Songs of Forbidden Love

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This Austin collective explores the "cheatin' song," once a staple of Nashville music and now a rapidly dying breed. In fact, the Nashville mainstream looks at the cheatin' song as if it were some sort of bastard child: inextricably part of country music history, but a part they pray will be forgotten. Lead-vocal duties are shared among Austin stalwarts such as Dale Watson, Kelly Willis, Ted Roddy, Chris O'Connell, and Rosie Flores while veteran musicians including Jason Roberts, Rich O'Brien, Floyd Domino, and (producer) Dave Sanger lend tasteful support. There's enough variety to keep it interesting as honky-tonk grit sidles up next to Countrypolitan flourishes. Nashville's roots are still being nurtured--but in Austin. The Nashville machine does have a point though: Their target middle-class Omaha housewife would probably turn this off rather than do battle with her paranoid thoughts. --Marc Greilsamer

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Average customer rating: Texas-styled C&W soundtrack for Clinton's impeachment Why don't they all make 'em this good? Sounds like a great, long-lost classic country recording

Songs of Forbidden Love Wandering Eyes Manufacturer: Lazy Sob ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000007SGS Release Date: 1998-07-21

Tracks:

1. It's A Cheatin' Situation
2. Lovin' On Backstreets
3. Cheatin' Traces
4. In Some Room Above The Street
5. Forbidden Angel
6. Devil In Mrs. Jones
7. Unspoken Kind
8. Even If I Have To Steal
9. When She Does Me Right She Does You Wrong
10. The Game Of Triangles
11. Hell Yes, I Cheated
12. Me And Mr. Jones

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This Austin collective explores the "cheatin' song," once a staple of Nashville music and now a rapidly dying breed. In fact, the Nashville mainstream looks at the cheatin' song as if it were some sort of bastard child: inextricably part of country music history, but a part they pray will be forgotten. Lead-vocal duties are shared among Austin stalwarts such as Dale Watson, Kelly Willis, Ted Roddy, Chris O'Connell, and Rosie Flores while veteran musicians including Jason Roberts, Rich O'Brien, Floyd Domino, and (producer) Dave Sanger lend tasteful support. There's enough variety to keep it interesting as honky-tonk grit sidles up next to Countrypolitan flourishes. Nashville's roots are still being nurtured--but in Austin. The Nashville machine does have a point though: Their target middle-class Omaha housewife would probably turn this off rather than do battle with her paranoid thoughts. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Texas-styled C&W soundtrack for Clinton's impeachment.......1999-01-24

Open a bottle of your favorite Texas beer and curl up on the couch with this all-star soundtrack for the on-going impeachment hearings. Some of Austin's finest explore cheatin' hearts, country style, and unlike the headlines, the contrition sung here is more resignation than salvation.

This one-off reanimates ten obscurities, one original, and a twangy regendered take of Billy Paul's early 70s hit, "Me and Mrs. Jones." Ted Roddy provides a bitter forensic guide to cleaning up one's "Cheatin' Traces," while Dale Watson skulks around, "Lovin' on Backstreets." Roddy, Rosie Flores and Chris O'Donnell reprise the unhappy three-way of "The Game of Triangles," and Kelly Willis and Jason Roberts each take turns outside the traditional bonds of matrimony.

Superb playing, a timeless theme, and a lightly nostalgic sound add up to a disc that won't do you no wrong.

Why don't they all make 'em this good?.......1998-08-24

Is this 1998? Sounds more like 1968 - and I mean that in the best possible way. No over-produced middle-of-the-road junk, just the genuine article: Cheatin' songs lovingly performed by some of the most underrated performers in the business. Some of the songs are even better than the originals, but "It's a cheating situation" cannot match the perfection of the Moe Bandy&Janie Fricke version of 1980. But getting to hear Kelly Willis again more than makes up for that. Now, if this gang could just do another album of good ol' drinkin' songs as well...

Sounds like a great, long-lost classic country recording.......1998-08-05

The Wandering Eyes is a collection of Austin pickers and singers -- Kelly Willis, Ted Roddy, Dale Watson, Rosie Flores, Jason Roberts and Mary Cutrufello to name a few -- who have banded together to record a dozen cheatin' songs. Kelly Willis sings on the opening and closing cuts of "Songs of Forbidden Love," a duet with Merle Haggard sound-alike Dale Watson on "It's a Cheatin' Situation," and a country take on Billy Paul's warhorse, "Me and (Mr.) Jones," that ought to be in heavy rotation at every country radio station in the Western Hemisphere. Another highlight finds rockabilly queen Flores taking the lead on the surprisingly bittersweet "In Some Room Above the Street." The Wandering Eyes' traditional approach to the music, and the disc's clean production, makes "Songs of Forbidden Love" sound like a great lost classic country recording from some golden age past -- the kind of discs they should be making in Nashville.

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Forbidden Pleasure Spectrum Manufacturer: Intersound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000688PH6 Release Date: 1994-01-01

Tracks:

1. Come Back To Me - Janet Jackson
2. Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers
3. Now That I've Found You - Michael Bolton
4. That's The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson
5. Face In The Photograph - Yanni
6. Storms In Africa - Enya/Roma Ryan/Nicky Ryan
7. Ricky's Prayer - Ricky Keller
8. The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks
9. While She Sleeps - Trammell Starks
10. The Bodyguard: I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
11. Sleepless In Seattle: When I Fall In Love - Victor Young
12. Your Song - Elton John/Bernie Taupin

Product Description

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