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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Johnny Rodriguez
(more) »rank: 11151by: Johnny Rodriguez
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters
(more) »rank: 12523by: Elvis Presley
: :Elvis Presley's music in the 1970s is often dismissed as the bombastic, half-hearted hack work of an overweight, pill-addicted, badly dressed has-been. In the liner notes to this five-CD set, Dave Marsh argues that Presley, in fact, created a more impressive body of work in the '70s than almost any other pop act. And the music on this massive anthology backs Marsh up. Stripping away all the garish live recordings and album filler, the package concentrates on a core of 120 songs--the A- and B-sides of every single Presley recorded in the '70s, 46 other studio tracks (including 13 previously unreleased performances), and ...
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 2
(more) »rank: 19959by: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
: :'We've lost the living room,' Emmylou Harris says before her ethereal version of 'Mary Danced with Soldiers,' 'but today I think we got it back.' Full of back-home warmth, inspired pairings--Roseanne Cash and John Hiatt, Levon Helm and the host Nitty Gritty Dirt Band--and a song selection that walks the line between traditionals and excellent contemporary material, somehow this follow up to the barrier-breaking first volume is never nostalgic nor aimless. In fact, it's nearly as good--even John Denver sounds inspired. Jimmy Martin sings 'Sitting on Top of the World' as if his life depended on it, and Ricky Skaggs and Levon Helm ...
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Hallowed Ground
(more) »rank: 31103by: Violent Femmes
: :'We've lost the living room,' Emmylou Harris says before her ethereal version of 'Mary Danced with Soldiers,' 'but today I think we got it back.' Full of back-home warmth, inspired pairings--Roseanne Cash and John Hiatt, Levon Helm and the host Nitty Gritty Dirt Band--and a song selection that walks the line between traditionals and excellent contemporary material, somehow this follow up to the barrier-breaking first volume is never nostalgic nor aimless. In fact, it's nearly as good--even John Denver sounds inspired. Jimmy Martin sings 'Sitting on Top of the World' as if his life depended on it, and Ricky Skaggs and Levon Helm ...
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What the World Needs Now Is Love
(more) »rank: 17581by: Wynonna Judd
:Album Description:2003 album includes the hit single, 'What The World Needs', 'Flies On The Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)' feat. a special appearance by Wynonna & Naomi Judd (The Judds), 'I Want To Know What Love Is' feat. a special appearance from Jeff Beck, 'Burnin' Love' from the film 'Lilo & Stitch', & 'You Are' from the film 'Someone Like You'. 14 tracks. Curb.
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Song of the Blackbird
(more) »rank: 13110by: William Elliott Whitmore
: :The organic musical progression of this young, rural Iowan continues to impress. Though he has yet to reach 30, his gravelly voice; themes of mortality, loss, and redemption; and spare accompaniment on banjo and guitar evoke an era before electricity and indoor plumbing. Yet there's a melodic warmth and spirit of renewal here that was nowhere to be heard on Whitmore's two previous albums. As the song cycle proceeds from drought to flood, the musical narrator even proclaims himself a 'happy feller' at one point, though happiness remains barely a glimmer throughout much of his music. Both the stunning 'The Chariot' (which puts ...
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Gord's Gold, Vol. 2
(more) »rank: 6918by: Gordon Lightfoot
: :The organic musical progression of this young, rural Iowan continues to impress. Though he has yet to reach 30, his gravelly voice; themes of mortality, loss, and redemption; and spare accompaniment on banjo and guitar evoke an era before electricity and indoor plumbing. Yet there's a melodic warmth and spirit of renewal here that was nowhere to be heard on Whitmore's two previous albums. As the song cycle proceeds from drought to flood, the musical narrator even proclaims himself a 'happy feller' at one point, though happiness remains barely a glimmer throughout much of his music. Both the stunning 'The Chariot' (which puts ...
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Honeysuckle Rose
(more) »rank: 9538by: Willie Nelson & Family
: :The organic musical progression of this young, rural Iowan continues to impress. Though he has yet to reach 30, his gravelly voice; themes of mortality, loss, and redemption; and spare accompaniment on banjo and guitar evoke an era before electricity and indoor plumbing. Yet there's a melodic warmth and spirit of renewal here that was nowhere to be heard on Whitmore's two previous albums. As the song cycle proceeds from drought to flood, the musical narrator even proclaims himself a 'happy feller' at one point, though happiness remains barely a glimmer throughout much of his music. Both the stunning 'The Chariot' (which puts ...
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Put the O Back in Country
(more) »rank: 23096by: Shooter Jennings
: :Famous since infancy for his legendary parents, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings arrives at his inevitable debut with the weight of the gods on his shoulders. He attempts to point up his heritage--rather than be crushed by the weight of it--by inviting George Jones and Hank Williams Jr. to appear in spoken-word bits which bookend the record. (The Possum also contributes a weak cameo on '4th of July.') But such shilling comes off as exactly what it is, and the listener knows to expect a song about how awful Nashville is and how modern country just ain't got no soul. Jennings ...
