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Venturing out on her own after her mother and singing partner, Naomi, disbanded their hugely successful country duo, the Judds, Wynonna released this accomplished and wildly popular solo debut in 1992. Initially uncertain about pursuing a solo career, Wynonna crafted a thoroughly assured album that features stellar musicians such as guitarist Marty Stuart, mandolin player Sam Bush, and bassist Leland Sklar, as well as a little background vocal help from her mom. In addition to shining the spotlight on Wynonna's powerful voice, the record also reveals a tendency toward more dynamic material, whether it's the rock-tinged opener "What It Takes," the smooth pop tune "My Strongest Weakness," or the soulful gospel number "Live with Jesus." WYNONNA also features the gentle "She Is His Only Need" and the energetic "No One Else on Earth," both of which were hit singles. Solidifying her standing as a promising solo artist, this outing laid the groundwork for Wynonna's even more impressive follow-up, TELL ME WHY.
Personnel: Wynonna Judd (vocals); Paul Kennerly (various instruments, background vocals); Don Potter, Steuart Smith (acoustic & electric guitars); Marty Stuart, George Marinelli (electric guitar); Sam Bush (mandolin); John Barlow Jarvis, Matt Rollings, Steve Nathan, Barry Beckett (keyboards); Leland Sklar, Willie Weeks (bass); Eddie Bayers, Rick Marotta (drums); Naomi Judd, Gary Chapman, Donna McElroy, Dave Loggins, Judy Rodman, Andrew Gold, Jonell Mosser, John Cowan (background vocals).
Engineers: Chuck Ainlay, Steve Tillisch, Paul Kennerly.
Rolling Stone (5/28/92, p.52) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...WYNONNA is an album informed by integrity and wisdom, begging no classification save that of powerful, stirring, ennobling music....It's easily the most important release by a country artist so far this decade..."
Q (7/92, p.94) - 3 Stars - Good - "...has an honest, unforced style that speaks for the solid qualities of middle America's favorite music..."
Musician (6/93, p.90) - "...a country crossover in the truest sense....skews pop the old-fashioned way, with soulful singing, funky rhythm work and conventionally catchy melodies..." Wynonna Review
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Purchase Wynonna CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Carter Family 1927-1934 CDs (2002) (Import) United Kingdom
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A comprehensive budget compilation by the dependable JSP label, the five-disc 1927-1934 fully covers the first seven years of the Carter Family's musical career and features recordings that are the basis of the trio's honored place in the country music firmament. The set starts, appropriately enough, with the Carters' six contributions to Ralph Peer's legendary 1927 recording sessions in Bristol, Tennessee, and then chronologically wades through every released side that A.P., Sara, and Maybelle recorded for RCA Victor. (This excludes alternate takes that are readily available on Rounder and Bear Family reissues covering the same era.)
Unlike similar collections, where much of the listening intrigue comes from charting the artists' development, the Carters' sound is presented fully formed from the opening track, ...
| | Carter Family 1935-1941 Vol. 2 CDs (2003) (Import) United Kingdom
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British label JSP offers another of their fine budget collections on The Carter Family, Vol. 2: 1935-1941. On 129 songs collected on five CDs, this second volume in the series gives a complete overview of the first family of country music's later years. Legendary songs like "Can the Circle Be Unbroken," "Keep on the Sunny Side," "No Depression," "Single Girl, Married Girl," and "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" are all represented, and the sound quality is slightly more even than on the first JSP box, The Carter Family: ...
| | Dierks Bentley CD (2003) Enhanced CD
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Though the front cover of country singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley's debut album finds him posing with a floppy-eared dog and looking like a prime-time TV star, he's considerably hipper than that image might suggest. For one thing, he doesn't employ the members of the Nashville studio mafia who seem to crop up on virtually every major-label country album. For another, he's no pre-fab artist; he co-wrote almost every song here, and for outside material he turned to estimable country mavericks Buddy & Julie Miller ("My Love Will Follow You"). The production is kept agreeably low-key, and there are no Journey-with-steel-guitar power ballad abominations. Bentley shows his true colors most plainly at the album's end, closing with a self-penned bluegrass-flavored tune where he's backed by none other than the legendary Del McCoury Band. Let's see how that one plays on CMT.
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Recorded at Station West and Ocean Way Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
Personnel: Dierks Bentley (vocals); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, banjo); Steven Sheehan (acoustic guitar); J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); Mike Johnson, Rusty Danmyer (steel guitar); Jimmy Carter (bass); Steve Brewster ...
| | Very Best Of John Michael Montgomery CD (2003)
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Recorded between 1992 & 2002. Includes liner notes by Robert K. Oermann.
Though he has always essentially been a new traditionalist country singer in the vein of Aaron Tippin and George Strait, John Michael Montgomery found his greatest success with smooth, romantic ballads that recall the work of Glenn Frey as much as that of Merle Haggard. THE VERY BEST OF JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY lives up to its title by including most of the singer's finest and highest-charting singles in both styles, in the process collecting a body of work that virtually defines the "new country" phenomenon. Montgomery has the kind of soothing pipes and perfect phrasing that endear him even to ardent country-haters, and his material has the kind of straight-for-the-gut forthrightness that is sure to attract anyone tired of the irony-drenched hipper-than-thou-isms of contemporary pop. In addition to the hits, the package includes two newly recorded tracks, which easily measure up to the rest of the material here with their characteristic mix of rootsy instrumentation and wonderfully tear-jerking melodrama.
Bound for the airwaves, Montogomery's first-ever TV-marketed career-spanning compilation features all the hits, signature ballads, and two new, 2003 ...
| | Faith Hill Fireflies CD (2005)
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Coming after the relative commercial disappointment of 2002's pop-oriented CRY--and, not at all coincidentally, Gretchen Wilson's rise as the new Everygirl of country--Faith Hill's FIREFLIES is a blatant attempt to ditch the singer's glamourpuss image and reassert her country roots, such things having become fashionable again. This isn't a problem, however: Shania Twain-like chart pop wasn't Hill's forte, and FIREFLIES brings her back where she belongs.
The first single, "Mississippi Girl," is Hill's best song in years. A Dixie Chicks-like piece of sweet country-pop with a few bluegrass trimmings, the tune was written by country hitmaker John Rich. Rich also penned some of the other standouts here, like the laid-back "Sunshine and Summertime" and "Like We Never Loved At All," a dramatic, '70s-style duet between Hill and her husband Tim McGraw. Three other songs are from the catalogue of alt-country singer/songwriter Lori McKenna, taking Hill into a folkish vein similar to Mary-Chapin Carpenter. The overall lack of bombast suits Hill's girl-next-door delivery perfectly, making FIREFLIES a much-needed artistic comeback after a dubious detour.
Recording information: Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN (03/04/2004-12/09/2004); Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA (03/04/2004-12/09/2004); Emerald ENtertainment, Nashville, TN (03/04/2004-12/09/2004); ...
| | Joe Nichols III CD (2005)
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| | Countdown Singers Hot Hits: Country Hits CDs (2000)
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| | Jason's Lyric CD (1994) Original Soundtrack
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Where many of the soundtracks to movies about contemporary black culture tend to emphasize the new jack aspects of today's sounds, the songs which make up JASON'S LYRICS portray a much richer vision of inner city life.
That's because this tale of inner city brothers whose father has been killed--one caught up in the gangsta life, the other trying to stay on the straight and narrow--summons up a more complex web of human emotions and urban characters. Thus the range of music represented here, while steeped in the new jack conventions of modern hip-hop, establishes a solid set of connections with the foundation of modern black music: gospel, blues and soul.
Thus you have the spiritual epilogue of Oleta Adams' "Many Rivers To Cross," and the gospel-inflected overture of "U Will Know" by B.M.U., with its Southern soul groove, all-star contemporary cast and unyielding positivity. "If Trouble Was Money" (by Mint Condition and the late blues guitarist Albert Collins) and "This City Needs Help" (by guitarist Buddy Guy) match contemporary soul balladry to powerful traditional blues forms, while on "Nigga Sings The Blues," Spice declaims a powerful double-time rap over soulful strings, wah-wah guitar and juke joint organ. But by contrast, "First Round Draft Pick" (from The Twinz/G Funk Era) and "Brothers And Sistas" (by Jayo Felony) contrast soft focus West Coast backgrounds against dark, fatalistic rhapsodies in blue.
Jason's Lyric left the theaters quickly, but the soundtrack is an impeccable collection of contemporary urban R&B and hip-hop. In fact, it's more consistently entertaining than many albums released by the artists featured on the record. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Audio Mixer: Charles "Prince Charles" Alexander .
Recording information: Battery Studios, New York, NY; Capitol Studios, CA; CRC Studios, IL; Sweat Shop, GA; Victory Studios, Philadelphis.
Producers: Brian McKnight, D'Angelo (track 1); Kenny Whitehead (track 2); Chad "Dr. Ceuss" Elliott (tracks 3, 7); Mint Condition (track 4); Dwayne Wiggins (track 5); James Mtume ...
| | African Rhythms & Instruments, Vol. 2 CD (1969) (Import)
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| | David Allan Coe Original Outlaw CD (1995)
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Digitally remastered by M.C. Rather & Hollis Flat (Custom Mastering, Nashville, Tennessee.
Despite this album's title and David Allan Coe's reputation as the baddest of '70s country music's bad boys, the singer soft-pedals the bad-ass quotient here. Coe's infamous rough-and-tumble side is expressed most obviously on a pair of self-penned tunes, the rocking, self-explanatory "Fuzzy Was an Outlaw," and the holy-hooker narrative "Mary Magdeline," where Coe places the tale of Jesus in a modern setting a la ...
| | Anuna Cynara CD (2000)
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| | Son Doobie Doobie Deluxe CD (2004)
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| | Don Gibson I Love No One But You Ea CD (Import)
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| | Natural Wonders Windscapes CD (2008)
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After coming to California from rural Chicago at age 10, David immersed himself in all the music he could find. Spending high school and college in various bands and performance groups, he then criss-crossed the country several times playing popular music. He finally settled down to concentrate on developing his own sound, and when computers and instruments could finally communicate to each other, David knew his time had come. He could now ...
| | Paul Van Dyk Volume: The Best Of CDs (2009)
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