Tracks Personal File
- Engineer's Dying Child
- I Don't Believe You Wanted To Leave
- Fast Song
- Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)
- Who At My Door Is Standing
- Winding Stream
- Galway Bay
- Wildwood In The Pines
- It's All Over
- Half A Mile A Day
- Lord Lord Lord
- Lily Of The Valley
- What On Earth (Will You Do For Heaven's Sake)
- Look Unto The East
- Letter Edged In Black
- If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman
- In The Sweet Bye And Bye
- Lights Of Magdala
- I Wanted So
- Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
- Have Thine Own Way Lord
- When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
- Far Away Places
- Girl In Saskatoon
- Over The Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
- Jim I Wore A Tie Today
- Missouri Waltz
- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
- House Is Falling Down
- My Mother Was A Lady
- My Children Walk In Truth
- Louisiana Man
- Tiger Whitehead
- Paradise
- Way Worn Traveler
- Have A Drink Of Water
- Farther Along
- Sanctified
- There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home
- Cremation Of Sam McGee
- Seal It In My Heart And Mind
- When I Stop Dreaming
- Life's Railway To Heaven
- No Earthly Good
- It Takes One To Know Me
- One Of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul
- Saginaw Michigan
- What Is Man
- Virgie
Release date: 2006-05-22
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.04
Review Personal File / Johnny Cash:The recordings Johnny Cash started making for Rick Rubin's American label in 1993 launched a journey through the Great American Songbook-from traditional tunes to alt-rock-that continued until, literally, the end of his life. What wasn't known at the time was that Cash had anticipated the American Recordings concept 20 years earlier. A series of informal private sessions he recorded in 1973 featuring just voice and guitar-with a few numbers added between then and 1982-were left untouched at his House of Cash studio, unearthed only after his death in 2003. These 49 songs, labeled "Personal File," show him exploring 19th-century parlor tunes, Tin Pan Alley pop, gospel, little-known Cash originals, classic and contemporary country, and even a recitation of Robert Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee. " On many, his spoken introductions reveal personal ties to a given number. Cash reprises early country fare like Jimmie Rodgers's "My Mother Was a Lady" and "The Letter Edged in Black. " He also revisits later country classics like the Louvin Brothers' "When I Stop Dreaming," close friend Johnny Horton's hit "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)," John Prine's "Paradise," and stepdaughter Carlene Carter's "It Takes One to Know Me. " The second disc is a virtual hymnbook, blending traditional gospel and A. P. Carter tunes with a sacred composition by Rodney Crowell and Cash gospel originals. [+]For those enchanted by the illness-ravaged soulfulness of Cash's later American recordings, hearing him in his prime is not only breathtaking-it underscores the depth of his still-remarkable musical vision. -Rich Kienzle.
Tracks Cry
- When The Lights Go Down
- Back To You
- You're Still Here
- Baby You Belong
- One
- This Is Me
- I Think I Will
- Free
- Beautiful
- Cry
- If You're Gonna Fly Away
- Stronger
- If This Is The End
- Unsaveable
Release date: 2002-10-28
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.99
Review Cry / Faith Hill:With her big voice and soaring melodies, Faith Hill is seen in the UK as a cross between Celine Dion and Shania Twain. But musically speaking (and based upon the evidence on Cry), she's far more intriguing than either. Though often concentrating on power ballads (the title track here is another storming example), this Nashville resident has managed to combine country, rock, pop and contemporary R&B into an eminently consumable package. Cry sees Hill move into Twain territory, or rather that of Twain's husband and producer Mutt Lange. With the songs such as "One", "If This Is the End" and "I Think I Will", she employs the sweeping guitars and massive melodrama of prime-time Foreigner (one of Lange's earlier successes). In fact, she even ups the ante with her superb backing vocals, "Back to You" in particular possessing an overlapping series of brilliant melodies. There are let-downs: "Beautiful" has Faith spilling spoken-word goo over a Clapton-style guitar solo, "Unsaveable" and "Baby You Belong" are rock throwaways, and "This Is Me" features the fabulously ignorant line "I'm just like everybody else / I try to love Jesus and myself. " But all in all this very well produced album is as good as today's mainstream gets. -Dominic Wills.
Tracks Grand Tour, the/Alone Again
- Grand Tour
- Diary Of My Mind
- Her Name Is...
- Right Now I'd Come Back And Melt In Her Arms
- She'll Love The One She's With
- She Told Me So
- Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me
- She Needs Me
- Weatherman
- Over Something Good
- Who Will I Be Loving Now
- Drunk Can't Be A Man
- Our Private Life
- Borrowed Angel
- Mary Don't Go 'Round
- Darlin'
- Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)
- You're The Best Living
- Once You've Had The Best
- Stand On My Own Two Knees
- I'm All She's Got
Release date: 1999-07-12
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.00
Review Grand Tour, the/Alone Again / George Jones:Nobody has ever sung heartbreak so well as George Jones, and George Jones never had a better reason to sing heartbreak as he did when he recorded these albums in the mid-70s. His turbulent marriage to Tammy Wynette was collapsing, and his well-chronicled difficulties with a variety of substances were tightening their grip on him. It is a cruel irony that these circumstances, largely created by Jones's rarified instinct for self-destruction, seemed necessary to inspire Jones to do his best, but some singers only ever approach the heights via the depths. These albums find Jones chronicling the demise of his marriage to Wynette in unsparing detail. The title track of "The Grand Tour" is a wretched, bereft, room-by-room ramble through the house she's just left, while songs such as "She Needs Me" and "She Told Me So" are Jones doing what he always did best-articulating the deluded self-pity of a man struggling with the truth that he has nobody to blame but himself. "A Drunk Can't Be A Man" and "Stand on My Own Two Knees", meanwhile, at least seem to acknowledge that it's high time he pulled himself together. Great songs, impeccably sung, examining the failure of human relationships with feeling and no little wit: between them, these albums are Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? with a pedal steel. -Andrew Mueller.
Tracks Let's Be Us Again
- Women Rule The World
- Let Them Be little
- Lets be Us Again
- Country Fair
- Summertime
- Now
- Somebodys Someone
- That Gets Me
- Class Reunion (That Used To Be Us)
- Mr. Mom
- T.G.I.F.
- From There To Here (w/Randy Owen)
- What I Miss Most
Release date: 2004-06-14
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.46
Review Let's Be Us Again / Lonestar:
Tracks Greatest Hits
- Spanish Eyes
- All Over Me
- Everytime You Touch Me (I Get High)
- Behind Closed Doors
- We Love Each Other
- Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
- My Elusive Dreams
- Most Beautiful Girl
- Very Special Love Song
- She
- I Love My Friend
- Since I Fell For You
- Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs
- Sunday Kind Of Woman
- Almost Persuaded
- Rollin' With The Flow
Release date: 1998-01-26
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.20
Review Greatest Hits / Charlie Rich:
Tracks The Woman In Me
- Raining On Our Love
- Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
- God Bless The Child
- Is There Life After Love?
- Leaving Is The Only Way Out
- The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You)
- If It Don't Take Two
- You win my love (remix)
- Any Man Of Mine
- God bless the child (enhanced CD-Rom video)
- No One Needs To Know
- You Win My Love
- If you're not in it for love I'm outta here (remix)
- (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!
- Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
- Medley: Home ain't where his heart is anymore / The woman in me / You've got a way (TV mix)
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.68
Review The Woman In Me / Shania Twain:Shania Twain comes full circle on The Woman In Me, co-writing 11 out of 12 songs [the others are remixes and a CD-ROM video] and proving that she can do more than sing. Once again she crosses over into pop/rock territory with this multi-platinum affair, bringing legions of new fans into the country camp. Peppered with hits such as "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" and "Any Man of Mine", this album features crisp and clear vocals and country-flavored pop arrangements. Husband and co-writer "Mutt" Lange, known for his production work with hard hitters Def Leppard, has produced a fresh sound for country, enhancing the traditional with a more gritty, gutsy sound; even the more delicate tunes resemble those power-pop tunes from the 1980s. Woman in Me is music for all occasions: danceable, romantic and powerful. -Paula Ghergia.
Tracks The Man Comes Around: American IV
- Give my love to Rose
- In my life
- Bridge over troubled water
- Hurt
- Man comes around
- We'll meet again
- Desperado
- Streets of Laredo
- Sam Hall
- I'm so lonesome I could cry
- Tear stained letter
- First time ever I saw your face
- Personal Jesus
- Danny boy
- I Hung my head
Release date: 2002-11-04
RRP: £25.99
Price: £4.80
Review The Man Comes Around: American IV / Johnny Cash:On first thought, the idea of the Man in Black recording such covers as "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Danny Boy" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" might seem odd, even for an artist who's been able to put his personal stamp on just about everything. But The Man Comes Around, which also draws on Cash's original songs as well as those by Nine Inch Nails ("Hurt"), Sting ("I Hung My Head") and Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), may be one of the most autobiographical albums of the 70-year-old singer-songwriter's career. Nearly every tune seems chosen to afford the ailing giant of popular music a chance to reflect on his life, and look ahead to what's around the corner. From the opening track-Cash's own "The Man Comes Around", filled with frightening images of Armageddon-the album, produced by Rick Rubin, advances a quiet power and pathos, built around spare arrangements and unflinching honesty in performance and subject. In 15 songs, Cash moves through dark, haunted meditations on death and destruction, poignant farewells, testaments to everlasting love, and hopeful salutes to redemption. He sounds as if he means every word, his baritone-bass, frequently frayed and ravaged, taking on a weary beauty. By the time he gets to the Beatles' "In My Life", you'll very nearly cry. Go ahead. He sounds as if he's about to, too. -Alanna Nash.
Tracks Little Rock
- Down the Road Tonight
- Rivertown
- Take Me Away
- Leave Here Standing
- Good Friends
- Chickens
- Hey Baby Where You Been
- Sit in With the Band
- Long Way Home
- Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long
- Little Rock
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.46
Review Little Rock / Hayes Carll:
Tracks Walking The Line: The Legendary Sun Recordings (3CD)
- Belshazzar
- Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye
- Come In Stranger
- Straight A's In Love
- Ways Of A Woman In Love
- New Mexico
- Guess Things Happen That Way
- Thanks A Lot
- Train Of Love
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Blue Train
- You Win Again
- Cry Cry Cry
- I Was There When It Happened
- So Doggone Lonesome
- Down The Street To 301
- Next In Line
- Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)
- Luther Played The Boogie
- Life Goes On
- Cold Cold Heart
- Wide Open Road
- Oh Lonesome Me
- Hey Good Lookin'
- I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
- I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
- There You Go
- Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
- You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
- Mean Eyed Cat
- Hey Porter
- If The Good Lord's Willing
- Fools Hall Of Fame
- Home Of The Blues
- Sugartime
- Country Boy
- Port Of Lonely Hearts
- Born To Lose
- I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
- Doin' My Time
- Katy Too
- I Walk The Line
- Rock Island Line
- Wreck Of The Old '97
- Big River
- Give My Love To Rose
- Leave That Junk Alone
- Get Rhythm
- I Forgot To Remember To Forget
- I Love You Because
- Goodnight Irene
- Story Of A Broken Heart
- Don't Make Me Go
- It's Just About Time
Release date: 2005-09-12
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.81
Review Walking The Line: The Legendary Sun Recordings (3CD) / Johnny Cash:
Tracks Tunesmith Retrofit
- Red Light Nickel
- MacDougal
- Loud As Ears
- Big Shaky
- Tight To The Jar
- Anvil
- Scapegoat
- Tunesmith Retrofit
- Plumb Line
- Crow's Nest
- Spanish Hands
- Handful Of Arrows
Release date: 2006-08-14
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.60
Review Tunesmith Retrofit / Kelly Joe Phelps:
Tracks The Man in Black: the Definitive Collection
- Orange Blossom Special
- Baron
- I Walk The Line
- One Piece At A Time
- Jackson
- Thing Called Love
- Without Love
- Ghost Riders In The Sky
- San Quentin
- Folsom Prison Blues
- I Still Miss Someone
- Get Rhythm
- Wanted Man
- Boy Named Sue
- Ring Of Fire
- It Ain't Me Babe
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Highway Patrolman
- Big River
- No Expectations
- Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- Daddy Sang Bass
- Singin' In Vietnam Talkin' Blues
- Man In Black
Release date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.37
Review The Man in Black: the Definitive Collection / Johnny Cash:
Tracks Flying Burrito Brothers, the/Last of the Red Hot Burritos
- Losing Game
- High Fashion Queen
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- Orange Blossom Special
- Tried So Hard
- Here Tonight [*]
- Don't Fight It
- Hand to Mouth
- Why Are You Crying
- Tried So Hard [*]
- Four Days of Rain
- To Ramona
- Six Days on the Road
- Ain't That a Lot of Love
- All Alone
- Dixie Breakdown
- Colorado
- Hot Burrito, Pt. 2
- Devil in Disguise
- Just Can't Be
- My Uncle
- Can't You Hear Me Calling
- White Line Fever
Release date: 2008-04-28
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.73
Review Flying Burrito Brothers, the/Last of the Red Hot Burritos / Flying Burrito Brothers:
Tracks King of the Road
- I Saw The Light
- Peace In The Valley
- Wabash Cannonball
- Red River Valley
- Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms
- Divorce Me C.O.D.
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- Mule Train
- You Are My Sunshine
- Hank And The Hobo
- Wreck Of The Old '97
- Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
- Move It On Over
- Heaven
- King Of The Road
- Kaw-Liga
- San Antonio Rose
- London Leaves
- Boxcar Blues
- Hey Good Lookin'
Release date: 2003-01-29
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.73
Review King of the Road / Boxcar Willie:
Tracks Soul Journey
- No One Knows My Name
- Wrecking Ball
- One Monkey
- Lowlands
- Wayside/Back In Time
- Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor
- One Little Song
- I Had A Real Good Mother And Father
- I Made A Lovers Prayer
- Look At Miss Ohio
Release date: 2003-06-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.39
Review Soul Journey / Gillian Welch:Blessed with a soulful and expressive voice and an innate grasp of the melodies and themes of traditional country music, Gillian Welch has made three beautiful and often brilliant albums. Yet one can make the case that she's still searching for her own true artistic voice. Soul Journey brings her ever closer to that elusive goal. After 2001's austere, solemn and at times inscrutable Time (The Revelator), this follow-up finds Welch showing more warmth, ease and openness as both singer and songwriter. As the title portends, the concept of travel (physical and emotional) is a prevailing thread through these 10 tracks; she sings of rolling stones "on the road to sin", travellers on "black highways", girls "running around with the ragtop down" and "at the station rolling slow". These characters, perhaps autobiographical, are simultaneously searching for and running away from their pasts, while soft drums, fiddles, organs and Dobros add a welcome bit of lightness. With the trusty David Rawlings again at Welch's side, the songwriting and production till the earth between their old-time heroes and more modern troubadours like Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young (both the bucolic strummer and, on the closing "Wrecking Ball", the ragged electric wanderer). For Welch and for us, Soul Journey is yet another fascinating rest stop on the never-ending road to self-discovery. -Marc Greilsamer.
Tracks All The Great Hits
- Last Mango In Paris
- Cheeseburger In Paradise
- Banana Republic
- Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
- Fins
- Come Monday
- Margaritaville
- Volcano
- Boat Drinks
- Miss You So Badly
- He Went To Paris
- Why Don't We Get Drunk
- A Pirate Looks At Forty
- Pencil Thin Mustache
- Stars Foll On Alabama
- Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants
- Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit
- Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Release date: 2003-01-29
RRP: £8.99
Price: £11.95
Review All The Great Hits / Jimmy Buffett:
Tracks White Fields and Open Devices
- Happy Accident
- Wave Those Arms, Airmen
- Altered Beast
- A Hundred Times In Every Direction
- Two Words And A Gesture
- Yuki
- Trois Heures
- An Idle Brain And The Devils Workshop
- Walking Through Walls
- Look At That Cloud!
Release date: 2008-08-18
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.88
Review White Fields and Open Devices / Vessels:
Tracks People Take Warning: Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938
- Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane
- Mississippi Boweavil
- Dry Spell Blues
- Crash Of the Akron
- Little Grave In Georgia
- Titanic
- Wreck Of Number 52
- Kenney Wagner's Surrender
- Death Of Floyd Collins
- Casey Jones
- Storm That Struck Miami
- Tom Dooley
- McBeth Mine Explosion
- Kassie Jones
- Darling Cora
- Dupree Blues
- Pretty Polly
- Wreck Of the Virginian
- Railroad Bill
- High Water Everywhere
- Sinking Of the Titanic
- Dixie Boll Weevil
- Last Scene Of the Titanic
- Trial Of Richard Bruno Hauptmann
- Flood Of 1927
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Fate Of Will Rogers & Wiley Post
- Fatal Wreck Of the Bus
- Naomi Wise
- Memphis Flu
- Bill Wilson
- Titanic Blues
- Ryecove Cyclone
- Kassie Jones
- Wreck Of the Westbound Airliner
- Murder Of the Lawson Family
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
- El Mole Rachim (Fur Titanik)
- Lanse Des Belaires
- Baltimore Fire
- Story Of Freda Bolt
- Wreck On the Mountain Road
- Frankie Silvers
- Explosion In the Fairmount Mine
- Ohio Prison Fire
- Fate Of Rhoda Sweeten
- Wreck Of the Old 97
- Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife
- Burning Of the Cleveland School
- Trial Of Richard Bruno Hauptmann
- Peddler And His Wife
- Down With the Old Canoe
- Tennessee Tornado
- Frankie
- Brave Engineer
- Billy Lyons And Stack O' Lee
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Unfortunate Brakeman
- Bluefield Murder
- Altoona Freight Wreck
- Henry Clay Beattie
- Porto Rico Storm
- Story Of the Mighty Mississippi
- Boll Weavil
- Santa Barbara Earthquake
- When the Levee Breaks
- Dry Well Blues
- Fate Of Talmadge Osborne
- High Water Everywhere
- Alabama Flood
Release date: 2007-09-25
RRP: £38.99
Price: £24.09
Review People Take Warning: Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938 / Various Artists:
Tracks Lone Star State of Mind
- Lone Star State Of Mind
- Sing One For Sister
- Trouble In The Fields
- Beacon Street
- Nickel Dreams
- Let It Shine On Me
- Love In A Memory
- Ford Econoline
- There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)
- From A Distance
- Cold Hearts Closed Minds
Release date: 1992-10-21
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.96
Review Lone Star State of Mind / Nanci Griffith:
Tracks Decoration Day
- Your Daddy Hates Me
- Marry Me
- Do It Yourself
- Careless
- Sinkhole
- Deeper In
- Something's Got To Give Pretty Soon
- Sounds Better In The Song
- Hell No I Ain't Happy
- Loaded Gun In The Closet
- Heathens
- When The Pin Hits The Shell
- My Sweet Annette
- Decoration Day
- Outfit
Release date: 2006-08-28
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.73
Review Decoration Day / Drive By Truckers:
Tracks The Best Of
- Half As Much
- You Win Again
- Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams, The Drifting Cowboys
- Cold, Cold Heart
- I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
- Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams, The Drifting Cowboys
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
- My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
- Why Don't You Love Me
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Honky Tonk Blues
- Move It On Over
- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
- Crazy Heart
- I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
- Lovesick Blues
- Kaw-Liga
- Moanin' The Blues
- Settin The Woods On Fire
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 51 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.15
Review The Best Of / Hank Williams:
| Models & Brands:
Personal File, Cry, Grand Tour, the/Alone Again, Let's Be Us Again, Greatest Hits, The Woman In Me, The Man Comes Around: American IV, Little Rock, Walking The Line: The Legendary Sun Recordings (3CD), Tunesmith Retrofit, The Man in Black: the Definitive Collection, Flying Burrito Brothers, the/Last of the Red Hot Burritos, King of the Road, Soul Journey, All The Great Hits, White Fields and Open Devices, People Take Warning: Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938, Lone Star State of Mind, Decoration Day, The Best Of |
