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Purchase Country Gold CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Toby Keith American Ride CD (2009)
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With most contemporary country artists, you could guarantee that a song called "American Ride" would be a slice of jingoism, but Toby Keith isn't like most country singers. His "American Ride" casts a cynical eye at desperate housewives and wannabe pop stars, not celebrating down-home values but wondering where we're all headed on this American Ride at the end of the 2000s, a sentiment not all that far removed from some of Keith's previous social commentary, which makes it a mild surprise that it is the only song here that doesn't come from his own pen. As superb and striking as it is, it's not necessarily a good keystone for the rest of the record, which does have a few tougher numbers that pick up on the lean, mean vibe of 2008's THAT DON'T MAKE ME A BAD GUY -- "Every Dog Has Its Day," the sly "If I Had One," and the heavy blues stomp "Loaded" -- but spends more time on the softer side, even when he kicks up a bit of dust on the dancefloor on "You Can't Read My Mind" or does a funny, respectful salute to military life on "Ballad of Balad." In other words, ...
| | Lorrie Morgan Moment In Time CD (2009)
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Lorrie Morgan is no ...
| | LeBlanc & Carr Midnight Light CD (1978)
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| | Guy Clark Somedays The Song Writes You CD (2009)
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| | Essential Willie Nelson CDs (2003) Limited Edition; Remastered
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This CD commemorates Willie Nelson's 70th Birthday ...
| | John Schneider Greatest Hits CD (1987)
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| | Richard Shindell Sparrows Point CD (1992)
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Though he would come to notoriety in the late '90s through Joan Baez and Dar Williams' cover versions of his songs, and his participation in Cry, Cry, Cry, a trio including Williams and Lucy Kaplansky, Shindell seemed to come out of nowhere with 1992's SPARROW'S POINT. His rich baritone is reminiscent of John Gorka (with whom Shindell played in a college group), and his dark, poetic songs show the influence of Richard Thompson and Leonard Cohen.
Nevertheless, Shindell is a complete original, and this debut shows an artist already fully formed, thanks in part to an apprenticeship on the do-or-die New York singer-songwriter ...
| | Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital CD (1975)
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| | Black & Blue Ultimate Collection CD (2001)
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$9.55
Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (Universal Mastering Studios West, North Hollywood, California).
In the summer of 2001, Discover Card ran a Behind the Music parody of an '80s hair metal band called Danger Kitty who crashed and burned, spending all their money within the span of two years (they were a little wrong on the timing, claiming that the band hit it big in 1984, two and a half to three years earlier than the big hair metal boom, but only a donkers like me would point that out). If it wasn't for their sub-biker jeans and sheer boneheadedness, Black 'N' Blue would be that band since they for all the world sound like a parody. This is a band that in all seriousness wrote a song called "Rockin' on Heaven's Door," sang "Heat It Up! Burn It Out!" and "Get Wise to the Rise," and belted out "Nasty, Nasty" and "Bombastic Plastic" -- all songs that are every bit as ridiculous as their titles, even sillier, actually. They also did a song called "I'll Be There for You" a few years before Bon Jovi did, but they weren't exactly prescient -- they just stumbled through their career, seeing a couple thousand of faces and rocking a handful of 'em. Listening to Hip-O's 2001 20-track overview is entertaining, but only because you're gawking at this historical oddity -- a band that couldn't have existed at any other time, yet had little success during their era and sounding irrevocably tied to their era. It's a weird conundrum, and while it's worth a voyeuristic giggle for metalheads and rock geeks, it's not particularly worth more than one spin. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
In the summer of 2001, Discover Card ran a Behind the Music parody of an '80s hair metal band called Danger Kitty who crashed and burned, spending all their money within the span of two years (they were a little wrong on the timing, claiming that the band hit it big in 1984, two and a half to three years earlier than the big hair metal boom, but only a donkers like me would point that out). If it wasn't for their sub-biker jeans and sheer boneheadedness, Black 'N' Blue would be that band since they for all the world sound like a parody. This is a band that in all seriousness wrote a song called "Rockin' on Heaven's Door," sang "Heat It Up! Burn It Out!" and "Get Wise to the Rise," and belted out "Nasty, Nasty" and "Bombastic Plastic" -- all songs that are every bit as ridiculous as their titles, even sillier, actually. Listening to Hip-O's 2001 20-track overview is entertaining but ...
| | Stanley Brothers Complete Mercury Recordings CDs (2003) Remastered
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Recorded between 1953 & 1958. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.
Major label Universal, which controls the catalog of Mercury Records, has taken a welcome, if belated, interest in the recordings made for Mercury by the Stanley Brothers during their tenure there from 1953 to 1958, issuing a full-priced compilation, Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings in 1995, and an entry in the midline-priced 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection series of artist best-ofs in 2002. Annotator Mary Katherine Aldin makes no bones about the reason for Universal's decision to plump for this two-disc set of the Stanley Brothers' complete Mercury recordings, mentioning the appearance of the track "Angel Band" on the multi-million-selling O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack in the opening paragraph of her liner notes. The success of that 2000 ...
| | Richard Germer Gehn' Wir Heut' Nach H CD (2006) (Import) Import; Germany
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| | Nathan B Tel Aviv-Haifa CD (2009)
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