Western Ballads [Import]

Product Description
Japanese pressing of 2004 album, pressed onto an enhanced CD, includes two bonus tracks, 'Blinders' & 'Far From Here'. Band News.

Western Ballads,Jackson United,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Classic Cowboy Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best Great CD More than just "El Paso." Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs

Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Marty Robbins Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Hawaii | Pacific Islands | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Country | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music International | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits Marty Robbins - All-Time Greatest Hits Cool Water (& 17 Timeless Favorites) On the Trail The Essential Marty Robbins ASIN: B0000296J9 Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

1. Big Iron
2. A Hundred And Sixty Acres
3. They're Hanging Me Tonight
4. Cool Water
5. Billy The Kid
6. Utah Carol
7. The Strawberry Roan
8. The Master's Call
9. Running Gun
10. El Paso
11. In The Valley
12. The Little Green Valley
13. The Hanging Tree
14. Saddle Tramp
15. El Paso (Full-Length Version)

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A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "Big Iron" (also a Top 30 hit), "Running Gun," and Western classics like "Cool Water," "Billy the Kid," and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release, including "Saddle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). --Colin Escott

Customer Reviews:

Classic Cowboy.......2007-05-27

Although Frank Sinatra is credited with creating the first "concept" album. Columbia might have one-upped Capital with this unique "Old West" collection. Although its been almost 50 years since this jewel was first recorded, it sounds like it was made yesterday. Marty Robbins has had many hit albums in the C/W top ten, but none of them has been as endearing as this 1959 classic. You get "El Paso, "Cool Water" "The Hanging Tree" and 12 more ballards sung by one of Country/Western all-time favorites. I can guarantee, you will continue to listen to these cowboy story songs for years to come.

Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best.......2007-03-20

The lable attached to the CD says "All Time Country Classic". It's misleading. This is an all time classic, period. I first bought this collection as an LP. The front said "High Fidelity", not "Stereo High Fidelity," but as a kid in 1959, I didn't care. "El Paso" was #1 on the pop charts. Marty Robbins had been a "cross-over" artist making the charts with "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation," so I was primed when this album hit. Grammy-winning "Gunfighter Ballads..." set Marty Robbins apart. It isn't country, it isn't '50s pop, it might be Americana or folk music. It is cowboy or western music, I suppose. There are more reasons to own this album than "El Paso." "Cool Water," "The Master's Call." Utah Carol," "and "The Strawberry Roan" are all great songs interpreted by a great voice. "Gunfighter Ballads ..." is what it now says on the CD jacket, a "classic." Marty Robbins died in his early sixties, so many younger ears may not know him. They should, especially if they collect the good stuff from all eras.

Great CD.......2007-03-08

I grew up listeniing to Marty Robbins, and the Gunfighter Ballads is my favorite album and I just had to get this CD...because I use to listen to the music on LP, back in the 80's and I haven't heard the songs for over 15 years...with great imagination, listening to these songs would make it seem like you're watching a very interesting Western movie.

More than just "El Paso.".......2007-01-28

If you want to buy this CD just for "El Paso" you'll be plenty happy. If you allow yourself to listen to the remaining tracks, you'll be very happy. This was Marty's best effort, IMHO.

The remastering is done very well, although the source recording, being in 1959, does have its limitations. Overall, a very enjoyable CD, and well worth the work done to remaster and restore it!

Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs .......2007-01-18

I find the quality of the CD GUnfighter Ballads & Trail Songs to be fantastic. I never thought I would ever find this album in a CD form. This was one of my favorite albums I loved listening to when I was little. My dad loved this album as well and now that my dad passed away. Everytime I listen to this CD I think of my dad. Thanks Amazon for having it on hand for me to purchase it.

Average customer rating: Thank You Love it Romantic tunes a real winner Great Records Of The Decade: 40's Hits, Vol. 1

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Tracks:

1. Swinging On A Star - Bing Crosby
2. On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
3. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Nat 'King' Cole
4. Manana (Is Soon For Me) - Peggy Lee
5. Slippin' Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
6. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
7. That Lucky Old Sun - Louis Armstrong
8. The Trolley Song - Judy Garland
9. Personality - Johnny Mercer
10. A Tree In The Meadow - Margaret Whiting
11. Rum and Coca Cola - Andrews Sisters
12. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters
13. Baby It's Cold Outside - Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting

Customer Reviews:

Thank You.......2007-05-14

I loved the CD. I used it for my parents 60th wedding anniversary. Thank you.

Love it.......2007-04-05

This is music from before I was born, but I love the happy beat.

Romantic tunes.......2006-11-05

This is a nice CD to bring back more soothing and romantic music. Wanted a more diverse collection to add to my currect CDs.

a real winner.......2006-10-11

wonderful collection- good clear sound- you can't go wrong with this collection-can't wait for Vol. 2

Great Records Of The Decade: 40's Hits, Vol. 1.......2005-08-30

Great. I love for the classsroom.

Average customer rating: Replaced copy that was distroyed years ago... Classic Cash Home THE WHITE MAN'S EVIL: Songs From American Indian Folk Singer Johnny Cash! Bitter Tears

Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian) Johnny Cash Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional 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 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sings Ballads of True West Blood, Sweat and Tears Ride This Train Songs of Our Soil Ragged Old Flag ASIN: B000002AU0 Release Date: 1994-10-11

Tracks:

1. As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
2. Apache Tears
3. Custer
4. The Talking Leaves
5. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
6. Drums
7. White Girl
8. The Vanishing Race

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With his highly personal early 1960s work, Johnny Cash had been trying the patience of the Columbia brass, who were less than thrilled with his commercial performance. When "Ring of Fire" topped the country charts in 1963, it allowed him to continue the many ambitious concept albums-history lessons close to his heart. The eight songs on 1964's Bitter Tears are sung from the point of view of the American Indian (still the accepted term in 1964), and together they form a potent work that is both deeply real and highly spiritual. With assistance from co-composer Peter LaFarge, Cash offers an earnest, solemn portrait of Native Americans that examines a variety of issues through a range of viewpoints and contained in unadorned musical settings. Cash actually took out full-page ads daring radio programmers to play "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," but all of the material hits home, from LaFarge's defiant "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" to Johnny Horton's mournful, spooky "The Vanishing Race." --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Replaced copy that was distroyed years ago..........2007-03-24

I am happy that I was able to replace an old LP that was distroyed years ago...thanks

Classic Cash.......2007-01-09

Johnny Cash was singing about the plight of Native Americans long before it was cool -- or even universally acceptable. However, this is not just an historical document or a message album. It's another example of why Johnny Cash still sells records from the '60's: great music. I like his mid-sixties stuff the best; I recommend all of the "theme" albums, plus Orange Blossom Special. These are musts for anyone who wants to venture beyond the greatest hits packages.

Home.......2006-11-10

I'd had it in mind to get this recording for a while. The song about the Seneca is about my home. It's where I came from. I was 3 years old when they had The Removal from our homes for the Kinzua dam. I never really knew life before the relocation areas, except through my elders. We have our own version of what happened, and how it happened. The US gov't. knew our attachment to the land, and they wanted to break us. The alternative plan to Kinzua would have better served the purpose that the gov't. put out for doing what they did. They rejected that plan because they had they're own plan. They thought our spirit lived in the land, they didn't understand that each person's spirit lives inside them. They had lost touch with they're own spirit, and they thought that they could do the same with us. They were wrong. The song does a fair job of portraying this.

THE WHITE MAN'S EVIL: Songs From American Indian Folk Singer Johnny Cash!.......2006-09-16

This is a bare bones CD release that really should have gotten the re-issue, re-master treatment ahead of some of the less artistically accomplished albums from Johnny Cash's early to mid 1960's era with Columbia Records. There are 8 songs in 31 minutes, but if you like any of these, you will probably like them all equally, as well!

It is a bit of a fantasy piece, like Johnny Cash's urban legendary life as a supposed convict in prison; here Johnny (during some of his most drugged out years) imagines himself in the moccasins of the American Indian peoples. I was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where I still live, and growing up around many Kentucky Southerners, I heard plenty of them claim an Indian descent somewhere, somehow, in their blood, like a badge of honor that always went unquestioned and respected, though not necessarily entirely believed. The thing is, like his pretend "outlaw" persona, this notion really works well on this BITTER TEARS album, and it is very entertaining and heartfelt.

The sparse CD insert says the songs are written by Peter LaFarge and Johnny Cash. Pete was a real American Indian activist of the time, and he died in the mid-1960's. He was a good friend of Johnny's--they wrote this album together!

The songs are all about how the White Man has lied and cheated the American Indian out of the country. This album is like the birth of "multiculturalism" and self-loathing of White Americans, which has grown to epidemic proportions 40 years later. This album also came out during Johnny Cash's folk music era, when he was really into the folk music scene, with Bob Dylan and others, and they all loved folky songs about hard living in America, past and present.

"As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" is a long tune where every verse is pretty much a spoken word rhyme about how the Indians were lied to and cheated out of land, and such, by the White Man.

"Custer" is the shortest tune, where Johnny seems to enjoy the defeat of General Custer, with great glee, while explaining the list of Custer's wrongs against the Indians. The lyrics are mean-spirited and almost black humorous.

"The Talking Leaves" is a spoken word song about the true story of how Cherokees got their own reading and writing skills with paper and pen, after one of them sees the disdain that his elder has for the talking leaves of the White Man found scattered at a battle site; why shouldn't the Cherokee have THEIR own talking leaves!

"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is probably the best know song on this obscure Johnny Cash album. It tells the tale of Ira Hayes, who was a drunken homeless man, as well as having been one of the soldiers depicted in the very famous war image of the soldiers raising the American flag at a battle site.

"Drums" is about how the White Man enforced their culture upon the Indians, trying to erase Indian culture.

"White Girl" is my favorite cut, about a nixed marriage between a white girl and an Indian boy.

"The Vanishing Race" has Johnny Cash doing Indian-style singing, yelping, whooping. This is very heartfelt and very interesting.

The entire, short album plays as very authentically caring and a labor of love from all involved. That is what makes it so entertaining and interesting, especially for Johnny Cash fans who are digging much deeper into his musical library than just his mega-hits.

If you like this album, then I can highly recommend a DVD called PETE SEEGER'S RAINBOW QUEST - JOHNNY CASH, available from amazon.com. This is a b/w, low budget interview and casual acoustic jamming TV show from the same mid-1960's era as this BITTER TEARS album. Johnny and June Carter (before their marriage) visit with Pete Seeger in a casual atmosphere, discussing some of the songs on BITTER TEARS, and many other things. The Johnny and June portion of this DVD is probably longer than the 31 minute playing time of the BITTER TEARS album, itself! Johnny even mentions the BITTER TEARS album and tells Pete Seeger that he has about 700,000 copies of BITTER TEARS that he can give to Pete (a joke about how BITTER TEARS did not sell well).

If you are new to Johnny Cash, then I would recommend starting with THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH, the single disc version (not the boxed set), from the American label in cooperation with other labels. It has ALL his biggest hits that never sounded better on any previous CDs, and it covers virtually all of his nearly 50 years in the music business!

My favorite Johnny Cash project is his 16 CD spoken word reading of the entire New Testament of the Bible! So check THAT out! You will even get the last CD where Johnny reads the entire, famous book of Revelation, about the end of the world, and such! Cool!

My favorite Gospel CD is GOSPEL GLORY, but PERSONAL FILE (a two CD set) is a very close second, including one entire CD of nothing but Johnny Cash, his acoustic guitar, and over an hour of him singing Gospel songs circa the 1970s.

Bitter Tears.......2006-08-09

There is no way I can cry bitter tears over this album. It captures the essence of Johnny Cash's greatness as a musician; his willingness to tackle social issues, no matter what others may have thought. I consider the ballad of Ira Hayes to be one of his best songs. In one short song, he has managed to capture the attiture of white america toward the American Indian.

Average customer rating: At las on CD! This album is Marty Robbins Two classic western albums Home on the Range was never this good! Great CD

Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Marty Robbins Manufacturer: Sbme Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Hawaii | Pacific Islands | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Rockabilly | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: 16 Biggest Hits The Drifter The Essential Marty Robbins Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs ASIN: B00000IBJJ Release Date: 1997-08-24

Tracks:

1. Big Iron
2. Cool Water
3. Billy The Kid
4. A Hundred And Sixty Acres
5. They're Hanging Me Tonight
6. The Strawberry Roan
7. El Paso
8. In The Valley
9. The Master's Call
10. Running Gun
11. The Little Green Valley
12. Utah Carol
13. San Angelo
14. Praire Fire
15. The Streets Of Laredo
16. Song Of The Bandit
17. I've Got No Use For The Women
18. Five Brothers
19. Little Joe The Wrangler
20. Ride, Cowboy Ride
21. This Peaceful Sod
22. She Was Young And She Was Pretty
23. My Love

Album Details

Twofer of the Legendary Gunfighter Albums from 1959 and 1960. His Finest Works.

Customer Reviews:

At las on CD!.......2005-11-09

I had all 3 albums that make up most of this CD...in the late 1950's /early 1960's. Marty was in great voice; the arrangments are superb...and, if you can listen to these bittersweet, haunting ballads without having your heartstrings plucked...and, eyes misting up..you are stone dead. These are about another time and another place...and,one where Life was often harsh, often all-too-short, but, it was lived full-up, not talked about and analyzed ad nauseum. This time may have not have existed as Marty sings about it, but the strength and purity of the messages are timeless. Oh, yes...for the secularists out there: there are some religious aspects in some of the songs. But, having been in Montana and the Dakotas, you can almost feel a Presence there.

This album is Marty Robbins.......2005-03-27

This is not to say that Marty Robbins did not perform many more and just as great songs. However when you think of ether Marty Robbins or the songs on this album [Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs]. As with many I grew up with this album and as one reviewer protests, it is a little unnerving to have the order changed. However I used to skip around anyway. And this is the album to buy for Marty Robbins. You can supplement with his others when you feel the need to expand his collection

It is hard to imagine that you have not heard these songs at some point. So it feels funny describing them to you. These songs are truly ballads. They are not crying in your beer twanging songs. And aside from the country pacing and theme, are close to folk songs. Each song has a story and you are made to feel that you could be singing them your self. In the end you will be singing them.

Two classic western albums.......2003-12-12

Marty recorded many different types of song but he was particularly good at western songs. For those who can afford it, Bear family have released a boxed set containing all Marty's western songs, but the two albums included here contain many of his best western songs.

On this set, you will find Marty's covers of the classic cowboy songs Cool water and The streets of Laredo, but Marty chose to avoid most of the obvious songs. Instead, he wrote some songs himself and recorded a lot of great but obscure songs. Of the songs that he wrote, El Paso is by far the most important. It was a huge international hit and if you are thinking of buying this collection, you probably know this song already.

The remaining songs all tell stories of life in the west in the years following the American civil war. We all know that you can't believe what Hollywood portrays in western movies. The origin of many of these songs is unknown but the picture they paint sounds credible.

Marty was, perhaps, the greatest western singer of them all (although Michael Martin Murphey is another contender for that title) - this collection shows him at his best.

Home on the Range was never this good!.......2002-03-20

Thanks to a friend who asked "who was it that sang El Paso?" has prompted me to take the opportunity to rediscover, after more than 30 years, a singer who put the 'Western' in Country Music. Anyone who enjoys Country and Western should not be without a copy of this marvellous collection of sounds and images of the American 'wild' west. This is a truly classic collection that gives you a story with every song from an exceptional talent singing with a purity that is rare. His gunfighter ballads are the stuff of dreams that transport the listener to the Old West with 'El Paso', 'Big Iron' and 'Cool Water' to name but a few in a selection brimming with great songs.

This is truly great value and is well worth a purchase that will bring you hours of pleasure. I strongly recommend it! Buy it and like me you will not be disappointed.

Postscript:
If you would like to add other albums to your collection, then you cannot go far wrong by choosing compilations such as "The Drifter" which include, amongst others, the amusing 'Cowboy in a Continental Suit' and a saloon showdown in the superb 'Mr Shorty'. Marty's voice suited most kinds of music and you will find in "The Essential Marty Robbins" with its Rock-A-Billy, Hawaiian and even Jazz-influenced music, the versatility that make it almost impossible to choose favourites.

Great CD.......2002-03-07

What can you say Marty Robbins at his best. No one epitomizes western music like he does, notice I said western music not to be confused with country music. And the songs on this album are the classics of that genre and only Marty can do them justice. It's a great album and I have recommended it to all my friends. If you want real western music get this album.

Average customer rating: Sings Ballads of True West Incredible performance, brings the Old West to life! Ambitious, but dated in its style... For die hard fans only Songs of the Old West

Sings Ballads of True West Johnny Cash Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bitter Tears (Ballads of the American Indian) Ride This Train Songs of Our Soil Blood, Sweat and Tears Now, There Was a Song! ASIN: B00006GO9E Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

1. Hiawatha's Vision
2. The Road To Kaintuck
3. The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part I
4. The Ballad Of Boot Hill
5. I Ride An Old Paint
6. Hardin Wouldn't Run
7. Mister Garfield
8. The Streets Of Laredo
9. Johnny Reb
10. A Letter From Home
11. Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
12. Mean As Hell
13. Sam Hall
14. 25 Minutes To Go
15. The Blizzard
16. Sweet Betsy From Pike
17. Green Grow The Lilacs
18. Stampede
19. The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part II
20. Reflections
21. Rodeo Hand (Previously Unreleased)
22. Stampede (Alternate Instrumental)

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Though not among Johnny Cash's strongest overall efforts, True West is not a completely failed experiment, either. Originally released in 1965 as a double album, it weaves Cash's narrations and original compositions with traditional songs and interpretations of other writers' material to draw one man's portrait of the Old West. Cash turns in some of his sturdiest vocals, virtually inhabiting the likes of "I Ride an Old Paint" and Carl Perkins's morbid "Ballad of Boot Hill." And he gets points for not scrubbing up some of the more raggedy old traditional lyrics. But there's often too much extraneous stuff--background singers, strings, sound effects--and while they are clearly to Cash's specifications and executed seamlessly, his own weather-beaten voice alone would usually have been more effective; for all the drama in his vocals, too much of this exasperating set sounds like background music. By the way, this album's mythmaking "Hardin Wouldn't Run" provided the basis for Bob Dylan's mythmaking "John Wesley Harding." The 2002 reissue adds a pair of bonus tracks. --John Morthland

Customer Reviews:

Sings Ballads of True West.......2007-02-01

This is probably my favorite Johnny Cash album. I first purchased it on a reel-to-reel tape in the early sixties. I love this CD even more. Thanks.

Incredible performance, brings the Old West to life!.......2006-12-11

These songs are great in and of themselves, representing the values and struggles of another, better time, the days of the Old West.

However, Johnny Cash's performance is just amazing. This is one of my favorite albums of all time and I cannnot recommend it highly enough to fans of the Old West and Johnny Cash.

I think, after listening to this album, that "Little Doggies" may be the best song ever written. Do yourself a favor, get this album.

Ambitious, but dated in its style..........2004-05-06

Being a Cash fan since 1956, when I was 11, I think I can say that for 1965, this was a pretty good double-LP release that increased Johnny's stature as a folk artist, not just a commercial country or rockabilly performer. Judged by today's standards and tastes, however, it suffers quite a bit. There is too much recitation, both poems and prose narration. There is too much "production" in many of the songs (compare his stark "Bury Me Not" on American Recordings One to the version here.) If any other country performer had TALKED so much on an album, I'd rate it much lower...but Johnny, of course, had a magnificent speaking voice. Still, we fans want him singing, not reciting. And when he sings here, his own interpretions are fine. He had input, but not performing help, from Tex Ritter, Peter LaFarge and Ramblin' Jack Elliot when he was preparing this record, and if those guys had chimed in with backing vocals instead of The Statler Brothers and the Anita Kerr Singers, this effort would be highly prized by folk fans today. Alas, who knew back then that the public would end up preferring just Cash and one guitar on his discs, instead of a whole bunch of supporters? If you like Western songs, and lack some of these in your collection, this is a good price for what you get. I wouldn't recommend it as a person's first Johnny Cash purchase, or even his 10th. Somewhere after that, go ahead, because it doesn't stink...it just isn't the very best of Mr. Cash. One needs his early Sun sides, one of his first three Columbia releases, one of the prison albums, and one or more of the four late-career discs produced by Rick Rubin ahead of "Ballads of the True West." And perhaps "Bitter Tears", full of Indian protest tunes written by LaFarge, before getting this one, too.

For die hard fans only.......2003-10-18

I can't sleep knowing there is a Johnny Cash album out there I don't have (Greatest Hits and Tributes excluded), which is why I bought this days after it's resissue, but I know a mediocre album when I hear one. Actually, this would be an awesome album if it weren't a double album. There's a lot of filler in between the good stuff. And the good stuff I'd heard before(except Sam Hall). If you don't own many Cash albums, don't get this one yet. But if you have a lot of his stuff, then get it if only to support the reissue process (currently I'm holding my breath for Hello I'm Johnny Cash).

Songs of the Old West.......2003-09-13

A nice collection of western songs, sung by the great baritone voice of Johnny Cash, that evoke a feeling of loneliness and heartbreak, but with a sense of hope left.

My personal favorites are "Sam Hall", "Streets of Laredo", "25 Minutes to Go", and "Mister Garfield."

Johnny Cash was an American classic who will be sorely missed.

Highly Recommended!

Average customer rating: Living history preserved by the Minstrel of the Appalachians A truly unique voice in folk song Don't even hesitate - hit the "one click" button A Fascinating Figure For the folklorist in us all!

Ballads, Banjo Tunes, And Sacred Songs Of Western North Carolina Bascom Lamar Lunsford Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Appalachian | North America | International | Styles | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Music From The Lost Provinces: Old-Time Stringbands From Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity 1927-1931 The High Lonesome Sound Mountain Music Of Kentucky [2-CD Set] An Untamed Sense of Control Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia ASIN: B000001DJR Release Date: 1996-04-23

Tracks:

1. Swannanoa Tunnel
2. The Mermaid Song
3. Ten Steps
4. Little Turtle Dove
5. In The Shadow Of The Pines
6. Swing Low
7. Bonny George Cambell
8. I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
9. On A Bright And Summer's Morning
10. To The Pines, To The Pines
11. Dry Bones
12. The Last Gold Dollar
13. Rye Straw
14. Old Mountain Dew
15. Italy
16. Death Of Queen Jane
17. Old Stepstone
18. Drinking Of The Wine
19. Dedication

Album Description

This "Minstrel of the Appalachians" performed hundreds of traditional songs and tunes that he learned from family members, neighbors, and other residents of western North Carolina. The breadth of Lunsford's huge repertoire is represented, including ballads, folk songs, spirituals, 19th-century popular songs, and banjo and fiddle tunes. All tracks were recorded by Brunswick Records in the 1920s or the Library of Congress in 1949. Includes Old Mountain Dew, an original composition which found its way into both oral tradition and popular culture, Swing Low, and To the Pines, To the Pines. 55 minutes. "[Hits] faster and sweeter than a jug of corn liquor." -New York Post

Customer Reviews:

Living history preserved by the Minstrel of the Appalachians.......2005-03-24

This is much, much more than a music CD; this is history, and tradition, and an echo of life as it once was. Having been born and raised in the North Carolina foothills, this music is especially significant to me. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, music was a way of life in the North Carolina mountains; thanks to Bascom Lamar Lunsford, that old way of life and culture is not completely lost to us in this modern age. Lunsford had many professions during his long life, but the music he grew up with was his passion. He recorded many songs that would almost certainly have been completely lost to us; not only that, he described each song, talked about where he heard it, who played it, etc. He was called "the Minstrel of the Appalachians" because he collected songs from all over western North Carolina and preserved them. He played the fiddle, banjo (in two distinctive styles), and mandoline (sort of like a mandolin), and he sang, recording hundreds of the living tunes of his friends, neighbors, and neighborly strangers over the years - all sorts of songs, including ballads, folk songs, gospel songs, fiddle tunes, and banjo tunes. He also wrote a few songs of his own, including the classic Old Mountain Dew. No American contributed more material to the Archive of Folk Song than Lunsford, and all but five of the recordings on this album come from his "memory collection" recordings made at the Library of Congress in 1949 (the "memory collection" actually consists of no less than 318 songs); the other five were recorded for Brunswick Records in 1928.

I can't really describe all of these tunes and do them justice; they are all so much more than just songs. How do you describe the lone voice of a culture that no longer exists? You have to hear it for yourself. Lunsford does describe many of the songs on his recordings, and the accompanying CD booklet features a lot of valuable information about each tune. The only one of these recordings I was at all familiar with was Old Mountain Dew, but Grandpa Jones' recording didn't include all of the verses of Lunsford's original version.

After listening to this album, one has to ask where all of the other 300 or so Lunsford recordings are. This music is so pure and historically important, it seems a shame that Lunsford's entire "memory collection" of tunes is not available in a box set. Lunsford recorded these songs so that they would never be forgotten, and I for one would love the chance to listen to every single recording Lunsford ever made.

A truly unique voice in folk song.......2005-02-11

After first hearing "mole in the ground" and "dry bones", I needed to hear whatever other recorded output was available by Lunsford. It is quite unfortunate that this is the only thing available on cd; on the other hand, it's a real treasure of american folk song. I feel like I somehow ripped off the cd store and record company, because I can't understand how the beauty of these recordings can even be associated with a monetary value. While I was doubtful I would like the other songs as much as the two aforementioned, I could not pick one that I like less. In the shadow of the pines still gives me shivers, the same as the first time I heard it. Please release more of this amazing stuff.

Don't even hesitate - hit the "one click" button.......2004-10-06

What a gift he gave the world. Bascom Lunsford did the near-impossible: he saw and heard this music as both an insider and an outsider. As an insider he knew exactly how it should be played, because he never learned it any other way. He knew the music, the people, the nuances and turns of phrase, as completely as he knew his own name. His voice was as ragged and unschooled as any miner or hill country farmer who never cracked a book. As an outsider, he understood this music for what it was - the last exhalation of a great American culture, the tangible sound of a people and a place that were, if not vanishing, then certainly in the process of changing permanently into something very different. He understood how important it was to save as much as he could, as fast as he could. And we are all deeply in his debt.

A Fascinating Figure.......2003-12-03

Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a fascinating figure, who in his 91 years on this earth managed to record more American folk songs, British ballads, Negro spirituals, breakdowns, reels, topical songs etc. than probably anyone else who ever lived. He was a jack-of-all-trades and a very educated man of a middle class background. On this particular album, "Old Stepstone" is the masterpiece, in my opinion. Its lyrics are simply breathtaking! Lunsford's greatest strength is not in singing or his banjo playing, but rather in his huge repertory of songs and the laid-back way in which he plays them. His vocals are also easier on the ears than those of a Dock Boggs or a Roscoe Holcomb. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the thousands of songs that the man recorded are not available on compact disc, and that's a tragedy. In conclusion, this is an excellent album of Old-Timey and American folk music which is very easy to listen to and is extremely rewarding and heartfelt.

For the folklorist in us all!.......2001-07-16

This is a superb collection of 19 songs that were collected by the eminent folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford and recorded by him for the Library of Congress. It is a gem of a recording graced with excellent liner notes by one of Lunsford's daughters and by Loyal Jones his biographer, as well as extensive commentaries on each of the songs from Lunsford himself taken from his papers and directly from his Library of Congress recordings. For anyone even remotely interested in the folk traditions of the southern Appalachians, this disc is an unquestioned must. Kudos to the Smithsonian for issuing this CD, and please let us have more!

Average customer rating: very good I'd give it 100 stars Still a great album, always an important album worth all four of its stars! Not Ballads At All

American Industrial Ballads Pete Seeger Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Revival | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Folk Music | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Smithsonian Folkways Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3 American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 ASIN: B000001DIW Release Date: 1992-07-13

Tracks:

1. Peg and Awl
2. The Blind Fiddler
3. The Buffalo Skinners
4. Eight-Hour Day
5. Hard Times in the Mill
6. Roll Down the Line
7. Hayseed Like Me
8. The Farmer is the Man
9. Come All You Hardy Miners
10. He Lies in the American Land
11. Casey Jones
12. Let Them Wear Their Watches
13. Cotton Mill Colic
14. Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
15. Mill Mother's Lament
16. Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
17. Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
18. The Death of Harry Simms
19. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
20. Ballad of Barney Graham
21. My Children are Seven in Number
22. Raggedy
23. Pittsburgh Town
24. Sixty Per Cent

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Had Pete Seeger made more records like this, the quality of his art would stand up to the reputation of his legend. With a stunning, single-minded focus, Seeger delivers hard-driven song after song, 24 in all, and creates a kind of summa of both American radical music and labor history. There are familiar tunes like "Peg and Awl," "Buffalo Skinners," "The Farmer Is the Man," "Hard Times at the Mill," as well as lesser known numbers like "Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine" and "My Children Are Seven in Number." In its own way, this 1957 record is as important as Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads, and just as moving. --Roy Francis Kasten

Album Description

Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music. "Seeger's straightforward, sincere singing is accompanied by sparse, effective banjo and guitar...an important reissue." -- Sing Out

Customer Reviews:

very good.......2007-03-24

I have enjoyed these ballads. It is a refreshing change from everyday music.

I'd give it 100 stars.......2003-09-27

This is one of the greatest folk albums ever made. It comes with very informative liner notes and the order of songs moves through historical time. The music is amazing with great banjo picking and vocals performed by Pete Seeger. The songs almost all focus on labor issues, which is very inspiring and gives you a sense of history. This is my favorite Pete Seeger album, and if you want the best Seeger music you'll find, buy this album.

Still a great album, always an important album.......2002-06-20

This is a classic album, listened to by generations of people interested in learning something of value about folk music (lower case folk music). I have no doubt that most of the listeners to it have been informed and entertained, as I was when I stumbled on to it some 40 years ago. Seeger is both musician and scholar, and it's hardly a surprise that the Smithsonian has chosen to reissue this record. It was of interest when it first came out because it was one of the few records of the time that accurately presented this music withour flash or fluff. Today, it's equally of interest as one of the records that inspired the "folk revival". It may not knock your socks off, but if you pay attention to the words and the music, you will understand why this album and this music remain so important.

The review by "A music fan from Brookings, SD" who gave it 2 stars and said that there were no ballads in it is curious. While it is true that a better title might have been "American Industrial Ballads and Songs", there are certainly many ballads on it, including "Buffalo Skinners", generally regarded as the greatest purely American ballad. I don't know what "Brookings, SD" has in mind by saying "I am a big fan of Folk Ballads", but you will find some of the best American lower case "folk ballads" right here, the genuine ariticle. Even more puzzling is "This album consists of up-beat songs that really don't have any heart behind them...", surely the first time such has been said of this album - anyone who thinks "Buffalo Skinners" is up-beat must crawl through the Mojave on hands and knees for jollies. This album is full of heart - and ballads - as anyone who has ever listened to Seeger would expect.

It has earned and kept its reputation, and will amply reward anyone willing to listen to music requiring some thought.

worth all four of its stars!.......2000-11-25

for starters, this album is musically brilliant, and pete seeger is no three-chord dingleberry. now, i'll grant you, i don't like all the songs on the album, but at least three out of four are excellent, and considering my tastes, where if one out of ten cuts it then i'll consider the album a success, then this is pretty good.

many of these songs are touching, powerful, musically adept...and besides all that, add music to a historical time that's all too easily forgotten.

and by the way, if you play guitar and have a halfway decent ear, you can play these songs too. just the other day i was playing "the farmer is the man" to myself.

and "buddy won't you roll on down the line"? that's just a beaut.

pete seeger is talented!

Not Ballads At All.......2000-06-18

I was quite excited about getting this album because I am a big fan of Folk Ballads. However, this album really has no ballads on it. This album consists of up-beat songs that really don't have any heart behind them like the title would lead you to believe. I suggest listening to samples before purchasing this album. Also, this album really does not have much musical depth it is basically just vocals and banjo (or guitar sometimes).

Average customer rating: wow! Herb Jeffries is a National Treasure!

The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again) Herb Jeffries Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Say It Isn't So Herb Jeffries V.1 The Four Winds and the Seven Seas ASIN: B000002MRV Release Date: 1995-06-13

Tracks:

1. I'm A Happy Cowboy
2. Texas To A 'T'
3. Pay Day Blues
4. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
5. Nine Hundred Miles
6. Cow Cow Boogie
7. Lonesome Rider Blues
8. You, You Darlin'
9. Down Home Cowboy
10. Back In The Saddle Again

Customer Reviews:

wow!.......2005-05-13

This is a fantastic CD from the Bronze Buckaroo! He's sounds GREAT! I'm a huge fan of Westerns and greatly admire Mr Jeffries contribution to Western cinema. I'm glad Mr. Jeffries recorded these songs and I'm very happy to have this CD in my collection. It's excellent!

Herb Jeffries is a National Treasure!.......1999-10-21

With the release of "The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again)", Herb Jeffries, the great Jazz singer of Duke Ellington Orchestra fame reprises his days of cinematic glory as America's first and only Black singing cowboy - The Bronze Buckaroo. This superb CD was recorded by Mr. Jeffries in his 84th year of "vintage" and, having heard some of the same songs included herein in their original versions (recorded in his "prime" in the 1930's), I can honestly report that the 1930's were NOT Herb Jeffries' prime - the 1990's are! This man has perhaps the greatest baritone voice (still complete with his legendary 4.5 octave range) of the 20th century. I could go on but no words of any mere mortal can do justice to this man's work. All I can say is this... if you like Western/Swing music, with this CD, Herb Jeffries defines the genre for all time. It is utterly beyond human imagination that anyone else can ever or will ever do it better than the great Herb Jeffries. Get "The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again)"... this fabulous CD is a "keeper"!

Average customer rating: Heart&Soul,Crystal Gayle Can this woman sing or what? Talented singer pays homage to great American composer Crystal Gayle Never Disappoints This One's From The Heart & Soul

Crystal Gayle Sings the Heart & Soul of Hoagy Carmichael Crystal Gayle Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: All My Tomorrows Best of Crystal Gayle: Talking in Your Sleep 20 Great Love Songs Best of Crystal Gayle The Collection: 20 Songs from the Heart ASIN: B0001CNQPI Release Date: 2004-04-06

Tracks:

1. Heart And Soul
2. Stardust
3. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
4. One Morning In May
5. Lazybones
6. Old Buttermilk Sky
7. Georgia On My Mind
8. Two Sleepy People
9. I Get Along Without You Very Well
10. Lazy River
11. Rockin Chair
12. The Nearness Of You
13. Small Fry
14. Skylark
15. Cant Get Indiana Off My Mind

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Crystal Gayle always left the twangy stuff to big sister Loretta Lynn in order to concentrate on more mainstream pop balladry, a form she still handles with grace and style. Although born in Kentucky, Gayle was actually raised in Indiana, and here she interprets 15 gems from fellow Hoosier Hoagy Carmichael. Credit Gayle for putting Carmichael's timeless melodies front and center on this delightful, charming record. Though the arrangements range from small ensemble to full orchestra, they are always in service to the song, as are Gayle's elegant readings, which are tastefully colored with tinges of blues and jazz. Willie Nelson, no stranger to the American standard, duets on one track, and like Gayle, he's wise enough to let great songs do most of the work for him. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Heart&Soul,Crystal Gayle.......2007-05-11

This masterpiece is professionaly done ,produced,arrainged by some
of the best.Crystal's emote and timing is top notch,the romance is
intense.We need to start a new catagory for music like this,"ADULT ROMANCE
This set is an all time classic and a must for connoisseurs of sophiticated music.Hoagy Carmichael ,of course, was a big band superstar
in the 40's and is famous for the song"stardust".I love "buttermik sky"
here and the song could be perfect for weddings.You won't regret buying
this.I guarrentee it.

Can this woman sing or what?.......2005-09-19

In an age where sounding just like the singer next to you seems the safest bet, Ms. Gayle stands out with a voice that is hers alone - melodic, vibrant and emotional. You can hear the smile or the tears in every one of the songs on this CD. Heart and Soul, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening, Lazy River, Nearness of You and Two Sleepy People (her Willie Nelson duet) are my favorites. Listen and you will find you have several favorites, too.

Talented singer pays homage to great American composer.......2005-02-01

If you are a fan of any of the following, buy this CD!
- The songs of Hoagy Carmichael
- Traditionally jazzy music
- Crystal Gayle
Don't be deterred by the fact that this CD is apparently out of print; order one of the new or used copies from Amazon (I did).
This is classic American music, beautifully performed by Ms. Gayle.
- You might think that "Heart and Soul" is just that simplistic little duet that kids play on the piano. In fact, it's a sweet, pretty love song, as you'll find when you listen to the lovely arrangement on this CD.
- How about "Georgia on my Mind"; you've heard the Ray Charles version, but try Crystal's -- it'll make you homesick for Georgia even if you've never been there.
- And "Stardust", Hoagy's most famous song, has been performed in countless different versions. Crystal's is one of the prettiest I've heard.
- Next is "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening". When it starts up, you may conclude that it's just an old-fashioned, corny song; but when Crystal swings into the refrain, you might not be able to keep from tapping your toes.
- "Two Sleepy People" is a Hoagy song I was not familiar with; Crystal teams up with Willie Nelson (another Carmichael fan) to deliver a charming duet.
And it goes on and on, one wonderful song after another.
This CD is a winner all the way. Highly recommended!

Crystal Gayle Never Disappoints.......2004-11-22

Crystal Gayle has a great voice and while this album is quite different than her country and pop albums, she does a very good job on most of the songs. "Stardust" is a difficult song to sing well and while Crystal does a passable job on it, maybe it could have been better. Everything else sounds wonderful, even though a couple of songs may sound a bit different than the way you might have heard them originally. That's probably a good thing; Crystal does her own interpretation and it's not the same old tired renditions that you may have heard many times before.
For those who like these old songs, you should enjoy this album a lot. This was unavailable for a while, so if it's back in print, I suggest you snag a copy before it is withdrawn again.

This One's From The Heart & Soul.......2003-04-01

WOW! What a spectacular return to the recording studio! I know this woman had to go raise her children and put her recording-singing career aside, but, they should be grown by now and it's time for "reinvention". I have the soundtrack to "One From The Heart"(1982) and she explores a Jazz atmosphere throughout with Tom Waits[as a duet partner and on a few solos]too perfectly to just set it aside. Crystal, if you're reading the reviews on your incredibly impassioned Hoagy tribute, PLEASE, if it works for Natalie Cole, then you should resume your career in JAZZ. You definitely have an awesome voice that is extremely well suited to sing whatever you desire to conquer. This Hoagy cd is flawless, from the song selection, SINGER, & musicians all the way up to the passionately performed vocals...this one's from the heart and soul!

Average customer rating: Library of Congress Archive

Library of Congress Collection, Vol. 1: Cowboy Songs, Ballads & Cattle Calls From Texas Various Artists Manufacturer: Rounder Select ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Country | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cowboy Songs of the Old West Western Cowboy Ballads and Songs 1925-1939 When I Was a Cowboy, Vol. 1 Greatest Cowboy Songs Ever When I Was a Cowboy, Vol. 2 ASIN: B00000ICP3 Release Date: 1999-04-06

Tracks:

1. Colley's Run-I-O - Parker Temple
2. The Buffalo Skinners - John A. Lomax
3. Goodbye, Old Paint (I) - Jess Morris
4. Goodbye, Old Paint (II) - Sloan Matthews
5. The Texas Rangers - Sloan Matthews
6. Cattle Calls - Sloan Matthews
7. The Cowboy's Life Is A Very Dreary Life - Sloan Matthews
8. The Dying Ranger - Johnny Prude
9. The Dying Cowboy - Sloan Matthews
10. The Streets Of Laredo - Johnny Prude
11. The Zebra Dun - J.M. Waddell
12. The Dreary Black Hills - Harry Stephens
13. The Night Herding Song - Harry Stephens

Customer Reviews:

Library of Congress Archive.......2000-07-30

The 13 tracks on this CD have been selected from the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture where recordings are stored of cowboys and old cattlemen singing these songs from the Texas cattle trails years ago. The singers are not professional singers, they are men who knew the cattle and the hardship of the old drives. You liked LONESOME DOVE? These are the songs those men would sing. I am 66 and a native Texan; my grandfather was a trail-driver and sang these songs to me when I was a child. The music is authentic, sentimental, sometimes funny. There are even cattle calls included. An excellent record.

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