Western Soul

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"The sound of The Ramones on heat playing gospel in a flaming church...as much raucous soul as joyful punk-rock."

Product Description
Bonk is not Norwegian for the sound of a car smashing into the front of a bank, nor does it mean hurtling over a fjord in a burnt-out speedboat, strangling the bad guy to get the girl, but somehow in the shape of a single album, those clean-living folk from the land where the sun never sets have made a sound which feels like doing both things at the same time, naked. Drawing on influences as disparate as Tamla Motown, Norwegian death-punk and The Who, Bonk is the sound of a culture hell-bent on putting litter into bins and the rock into punk. Formed in 2001 by Andreas Grøtterud and Leif Koren, sleazy hippies of the Oslo punk scene, Bonk are currently on the crest of a wave and are scheduled to play the Øyafestival and Quart festival in Norway this summer to support the Norwegian release of their first studio LP, recorded in Oslo and London in fall 2003.

Consider for a moment the sound of one hand clapping. Pure bliss. Now contemplate the impact of a good heart hurled into a raging wall of dirty brutal hardcore rock'n'roll - and that's it: Bonk - the soul of the western world as hammered out on drums, guitars and bass by four impurists and shameless genre benders from Oslo, Norway. Coming out of the Oslo underground rock scene, Western Soul made quite a splash with national critics. Hailed as the antithesis to American Idol - described as "the sound of fuzz-guitars killing a boy band" and appreciated as a pleasant full-on "sonic beating," the album is a highly concentrated brew of punk-sized tracks laced with cold-pressed extracts from Prodigy, Motown, Motorhead and more. The impure ingenuity of it all makes it rock without the retro.

Bonk have received rave reviews in Norway. Dave Wyndorf (Monster Magnet), Gluecifer and The Bronx all love Bonk, who are looking forward to exploring the U.S. and Europe in the fall when the album will slide into record shops around the globe.

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Average customer rating: Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music Ray's C&W RAY COULD DO IT "ALL" Don't be turned away by the title Broke the Rules and Reinvented Them

Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music Ray Charles Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Country | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music R&B | 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: Red Headed Stranger Ray Charles: Ultimate Hits Collection Standards The Genius of Ray Charles The Very Best of Ray Charles ASIN: B0000032B4 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Bye Bye Love
2. You Don't Know Me
3. Half As Much
4. I Love You So Much It Hurts
5. Just A Little Lovin'
6. Born To Lose
7. Worried Mind
8. It Makes No Difference Now
9. You Win Again
10. Careless Love
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
12. Hey, Good Lookin'
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. Here We Go Again
15. That Lucky Old Sun

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Ray Charles is the Genius of Soul, but he's always had a bit of country boy in him, too. Between playing hillbilly piano when he was a kid and landing several duets on the country charts in the '80s, Charles released this 1962 classic, taking 12 country standards and proving that great songs can remain great, no matter what the setting. Behind blaring brass and thrilling strings, Brother Ray transforms "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "Bye Bye Love" into big-band swing; "You Win Again" into the Nashville Sound; and "I Love You So Much It Hurts" into the most elegant of pop. "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the big hit, but everything else here is just as timeless and beautiful. --David Cantwell

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Ray broke barriers. In the '50s he invented soul by mixing the sacred and profane of black music: R & B and gospel. In 1962 he went completely crazy, interpreting classic country. It was one of his finest moments. From the start the record is an oddity. A big band pumps, female background singers rip through a chorus of "Bye Bye Love," and Ray brings high energy to the Everly Bros. teeny-bop lyrics. Some songs suffer from syrupy choir and string arrangements, but Ray is always there to set things straight. He gives country some funk, and erases, for a day, all questions of black and white. --Steve Tignor

Customer Reviews:

Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music.......2007-03-16

Can anyone say anything negative about Ray Charles? Not me either. A fine recording.

Ray's C&W.......2007-01-10

This is one of Ray's best. He brings his special brand of jazz, r&b to country-western. If you like Ray Charles, or Country-Western music, you should own this CD.

RAY COULD DO IT "ALL".......2007-01-10

I mean ALL!! He did Country & Western just as good - or should I say better - than the Country/Western Singers!! The "High Priest" (as he was known in the 60's)...no matter what he sang....He did it BETTER than the REST!! Sad to lose him - May He Rest In Peace!! I can hear him now... in Heaven's Choir!!

Don't be turned away by the title.......2006-06-16

One of my favorite albums (and all-time favorite album titles). Enjoyable even if you are not a fan of country and western music. Ray Charles performs these songs with his own unique style and sound (IMHO - most, if not all, of Ray's performances are superior to the originals).

Broke the Rules and Reinvented Them.......2006-04-24

When Ray Charles moved from Atlantic to ABC, the label expected to get a big selling R&B artist with enough appeal to cross over to pop audiences. Ray at first complied to this narrow view of him and his talents. He started at ABC with big R&B hits as Unchain my Heart. He felt he owed it to the label to give them what they expected. They had just given him an unprecedented contract in which he would keep the rights over his masters and gave him complete artistic freedom. Ray knew his time would come. Soon he made his wish known he wanted to record a record with Country tunes. This idea was met with great apprehension. This doubt in the concept was not without grounds. The R&B world and the country world were at the time still very separate entities. Black artist playing white music was not done in the record industry. Ray went ahead and broke the rules, succeeding marvelously, just as he did when he mixed R&B and Gospel a few years prior.

Yet the record itself is not strictly a crossing between R&B and Country. Ray chose the Big Band approach to the songs. His take of Country was more the classic American Songbook view. Ray was not new to Jazz, having recorded in the medium before. Back at Atlantic he worked with parts of the Basie Orchestra and Quincy Jones on Jazz Standards. So he felt quite at ease here. He wasn't new to Country either. He'd grown up with the Grand Ole Opry shows on the radio and allegedly worked as a piano played in Hill Billy bands down south. His comfort with both styles shines through on this record. Here Charles reworks Hank Williams and Don Gibson classics as You Win Again and I Can't Stop Loving You and creates new rules in the process.

A couple years down the line the mixture of Black and White music would become very common. Record labels as Stax and Hi Records in Memphis build there house styles around in it. Fame studios would excel in it. When Ray dropped this gem on the market it hit like a bomb. Modern Sounds became one of his biggest selling records ever and artistically one of his most compelling.

Average customer rating: rainy night in Georgia... Rhythm Country and Blues Rhythm+Country+Blues = AMERICAN Music! RHYTHM COUNTRY & BLUES Wonderful!

Rhythm Country and Blues Various Artists Manufacturer: Mca Nashville ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Memphis Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash New York Rock & Soul Revue: Live At The Beacon Honeymoon In Vegas: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Come Together: America Salutes the Beatles ASIN: B000002OR2 Release Date: 1994-03-01

Tracks:

1. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Vince Gill/Gladys Knight
2. Funny How Time Slips Away - Al Green/Lyle Lovett
3. I Fall To Pieces - Aaron Neville/Trisha Yearwood
4. Somethin' Else - Little Richard/Tanya Tucker
5. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Patti LaBelle/Travis Tritt
6. Rainy Night In Georgia - Sam Moore/Conway Twitty
7. Chain Of Fools - Clint Black/Pointer Sisters
8. Since I Fell For You - Natalie Cole/Reba McEntire
9. Southern Nights - Chet Atkins/Allen Toussaint
10. The Weight - Staple Singers/Marty Stuart
11. Patches - George Jones/B.B. King

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Where so many duet projects seem like shotgun marriages, this one sounds like a labor of love, celebrating Southern music as a common denominator that transcends racial and categorical divides. Among the highlights, the pairing of Lyle Lovett and Al Green finds revelation within the funky groove of "Funny How Time Slips Away," while the album-closing "Patches"--with George Jones playing father to B.B. King's son--achieves a spine-tingling majesty. Though Natalie Cole and Reba McEntire misconnect on "Since I Fell for You," Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave) and the late Conway Twitty are at their soulful best on "Rainy Night in Georgia." --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews:

rainy night in Georgia..........2007-06-22

so I'm in Atlanta a few years back visiting old friends, it's a rainy night and we're kicking back. I see a video of Sam Moore/Conway Twitty singing a duet of RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA that touches my soul. The next day I run out and pick up this CD. It still is one of my favorite cds of all time. Rhythm and blues artists singing with county and western stars, sounds like one of those hit and miss concepts but this cd is all hits. Sadly, it was the last recording Conway Twitty ever made but what a pairing, the soulful Sam Moore and the gravel voiced Conway. Other favorites are WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH MY BABY, Patti LaBelle and Travis Tritt. THE WEIGHT, Staple Singers and Marty Stuart. AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING, Vince Gill and Gladsy Knight. A smashing fun rendition of SOMETHIN ELSE, Little Richard and Tanya Tucker. Great music!

Rhythm Country and Blues.......2007-06-11

I'd been looking for this but couldn't remember the name!! I kept looking and found it on Amazon. The music? Incredible!

Rhythm+Country+Blues = AMERICAN Music!.......2007-06-04

It's all been said here, and quite well, too. But if you are - or know somebody - who was born in 1977 or later, tell them that this disc is a stone-MUST HAVE if one wishes to see how (what used to be known as) Rock and Roll originated. Oh...MY fave? Trisha/Aaron's "I Fall To Pieces." Patsy is smiling from above...

RHYTHM COUNTRY & BLUES.......2006-11-06

THIS CD IS VERY GOOD LISTENING FOR ALL AGES, FEATURING THE MUSIC & VOICES OF MANY KNOWN ARTISTS.

Wonderful!.......2006-07-25

A friend loaned me a copy of this CD last week and I've been frantically searching for the name of it ever since so that I could buy my own copy and one for my folks. I'm glad I finally located it.
I don't know how I missed this when it came out but I'm glad someone found it for me. I'll be recommending it to all of my musically inclined friends.
My favorite cut is Rainy Night in Georgia; it is pure pleasure to listen to my old favorite Sam Moore. I'd lost track of Conway after he deserted Rock and Roll for Country but this song reminds me why I loved him when he sang "Make Believe" so many years ago. Travis Tritt and Patti LaBelle were made for each other, as were Al Green and Lyle Lovett. Aaron Neville is always a pleasure and Tanya Tucker and Little Richard are pure fun. Mavis Staples is always great when she sings "The Weight" and this version with Marty Stuart is no exception. These are my favorites but there isn't a bad song on the CD.
This is a "must have" for anyone who loves all forms of music.

Average customer rating: Love these guys Best album from the best band This Gravy is Delicious!! Next Generation Southern Rock Goofball name, terrific band

Soul Gravy Cross Canadian Ragweed Manufacturer: Universal South ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cross Canadian Ragweed Garage Live & Loud at Billy Bob's Texas Highway 377 Carney ASIN: B0001GOHKC Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Number
2. Again
3. Lonely Girl
4. Cold Hearted Woman
5. Sick And Tired
6. Hammer Down
7. Flowers
8. Leave Me Alone
9. Down
10. Wanna Rock & Roll
11. Alabama (New Version)
12. Pay
13. Too Far Gone

Customer Reviews:

Love these guys.......2007-04-03

I own all their music and have seen them live.. If you like real rock and roll , give them a listen.. excellent music.. we all listen to it.. from my 18 year old niece to me (55).

Best album from the best band .......2006-11-12

If you get it you get it. If you are from small town america,midwest,west, southwest, south,(maybe canada?) you will get it. Buy this album. If you get it go to the concert travel 500 miles it will be worth it they will speak to YOU. rock and roll will never die

This Gravy is Delicious!!.......2006-07-08

CCR does it again. Soul Gravy is like Donnie and Marie - Its a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll, and everything in between. But Unlike Donnie and Marie, this album doesn't suck. Fans of the band or lovers of outlaw country will especially like this masterful CD.

Next Generation Southern Rock.......2005-09-01

Cross Canadian Ragweed confirms the belief that the heart of Southern Rock is still beating. I wish mainstream country radio played this stuff more often. These guys ROCK!!

Goofball name, terrific band.......2005-06-18

We picked up some CCR albums last year when they were listed as the warmup act for a ZZ Top concert we were going to. We liked the recordings and we loved their live show. CCR suffers from an identity problem, they think they're a rock band with a strong country influence but the music industry thinks they're alt.country. And let's face it, the name of the band doesn't help. Fortunately the music speaks for itself, this band has solid song-writing and they deliver a smoking live show, the ZZ Top audience had never heard of them but still gave them a standing ovation at the end of their set. This is a good album and there are several songs here that could be hits if radio stations would play them, but whether they make it big or remain a cult band, CCR is good stuff.

Average customer rating: A MUST HAVE FOR PAYCHECK FANS This is what country music is truly meant to be Solid overview of Paycheck's Epic years Best Compilation of Paycheck's Epic Years Johnny's Paycheck's Best of His Best

The Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck Johnny Paycheck Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Johnny Paycheck - 20 Greatest Hits It Couldn't Have Been Any Better The Little Darlin' Sound of Johnny Paycheck: The Gospel Truth The Essential Earl Thomas Conley 40 #1 Hits ASIN: B0000663XO Release Date: 2002-04-30

Tracks:

1. Take This Job And Shove It
2. 11 Months and 29 Days
3. I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)
4. Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets
5. She's All I Got
6. Ragged Old Truck
7. Colorado Cool Aid
8. Fifteen Beers
9. I've Seen Better Days
10. Someone to Give My Love To
11. My Part of Forever
12. Yesterday's News Just Hit Home Today
13. (Stay Away from) The Cocaine Train (live)
14. Me And The I.R.S. (live)
15. The Feminine Touch
16. You Better Move On (duet with George Jones)
17. I Did The Right Thing
18. When I Had a Home to Go Home To
19. Barstool Mountain
20. I Can See Me Lovin' You Again
21. Old Violin
22. All Night Lady
23. The Outlaw's Prayer

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In 1970, after a string of not-quite hits and hard luck, Johnny Paycheck was singing for drinks in L.A. when Countrypolitan maestro Billy Sherrill gave him a second shot at a career. Paycheck's Epic debut with the producer, "She's All I Got," became a country smash and initiated a decade-long stint at the label that included the most commercially successful and some of the most emotionally complex work of his career (his much admired earlier sides--collected on the out-of-his-head The Real Mr. Heartache--notwithstanding). The Soul & the Edge draws from this fertile tenure, and though it omits a large number of charting hits from this period, much of what's here is prime Paycheck--"Slide off Your Satin Sheets," for example, and his signature "Take This Job and Shove It"--with many of these tracks otherwise unavailable on disc. Not to be missed are a conflicted pair of recitations, the notoriously rough and rowdy "Colorado Cool-Aid" (about a drunken knife fight) and the reverent "The Outlaw's Prayer." Best of all is the wrenching "I've Seen Better Days," where Paycheck comes to in someone's front yard, roused by Sherrill's wrenching, string-and-steel dynamics and squinting into the light of another miserable day. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

A MUST HAVE FOR PAYCHECK FANS.......2003-03-14

Ive always considered Johnny Paycheck one of if not the best country singer ever. Being a big fan of his since the "70's" I had a lot of his albums. I've lost every one of those albums through divorce, but I have recovered a lot of Johnny's songs on cd's Ive purchased since. "The Soul & The Edge" cd has a real great collection of his music. Losing Johnny a few weeks ago was a real sad day in my life. I'm still looking for some of Mr. Paychecks songs such as, "If You Could Hold My Heart For A While", "You're Still On My Mind" "There Lies The Difference", and "Let's Have A Toast To The Woman Who Put Me Here". These great songs were album fills and now they're very hard to find. If there's someone out there that knows how I could get a hold of cd's or cassette tapes with these songs I would forever be greatful. I've owned this cd since it came out and I play it all the time. For anyone who likes "REAL COUNTRY MUSIC" I would highly recommend this cd. I'm sure glad it has "OLD VIOLIN", as it is one of his best, and one of my favorites. Guitar Bob

This is what country music is truly meant to be.......2002-11-29

This is country music at its finest. This isn't what is coming out of Nashville today. On this disc every man's emotion is laid bare from happiness, despair, humor to pathos. And, best of all, is the "Old Violin". You can't call yourself a collector of country music until this cd is in your collection. How proud you will be to display this gem!

Solid overview of Paycheck's Epic years.......2002-05-06

It's a shame that Paycheck is mostly remembered for his temper, jail-stints, and the hell-raising 1977 hit, "Take This Job and Shove It." A shame, because there's a lot more to Paycheck, including two separate halves of a successful recording career that yielded a wealth of hard-lived honky-tonk and comeback mainstream country hits.

Paycheck found his earliest success as a hard-core honky-tonker on the Little Darlin' label (anthologized on the Country Music Foundation's "The Real Mr. Heartbreak" CD). After splitting with the label's co-founder, and drinking away two years in California, Paycheck mounted a stunning comeback on Epic, spurred throughout the '70s by producer Billy Sherrill. It's these later sides, including hits like "She's All I Got" and "Someone to Give My Love To" that are anthologized here.

Paycheck's career with Epic had two distinct phases. His comeback sides smoothed out the sharp edges of his honky-tonk sound, with studio players providing the backing, and Sherrill's string arrangements layered on top. By mid-decade, however, Paycheck had latched on to the burgeoning outlaw movement, releasing albums such as "11 Months and 29 Days" (the title referring to the length of one of his suspended jail sentences), and charting with grittier hits like "I'm the Only Hell (My Mama Ever Raised)" and "Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets." By the decade's close, Paycheck's personal problems began to interfere with his career, and in '81 he was dropped by Epic. He last charted on Mercury with 1986's "Old Violin," included here.

For such a regular hit-maker, Paycheck's Epic work has only been thinly anthologized on CD. This collection's twenty-three tracks (clocking in at over 75 minutes) are generous and well picked. They provide a good picture of Paycheck's career with Epic, balancing his best-known hits with album tracks and a pair of live takes. But the track list is far from complete, missing hits like "Something About You I Love," "Mr. Lovemaker," "For a Minute There," "Friend, Lover, Wife," and "Maybellene." The non-chronological track ordering and lack of chart info are also disappointing.

Still, despite the omissions, these crisply remastered tapes, coupled with newly penned liner notes from Jonny Whiteside (in addition to words from George Jones and Marty Martel) round out a fine introduction to Paycheck's Epic years, and certainly the best that's currently available on CD.

Best Compilation of Paycheck's Epic Years.......2002-05-03

Johnny Paycheck rarely gets mentioned with George Jones, Merle Haggard or Lefty Frizzell in Country History as one of the great, influential singers of all time. But he is, and Epic has finally given him a Compilation worth cheering. If it's just the charted hits you want buy, 16 Biggest Hits, which does a nice job. But this digs deeper. Albums cuts mixed with classics make for a better understanding of Paycheck's legacy. This also includes his last Country Top 40 hit, the self-penned "Old Violin" which was released on Mercury records in 1986. Up-to-date liner notes and good sound make this an essential purchase. If this whets your appetite, go for Paycheck's 60's sides which are perfectly captured on CMF's "The Real Mr. Heartache-The Little Darlin' Years". Someday, there'll be a compilation covering Paycheck's entire career. Until then, this CD and the CMF one are all you'll need to remember an unjustly ignored Country legend.

Johnny's Paycheck's Best of His Best.......2002-05-01

This is the biggest and probably the best of Johnny's long career. It features 23 tracks covering singles, LP tracks, duets, and live material. The Epic CD was digitally remastered at Sony Music and sounds super. It's great to listen to hits ranging from Take This Job and Shove It, I Can See Me Lovin' You Again, and Colorado Cool-Aid- to All Night Lady, and You Better Move On (a duet with George Jones). A real toe tapping pleasure in listening. The 16 page illustrated liner notes provides a nice history of Johnny and his music. Paycheck lovers will really enjoy this CD, just as I do.

Average customer rating: Ruthie Foster is the BEST!!!!!!! MESMERIZING, CAPTIVATING, A SYLVAN RAINBOW OF SONGS Exceptional Artist-Outstanding CD The woman with the voice Ruthie Foster shares her soul

Runaway Soul Ruthie Foster Manufacturer: Blue Corn Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stages The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster Full Circle Live From Austin TX State of Grace ASIN: B00006AFLJ Release Date: 2003-08-05

Tracks:

1. Runaway Soul
2. Woke Up This Mornin'
3. Smalltown Blues
4. Home
5. Hole In My Pocket
6. Give You My Love
7. Ocean Of Tears (Mama)
8. Walk On
9. Death Came A-Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)
10. Joy

Customer Reviews:

Ruthie Foster is the BEST!!!!!!!.......2007-05-02

Ruthie Foster grabs your soul with this CD all you want to do is play it over and over!!!

MESMERIZING, CAPTIVATING, A SYLVAN RAINBOW OF SONGS.......2007-04-15

How breathtaking! I'm listening to it as I write this. I don't know music or much else, but I know what stirs and enchants me and Ruthie Foster has me in her pocket, hole or no hole, from the moment I slipped in the disk and hit 'Play'. A friend burned a copy and gave it to me out of the blue, without preamble, in a stack with some other disks. Period. What a humble introduction for what I'm beginning to think may enter my pantheon of soul-stirring albums without blemish. That would put her in lofty company indeed, by MY lights, at least. Like, Carole King's 'Tapestry', Cat Stevens' 'Tea For the Tillerman', 'Fleetwood Mac', Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Meatloaf's 'Bat Out of Hell', to name just a few. I wasn't even sure what her name was at first, since he'd scrawled it on the CD. But I know it now and I'll do my small part to spread it around. THIS woman deserves to be famous. 'Runaway Soul' and Ruthie Foster have that sort of classic quality that just leaps into your heart and your guts and stakes a claim right from the first listening. I regret not having heard her in concert. That must be astonishing. But even from my tinny stereo she makes me cry, clap my hands and strut my flat like a one-man Mardi Gras! By all means, do yourself a kindness, if you love R&B, gospel, soul, or just smoothly polished passion and heartfelt boogie, buy a NEW copy of this CD. Which reminds me, I need to buy one too. This woman also DESERVES TO BE PAID!!!

Exceptional Artist-Outstanding CD.......2007-01-11

The music on this CD is moving...emotionally, energetically, compositionally, and humanly. Ruthie Foster's delivery is magnificent and so well complemented by Cyd's rhythm and accompanying vocals. After I first experienced Ruthie perform (she was with Bo Didley in MD) her music was with me and in my soul. She is a treasure. Listening to, or singing along with Ruthie can make your day. Also check out her CD, "Stages" - standout performances by Ruthie and Cyd.

The woman with the voice.......2005-12-17

I saw Ruthie at the Great Waters Folk festival in Wolfboro NH. She was amazing! After her performance one night I went to buy some CDs. Ruthie's were flying off the table. Despite stacks of them, they were gone in minutes. While looking at others to buy I kept hearing people coming up to the table making the same request, "I want the woman with the voice." Even though there were many much more famous singers there that night, eveyone knew exactly who these customers were looking for. "Sorry, we're sold out and waiting for Fed Ex to bring more. The woman behind the counter told me they sold 1000 of her cd's in one day!

If you grew up in a small country town, or ever wished you did, "Home" will warm and break you heart at the same time.

Do I love every song on this album? No. Doesn't matter. I love Ruthie. She is the real thing. As great as her gift sounds on a recording, it inevitably pales in comparison to her live performances where she shakes the rafters with the clearest, most perfectly on cue singing you ever heard. And when she finishes, after sending chills up and down your spine and leaving you weak from astonishment, she bursts into laughter. Ruthie is pure Joy.

Ruthie Foster shares her soul.......2005-10-25

I've seen her live, I've shared a cup of coffee with her, I've gained inspiration from her because she is lays it out all the time. Runaway Soul captures Foster's incredible soul and voice. We are lucky she is willing and able to share her gift.

Average customer rating: The finest set of western swing ever. Timeless fun! Good Luck in trying to find something better ! A Great Overview Of Western Swing Musical history that is alive and well today Western Swing is Western Folk Jazz no Hillbillies here!

Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing Various Artists Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Philly Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Country | Box Sets | Stores | Music R&B & Soul | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Bargain Box Sets | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More from the Golden Age of Western Swing Take Me Back to Tulsa Hillbilly Boogie Daddy of Western Swing From Boppin Hillbilly to Red Hot Rockabilly ASIN: B00005EQQE Release Date: 2001-07-05

Tracks:

1. Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
2. Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys
3. Oh You Pretty Woman - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
4. Brownie's Stomp - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
5. Osage Stomp - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
6. Who Walks In When I Walk Out - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
7. Boyd's Blues - Bill Boyd & Cowboy Ramblers
8. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart - Patsy Montana & Prarie Ramblers
9. Sadie Green (The Vamp Of New Orleans) - Roy Newman & His Boys
10. Who's Sorry Now - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
11. Down By The O-H-I-O - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
12. Barn Dance Rag - Bill Boyd & His Country Ramblers
13. Never No More Blues - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
14. Too Busy - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
15. Rambler's Stomp - Doug Bine & His Dixie Ramblers
16. The Eyes Of Texas - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
17. The Yellow Rose Of Texas - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
18. Red's Tight Like That - Tune Wranglers
19. Buster's Crawdad Song - Tune Wranglers
20. Big Daddy Blues - Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys
21. Feather Your Nest - Washboard Wonders
22. Dirty Dog - Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys
23. My Galveston Gal - Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
24. El Rancho Grande - Tune Wranglers
25. Texas Sand - Tune Wranglers

Tracks:

1. Women Women Women - Shelly Lee & His Alley Cars
2. Mean Old Lonesome Blues - Buddy Jones
3. Bring It On Down To My House - Derwood Brown & His Musical Brownies
4. Corrine Corrina - Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers
5. One Sweet Letter From You - Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers
6. Fort Worth Stomp - Crystal Spring Ramblers
7. The Women ('Bout To Make A Wreck Out Of Me) - Buddy Jones
8. Streamlined Mama - Buddy Jones
9. Blue Guitars - Light Crust Doughboys
10. Dirty Dog Blues - Modern Mountaineers
11. Mississippi Sandman - Modern Mountaineers
12. Hot Tamale Pete - Bob Skyles & Skyrockets
13. Married Man Blues - Nite Owls
14. There'll Be Some Changes Made - W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys
15. Dirty Hangover Blues - W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys
16. Lose Your Blues & Laugh At Life - Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Boys
17. Range Rider Stomp - Range Riders
18. Hold That Critter Down - Sons Of The Pioneers
19. Chicken Reel Stomp - Tune Wranglers
20. Playboy Stomp - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
21. Moonlight In Oklahoma - Smokey Wood & The Wood Chips
22. Keep On Truckin' - Smokey Wood & The Wood Chips
23. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Brown's Musical Brownies
24. Just Once Too Often - Light Crust Doughboys
25. Loud Mouth - Modern Mountaineers

Tracks:

1. Kangaroo Blues - Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers
2. Pine State Honky Tonk - Claude Casey & His Pine State Playboys
3. Better Quit It Now - Adolph Hofner & His Texans
4. Pussy Pussy Pussy - Light Crust Doughboy
5. I'll Keep My Old Guitar - Adolph Hofner & His Texans
6. Cowboy's Swing - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
7. Lonesome Road Blues - W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys
8. Liza Pull Down The Shades - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
9. Truck Driver's Blues - Cliff Bruner & His Boys
10. My Untrue Cowgirl - Jewel Cowboys
11. San Antonio Rose - Cliff Bruner & His Boys
12. Gonna Get Tight - Sunshine Boys
13. Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts - Light Crust Doughboys
14. Mississippi Muddle - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys
15. Billy Boy - Louise Massey & Her Westerners
16. Good Gracious Gracie - Light Crust Doughboys
17. Mean Mean Mama (From Meana) - Light Crust Doughboys
18. Jones Stomp - Port Arthur Jubileers
19. Rockin' Rollin' Mama - Buddy Jones
20. Blue Steel Blues - Ted Daffan's Texans
21. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
22. Bob Wills Special - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
23. Pussywillow - Port Arthur Jubileers
24. Tobacco State Swing - Hank Penny & His Radio Cowboys

Tracks:

1. Draftboard Blues - Cliff Bruner & His Boys
2. Whatcha Gonna Do - Hi-Flyers
3. Cotton Eyed Joe - Adolph Hofner & His San Antonians
4. Sally's Got A Wooden Leg - Sons Of The West
5. What's The Matter With Deep Elem - Sunshine Boys
6. Lil Liza Jane - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
7. Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter & His Troopers
8. Forgive Me One More Time - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
9. Shame On You - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
10. Steel Guitar Stomp - Hank Penny
11. Boogie Woogie Boy - Porky Freeman
12. That's What I Like About The South - Cliff Bruner
13. Stay A Little Longers - Bob Wills & Texas Playboys
14. Oklahoma Blues - Zeke Clements & His Western Swing Gang
15. Oklahoma Stomp - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
16. Nails In My Coffin - Jerry Irby & His Texas Ranchers
17. Bob Wills Two Step - Luke Wills Rhythm Busters
18. I Got Texas In My Soul - Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
19. Wildcat Mama - Hank Penny
20. Betty Ann - Jesse Ashlock
21. One Year Ago Tonight - Don Churchill & Texas Mavericks
22. Oakie Boogie - Johnny Tyler & Riders Of The Rio Grande
23. Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
24. Square Dance Boogie - Johnnie Lee Wills & His Boys
25. Humpty Dumpty Heart - Hank Thompson

Album Description

Budget-priced four disc set with 99 tracks from the golden years of Western Swing, including cuts by Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers, Tex Williams, Adolph Hofner, Hank Thompson and Cliff Bruners Texas Wanderers. Tracks include 'Pussy, Pussy, Pussy', 'Smoke, Smoke, Smoke'. 'Humpty Dumpty Heart' and 'Kangaroo Blues'. The tracks tell the story of this vibrant musical form that blended jazz with string bands, took in pop music & the blues, and pioneered amplification. Beautifully packaged, each disc also includes an illustrated booklet with a discography, photos and extensive liner notes. Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they are coralled up in a colorful & sturdy CD-sized slipcase box. 1999 release.

Album Details

4CD 99 track collection that covers the history of classic Western Swing. Includes extensive liner notes. A must for true fans of this artform!

Customer Reviews:

The finest set of western swing ever. Timeless fun!.......2006-07-07

Western swing fans will be dancing in the streets over this brilliant box set. It features 99 cuts dating from 1932 through the late 40's. They run chronologically and features all the great architects of western swing: Milton Brown & his musical Brownies, Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, Light Crust Doughboys etc. Even if you're not a fan of country music, you may enjoy this one. It is genuine feel-good, stomping music with honkytonk pianos, fiddles, drums, guitars and even saxes. This is without a doubt the best buy for any fan of this genre. It is timeless fun! Crank it all the way up, pop open a cold one and all of sudden it's 1938 and you're in a Dallas honky tonk. By the way, the liner notes in the booklet are outstanding with dates, pixs, stories. Most interesting was that the Crystal Springs Ramblers from Ft. Worth were a favorite of Bonnie and Clyde's at a popular dance hall down there. Great job by Proper Records!

Good Luck in trying to find something better !.......2006-06-21

I read some of the other reviews and I can apperciate a lot what other folks are saying. I really agree with the one who said that todays Country Music makes them sick. What in the name of God does a naked Faith Hill rolling around a bed under the sheets singing some half baked so called Modern Country have to do with the music that I was raised on and grown to love. As the Great Bill Monroe stated "That junk ain't part of nothing",(I saw that on a FH video that was being played on cabel TV). What a moral let down, instead of appearing as one of our Country Stars she looks a lot more like a B-girl- that's where we are today. I said all that to say this: If you love WesternSwing like I do then you will love this set - it really has a lot of good stuff and takes you back to the days of Bob, Milton,Tommy,Leon, Spade and many other outstanding Western Swing artists. This set was a real welcome to my Swing Collection.
Keep in mind that this music ain't for everybody.If you like spending time listening to the likes of a feuding Toby with the Dixie Chicks then this real Roots Music ain't for you. But if you would be willing to sell your top coon hound to get the money to get tickets to see "Asleep at the Wheel" then you might be a fan that can apperciate what was started by Bob & Milton way down in Texas back in the early 30's.
While I type this review I'm listening to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys perform "Faded Love" on my computer so I'll cut it short. Buy this set - at this price you can't afford not too. While you are at it do what I did and get the "Proper Records - Bob Wills/Take Me Back To Tulsa" also - you will be Blessed !
"ENJOY" Joe Kopeck / Parkville,MD.

A Great Overview Of Western Swing.......2005-06-16

This 4 volume box set by Proper is a fantastic overview of that great American musical art form Western Swing.
It's not country, it's not cowboy, it's not swing, it's just great toe-tapping fun music!
The songs in this album are presented in chronological order thus allowing the listener to experience the growth and progression of this great music.
The songs are remastered originals and the sound quality is first rate.
There's also a booklet containing liner notes about all the artists and a discography.
I own several box sets by Proper and every single one is a bargain, well worth far more than the asking price.

Musical history that is alive and well today.......2004-09-13

My first exposure to Western swing was the first Asleep At The Wheel Bob Wills tribute CD, and I have been hooked ever since. However, up until I bought this collection, I have only heard Bob Wills. I was pleased to buy this in a local branch of Half Price Books. In addition to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, it also has selections from Milton Brown, Patsy Montana, the Light Crust Doughboys, Spade Cooley - just to name a few. This vibrant blend of cowboy/fiddle music and black blues/swing has yet to wander far from my CD player!

Western Swing is Western Folk Jazz no Hillbillies here!.......2003-12-12

This is a great panorama of Western Swing from its origins with Bob Wills and Milton Brown working together inthe Original Light Crust Dough Boys in the early 1930s to Tex Williams' great electric swing band from just after WWII. I've had these sides since Columbia issue an earlier version on LP more than 20 years ago.

This music has little to do with what was considered Country music at the time or its emasculated mutant descendants in Nashville.

This was not marketed as Country music. In fact in 1945 when Bob Wills, the acme of Western SWing, was the biggest grossing public attraction in the entertainment business, he had his sole invitation to the Grand Ole Opry, and then he almost walked out of there before he played a song because the hayseeds wouldn't let him bring on his drums and horns (not allowed onthe Opry until the late 1950s!).

Western Swing comes from Jazz from the pop Jazz of the 20s and early 1930s, included people who went back and forth between bands like Wills and Spade Cooley to the white big bands (though Bob Wills once tried to hire a black alto player[against the law in Oklahoma] and of late Les Paul has taken to claiming he saw Charlie Christian sit in with the Playboys at Cains and there are pictures of the Playboys having drinks in Chicago with black Jazz greats like Ben Webster!!). Townsend Wills' biographer interviewed many Playboys and none of them felt they were part of Country, but part of Jazz.

Basically it begins with people trying to play Jazz and Blues influenced music with the instruments of the old Southwestern Barn dance bands: guitar, fiddle, piano, adding in drums, and in many bands all the instruments of the Jazz orchestras. Very quickly Bobby Dunne added in the electric Hawaii, pedaless steel guitar and Leon McAuliffe who replaced him in the Doughboys and went with Wills was so well known that Bob Wills' introduction to him "Take it Away Leon" became a catch phrase in the whole country and beyond in the 1940s!

At its most hyperbolic height (captured here in the Space Cooley Orchestra's Oklahoma Stomp, a recording anyone with a set of ears should treasure) you had 16 and 18 piece orchestras with full fiddle sections (in the early 1960s Wills even rounded his fiddles with a violist from the Lawrence Welch band!), complete reed sections, and more brass than they needed, and exotic additions like the Harpist who kicks off The Oklahoma Stomp.

Further on than these recordings go, you would have players like Tiny Moore and Johnny Gimble who incorporated Bebop styles in their solos.

Along the way, mostly during that war time period when recording bans and players going in and out of the army and different bands make following a little harder, the straight western swing style of combining a guitar, steel guitar, and sometimes electric mandolin trio alternating with fiddle choirs took hold as the paradigm for Western Swing. For some reason in most bands the horns seemed to disappear or roll down to just one after WWII.

One thing about this music is that a very high level of musical technique and education became more and more part of the Western Swing environment. We know that European Jazmen like Stephan Grappelli followed the recordings of Hugh Farr who played with the sons of the pioneers and later Spade Cooley, and that Down Beat magazine described Eldon Shamblin out of Bob Wills' band as the best rythm guitar player in the country (slighting Freedie Green who even Eldon probably acknowledge was better).

The other thing in contrast with much of what was being presented as country music contemporaneously is that this was not being presented as "old time music," craddling close to old conventions, but a new hot dangerous music, drawn as close as comfort would allow from Black sources, from the dangerous white swing bands, and from the part of down home music involved in drinking, dancing, cheating, and other things not permitted in the Baptist Southeast.

WSM Grand Old Opry Stars toured the deep South playing in school auditoriums, church houses, and public squares. From the beginning Western swing belonged in barrooms, in dance halls, and other places where "the wine and liquor flow." Even Hank Williams wasn't allowed to use the word "beer" when he sang "My Bucket's got a hole in it" on the Opry. Meanwhile Western Swingers like Wills and Brown were singing about Cocaine and Opium, whiskey and beer back in the early 1930s.

And Smokie Woods wasn't called smokie cause he liked Tobacco. LOL. In fact his tune here called "Everybody's Trukin," about what is done "up in Harlem" includes much use of a word that does sound like truckin', but does not contain an r or a T but does start with an F!!

No this is not Nashville Country or even old time country music. This is Western guys and gals trying to be jazzy, bluesy, wild, whiskey soaked, drug high, hip to the secrets of Negroid nights of "truckin," playing their hearts out fast hot and heavy!

Anyone with ears should own this collection!

ps another wierd side note to this is on the great Hit\
"Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)" both Tex Williams who sang it and Merle Travis who wrote it died of lung cancer!

Average customer rating: A real gem from Patty Mountain high IPUTONANEWCOAT-KingsportTN Bluegrass Soul Patty at her best

Mountain Soul Patty Loveless Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Dreamin' My Dreams Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas On Your Way Home Classics The Definitive Collection ASIN: B00005KG65 Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

1. The Boys Are Back In Town
2. The Richest Fool Alive
3. Daniel Prayed
4. Someone I Used To Know
5. Out Of Control Raging Fire
6. Rise Up Lazarus
7. Cheap Whiskey
8. Pretty Little Miss
9. I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still)
10. Sorrowful Angels
11. Soul Of Constant Sorrow
12. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
13. Two Coats
14. Sounds Of Loneliness

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Pikeville, Kentucky, native Patty Loveless has occasionally acknowledged her mountain-music roots on her frequently excellent albums of mainstream country. Hear, for instance, the pained, stoic version of Carter Stanley's "I'll Never Grow Tired of You" on Loveless's 1988 breakthrough, Honky Tonk Angel. Like too few of her 21st-century post-hillbilly peers could do, the singer makes Mountain Soul--an all-acoustic sampling of classics and a handful of new songs--far more than a nod to the style. Loveless's clear voice and sensitivity to narrative lyrics have made ballads her most fertile ground, and here she turns in as consistently affecting a disc as she's ever made. Whether offering a remake of Reno & Smiley's "I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still)," hard-country-influenced duets with Travis Tritt and Jon Randall ("Out of Control Raging Fire" and "Someone I Used to Know," respectively), or a rewritten "Soul of Constant Sorrow," she channels emotion in a straightforward way that could serve as a master class for many current vocalists. Even while celebrating a sound rooted in another time, though, Loveless takes an artistic chance or two: Darrell Scott's long, downbeat story song "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" isn't the record's best cut, but it's one of its most intriguing. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

A real gem from Patty.......2007-06-30

The first two cuts on the album didn't move me too much (not that they were bad), but I really started to listen hard later in the album. Patty has THE voice for this kind of music. I almost got the feeling you could close your eyes and go back to the 1950's and you'd hear exactly this same sound and the same instruments. That song about Harlan, KY has a real haunting quality about it, and for me it's definitely one of my favorites. I had bought the album some time ago, listened to it and put it up, but I'm definitely enjoying it more the second time around.

Mountain high.......2007-05-14

In today's country music climate, it's a brave soul who issues a true-blue traditional Bluegrass and Gospel album. Patty Loveless dares and wins, triumphantly. This, her eleventh album, failed to get much airplay when released in 2001 (because it was so out of the mainstream) but was a moderate success anyway, and has maintained a steady following since. Quite simply, you'll love this album if it happens to be your 'kind of thing'. Listen to the samples and you'll know if it is or not. Come to think of it, given that used copies are now so cheap, why not give it a try even if you're not sure if it is your kind of thing? It might grow on you.

IPUTONANEWCOAT-KingsportTN.......2007-03-08

The service was great-the music was much better than I expected. The CD was ordered for one song, "Old Coat" but every song on the CD was enjoyable.

Bluegrass Soul.......2007-01-10

Patty has created a truly wonderful work in bluegrass style that is in my mind her true calling. Country may be more marketable so if she never does another bluegrass album I'll simply thank her for this one and wish her the best.

Patty at her best.......2006-11-29

When you do what you love it shows. I bought this before I went on a road trip through the Smokies (like how no trip through the Rockies can be done w/o a John Denver CD). I was pleasantly suprised and enjoyed it immensely. Patty's voice was made for this type of music.

Average customer rating: Ray Charles:The Complete Country & Western Holy Cow...!!! The album that changed music just got better Nothing Got By This Guy A Ray Of Pure Light

Ray Charles: The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986 Ray Charles Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Blues | Box Sets | Stores | Music R&B & Soul | Box Sets | Stores | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) Standards The Birth Of Soul : The Complete Atlantic Rhythm & Blues Recordings, 1952-1959 Genius + Soul = Jazz/My Kind of Jazz ASIN: B00000C41G Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

1. Bye Bye Love
2. You Don't Know Me
3. Half As Much
4. I Love You So Much It Hurts
5. Just A Little Lovin'
6. Born To Lose
7. Worried Mind
8. It Makes No Difference Now
9. You Win Again
10. Careless Love
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
12. Hey, Good Lookin'
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. No Letter Today
15. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
16. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles
17. Midnight
18. Oh, Lonesome Me
19. Take These Chains From My Heart
20. Your Cheating Heart
21. I'll Never Stand In Your Way
22. Making Believe
23. Teardrops In My Heart
24. Hang Your Head In Shame

Tracks:

1. I'm Movin' On
2. Busted
3. No One To Cry To
4. Move It On Over
5. Love's Gonna Live Here (Swingova)
6. I'm A Fool To Care
7. Crying Time
8. Together Again
9. I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Swingova)
10. I Don't Care
11. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Swingova)
12. Don't Let Her Know
13. Please Say You're Fooling
14. She's Lonesome Again
15. A Born Loser
16. A Girl I Used To Know
17. Here We Go Again
18. When I Stop Dreamin'
19. If You Were Mine
20. Your Love Is So Doggone Good
21. Don't Change On Me
22. Till I Can't Take It Anymore
23. You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
24. I Keep It Hid
25. Sweet Memories
26. Good Morning Dear
27. Bonus Track 1

Tracks:

1. Ring Of Fire
2. What Am I Living For
3. The Three Bells
4. All I Ever Need Is You
5. Wichita Lineman
6. Down In The Valley
7. Take Me Home, Country Roads
8. Never Ending Song Of Love
9. Come Live With Me
10. Sunshine
11. We Had It All
12. (Turn Out The Light And) Love Me Tonight
13. I Wish You Were Here Tonight
14. Ain't Your Memory Got No Pride At All
15. Born To Love Me
16. I Don't Want No Stranger Sleepin' In My Bed
17. Let Your Love Flow
18. You Feel Good All Over
19. You've Got The Longest Leaving Act In Town
20. String Bean

Tracks:

1. 3/4 Time
2. Shakin' Your Head
3. I Had It All
4. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
5. Woman Sensuous Woman
6. Then I'll Be Over You
7. If I Were You
8. Workin' Man's Woman
9. Two Old Cats Like Us
10. This Old Heart (Is Gonna Rise Again)
11. We Didn't See A Thing
12. Who Cares
13. Friendship
14. It Ain't Gonna Worry My Mind
15. Little Hotel Room
16. Crazy Old Soldier
17. Seven Spanish Angels
18. The Pages Of My Mind
19. Slip Away
20. Anybody With The Blues
21. A Little Bit Of Heaven
22. Dixie Moon

Amazon.com

Feeling is what Ray Charles is all about--straight from the gut, exposed and vulnerable, real. And because it's the feeling of his music that matters most to him, whether it's found in the words he's singing or the notes he's playing, he has never seen any reason to limit himself to any particular style. He's played blues and gospel, jazz and soul, pop and rock and country, and for a half century now he's scored hits and created masterpieces with just about all of it--very often all of it at once! But no matter how startlingly dynamic his arrangements, the focus is always the feeling in Charles's voice. It's such an expressive, soulful instrument that, regardless of what's swirling around it--strings? gospel choir? pedal-steel guitar? all of the above?--it still demands the center of attention. Charles's version of country music takes the listener to unexpected places, musically and emotionally. Hearing all of his interactions with C&W pulled together like this simply amazes. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

Ray Charles:The Complete Country & Western.......2007-02-06

Album just great I play it every day,and enjoy it tremendesly. I would recommend it to any one who likes Ray &country.

Holy Cow...!!!.......2005-08-07

Holy Cow!!! This is what country music is and should be all about. Honest,heartfelt, raw emtion! Everyone needs to take a lesson.

This is the best Ray Charles box set by far.

The album that changed music just got better.......2005-06-24

Modern Sound in C&W is one of those albums that changed the course of popular music; nothing was the same ever since. The version in this box set is remastered and sounds so much better that the single CD. Just for that I am glad I traded my old CD for this. The rest of the stuff is not as great as the original album (like most every other album released ever since!), but it is all very very good. If you got even the slightest interest in country music or Ray CHarles, this is for you. Each CD is FULL with music, they really tried to put as many tracks as possible into 4 CD's, so even if you get 4 CD's, you are actually getting twice as much music as you would ususally find in 4 CDs. Liner notes are not too great, a detail session by session is missing, but this is definitely worth the price.

Nothing Got By This Guy.......2005-01-14

It seems as if Ray kept an ear on country music throughout his life, long after the success of 1962's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. This fine package goes on for YEARS after that. And they are all very good beause of his delivery. He starts out with "Bye Bye Love" done up by both Webb Pierce and the Everly Brothers in the 50s AND "You Don't Know Me" co-written by Cindy Walker, a prolific songwriter, and its singer "Tennessee Plowboy" Eddy Arnold (although Eddy actually was sort of an early "Countrypolitan" singer with about 30 #1 hits.) The package continues on with songs by longtime writer/singer Floyd Tillman, Ted Deffan ("his "Born to Lose" and "Worried Mind" were on the 1962 album though he never made the big time himself), governor Jimmie Davis, Don Gibson, Hank Williams, Sr.,Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, The Browns, Chet Atkins, Willie Nelson; the list goes on and on. The only one I question is "What Am I Living For?", the last song of King of the Stroll Chuck Willis, a black blues shouter, before his early death. Whatever. I bet if Ray was still with us, he'd still have an ear out for country music. If you think country music is hokey--maybe sometimes it is--it isn't so when the Genius does it. Trust me.

A Ray Of Pure Light.......2002-12-06

With the exception of cd no:4 (which sounds too eighties for me) this is simply marvellous. I wouldn't call it soul, jazz or country - it's none of that, and all of it at the same time. "Take Me Home Country Roads" is way better than John Denvers version, "Ring Of Fire" sounds better than when Johnny Cash plays it. And the list goes on and on. "You Are My Sunshine" is another classic that Ray Charles breathes new life into.
This cd-box is quite expensive, but it's worth it. Three discs or four...

Average customer rating: just what i was looking for Billy Joe Royal -Greatest Hits Good Music The Great Come Back Hits The Royal Treatment

Billy Joe Royal - Greatest Hits [Atlantic] Billy Joe Royal Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | 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 R&B | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tell It Like It Is Very Best of: The Columbia Years 1965-1972 Super Hits Best of Billy Joe Royal Down in the Boondocks/Cherry Hill Park ASIN: B000002IQP Release Date: 1991-02-12

Tracks:

1. Burned Like A Rocket
2. I Miss You Already
3. Love Has No Right
4. Old Bridges Burn Slowly
5. Boardwalk Angel
6. I'll Pin a Note On Your Pillow
7. Till I Can't Take it Anymore
8. Tell It Like It Is
9. Out of Sight And On My Mind
10. It Keeps Right On Hurtin'

Customer Reviews:

just what i was looking for.......2007-01-20

after looking at numerous sites for this item, amazon was the only site to have it. I love this cd. It is great.

Billy Joe Royal -Greatest Hits.......2006-02-01

I have always loved Billy Joe Royal and anything he sings.I really love this CD it has all my favorite songs on it.

Good Music.......2006-01-30

A good collection of Billy Joe's music with one exception. Where is the duet with Donna Fargo? One of the best country duets of all time "Members Only"!

The Great Come Back Hits.......2005-05-15

Billy Joe Royal's chance at the Great Come Back to Fame was parallel to one of America's great disastors. Royal had just made a great rise in the music charts with "Burned Like A Rocket" when the Challenger disastor made the new hit a morbid reminder. Royal would answer the set-back with "I miss you already" and "Pin a note on your pillow" let his fans know that he was serious in his come back. Old standards like "It keeps right on a hurtin'" were tooled by Royal's unique voice. A true fan will appreciate "old Bridges burn Slow." Royal pulls from the talented song writers of Buddy Buie, Ron Reynolds, and others to make their songs truely "Royal."

The Royal Treatment.......2003-03-03

I first heard Billy Joe Royal's "Down in the Boondocks" when my parents were playing LPs one nigh when I was about six. I was hooked from that moment. I have yet to hear a song from Royal that I haven't liked. He has an extremely unique voice that adds such a deep emotion to every song. I'm sure it has to do with his acute stage fright. He really *is* packing in the intense emotion!

This isone of a few CDs that I can put in and play start to finish and usually plat again. The only thing that could make it better is if the song, 'The Hard Times" was on it. Evidently, that was not a nig hit for Royal at any point. Too bad, as it is my all time favorite of his. I have a nasty habit of falling in love with obscure songs that rarely pop up anywhere. It's my curse, I suppose.

Average customer rating: REAL Country Music for a Change San Diego Tribune and Des Mones City View reviews I SMELL GASOLINE!!!

Mile Markers Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash Manufacturer: Thirty Tigers ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Walk Alone Distance Between Hacienda Brothers Dark and Weary World Little Rock ASIN: B000AQKYMS Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

1. Austin Night
2. The Road To Bakersfield
3. California Sky
4. Borderline of the Heart
5. King of the World
6. Radio Girl
7. Night Comes Down
8. Restless Heart
9. Are You Lonely Tonight?
10. No Easy Road
11. Under Your Spell
12. The Pride of Abilene

Album Description

Mile Markers is just what the name says: a set of signs posted to guide the way home. . . or maybe point out the direction that has home in the rear view mirror.

Set in the West, it rambles and wanders and aims the steering wheel out at the endless horizon. A halfways unfolded road map, it passes through Austin and Tucson and San Ysidro and Los Angeles, through the badlands of both South Dakota and New Mexico, from Oklahoma and the windy Panhandle country around Abilene all the way to Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley.

But Mile Markers is a spiritual voyage as much as a mere travelogue, a set of tales that turns into a single song of journeying forth.

It's like a Western, in a way. It's "The Searchers," or "Ride the High Country," or" High Plains Drifter." Or even"Two-Lane Blacktop" or "The Getaway," because it's set in a contemporary West divided by white lines and asphalt, and settled by truckstops and parking lots. It's a landscape of big skies and long roads and endless Mile Markers flying by at the edge of your vision. And like every true Western ever, contemporary or not, it's a story of drifting and settling, of setting down roots and then having them torn up again, of learning that you don't dare settle down when you're just going to be forced to hit the road again.

For Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons, the last ten years has been a blur of miles and markers. BSOJC has played more shows most years than most bands do in their entire careers, and they've done it the hard way, piling their own gear into their own van, and then heading off into a dark night that's just a couple of hours away from day. A lot of indie bands have done a lot of this, but not many have made the long haul across an entire decade. And amidst that grueling schedule, Stewart has managed to keep writing, delivering two previous records, Walk Alone and Distance Between, that built a hardcore fanbase for the band and yet achieved a critical recognition that most singer-songwriters would slit their left wrist to gain. It was an enviable position, as long as you didn't have to do all the work that went with it.

Customer Reviews:

REAL Country Music for a Change.......2006-03-19

Listening to the Bastard Sons' music makes you want to grab a ice-cold longneck and Belly up to the nearest bar. Mile Markers is some of the band's best stuff and in my opinion "Road to Bakersfield" may be one of their best ever which is saying alot. If you're tired of the cookie-cutter type music played on "country" stations, give The Bastards a listen! I'll see ya at the bar.

"The Honky-tonks have all gone away but Buck and Merle are here to stay, on the Road to Bakersfield".

San Diego Tribune and Des Mones City View reviews.......2005-10-03

"Mature tales of life on the road and lost love as seen by Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash through the windshield of a van carrying them through thousands of miles of desert highways abound on the alt-country outfit's third and finest album, "Mile Markers." The album's lead track, "Austin Nights," sets the pace for much of "Mile Markers" with a mesmerizing groove, touches of sweeping Spanish and steel guitars, an unforgettable melody and deft lyrics of wanderlust delivered by Stuart's trademark warm timbre. "King of the World" is a clever observation of the trials of maintaining a relationship while living on the road and "California Sky" is a touching tribute to the band's home state. These songs, and others, are as cool and arid as a moonlight drive through the desert and they resonate with hope as they travel through the great unknown."

Michael Swanger --
Des Moines City View

"Unwinding like a country road movie, "Mile Markers" offers twangy slices of Southwestern life. San Diego's favorite Bastard Sons take "The Road to Bakersfield" after spending an "Austin Night" with the character-conscious Texas singer-songwriters (Townes the drifter would've been proud). The Telecaster and steel-guitar sound is potent, but it's Mark Stuart's lived-in vocals that stand out, notably on the closing-time ballad "Are You Lonely Tonight?""

Mikel Toombs
San Diego Union Tribune

I SMELL GASOLINE!!!.......2005-09-23

So are you tired, like me, of the overly produced, slick as a linoleum slate of endless pseudo country music dribble? Do you have a hard time telling one band or singer from another. Drones of clones... it just goes on and on. I threw out my radio a long time ago, my friends. They won't play these Bastards! And that is the shame of the state of the country music business today. Luckily, the "ALT - COUNTRY" music scene is saving the day, and these guys are at the top of my list for grit, power, emotion and steam. They are the musical equivalent of an 18 wheeled highway locomotive, the kind that leaves your windshield smoke stained with gasoline fumes as you follow them down that lost desert highway. You've got Johnny Cash playing at full volume. You could pass on by, but no, you're hooked on the diesel fumes, so you ride in their wake, cause they know where they're going and you want to get there too.
I love these guys. I've been following them since the late 90s, almost from the start, hitting every show they've done here in Phoenix. After the shows, I would talk to Mark Stuart and the band, listening to all their war stories about the road, the honky tonks, and the near collisions with both drivers and fame. Like the time they recorded in Johnny Cash's famed cabin, and the feeling he left behind there. They have his blessings and they'll need it, because you ain't gonna find a country DJ with the balls to say "Bastard Sons" on the air.
I truly didn't think they could top the eerie, mystical sounds of their last album, Distance Between (a masterpiece in sonic layers of emotion), but they did it here, with Mile Markers. All the tales I heard them tell of their woes on the road are celebrated in this masterful song cycle of true Americana. It's Route 66 in your ears! You can just smell the burning rubber and gasoline. Each song is like a much needed rest stop along the endless freeway, when you step out onto the pavement of a brightly lit truckstop and feel the breeze of our great nation blowing through your hair. My favorite is UNDER YOUR SPELL. You know what I'm talking about guys, that sultry waitress at the Diner, where you can't stand the food, but you keep coming back for another whiff of her seductive perfume.
KING OF THE WORLD and RADIO GIRL are gems that we should be hearing on the radio, politically incorrect band name or not. I want to hear this stuff blairing out somebody's car radio for a change, instead of that damned rap crap! YEAH!!! I want to hear it playing on the Juke Boxes clean across this here country. This is music that defines our country's heritage!
Mark Stuart is a prolific songwriter, with nearly as many unreleased songs in the vault as Neil Young himself. As a matter of fact him and old Neil are the only two guys left who can really write a good song any more.
So what's fifteen bucks for a trip down route 66, at today's gas prices, it's a bargain!!
Now go to your windows, stick your heads out and shout
"I SMELL GASOLINE!!!!!!!"

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