Tracks Am
- Box Full Of Letters
- Passenger Side
- That's Not The Issue
- Dash 7
- Casino Queen
- Shouldn't Be Ashamed
- Should've Been In Love
- Blue Eyed Soul
- Too Far Apart
- Pick Up The Change
- I Thought I Held You
- I Must Be High
- It's Just That Simple
Release date: 1995-04-17
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.20
Review Am / Wilco:
Tracks Sings Ballads of the True West
- I Ride An Old Paint
- Shifting Whispering Sands
- Letter From Home
- Hiawatha's Vision
- Stampede
- Sam Hall
- Stampede
- Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
- Streets Of Laredo
- Mean As Hell
- Mister Garfield
- Shifting Whispering Sands
- Blizzard
- Johnny Reb
- Green Grow The Lilacs
- Rodeo Hand
- Reflections
- Ballad Of Boot Hill
- Road To Kaintuck
- 25 Minutes To Go
- Sweet Betsy From Pike
- Hardin Wouldn't Run
Release date: 2002-09-09
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.57
Review Sings Ballads of the True West / Johnny Cash:
Tracks Gamblin' House
- Gamblin' House
- You Don't Come See Me Anymore
- I'd Rather Have a Home
- Blue Flame
- Evelyn
- Baby Likes a Love Song
- Cynthia Margaret
- Shade
- Goin' Downtown
- From Lovin' You
- Good Times
- My Ol' Radio
Release date: 2008-11-24
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.87
Review Gamblin' House / Malcolm Holcombe:
Tracks Timeless
- Help Me Make It Through The Night
- I Don't Hurt Anymore
- I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
- You Win Again
- Thanks A Lot
- Satin Sheets
- Cryin' Time
- True Love Ways
- Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
- Love's Gonna Live Here
- Once A Day
- I'll Be There
- Heartaches By The Number
- Take These Chains From My Heart
- Walk On By
- Make The World Go Away
- Today I Started Loving You Again
- Till I Can Make It On My Own
- Dreaming My Dreams
- I Still Miss Someone - McBride, Martina & Dolly Parton
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- You Ain't Woman Enough
Release date: 2006-03-27
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.25
Review Timeless / Martina McBride:
Tracks At San Quentin: Remastered
- Daddy Sang Bass
- Boy Named Sue
- He Turned The Water Into Wine
- San Quentin
- Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
- Wanted Man
- I Walk The Line
- Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/Rebel Johnny Yuma
- Big River
- Ring Of Fire
- Darlin' Companion
- Wreck Of The Ol' 97
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Starkville City Jail
- I Still Miss Someone
- There'll Be Peace In The Valley
- I Don't Know Where I'm Bound
- San Quentin
Release date: 2000-08-14
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.48
Review At San Quentin: Remastered / Johnny Cash:
Tracks The Man from God Knows Where
- Mary Clare Malloy
- Man From God Knows Where
- Ambrose Larsen
- Man From God Knows Where
- Eg Er Framand
- Rider On An Orphan Train
- Outcast
- Anna Olsen
- Outcase (Revised)
- Old Rugged Cross
- Casey Jones
- Man From God Knows Where
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Wayfarin' Stranger
- Love Abides
- Patrick Russell
- Throwing Horseshoes At The Moon
- Sitting Bull In Venice
- Chickasaw County Jail
- Old Northern Shore
- Dreaming
- When Irish Girls Grow Up
- Acres Of Corn
- Anna Olsen's Letter Home
- Wayfarin' Stranger (Revised)
- Man From God Knows Where
Release date: 2004-01-19
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.81
Review The Man from God Knows Where / Tom Russell:Texan singer/songwriter Tom Russell has recorded more than a dozen albums of original material, but none quite as unique as this evocative "immigrant song cycle," which paints a stark picture of early American lifestyles. Loosely based on Russell's own family history, this folk opera employs Irish and Norwegian musical elements as well as sounds drawn straight from the dustbowl. Sterling vocal contributions from the likes of Iris DeMent and Dave Van Ronk guide us through several generations of outcasts and pioneers. Using a wide range of traditional instruments, including Uilleann pipes and the Hardanger fiddle, Russell creates a rustic vision of hard-luck America that is both a coherent artistic statement as well as an extremely powerful history lesson. -Mitch Myers.
Tracks The Platinum Collection
- Baby Ride Easy
- Do It In A Heartbeat
- I Love You 'Cause I Want To
- Unbreakable Heart
- My Dixie Darlin'
- I Fell In Love
- You Are The One
- Lucky Ones
- Leavin' Side
- Come On Back
- Loose Talk - Carter, Carlene & Carl Smith
- All Night Long
- Hurricane
- Go Wild
- Me And The Wildwood Rose
- Sweetest Thing
- Love Like This
- Every Little Thing
- Goodnight Dallas
- One Love
Release date: 2007-07-30
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.10
Review The Platinum Collection / Carlene Carter:
Tracks 1000 Kisses
- Chief
- Reprise
- Long Ride Home
- Stolen Car
- Rain
- Be Careful
- Making Pies
- Tomorrow Night
- Nobody's Crying
- Mil Besos
Release date: 2002-10-21
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.65
Review 1000 Kisses / Patty Griffin:After a four-year wait, 1000 Kisses is more than reason to celebrate Patty Griffin's return-it's a guileless, glowing masterpiece. Since the breathtaking purity of her debut, Living with Ghosts, Griffin has proven she can luxuriate in glamorous pop, rock like a biker, hold her own on stage with the Dixie Chicks and write hit songs and singer-songwriter classics. What she hadn't done is craft an album as wholly exquisite and emotional as her talent. With the spare, acoustic 1000 Kisses, she has done just that. In the basement of longtime guitarist Doug Lancio's Nashville home, Griffin takes a suite of intensely personal songs (and three covers, including a tingling version of Bruce Springsteen's "Stolen Car") into the close confidence of her airy but twang-shaded voice, and draws accordion, cello, mandolin, brushed drums and even Emmylou Harris into a candid and rare musical space. -Roy Kasten.
Tracks Atkins - Travis Travelling Show, the/Reflections
- I\x{2019}ll See You In My Dreams
- Tennessee Rag; Beaumont Rag
- Dance Of The Golden Rod
- Don\x{2019}t Monkey \x{2018}Round My Widder
- Flatt Did It
- On My Way To Canaan\x{2019}s Land
- Is Anything Better Than This
- Me And Chet Made A Record
- Boogie For Cecil
- Texas Gales; Old Joe Clark
- Black And White; Ragtime Annie
- You\x{2019}re Gonna Be Sorry
- Muskrat Ramble
- Nine Pound Hammer
- Dill Pickle Rag
- Cannonball Rag
- If I Had You
- Who\x{2019}s Sorry Now
- Down South Blues
- Mutual Admiration
- Goodnight Waltz
Release date: 2008-09-29
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.46
Review Atkins - Travis Travelling Show, the/Reflections / Chet Atkins:
Tracks If You're Going Through Hell
- If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)
- Wasted Whisky
- Angel's Hands
- Invisibly Shaken
- About The South
- In The Middle
- Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)
- Man On A Tractor
- These Are My People
- Watching You
Release date: 2006-09-18
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.65
Review If You're Going Through Hell / Rodney Atkins:
Tracks GOLD DUST - LIVE AT THE ROYALT
- John The Gun
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes
- Wretched Wilbur
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time
- Stranger To Himself
- I Wish I Was A Fool For You (For Shame For Doing Wrong)
- The North Star Grassman
- Solo
- It'll Take A Long Time
- Take Me Away
- The Lady
- One More Chance
- Gold Dust
- The Sea
- No More Sad Refrains
- I'm A Dreamer
- Nothing More
Release date: 1998-05-18
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.73
Review GOLD DUST - LIVE AT THE ROYALT / Sandy Denny:
Tracks The Session: Recorded in London With Great Guest Artists
- Sixty Minute Man
- Jukebox
- Trouble In Mind
- Johnny B Goode
- Rock 'n' Roll Medley
- High School Confidential
- Drinking Wine Spo Dee O Dee
- Memphis
- Bad Moon Rising
- Movin' On Down The Line
- Big Boss Man
- Taking My Music To The Man
- Pledging My Love
- Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On
- What'd I Say
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- No Headstone On My Grave
- Sea Cruise
- Early Morning Rain
Release date: 2004-02-02
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.19
Review The Session: Recorded in London With Great Guest Artists / Jerry Lee Lewis:
Tracks Legends
- A Shoulder To Cry On
- (I'm So) Afraid Of Losing You Again
- Crystal Chandeliers
- Then Who Am I
- Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
- I Can't Believe That You've Stopped
- The Snakes Crawl At Night
- She's Just An Old Love Turned Memory
- Night Games
- My Eyes Can Only See As Far As You
- Wonder Could I Live There Anymore
- It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer
- You're My Jamaica
- When I Stop Leaving (I'll Be Gone)
- A Whole Lotta Things To Sing About
- I'll Be Leaving Alone
- I'm Just Me
- Where Do I Put Her Memory
- More And More
- Mountain Of Love
- I Ain't All Bad
- You're So Good When You're Bad
- Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town
- All His Children
- Burgers And Fries
- I Don't Think She's In Love Anymore
- You Almost Slipped My Mind
- Someone Loves You Honey
- You Win Again
- Let The Chips Fall
- Amazing Love
- A Brand New Bed Of Roses
- I Know One
- Me And Bobby Mcgee
- The Power Of Love
- Never Been So Loved (In All My Life)
- The Day The World Stood Still
- Missin' You
- More To Me
- Kaw-Liga
- Don't Fight The Feelings Of Love
- ust Between You And Me
- Kiss An Angel Good Morning
- The Easy Parts Over
- All I Have To Offer You Is Me
- She's Too Good To Be True
- Loving Me
- Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger
- Piroque Joe
- Roll On Mississippi
- Wings Of A Dove
Release date: 2004-09-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.82
Review Legends / Charley Pride:
Publisher: Dust to Digital
Release date: 2003-11-10
RRP: £96.99
Price: £47.19
Review Goodbye Babylon / Various Artists:
Tracks Eyes That See In The Dark
- Eyes that see in the dark
- I will always love you
- Islands in the stream
- Buried treasure
- You and I
- Living with you
- Hold me
- This woman
- Evening star
- Midsummer night
Release date: 2008-02-26
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.79
Review Eyes That See In The Dark / Kenny Rogers:
Tracks Hand of Kindness
- Hand Of Kindness
- Wrong Heartbeat
- Devonside
- Two Left Feet
- Poisoned Heart And A Twisted Memory
- Both Ends Burning
- Tear Stained Letter
- How I Wanted To
Release date: 1986-06-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.50
Review Hand of Kindness / Richard Thompson:Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Richard Thompson and then-wife Linda had achieved a cruel victory with their final album together, Shoot Out the Lights, a riveting classic drawing much of its power from frank allusions to their disintegrating marriage. The preoccupation with the Thompsons' personal history may explain why, at the time, fans scrutinized the first Thompson solo album after the breakup (1983's Hand of Darkness) for fresh wounds. Fans missed a more fundamental issue-the de facto reunion of Thompson's first band, Fairport Convention, with Fairport's original producer Joe Boyd at the controls. Only violinist Dave Swarbrick is missing, with Simon Nicol, Dave Peggs and Dave Mattacks all present and accounted for, augmented by twin saxes, John Kirkpatrick's always-evocative accordion, and Clive Gregson's, John Hiatt's and Bobby King's vocals. Hardly surprising that this set should hold up so well, or that its nine solid Thompson originals should be so fully realized. -Sam Sutherland.
Tracks Grand Tour, the/Alone Again
- You're The Best Living
- Right Now I'd Come Back And Melt In Her Arms
- Diary Of My Mind
- Grand Tour
- She Needs Me
- Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)
- I'm All She's Got
- Borrowed Angel
- She'll Love The One She's With
- Stand On My Own Two Knees
- Who Will I Be Loving Now
- Weatherman
- Drunk Can't Be A Man
- Once You've Had The Best
- Our Private Life
- Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me
- Mary Don't Go 'Round
- Her Name Is...
- She Told Me So
- Over Something Good
- Darlin'
Release date: 1999-07-12
RRP: £8.99
Price: £13.36
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 Aw C'mon/No You C'mon
- The Producer
- Women Help Create The Kind Of Men They Despise
- Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train
- Low Ambition
- Theres Still Time
- Steve Mcqueen
- Action Figure
- Being Tyler
- Nothing Adventurous Please
- I Havent Heard A Word Ive Said
- Under A Dream Of A Lie
- Four Pounds In Two Days
- About My Lighter
- The Lone Official
- The Problem
- The Gusher
- Shang A Dang Dang
- Jan 24
- Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down
- Timothy B Schmidt
- Listen
- Sunrise
- Somethings Going On
- I Hate Candy
Release date: 2004-02-09
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.49
Review Aw C'mon/No You C'mon / Lambchop:Aw C'Mon / No You C'Mon, the latest in Lambchop's long and meaty lineage, could loosely be described as a double-concept LP. Originally conceived when vocalist Kurt Wagner decided to write a song a day for a few months, it was then stretched further when the band was asked to write a soundtrack for a 1927 silent movie. The end result is a double LP that, consciously or not, adequately captures the diverse nature of this endlessly creative group. Wagner's distinctive voice is a constant (as are his lyrics, which range joyously from the sentimental to the sarcastic) but the background sounds are a constantly shifting tapestry, all rich strings and insouciant strums one minute, brooding melodies and sinister moods the next. If there's any band out there that seem to live for their work it's Lambchop. And while they don't necessarily get better with every album, they do retain a certain freshness and sense of innovation, traits that many of their peers could do with adopting. -Paul Sullivan.
Tracks The World Of Connie Francis
- My Foolish Heart
- What Kind Of Fool Am I?
- My Heart Cries For You
- Three Coins In The Fountain
- Am I Blue
- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
- The Wayward Wind
- Young At Heart
- Stardust
- Trains And Boats And Planes
- Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
- The Last Waltz
- Tammy
- The Look Of Love
- I Wish I Had A Wooden Heart
- Strangers In The Night
- Moon River
- White Cliffs Of Dover
- True Love
- Love Me Tender
Release date: 1996-06-24
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.70
Review The World Of Connie Francis / Connie Francis:
Tracks Beyond Nashville: the Twisted Heart of Country Music
- Lazy Days - The Flying Burrito Brothers
- Handcuffed to a fence in Mississippi - Jim WHite
- Put you cat clothes on - Carl Perkins
- Glendale Train - New Riders Of The Purple Sage
- The Bottle Let me Down - Merle Haggard
- Why baby why? - George Jones
- One night stand - Lucinda Williams
- I don't wanna talk about it now - Emmylou Harris
- Ted's so wasted - Oh Susanna
- Run for a long time - The Blind Boys of Alabama
- Looking for a new Mama - Jimmie Rodgers
- Must be love - Stacy Earle
- To be young (is to be sad is to be high) - Ryan Adams
- I Ain't Go No Home - Woody Guthrie
- I Am A Pilgrim - The Byrds
- Rock island line - Leadbelly
- Little Red Hen Blues - Taj Mahal
- So much wine - Handsome family
- Atlas Nails - Noahjohn
- When our Lord shall come again - The Carter Family
- Long gone lonesome blues - Hank Williams
- Mystery Train - Little Junior Parker & His Blue Flames
- Theme (Sunnyside) Out - The Carter Family
- Always late (with your kisses) - Lefty Frizell
- Windfall - Son Volt
- Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
- Were you there (When they crucified my Lord) - Johnny Cash & The Carter Family
- Evening mass - Willard Grant Conspiracy
- Long Black Veil - The Band
- Temptation of egg - Giant Sand
- Until the day I die - Steve Earle - Orphan Girl - Gillian Welch
- Pissed off 2am - Alejandro Escovedo
- Cash on the barrelhead / Hickory Wind - Gram Parsons
- Chicken Red - Jim & Jesse & The Virgina Boys
- Nitty Gritty - Doug Sahm
- Beyond Belief - Lambchop
- Bubbles in my beer - Bob Wills & His Texas Play Boys
- Paloma Guarumera - Los Super Seven
- Comfort me - Sparklehorse
- Dallas - The Flatlanders
- The Desert - Smog
Release date: 2001-10-15
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.95
Review Beyond Nashville: the Twisted Heart of Country Music / Various Artists:Nashville is the centre of the country music industry, but the driving roots of "real" country extend far beyond its boundaries, from Memphis and San Antonio to NYC. Beyond Nashville, an exploration of this "real" country music, features copious sleeve notes and tracks by key artists from the hillbilly 1920s to the present. There are rich pickings: from the bluesy yodelling of consumptive pre-war star Jimmie Rodgers, to Woody Guthrie's fiery harmonica and social realism (forefather of Bob Dylan), to Carl Perkins' joint-jumpin' rock & roll take on country. Also here are 1970s groundbreakers such as Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and the Flying Burrito Brothers-who fused country with rock-and current young turks such as Alejandro Escovedo and Jim White who play a cowpunk groove. In fact, this 42-track double CD has too many artists to mention, making this a highly recommended sterling collection. -Lucy O'Brien.
| Models & Brands:
Am, Sings Ballads of the True West, Gamblin' House, Timeless, At San Quentin: Remastered, The Man from God Knows Where, The Platinum Collection, 1000 Kisses, Atkins - Travis Travelling Show, the/Reflections, If You're Going Through Hell, GOLD DUST - LIVE AT THE ROYALT, The Session: Recorded in London With Great Guest Artists, Legends, Goodbye Babylon, Eyes That See In The Dark, Hand of Kindness, Grand Tour, the/Alone Again, Aw C'mon/No You C'mon, The World Of Connie Francis, Beyond Nashville: the Twisted Heart of Country Music |
