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Junior, however, is also the undisputed master of the "guit-steel," a device of his own creation that combines an electric guitar and lap steel. In addition to possessing a virtuoso repertoire of vintage twangy Nashville licks, throughout GREATEST HITS Brown displays a rocker's love of pure sound, even drawing upon Speedy West and Jimi Hendrix in a single song ("Sugar Foot Rag"). In addition to early favorites such as "My Wife Thinks You're Dead," highlights include the blue-collar anthem "Joe the Singing Janitor" and "Semi-Crazy," a bouncy honky-tonker sung as a duet with trucker-country legend Red Simpson.
When Junior Brown burst on the national scene in the early 1990s, aficionados of traditional country music immediately sat up and took notice. While several other modern artists had tried to capture the spirit of 1950s and '60s country prior to Brown's debut, here was a guy who possessed such a mastery of classic styles that he made Dwight Yoakam sound like Alabama. With a resonant baritone part Hank Thompson and part Johnny Cash, and a songwriting style that owed a major debt to his hero Ernest Tubb, Brown would have commanded attention even if he never picked up a guitar.
Personnel: Junior Brown; Red Simpson.
Greatest Hits Music Review Purchase Greatest Hits CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Flaco Jimenez Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio Y Mas! CD (1986)
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Lyrics translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Hernandaz, Yolanda Zepeda and Jaime Nicolopulos.
Following on from his father Santiago Jimenez' own successful run as a conjunto musician in San Antonio, Flaco Jimenez put together a conjunto of his own in the '50s, eventually becoming one of the most famous figures in Tex-Mex music (also known as Musica Nortena in Mexico). Based on the polkas and waltzes Mexican performers refashioned as rancheras, the Tex-Mex conjunto style features accordion, the 12-string bajo sexto guitar, bass, and drums. Flaco immediately staked his claim in the music with a distinctly imaginative and lively accordion style, finding the ideal backing from equally able Tejano musicians, including his father and his son David. For this excellent 1985 recording, Flaco teams up with noted bandleader ...
| | Junior Brown Mixed Bag CD (2001)
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The quirky country and roots rocker with the self-fashioned "Big Red" double-necked steel guitar always seems like he's got his tongue in his cheek, whether he's doing a travelogue tale by Jerry Hubbard ("Guitar Man") or a hilarious spy romance fable ("Cagey Bea"). Brown and his extreme tenor have their sweeter, romantic side in full bloom here as well ("Our First Bluebonnet ...
| | Johnny Otis 1945-1947 CD (2002)
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Growing up among Afro-Americans in Berkeley, CA, Greek-American Johnny Otis (born John Veliotes) always identified strongly with people of color. Before he had attained the age of 20 he was gigging with black jazz bands throughout the Southwest, and eventually organized an ensemble deliberately patterned after Count Basie's orchestra. This highly charged album of historical musical artifacts documents the very beginning of Johnny Otis' recording career. With one apparently unobtainable exception, the Classics Blues & Rhythm Series has assembled all of Otis' Excelsior recordings, made in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1947. This provides background and context for his more well-known Savoy material, and indeed for everything this amazing person accomplished ...
| | Junior Brown Down Home Chrome CD (2004)
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On DOWN HOME CHROME, ace guitarist/singer Junior Brown offers up more of his ought-to-be-patented synthesis of 1960s honky-tonk country and surf- and blues-rock styles. With a deep, smooth voice out of the Ernest Tubb/Del Reeves school of crooning, a double-necked guitar, and an overall sound that encompasses influences as diverse as Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix, and ...
| | Alexis Korner Kornerstoned: Anthology 1958-1983 CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
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While MUSICALLY RICH...AND FAMOUS documents the second half of British blues ...
| | Junior Brown Live At The Continental Club: The Austin Experience CD (2005)
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If Junior Brown were going to record a live album anywhere, it may as well be at the Continental Club in Austin, TX; Brown played a five-year Sunday night residency there in the 1990s that helped launch the maverick picker into the national limelight, and if there was ever a town made to embrace Brown's wild fusion of country, rock, surf, jazz, and anything else that could make its way through his fingers onto his "guit-steel," it's the Texas capitol that's also one of America's greatest cities for all sorts of live music. Brown and his band made their way back to their old stomping ...
| | Steve Spurgin Distant Faces CD (1996)
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| | Skeeter Davis Blueberry Hill/End Of The World CD (2004)
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2 LPs on 1 CD. BLUEBERRY HILL (1965)/THE END OF THE WORLD (1973).
In 2004 Collectables combined Skeeter Davis' 1965 album Blueberry Hill and her 1973 album The End of the World on one disc. Blueberry Hill finds Davis firmly in country-pop territory. Her strong vocals are surrounded by strings and syrupy arrangements and many of the songs are simple and corny ("The Little Music Box," "Lost to a Geisha Girl"). Davis sounds fully invested in the songs, though, and her aching sound manages to overcome the less than invigorating surroundings. The best songs are those that she wrote or co-wrote herself. "Somebody Else on Your Mind," "Homebreaker," and the bleak "Give Me Death" are the least over-produced and therefore most honest sounding tracks here, and unsurprisingly perhaps Davis sounds the most honest too. Not a great album by any means, but there are glimmers of Davis at her best. The End of the World shows how Davis' earnest, almost childlike vocal approach didn't fare very well when straying outside the realm of country. She turns in a fine version of the chestnut "Am I That Easy to Forget," sweetly harmonizing with herself, and her take on the country-pop "Angel of ...
| | Best Country Love Songs CDs (2004)
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| | Le Piu Belle Canzoni Di Pierangelo Bertoli CD (2000) (Import) Australia
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| | Chapa Buyers Ride CD (2005)
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Thanks to the magic of the internet, the unknown band OJO, were revealed to me mixing a lot of different styles with success of their debut album, Minutia. The group themselves split up 4 years ago. A very sad day for OJO, which had some special music with the potential to conquer many eager ears. With the fall ...
| | 20th Century Masters: Best Of 90S Dance CD (2006)
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| | John Williams Memoirs Of A Geisha CD (2008) (Import)
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| | Dufrene Matter Of Time CD (2009)
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I have been a songwriter/singer for decades. I grew up with this gift always around me. It’s a lot of fun and work at the same time. This CD is a compilation of some earlier and many new songs that we put together for this release. My son Dallas led in the way the record flows from song to song. He liked something about all of them. Essentially, I’m a self-taught musician ...
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