Mavericks - In Time Audio CD

In Time songs "What A Crying Shame" was nominated for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. You can wear the hat and cop the pose, but can you walk the walk and talk that talk? The Mavericks can. In a climate of empty Stetsons and canned corn, The Mavericks hearken back to a time when rock and roll and country first began to dance (were they ever really that far apart?). A time when the songs musicians sang and the lives they led were one and the same. WHAT A CRYING SHAME is a classic that's built for ...

In Time music CDs Emerging in the early 1990s, the Mavericks were a new breed of country band. They were schooled in the Bakersfield verities of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, but equally influenced by pop/rock and soul of the '60s, and never as slick-sounding or overtly commercial as '80s crossover stars like Alabama or Eddie Rabbitt. Singer Raul Malo's soaring tenor garnered endless comparisons to Roy Orbison (a likeness furthered by some of the songs' arrangements), but he had just as much in common with Los Lobos' David Hidalgo. THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION documents the Miami band's career through 1998, spotlighting every aspect of the eclectic ensemble's sound. The admittedly Orbison-like acoustic ballad ...

In Time CD music MCA/Universal has launched a midline-priced series of "best-of" compilations under the blanket title Icon, and versatile country-pop outfit the Mavericks are one of the many acts who've had a dozen or so of their hits assembled onto a disc for the series. Icon is the ninth collection drawn from the Mavericks' back catalog to be issued by MCA/Universal (pretty impressive for a band that only released six studio albums), and if you have one of the earlier hits collections (particularly the band-assembled Super Colossal Smash Hits of the 90's or the double-disc Gold), you won't need this set, which avoids rarities or unreleased material. But if you'd like ...