Red Dirt

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Andre Williams, a collectors' cult figure who talk-sang his way through such '50s and '60s R&B novelties as "Jail Bait," "Bacon Fat," and "Cadillac Jack," waves his freak flag high on the very first track, "Hey Truckers" (rhymes with "bad you-know-whatters"). Though he cites his Alabama farm-boy upbringing as credentials, his X-rated country sounds like none you've heard before--sort of a midair crash between Screamin' Jay Hawkins, mid-'60s Bob Dylan, and the local honky-tonk hero. And while his originals, cowritten with Sadie Dallas Good, play on traditional country themes, they are more than merely clever; they are unfailingly melodic, full of nice arranging touches, and somehow true to the form, thanks in large part to Toronto's quirky cowpunk quartet the Sadies. His vocals range from a bellow to a rumbling recitation. And both Johnny Paycheck's "Pardon Me (I've Got Someone to Kill)" and Leon Payne's "Psycho" are present and accounted for, as are more conventional gems from Harlan Howard and Lefty Frizzell. Not for everyone, but perversely likable. --John Morthland

Product Description:
This record's got it all, babies!!! It'll get you up on the down stroke, it's got Memphis Stax/Volt soul grooves, it's got Johnny Cash boom-chicka-ka-boom, it's got Screamin' Jay gospel menace, it's got smooth, "how ya doin, ladies?", crooning, and it's got, well, Andre-ance. He even rhymes "cash" with "ass" and makes it work!!!

Red Dirt,Andre & Sadies Williams,Bloodshot Records,Country,Country & Western,Pop,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Voice still lovely; not country any more; sound complex, muddy art with blemishes Emmylou Atmosphere Production is weak Emmylou Rocks

Red Dirt Girl Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Wrecking Ball Stumble Into Grace Pieces of the Sky All the Roadrunning Roses in the Snow ASIN: B00004WZOJ Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

1. The Pearl
2. Michaelangelo
3. I Don't Wanna Talk About It Now
4. Tragedy
5. Red Dirt Girl
6. My Baby Needs a Shepherd
7. Bang the Drum Slowly
8. J'ai fait tout
9. One Big Love
10. Hour of Gold
11. My Antonia (featuring Dave Matthews)
12. Boy from Tupelo

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Consider this Emmylou Harris's emancipation proclamation--an album that confirms that 1995's adventurously atmospheric Wrecking Ball wasn't an aberration, but a preview of more radical changes to come. Long the godmother of alternative-country's traditionalist wing, Harris here writes songs with Luscious Jackson's Jill Cunniff, sings a duet with Dave Matthews ("My Antonia"), and recruits Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa to provide harmonies on the album's most compelling ballad ("Tragedy"). The production by Malcolm Burn applies sonic treatments of drum machines, shimmering guitars, and echoed vocals to a song cycle by Harris that is largely original and deeply personal, filled with dream imagery and evocations of a spiritual quest. While material such as "Michaelangelo" and "Bang the Drum Slowly" suffers from an arty ponderousness, it's doubtful that Harris has ever recorded an album that means more to her than this one. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews:

Voice still lovely; not country any more; sound complex, muddy.......2007-06-22

I have been a fan of Emmylou Harris for years. I loved her music back in the 1970s. She has one of the purest and most beautiful voices in country music. She also always had a wonderful simplicity and directness to her style.

I am not sure how to react to this new music. Her voice is still lovely. This is obviously a sincere, well-crafted effort.

However:

It is not county any more. I am not quite sure what it is, but she has left her country roots behind her with this. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but I, frankly, have trouble following the logic of where she is going. Her back up sound has become very complex. To put a positive spin on it, it is lush. To be negative about it, it is muddy. To me, she has lost the beautiful simplicity of her earlier music. Is her new direction worth the loss? I will listen to the music some more. Maybe there is more here than I am hearing. But, so far, she is losing me.

art with blemishes.......2007-05-27

I recently came to Emmylou through her work with some of my heroes, Mark Knopfler and Neil Young. I've been digesting this disk and several of her others. In reading the comments, I see that some people just love this album and others love it but hate the production and the sound. I'm here to say that the complainers have a point: the purity of Emmylou on this album is marred by some immature over-production, and a few lurches over the line into pop, e.g., it is a little heavy on the drum machines. But it is just a scratch. I can also say that it does not sound as good as the later Stumble Into Grace, but the sound is not unusually bad either. And it is still well worth the price of admission. There is not a weak track on the disk. The title track is essential and note-perfect, and I would not be without several of the others. Emmylou is the real deal, and these are her songs. Do not be deterred.

Emmylou Atmosphere.......2007-05-07

The Daniel Lanois production on "Wrecking Ball" must have really tickled Emmylou Harris, because in the five years between that album and "Red Dirt Girl," she hired on Lanois associate Malcolm Burn to give "Red Dirt Girl" the same murky, gauzy production that the prior album had. While purists who wonder why Emmylou 'abandoned' her old sound may protest the rich atmospherics of the new CD, it really does give her a handsome frame from which to hang this new batch of songs.

The modernness of the sound also shows that Emmylou, as a kind of elderstateswoman, is willing to embrace new things. Think of her spate of guest vocals in the past few years. She's appeared with everyone from Bright Eyes and Steve Earle to a fantastic tour with Elvis Costello.

Emmylou also must have been biding her time in an effort to craft some fine new songs. All these titles are written (or co written) by her, a switch from "Wrecking Ball's" selection of suitors. Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark each take a credit for songwriting and a pair of winners. Crowell's tragedy adds a couple of familiar voices, as Bruce Springsteen and his wife Patty Scialfa add harmonies. And that is Dave Matthews' voice duetting on "My Antonia."

However, "Red Dirt Girl" belongs to Emmylou. The cloudy of the production adds a emotional haunt to the title song, reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's best albums. Same with "Michelangelo," which really does have that Gabriel/U2 vibe around it. It makes "Red Dirt Girl" a thoughtful and provocative album from Emmylou.

Production is weak.......2006-12-09

This is an outstanding album, one of her best, except for the production. The producer mixed in heavy distortion and gimmicks (a phone ringing). Emmy Lou Harris does not need gimmicks, or distortion. Her voice is wonderful, the lyrics outstanding, the musical scores superb, and that's more than anyone can hope for. Why she chose to let this producer push distortion and gimmicks is beyond me. I wish she would remix it! As it stands, it is one of my favorite CDs but is unlistenable. So sad.

Emmylou Rocks.......2006-11-04

What a beautiful voice! She's great solo doing her own songs although I really like her teamed with Mark Knopfler. A must have for lovers of great music.

Average customer rating: great country True Enjoyment Dust and Sunshine______________ PHENOMENAL CD Put them in jail

Red Dirt Road Brooks & Dunn Manufacturer: Arista ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music $8.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Country | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $8.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Steers and Stripes Hillbilly Deluxe The Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 2 If You See Her Brooks & Dunn - Greatest Hits ASIN: B00009V7TD Release Date: 2003-07-15

Tracks:

1. You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl
2. Caroline
3. When We Were Kings
4. That's What She Gets for Loving Me
5. Red Dirt Road
6. Feels Good Don't It
7. I Used to Know This Song By Heart
8. Believer
9. Memory Town
10. She Was Born to Run
11. Till My Dyin' Day
12. My Baby's Everything I Love
13. Good Day to Be Me
14. Good Cowboy
15. Holy War (Hidden Track)

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Having stumbled in 1999 with the lackluster Tight Rope, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn picked themselves up and dusted off their Wranglers with 2001's Steers and Stripes, an album that some listeners considered their best. But that was before Red Dirt Road, a collection of coming-of-age songs in which country's most successful duo comes clean about who they are and what forged their turbo-tonk sound. The title song is a spectacular and poignant slice of backwoods Southern milieu that melds the push of the gospel with the pull of desire--which, for a '60s teenager, meant girls, cars, and the beer-laced taste of freedom. Both men know a little bit about those subjects (don't miss Dunn's hidden track, "Holy War," which skewers TV preachers), as well as the thrill of Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones, a sound that permeates at least three songs here, including the randy "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl." Bluegrass also gets a strong nod on the exquisite "Caroline," as does the Tulsa-bred, Leon Russell-fueled music that personally schooled Dunn in the '70s, particularly on "I Used to Know This Song By Heart," a tour de force of sharp Pentecostal vocals punctuated by the searing guitar work of Kenny Greenburg. Everything about this album moves the duo up a level, even Kix's singing on "When We Were Kings," a true-life remembrance of the Vietnam years. A few songs predictably pad things out, but on the whole Red Dirt Road is both surprisingly affecting and monstrously good. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews:

great country.......2006-01-04

Very good album,very nice pictures.Can it be better?I only heard them the first time after my stay at Vegas last year and now I have all their albums... So...

True Enjoyment.......2005-09-03

Oh what have I been missing!! This is one truely enjoyable CDs. I put this one on during a road trip and just really enjoyed each and every song on here. Super mix!

Dust and Sunshine______________.......2005-03-03

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In my opinion, a band releasing an album naming a road is, perhaps subconsciously, making an effort to release their best material in years. When this album came out, I immediately picked it up, wary about B&D's recent tumultuous career path before the release of "Steers and Stripes." "Red Dirt Road" does not fail.
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It's less of a country album than many country fans seem to suggest (as I've read on the reviews here). But to a standard guy like me, this is as country as it's gonna get, at least for now. And that's good enough.
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Each song has riffs and musical twists that grab you and make you sing outloud, or tap a rhythm on your jeans while listening. And I like the formula they use on several songs: an off-EQ'd or reverbed guitar (12-string, slide, etc.) jamming by itself, before the music kicks in and takes you away.
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This has become my favorite B&D album so far. I wonder if fans consider S&S and Red Dirt Road to be "new Brooks & Dunn"? I feel a sort of different spirit in these albums than with their older releases, which are just as kickin' with the catchy tunes, but a little lacking with slower songs.
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The Beatles released "Abbey Road" and the songs were thematically and musically linked. The same goes with "Red Dirt Road," a more Western approach to small town living, dirt, sunshine, beer, good friends, and lost loves...and this album seems to be haunted as well. Listen closely...they both sing frequently about the past, memories, things that once were...
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Of all those "road" albums (Peachtree, Cross, Car Wheels on Gravel, Golden) I think it's fair to say Red Dirt will become an iconic album for this band.

PHENOMENAL CD.......2004-10-24

Truly enjoyed this exceptional piece of work. Very diverse music while maintaining the country base all the way through. You can really appreciate all of their musical influences growing up.

Their writing is exceptional on "Red Dirt Road", "When We Were Kings", etc. etc. etc.

Don't know if there is anyone in country music today with a finer tenor then Dunn. He shines on this CD especially on "I Used To Know This Song By Heart". Kix sounds great as well.

Surprised more songs weren't released off of this CDs. I think they went into this as wanting to express their musical influences and not necessarily to release radio friendly songs. I REALLY ENJOYED ALL OF THE SONGS ON THIS ONE. There are some songs that really make you stop and think/reflect which is what country music is all about.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS CD. THE MORE I LISTEN TO IT THE MORE I LOVE IT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BROOKS & DUNN.

Put them in jail.......2004-08-28

So this is a country album? Let me see here, the first song sounds like a song they released a few years ago about Little Miss Honky Tonk. Then the 5th song sounds like every other ballad they have ever released. This is pathetic just like their careers. Singing about boot-scootin, beer drinking just cutting a shine ya'll. Don't ever call these guys old school. Old school is Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson etc.. How much more of this garbage are people going to buy? There is nothing that even comes close to being original here. They also started the, "honky tonkin" revolution with their first album which shot the legends of country right in the heart. Put them in jail, take away their right to record POP music and make them listen to Bill Monroe or Hank Williams for a few months.

Average customer rating: Works for me! Stoned In The Studio Flatwoods Brass Red Dirt Album

The Red Dirt Album Stoney LaRue Manufacturer: Smith Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lost Hotel Rollercoaster Reckless Kelly Was Here Like It Used to Be Stoney LaRue - Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Limited Edition w/DVD) ASIN: B0009VNBSS Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

1. Down in Flames
2. Closer to You
3. Idabel Blues
4. Downtown
5. Solid Gone
6. Walk Away
7. Texas Moon
8. One Chord Song
9. Bluebird Wine
10. Let Me Hold You
11. Forever Young

Customer Reviews:

Works for me!.......2007-05-21

I don't remember what made me buy this album but I am glad I did.
I am always looking for something good out of the mainstream and
this album fits the bill. Down to earth, no over production with
some catchy tunes and good lyrics.

Stoned In The Studio.......2006-10-25

If you've seen Stoney live, this album may seem a little subdued.
Sometimes a studio recording doesn't capture the soul of a song like a live recording. But there's no doubt Stoney's soul is in what he's doing.

Flatwoods Brass.......2006-01-10

Great music! Great voice!Fits right in with my Radney, Roger, Pat, Cory, Randy and Jack!

Red Dirt Album.......2005-08-28

Years ago watching Stoney perform in Stillwater, OK it was not hard to tell where his talent might take him. While live shows are Stoney's forte, he has put together a very solid studio album. A look in the liner notes of the album will reveal a mass of talent with the likes of Mike McClure, Scott Evans, Cody Canada, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many more. From brand new tracks like "One Chord Song" and "Solid Gone" to old favorites like "Bluebird Wine" and "Forever Young" that Stoney has layed down in his own way, this album is a sure hit for anyone that has a nose for talent.

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Ranger Motel Red Dirt Rangers Manufacturer: Lazy S.O.B./Ranger Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Balls Rearview Mirror Tears West Reinventing the Wheel Cimarron Manifesto ASIN: B000PLCMMI Release Date: 2007-05-08

Tracks:

1. Red Dirt Roads
2. Spice and Sugar
3. Under the Radar
4. Psychedelic Cowboy (song for Sir Doug)
5. Lavena
6. This Time
7. Wild Horses
8. Enjoy the Ride
9. Soul Satisfaction
10. Midnight Rain
11. Always Come Back
12. Turn This Train Around
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Stillwater

Product Description

"Ranger Motel", the new release from the Red Dirt Rangers delivers the close-to-the-earth blend of acoustic and electric music that typifies Red Dirt. It should be noted that this was the final disc recorded at Tulsa's legendary Church Studio by Steve Ripley, leader of the multi-platinum selling group The Tractors. If "Ranger Motel" sounds at times like the Great Lost Sir Douglas Quintet album that's because it features keyboardist Augie Meyers, a key architect of Sir Doug's sound. "Ranger Motel" isn't just the best disc the Red Dirt Rangers have ever made, it's a living an vibrant snapshot of what Red Dirt music is all about - its past, its present, and its future.

Average customer rating: Excellent Album

Oklahoma Territory Red Dirt Rangers Manufacturer: Lazy Sob ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ranger's Command Starin Down the Sun ASIN: B000000A3B Release Date: 1998-07-21

Tracks:

1. Deep Ellem Blues
2. Follow Me Down
3. Train Ride's Allright
4. Dog On A Chain
5. Idabel Blues
6. Blue Diamond
7. Dolores
8. Be My Baby
9. Black Gold
10. Fresh Cut Hay
11. New Orleans
12. Last Dollar Road

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Album.......2001-04-20

I highly recommend this album to those who like a county/folk/rock mix, somewhat like Wilco and/or Son Volt. Pick this up, you won't be disappointed.

Average customer rating: Nose Rings & Songs to Sing

Letters in the Dirt Chuck Brodsky Manufacturer: Red House ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Last of the Old Time Color Came One Day Radio Fingerpainter's Murals Tulips For Lunch ASIN: B000001BB3 Release Date: 1996-08-20

Tracks:

1. The Ballad Of Eddie Klepp
2. She's Gone
3. Bill And Annie
4. No More Mr. Nice Guy
5. Letters In The Dirt
6. Talk To My Lawyer
7. Sweet Little Lou
8. Until You Can Forgive
9. Missing Each Other's Cues
10. Long Story Short
11. The Hands Of Victor Jara
12. The Goodbye Kid

Customer Reviews:

Nose Rings & Songs to Sing.......2004-10-24

Chuck Brodsky's 1996 set is one not to let pass by. "The Ballad of Eddie Klepp" is a great toe-tapper about a white baseball player breaking racial barriers by playing in the Negro League, "He could not ride the same busses or stay in the same motels; He could not eat in the same restaurants, couldn't have mixed clientele." "She's Gone" is another catchy tune with Gina Forsythe's fiddle adding a homey touch. "No More Mr. Nice Guy," is a toe-tapping hoedown born of frustration, "Gonna get me a black leather jacket & a skull & bones tattoo, a big old pair of stomping boots -- gonna get a nose ring too." "Talk to My Lawyer" is delivered talk-sing about frivolous lawsuits. David Wilcox's electric guitar and Annie Gallup's backing vocals assist the victim survivor song "Until You Can Forgive," "With the anger in your veins you have broken through the chains holding you accountable for whatever was." "Missing Each Other's Cues" is a humorous ditty about couples who often find themselves a bit out-of-sync. The set ends with a soft ballad, "The Goodbye Kid." Brodsky's "Letters in the Dirt" is a good set of folk songs that often sets your toe to tapping and puts a smile on your face. It alternates with more reflective themes. These are songs with deep meanings delivered with Brodsky's expressive vocals. Enjoy!

Average customer rating: Rock and Roll HEAVY is right!

Heavy Dirt Dan Melchior & The Broke Revue Manufacturer: In the Red Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hello I'm Dan Melchior AKA - Singer - Songranter Bitterness Spite Rage & Scorn ASIN: B00005OADT Release Date: 2001-10-02

Tracks:

1. Witch On Fire
2. The Holy Unreal Glow Of Hope
3. War All The Time
4. I Say What I Like (And I Like What I Say)
5. Fashion
6. I Was Born In The Country
7. Loveyougirl
8. Smile!
9. All Your Boyfriends
10. Creepin' Shakes
11. New In Town
12. You Know What I Will
13. Lonesome And Perplexed
14. Blues Band Blues

Customer Reviews:

Rock and Roll.......2004-03-28

This group is fantastic. "I Was Born In The Country" will put rock and roll right where it belongs ... in your bed.

HEAVY is right!.......2001-10-14

Dan Melchior is best known for his work with HollyGoLightly and Billy Childish as well as his solo blues releases. Here, with a new band, Dan gets HEAVY. This album sounds like Thee Headcoats on steroids. The blues is still ringing loud and clear, but this record is loud, noisy, agressive and HEAVY.

Average customer rating: Devilishly funny noir soul/country Great artist; incredibly bad mix/production Not the place to start with Mr. Rhythm Honky-tonkin' R&B -dance down fun music-

Red Dirt Andre Williams & the Sadies Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Detroit Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Black Godfather Bait and Switch The Mayors of the Moon Silky Favourite Colours ASIN: B00000IR7I Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

1. Hey Truckers
2. Busted
3. She's A Bag Of Potato Chips
4. I Can Tell
5. Pardon Me (I've Got Someone To Kill)
6. Weapon Of Mass Destruction
7. Easy On The Eyes
8. I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can)
9. Tramp Trail
10. Psycho
11. I Understand (Do You)
12. Old John
13. Queen Of The World
14. My Sister Stole My Woman

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Andre Williams, a collectors' cult figure who talk-sang his way through such '50s and '60s R&B novelties as "Jail Bait," "Bacon Fat," and "Cadillac Jack," waves his freak flag high on the very first track, "Hey Truckers" (rhymes with "bad you-know-whatters"). Though he cites his Alabama farm-boy upbringing as credentials, his X-rated country sounds like none you've heard before--sort of a midair crash between Screamin' Jay Hawkins, mid-'60s Bob Dylan, and the local honky-tonk hero. And while his originals, cowritten with Sadie Dallas Good, play on traditional country themes, they are more than merely clever; they are unfailingly melodic, full of nice arranging touches, and somehow true to the form, thanks in large part to Toronto's quirky cowpunk quartet the Sadies. His vocals range from a bellow to a rumbling recitation. And both Johnny Paycheck's "Pardon Me (I've Got Someone to Kill)" and Leon Payne's "Psycho" are present and accounted for, as are more conventional gems from Harlan Howard and Lefty Frizzell. Not for everyone, but perversely likable. --John Morthland

Album Description

This record's got it all, babies!!! It'll get you up on the down stroke, it's got Memphis Stax/Volt soul grooves, it's got Johnny Cash boom-chicka-ka-boom, it's got Screamin' Jay gospel menace, it's got smooth, "how ya doin, ladies?", crooning, and it's got, well, Andre-ance. He even rhymes "cash" with "ass" and makes it work!!!

Customer Reviews:

Devilishly funny noir soul/country.......2002-05-27

The handful of people I've stumbled across who have issues with this recording seem to fall into two camps. They don't like it because it's not at all like Andre's old school greasy R&B, or they don't like the country influence. Of course, that misses the point of the album. This is just out there, otherworldly, darkly humorous garage rock, with a little country and surf thrown in for good measure. Andre moans and groans his way through bleak and funny tales of murder and lust, and it's great stuff. The Sadies are a great group in their own right, one that has released a number of stellar releases that mine a sound similar to what they play here. But still this is unlike anything Andre or the Sadies have ever done before, and there's not much music out there like this. It's one to check out, that's for sure.

Great artist; incredibly bad mix/production.......2000-07-23

No question that Andre Williams is one of a kind, legendary, and so on ... but the production of this CD is atrocious. Williams is credited first (of three producers). If he really had control over the sound, you have to wonder if he acquired hearing damage over the years. Massive amounts of repeat-echo and reverb, the voice mixed down to the point where you can hardly hear the words of some songs, and heavy-handed guitar that makes you feel you're sitting in front of the wrong speakers at a cheesy night club. The material is great--if you can stand to listen to it.

Not the place to start with Mr. Rhythm.......2000-07-12

Andre Williams is a legendary figure in the world of greasy, sleazy Rn'B. Andre's recordings for Fortune Records in the 50's and his soul/funk sides in the 60's are too good to be believed. In the 90's Andre came back in a huge way with two mind-blowing albums of psycho-garage-soul on In The Red Records - in between these albums he recorded this one. "Red Dirt" is Andre doing his country and western thing - obviously this type of music is one of his passions. Unfortunately, Andre simply isn't a country artist and this recording never reaches the heights (or depths) of his other records. His voice is still great and his lyrics are still funny, but the musical background just doesn't suit him. For Andre Williams completists this is an OK record, but this is definitely NOT the one to start with if you have never experienced his genius.

Honky-tonkin' R&B -dance down fun music-.......1999-10-04

I bought the album as a result of the cover art, despite the fact I'd never heard of Andre Williams before. When I dropped it into my player, the speakers spewed out the most honey-toned delicious blend of semi-sweet chocolate country rhythm and blues I'd ever heard. Without a doubt, Andre Williams is passionate about music; although, I can't figure out whether he's driven by sexual insanity or heartbeat intensity, whatever the diagnosis may be, he knock your dancin' legs to kingdom come.

Average customer rating: Okie Music at its best

Ranger's Command Red Dirt Rangers Manufacturer: Lazy Sob ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Oklahoma Territory Starin Down the Sun ASIN: B00000JYAV Release Date: 1999-09-01

Tracks:

1. Cold December Wind
2. Nickels and Dimes
3. Hey Whattaya Mean
4. Cadillac Eight
5. 1999
6. Times Have Changed
7. Rainbow Rocker
8. Steel Rail Blues
9. Arizona State Line
10. Neighbors
11. Rangers' Command
12. Day the Mandolin Died

Customer Reviews:

Okie Music at its best.......2007-02-06

Those Oklahoma boys have taken Country/Roots music to the next level. Some call it Alternitive Country but it leans toward rock like the Greatful Dead and David Nelson and to the style of twang. There are some great bands coming out of Oklahoma and they stand at the top.

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Merlefest Live! The Best of 2003 Asleep At The Wheel , The Whites , Doc Watson , Nitty Gritty Dirt Band , Mountain Heart , Jimmie Dale Gilmore , Vassar's Jam , Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder , Guy Clark , and Hot Rize Manufacturer: Welk Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FH6AMU

Product Description

Merlefest Live! The Best of 2003 // 1. Before The Last Teardrop Falls - Asleep At The Wheel 2. San Antonio Rose - The Whites 3. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Doc Watson 4. An American Dream - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 5. John - Mountain Heart 6. Go To Sleep Alone - Jimmie Dale Gilmore 7. Orange Blossom Special - Vassar's Jam 8. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - Doc Watson 9. How Mountain Girls Can Love - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder 10. Black Diamond Strings - Guy Clark 11. Big Sandy River - Hot Rize 12. Master's Call - Don Edwards 13. A Robin Built A Nest On Daddy's Grave - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys 14. Main Street Blues - Red Stick Ramblers 15. Caught In The Crossfire - Rhonda Vincent & The Rage 16. Hard Game Of Love - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 17. Match Box Blues - Doc Watson 18. Conscious Evolution - Donna The Buffalo

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6. Sugar Drop
7. The Best of George Jones, Vol. 1: Hardcore Honky Tonk
8. The Best of the Oak Ridge Boys
9. The Chase
10. The Journey: Destiny's Child [Box set] [Import]

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