Cactus Hunters

1. Angels in the Backseat

2. Kickin the Mule

3. Lonesome Cowgirl

4. Rain, Rain, Rain

5. Halfway to Texas

6. Heartbreakin World

7. Sooner or Later

8. I Got the Bait

9. Come on In

10. Joline

11. Elvis Land

12. Roam

Cactus Hunters,Cactus Hunters,Rustic Records,Cactus Hunters critically acclaimed debut album was embraced by radio stations ranging from commercial and alternative country to uber-hip college radio. Charting on the AMA, FAR, and Roots Rock charts, this is where it all began for this Woodstock band.,Country,Country & Western,Pop

Average customer rating: Complex simplicity--narly! Great CD Great CD, Definatly

Cactus Hunters Cactus Hunters Manufacturer: Rustic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DIZUI Release Date: 2003-10-29

Tracks:

1. Angels in the Backseat
2. Kickin the Mule
3. Lonesome Cowgirl
4. Rain, Rain, Rain
5. Halfway to Texas
6. Heartbreakin World
7. Sooner or Later
8. I Got the Bait
9. Come on In
10. Joline
11. Elvis Land
12. Roam

Customer Reviews:

Complex simplicity--narly!.......2004-01-31

This album is terrific! Creative twists on lyrics and instrumentation; love the layering and mixing of different genres and variants within to create something with complex simplicity. Very playful, colorfully imagistic, and lyrical at the same time. The intonations in Lance's voice transmit more than just words; his voice is beyond mesmorizing. Beautiful and simply put, narly!

Great CD.......2003-12-14

Great CD. Don't know why it's in the country section. This is a rock and roll CD, like Exile on Main Street is rock and roll. Yeah, theres some contry influences, but these guys draw from all over the board. A little influence from everywhere and keepin it pretty real and down gritty. I'm lookin for the next one.

Great CD, Definatly.......2003-10-30

The Cactus Hunters make interesting music and I am glad I stumbled across them recently. The songs are rootsy and have a variety from tune to tune and a depth that make it really refreshing. Some songs have a mystery to them, as others are sweet or primitive with tastful guitar, good lyrics, and well-grounded in tradition. Each song has a mood or story all its own. It sounds a little like the Band with some kind of Stonesy/Strokes-like energy, some Replacements thrash with some real gut/soul sensitivity, JJ Cale cool, moody howlin and some really sweet, sour or roughed-up lyrics. Or something like that. Definitely worth checkin out. I like them and I'm glad I got turned on to them.

Average customer rating: Scrapbook of beautiful songs

Something Gone Cactus Hunters Manufacturer: Cactus Hunters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8GTA Release Date: 2005-07-12

Tracks:

1. Arizona
2. Broken Down
3. You and Me
4. Church on the Hill
5. Marianne
6. Last Tango in Paris
7. One Way Town
8. Something Gone
9. Mexico
10. Beautiful Sadness
11. Waiting on the Moon

Customer Reviews:

Scrapbook of beautiful songs.......2006-09-05

Something Gone, with songs like You and Me, Last Tango in Paris and Beautiful Sadness, is definately more lyrical than the debut album, which allows the singer to explore more emotional experiences. What is so outstanding about this album is the poetic quality of the lyrics and unique musical texture of each individual song. While there is a tension between what the singer is singing about and what the sounds of the songs convey, Cactus Hunters succeed in being lyrical with the vivid imagery of each song without being self-indulgent or confessional. Broken Down echoes subtly with lyrics embraced by Bob Dylan, which makes the song distantly familiar at first, however Cactus Hunters still manages to bring something new to that phrase by singing about such a seemingly depressing or "down" topic and setting it to an upbeat and almost whimiscal-line-dancing-sort-of-musical-landscape. Juckas sings with intonations and inflections, holding on to certain sounds longer than others and varying his ennunciation of words as he sings, which adds even more emotion than the lyrics themselves can express. Always interested in capturing different layers of sounds, Cactus Hunters further experiments with the texture of music in the song, Waiting on the Moon, by repeating the last lines of the chorus in the sound of a "radio call" as though the singer really is waiting on the moon. This album really is a journey on a "broken down road" through a musical scrapbook of experiences from Arizona to Paris to Mexico to even the moon! By taking familiar, every day objects, such as a postcard, and adding a fresh twist, Cactus Hunters paints a clear picture of the song, Beautiful Sadness, as the listener can just imagine the "postcards of your heart all over the place." With surprisingly pungent lyrics like, "the light is much too bright in here for how you look tonight," Cactus Hunters confronts the listener with bittersweet truths of disillusioning experiences of love lost. Although there is an immediate sense of loss or something gone in these songs, there is also something gained, something preserved from that loss: the beautiful sadnesss and transcendence of this scrapbook of songs.

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4. Country Favorites [Box set]
5. Country Gold - 50 Years of Country Hits: 1995-99
6. Country Gospel: Wings of a Dove [Import]
7. Country Guitar Giants
8. Country Legends: Charley Pride Kenny Rogers Glen Campbell [Import]
9. Crazy Cajun's Cosmic Cowboys [Import]
10. Distant Land to Roam

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