Rough Around the Edges

1. Loving You Is Music to My Mind

2. I Wish I Had Something

3. When Love Was All We Had to Share

4. It's Beginning to Look Like the End

5. Rough Around the Edges

6. We're Makin' Up for Lost Time

7. Rustin' Down

8. Singer of Sad Songs

Rough Around the Edges,Vern Gosdin,RCA,Country,Country & Western,Neo-Traditionalist Country,Progressive Bluegrass

Average customer rating: Now I Remember Why I Love Albums

Watertown The Invisible Cities Manufacturer: Noisyfrog ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BGQV8I Release Date: 2004-10-01

Tracks:

1. Synaptic Gap
2. Instaglo
3. Birthday
4. Double Fisted
5. Shooting Star
6. Everything You Started With
7. Oh Yeah
8. Bumper Cars
9. Watertown
10. Take My Picture
11. Lost In Translation
12. Tentacle

Product Description

Sometimes we think about the album like this: landing softly in a new town, things that make you sad but are so beautiful you bring them out again anyway, the part where you kick the trashcan just because you remembered something that pissed you off, the moonlit night where you were far from the city and the stars and the orange and the snow swirled together, the relentless highway drive that you don’t remember because you were listening to the radio really loud.

Customer Reviews:

Now I Remember Why I Love Albums.......2005-09-29

Once and a while you stumble across a record that reminds you of why you love music in the frist place.

My music-love-life ebbs and flows. At times, it all seems so silly, you know, like if you listen to the wrong radio station for more than a half-hour, you start to wonder why you bother at all. During those times, I try to look back on my past. I try to remember what it was that could make me just sit and listen to the same record over and over.

Sometimes, it seems like those records are destined to be just a thing of the past. Is there any heart in modern popular music at all? Or is it all fashion?

But then I heard Watertown by this little band from San Francisco and all hope returned to me.

What a great collection of earnest beautiful songs! This is an album. Sure, it's full of great individual songs, but the CD flows like a record, like it's all one thing.

It's starts off smoothly with the enchanting "Synaptic Gap". It's hypnotising and it's setting you up for the trip that's in store for you. From the popfest "Instaglo" through the wrenching "Birthday" passed the nolstalgic high-point "Watertown" and on and on. These songs are perfect for a car-ride or for just lying back and listening through a big set of orange headphones. The music wraps around you like a blanket.

This album feels like home to me.

Lovers of well-written honest catchy indie-poppy-rocky quality music should check this out. Recommended for fans of Trembling Blue Stars, The Breeders, Fountains of Wayne, Liz Phair, School for the Dead, The Lucksmiths, Aimee Mann, Belle and Sebastian, The Feelies, and even The Cars.

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Rough Around the Edges Bret Domrose ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTB5LE Release Date: 2000-03-21

Tracks:

1. Melt
2. Eve
3. Volcano
4. Surround You
5. Fall
6. Rubber
7. Walls

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The Whistler Manufacturer: Two Sheds ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006GD0VY Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

1. Masterpiece
2. Rapture
3. The Addendum
4. Curse of the Taurean
5. Hi 5 Choir
6. Vulnerable
7. An Old Man's Song
8. The Celebrity
9. Crystal Ball for a Dying Man
10. Flying Fool Circus
11. Base Ten
12. Suss It Out
13. K.I.S.
14. The Whistler

Album Description

The Whistler picks up where previous Fairburn Royals' records left off, with more indie pop stylings, albeit with a more laid-back, alt-country feel. As with the earlier records, drummer Jason Eshelman (who also plays with Athens band The Eskimos) doubled as engineer, and the record was recorded at Eshelman's Sonic Research Facility in Athens. The band's growth as musicians is exhibited by the fact that traditional guitar-bass-percussion assignments were juggled during the course of the record.

Guest appearances include Patrick Doyle on saxophone and trumpet, and Eskimos guitarist/vocalist Dave Weiglein adds guitar to a track on the record.

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Rough Around the Edges Syncopaths ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTBFH8 Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

1. Hut on Staffin Island/Johnny Wilmot's Fiddle/Frank's Reel
2. Julia Delany/Farewell to Chernobyl
3. East at Glendart/The Roaring Barmaid
4. President Garfield's Hornpipe/The Scholar/Fisher's Hornpipe
5. Spootiskerry/Morning Haggis
6. Rory O'More/Haste to the Wedding
7. Iggy and Squiggy/Molly Rankin's Reel
8. De'il Amang the Tailors/Barrowburn/Big John McNeil
9. Congress Reel/Brenda Stubbert's/Tam Lin
10. Wild Mountain Thyme

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In the Faxed Atmosphere Manufacturer: Eden's Watchtower ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKXHI Release Date: 2005-06-07

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These Hills Connie Townsend Manufacturer: Wild GinSang Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9R5C Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

1. Mountaineers Are Always Free
2. Summer Night
3. Killing the Blues
4. These Hills
5. Old Cat Blues
6. Like a Fool Again
7. Little Love Affairs
8. Do You Ever Miss Me?
9. Foggy Dew
10. He Moved Through the Fair

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Wail Wail Manufacturer: Wail ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA9U2M Release Date: 2002-05-07

Average customer rating: Trak List:

Still A Little Rough Around The Edges Cherryholmes Family Manufacturer: Spirit High Ridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000QSLM3A

Customer Reviews:

Trak List:.......2007-05-15

01 Fire on the Mountain
02 My Cabin in Caroline
03 Just as Long as You Love Me
04 Kentucky Mandolin
05 Voice from on High
06 I Was Left on the Street
07 Clinch Mountain Back Step
08 Just Wondering Why
09 Tennessee 1949
10 Take Your Shoes Off Moses
11 When Someone Wants to Leave
12 A Good Woman's Love
13 Roanoke

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Rough Around the Edges Vern Gosdin Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000008G43 Release Date: 1992-04-28

Tracks:

1. Loving You Is Music to My Mind
2. I Wish I Had Something
3. When Love Was All We Had to Share
4. It's Beginning to Look Like the End
5. Rough Around the Edges
6. We're Makin' Up for Lost Time
7. Rustin' Down
8. Singer of Sad Songs

Average customer rating: Garth's older half-sister shares family talent

Rough Around the Edges Betsy Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008NBR Release Date: 1995-04-16

Customer Reviews:

Garth's older half-sister shares family talent.......2004-03-21

Betsy Smittle followed her mother into the music business. Like her mother, she never became a star. However, her parents divorced when Betsy was three and her mother re-married. One of the sons by that marriage, Garth Brooks, became a huge star. For a while, Betsy became a member of Garth's band, being a musician and backup singer.

To my knowledge, this is only album ever released by Betsy. Apparently, it was more readily available in Europe in the mid-nineties than it was in America. Betsy always wanted to be judged on her own merits and not achieve fame because of her half-brother. It certainly worked with me - I don't ever remember hearing about any Garth connection and I might never have known if I hadn't surfed the net looking for information about the album.

Betsy's music has some similarities with Garth's, being rooted in country with rock influences, but there are differences too - Betsy's music has a bluesy edge that ideally suits her slightly bluesy voice. This album blends country, blues and soft rock in a most appealing way, though ultimately country is the major influence. The closing track is a duet with her mother (This house), a semi-autobiographical song.

Some of you already know another fact about Betsy's lifestyle that I only discovered when researching for this review. Unlike (say) k d lang, who makes it obvious what she is, neither the cover picture nor the music makes it obvious that Betsy is gay.

This will appeal to contemporary country fans who appreciate a rock edge to their music. Try forgetting that this is the otherwise-obscure half-sister of a megastar - judge Betsy's music on its own merits. And if you do, you'll discover how great it is.

Tracks

All over my heart
If I don't stay the night
Doesn't take much
Love me like you mean it
Dragging it back
Bits and pieces
Hard to believe
You can look but you can't touch
Southern wind
Passage (instrumental)
This house (with Colleen Carroll Brooks)

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