two Camden budget LPs, or just a collection of 20 Floyd Cramer favorites. The poor sound quality on "Tuxedo Junction" aside, any fan of Floyd's will find a lot to like here.

Average customer rating: Hank & Bob would roll in their graves Dancin!!!! Amazing - if you love western swing you'll love this band A highly pleasurable cd of authentic sounding 50's western Wow. 5 Stars for the Lucky Stars

Hollywood & Western Lucky Stars Manufacturer: Ipecac Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Acres of Heartache Tarheel Boogie Door to Door Maniac Feelin' Kinda Lucky Rhythm, Rhyme & Truth ASIN: B00004TDZ3 Release Date: 2000-05-30

Tracks:

1. Everybody's Fool
2. Chisel To My Heart
3. Look What The Cat Dragged In
4. Hot Potato
5. Get Off Your High Horse
6. A Fella Named Jack
7. All Shapes And Sizes
8. White Lie Blues
9. Tennessee Tango
10. Been Betrayed Blues
11. Sugar Mama
12. Honky Tonk Bound

Customer Reviews:

Hank & Bob would roll in their graves Dancin!!!!.......2006-01-17

Some of the best Honky-Tonk and Western Swing EVER put down in any era. Jeremy Wakefied's steel playing is superb and the band just has a great boogie beat. Keep it up guys, were all depending on ya!

Amazing - if you love western swing you'll love this band.......2005-06-01

This is one of my favorite CDs; it's on heavy rotation in my car. The first time I heard it I would have sworn up and down that it was a late 40's band or somebody like Ernest Tubb working with different musicians. But the Lucky Stars put their own brand of backbeat magic into everything they do; the songwriting, the amazing solos, and Sage's fantastic vocals make this a stellar recording. And if they don't list their new album for sale soon I may die (hint hint). Nice work fellas, please keep it coming and tour frequently!

A highly pleasurable cd of authentic sounding 50's western.......2004-05-29

A highly pleasurable cd of authentic sounding 50's western swing. Although there are touches of rockabilly, the majority of this appelaing cd is made up of vintage sounding late 40's thru 50's Holywood western swing. Great musiscians, in the Big Sandy tradition, and fine tight solos, by this great band. If you like Big Sandy or Ray Condo's western swing combos, you are likely to liek this too, although it's more twangy than Big Sandy or Ray Condo. A fun and very swinging cd.

Wow........2004-02-29

I honestly did not think it was possible to make music this good.

5 Stars for the Lucky Stars.......2003-04-12

I was recently lucky enough to catch one of their live performances. They dazzled everyone with their fantastic singing/musicianship/stage presence/and lyrics. I just had to pick up this CD and I must say that they are now one of my favorite acts/bands. If you're a fan of western swing, pick this CD up, you won't be sorry.....

Music Album:

1. 22 All Time Greatest Hits
2. 40 Great Hits
3. A Bridge That Just Won't Burn
4. Artist's Choice: Emmylou Harris
5. Back Porch Swing
6. Big Choice
7. Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard
8. Candlewyck
9. Christmas With Buck Owens & His Buckaroos
10. Country Classics 2 [Import]

Music Album