Tracks Greatest Hits
- Romeo's Tune
- Got It Right This Time (The Celebration)
- I Told You So
- Somebody Like You
- Everybody
- Better Life
- But For The Grace Of God
- Your Everything
- Tonight I Wanna Cry
- Raining On Sunday
- Once In A Lifetime
- Where The Blacktop Ends
- Stupid Boy
- Making Memories Of Us
- You'll Think Of Me
- Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me
- Days Go By
- You're My Better Half
Release date: 2008-01-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.48
Review Greatest Hits / Keith Urban:
Tracks Lonely Runs Both Ways
- Borderline
- Living Prayer
- Wouldn't Be So Bad
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Doesn't Have To Be This Way
- Unionhouse Branch
- Rain Please Go Away
- Crazy As Me
- This Sad Song
- Restless
- Goodbye Is All We Have
- My Poor Old Heart
- Gravity
- If I Didn't Know Any Better
- I Don't Have To Live This Way
Release date: 2004-11-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.43
Review Lonely Runs Both Ways / Alison Krauss:Nobody makes sombre sound more exquisite than Alison Krauss. She's come an awfully long way from her days as a teenage fiddle prodigy, as her glamour gown on this CD's cover suggests and the bittersweet maturity of the music confirms. Krauss exchanges her bluegrass fiddle for the chamber strains of viola on much of the material, including four songs by Robert Lee Castleman (whose "The Lucky One," "Let Me Touch You for Awhile," and "Forget About It" were previously popularized by Krauss). Castleman's compositions showcase the emotional intimacy and interpretive subtlety of her breathy trill. The yearning harmonies on "Wouldn't Be So Bad" (written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings) and "Borderline" (written by Sidney and Suzanne Cox) reinforce the album's restless spirit of quiet desperation. Change-of-pace contributions by Krauss's bandmates are more deeply rooted in the bluegrass/folk tradition, with Dan Tyminski renewing Del McCoury's "Rain Please Go Away" and Woody Guthrie's populist anthem "Pastures of Plenty"; Dobro master Jerry Douglas leads the charge on his instrumental "Unionhouse Branch. " Few bands in bluegrass can match the virtuosity of Union Station's interplay, but the artistry of Alison Krauss transcends genre. -Don McLeese.
Tracks The Very Best of Alan Jackson
- Midnight In Montgomery
- Right On The Money
- Everything I Love
- Livin On Love
- Here In The Real World
- Little Bitty
- Its Five OClock Somewhere
- Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
- Tall Tall Trees
- Drive (For Daddy Gene)
- www.memory
- Pop A Top
- Gone Country
- Chasin That Neon Rainbow
- Little Man
- Shes Got The Rhythm (and I got the blues)
- Dont Rock The Jukebox
- Chattahoochee (extended mix)
- It Must Be Love
- Whos Cheatin Who
Release date: 2004-06-21
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.10
Review The Very Best of Alan Jackson / Alan Jackson:
Tracks All Time Greatest Hits
- Crying
- Claudette
- Uptown
- Oh Pretty Woman
- Running Scared
- Falling
- In Dreams
- Lana
- Working For The Man
- Blue Bayou
- Ooby Dooby
- Only The Lonely
- It's Over
- Mean Woman Blues
- I'm Hurtin'
- Dream Baby
- Candy Man
- Blue Angel
- Leah
Release date: 2004-12-13
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.34
Review All Time Greatest Hits / Roy Orbison:It's a measure of Roy Orbison's classics that even some of the uptempo songs that break up the dominant ballad mood of this 20-song collection are themselves fairly melancholic. Rarely does Orbison allow himself the outright celebration of something like "Mean Woman Blues", more often going for the shades of grey that slip into "Blue Angel" and "Leah". Few could do what he achieves on these singles, and not just because few are gifted with such a voice. The biggest achievement of all may be Orbison's ability to make a devastated cry like "Only the Lonely" sound somehow peaceful. -Rickey Wright.
Tracks The Ultimate Collection
- Summer (The First Time)
- If You Go Away
- California Wine
- Danny
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Ruby Tuesday
- What A Wonderful World
- Watching Scotty Grow
- Proud Mary
- Your Song
- Honey
- Yesterday
- With Pen In Hand
- Hello Summertime
- Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
- Sweet Caroline
- I Am A Rock
- He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
- I Can See Clearly Now
- Behind Closed Doors
- Everybody's Talkin'
- I Love You So
- Killing Me Softly With Her Song
- Little Green Apples
- By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Release date: 2007-05-07
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.07
Review The Ultimate Collection / Bobby Goldsboro:
Tracks Still Crooked
- Tell Her To Come Back Home
- Captain Captain
- Oh Agamemnon
- Low Down and Dirty
- Florence
- Absentee
- Pharoah
- Theme From "The Absentee"
- Undone In Sorrow
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Did You Sleep Well
- Wading Deep Waters
- Baby What's Wrong With You
Release date: 2008-07-07
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.09
Review Still Crooked / Crooked Still:
Tracks Just Us Kids
- Hurricane Party
- God Bless America (Pat Macdonald Must Die)
- Ruins of the Realm
- Brief Intermission
- Ruby and Carlos
- Just Us Kids
- Governor
- Freeway View
- Bayou Tortous
- You'd a' Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
- Cheney's Toy
- Fire Line Road
Release date: 2008-05-26
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.64
Review Just Us Kids / James McMurtry:
Tracks The Man in Black - The Very Best of Johnny Cash
- Jackson (With June Carter Cash)
- Guess Things Happen That Way
- Cry, Cry, Cry
- The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (With Waylon Jennings)
- Big River
- (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
- The One On The Right Is The One On The Left
- Tennessee Flat - Top Box
- A Boy Named Sue (Live)
- So Doggone Lonesome
- Man In White
- Sunday Morning Comin' Down
- It Ain't Me Babe (With June Carter Cash)
- Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- Get Rhythm
- Understand Your Man
- The Wanderer (With U2)
- Girl From The North Country (With Bob Dylan)
- The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
- I Walk The Line
- Flesh And Blood
- Ragged Old Flag
- One Piece At A Time
- Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord (With The Carter Family)
- Hey Porter
- If I Were A Carpenter
- The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
- Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
- Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
- Highwayman (With Willie Melson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson)
- There You Go
- Ring Of Fire
- Forty Shades Of Green
- I Still Miss Someone
- Man In Black
- All Over Again
- Song Of The Patriot (With Marty Robbins)
- Orange Blossom Special (With Charlie McCoy, Boots Randolph & The Carter Family)
- Daddy Sang Bass
- Five Feet High Anjd Rising
Release date: 2002-02-25
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.15
Review The Man in Black - The Very Best of Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash:
Publisher: Hatsongs
Release date: 2008-05-26
RRP: £13.99
Price: £11.98
Review Dragonfly / Reg Meuross:
Tracks Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
- LaCassine Special feat Barry Tashian
- Burn That Candle
- New Cut Road
- Green Rolling Hills feat Fayssoux Starling
- I Aint Living Long Like This
- To Daddy My Songbird
- Easy From Now On
- One Paper Kid feat Willie Nelson
- Defying Gravity
- Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight
- Two More Bottles Of Wine
Release date: 2004-03-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.72
Review Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town / Emmylou Harris:
Tracks Asking For Flowers
- Oil Man's War
- Run
- Sure As Shit
- Buffalo
- Goodnight, California
- Alicia Ross
- The Cheapest Key
- Oh Canada
- Asking For Flowers
- I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory
- Scared At Night
Release date: 2008-04-28
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.70
Review Asking For Flowers / Kathleen Edwards:
Tracks The Definitive Everly Brothers (2CD)
- Love Hurts
- Lord Of The Manor
- Yves
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- Poor Jenny
- Claudette
- It's Been Nice (Goodnight)
- So It Always Will Be, (So It Was...So It Is)
- Bird Dog
- Price Of Love, The
- Walk Right Back
- Love Her
- Since You Broke My Heart
- Like Strangers
- It's All Over
- Sleepless Nights
- Stories We Could Tell
- Love Is Strange
- I'll Never Get Over You
- Cathy's Clown
- Bye Bye Love
- Muskrat
- How Can I Meet Her
- Girl Sang The Blues, The
- Wake Up Little Susie
- Take A Message To Mary
- Empty Boxes
- Lucille
- Temptation
- Crying In The Rain
- Don't Blame Me
- So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- That'll Be The Day
- Problems
- On The Wings Of A Nightingale
- Devoted To You
- Green River
- Let It Be Me
- Till I Kissed You
- Lay It Down
- When Will I Be Loved
- Milk Train
- Bowling Queen
- No One Can Make My Sunshine Smile
- I Wonder If I Care As Much
- Maybe Tomorrow
- Ebony Eyes
- Ferris Wheel, The
- It's My Time
Release date: 2005-11-07
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.98
Review The Definitive Everly Brothers (2CD) / Everly Brothers:From the first keening harmonies of `Cathy's Clown' through to `Baby What You Want Me To Do', this Everly Brothers' compilation may not cover new ground, but as a document of the brothers' country leanings, it's a fine album. The early hits like `Wake Up Little Susie' may be absent, but more room is provided for lesser known fare like `Bowling Green' or Roger Miller's `Burma Shave'. That isn't to say that there's no hits on here; the band's definitive reading of the title track is a certain highlight and puts nearly every other rendition in the shadows; the brotherly harmonies and proto-country rock backing showing their obvious influence on some of the Byrds, especially the solo work of Gene Clark and Gram Parsons, to name but two. And some of these singles are truly some of the greatest ever committed to tape- `Cathy's Clown' for example, is a true slice of power pop that matches Phil Spector for intensity and heartbreak, while `Gone Gone Gone' is likely the definitive country-rock song. This CD promises to be the first volume of an Everly's collection, and there's plenty more to be shown, but even on its'own, this is a fine introduction. - Thom Allott.
Tracks Rumor and Sigh
- Behind Grey Walls
- Read About Love
- You Dream Too Much
- God Loves A Drunk
- Keep Your Distance
- Feels So Good
- Mystery Wind
- Vincent
- Mother Knows Best
- Jimmy Shand
- I Misunderstood
- Psycho Street
- Why Must I Plead
- Backlash Love Affair
Release date: 1991-05-13
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.23
Review Rumor and Sigh / Richard Thompson:Widely acknowledged as one of the very best of his 20 or so post- Fairport Convention albums, Rumor & Sigh is a challenging-and sometimes rambling-affair, with Thompson juxtaposing rock against folk as well as going off on blues and polka excursions. The settings, too, reflect the urban and the rural, and the subject matter ranges from homicidal tendencies in the rocking classic of "I Feel So Good", through the jokey tribute to the old Scottish bandleader in "Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shand" and to love lost in the extremely moving "I Misunderstood". -Tim Perry.
Tracks At Folsom Prison
- I Still Miss Someone
- Greystone Chapel
- Joe Bean*
- Dark As The Dungeon
- Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
- The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer*
- The Long Black Veil
- 25 Minutes To Go
- Busted*
- Green, Green Grass Of Home
- Orange Blossom Special
- Give My Love To Rose (with June Carter)
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Cocaine Blues
- Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
- The Wall
- I Got Stripes
- Send A Picture Of Mother
- Jackson (with June Carter)
Release date: 2000-01-17
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.00
Review At Folsom Prison / Johnny Cash:Johnny Cash had been breaking new ground for a decade when At Folsom Prison suddenly made the world at large take notice. The interaction of a volatile prison population starved for entertainment and a desperately on-form Johnny Cash was electrifying. His sombre machismo finally found a home. The songs, which included every prison song Cash knew ("I Got Stripes", "The Wall", "25 Minutes to Go", "Cocaine Blues", plus his own "Folsom Prison Blues") were tailored to galvanise the crowd. This set is all about atmosphere. Live at the Grand Ole Opry this is not. The 1999 version drops the San Quentin portion of the original CD reissue, instead adding three cuts to complete the full and uncensored Folsom show. -Colin Escott.
Tracks Greatest Hits
- When I Feel This Way
- Years
- Walk My Way
- Life Holds On
- Sand And Water
- Beyond The Blue
- Say Goodnight
- Emily
- Colour Of Roses
- I Keep Coming Back To You
- All I Have
- Happy Girl
Release date: 1999-03-22
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.50
Review Greatest Hits / Beth Nielsen Chapman:
Tracks Southern Rock Opera
- Ronnie And Neil
- The Southern Thing
- Moved
- Zip City
- Women Without Whiskey
- Three Great Alabama Icons
- Road Cases
- Cassie's Brother
- Shut Up And Get On The Plane
- Let There Be Rock
- Greenville To Baton Rouge
- Guitar Man Upstairs
- Angels And Fuselage
- Plastic Flowers On The Highway
- Birmingham
- 72 (This Highway's Mean)
- Dead, Drunk And Naked
- Wallace
- Days Of Graduation
- Life In The Factory
Release date: 2002-07-18
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.49
Review Southern Rock Opera / Drive-By Truckers:You don't need a bottle of Jack or even a trace of Southern lineage to appreciate the genius of Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera. Without a hint of irony, the Athens, Georgia, quintet creates a fast-driving, hard-living tribute to the indelible music and legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Like any good concept album, there's a modicum of plot and a theme to these 20 songs (loosely based around the rise and fall of fictitious Southern rock band Betamax Guillotine), but the best tracks make you forget the story line altogether: "Birmingham", "Zip City" and "Let There Be Rock". The "opera" aspects bog things down a bit-you probably only need to hear the spoken-word track "The Three Great Alabama Icons" once-but the overall concept still comes off without a hitch. The lyrics are great, the trio of electric guitars is blessed with raw production, and the tunes-though lacking the pop sensibility of, say, "Gimme Three Steps"-will have you cranking up the album for your friends. And, after a few spins of Southern Rock Opera, you might even find yourself digging out those old Skynyrd LPs to hear the real thing again. -Jason Verlinde.
Tracks The Good Life
- Turn Out My Lights
- Good Life
- What Do You Do When You're Lonesome
- Who Am I To Say
- South Georgia Sugar Babe
- Lonesome And You
- Faraway In Another Town
- Ain't Glad I'm Leavin'
- Lone Pine Hill
- Hard Livin'
Release date: 2008-03-31
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.96
Review The Good Life / Justin Townes Earle:
Tracks There You'll Be: The Very Best Of Faith Hill
- My Wild Frontier
- Let Me let Go
- Love Will Always Win
- Piece of my Heart
- Breathe
- If My Heart Had Wings
- Somewhere Down the Road
- There Will Come a Day
- The Way You Love Me (Love to Infinity Remix)
- There You'll Be
- You Give Me Love
- This Kiss
- Over the Rainbow
- Breathe (Tin Tin Out Radio Mix)
Release date: 2001-10-15
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.70
Review There You'll Be: The Very Best Of Faith Hill / Faith Hill:After immeasurable success in the US, Faith Hill finally comes to Europe and There You'll Be is a sort of catch-up for the best bits we may have missed along the way (or in other words, a greatest hits collection for the un-initiated). A dozen songs which map the path of the Georgia singer, it includes the massive hit for which she has come to be known over here, "There You'll Be" from the Pearl Harbor soundtrack together with some pop anthems like "The Way You Love Me (Love to Infinity Mix)". However, the style she delivers most convincingly is that of her roots in country with "Let Me Let Go", "Piece of my Heart" and "You Give me Love" from the earlier albums being the clear highlights of this collection. -Gunther Matejka.
Tracks Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs/More Gunfighter Ballads
- Hundred And Sixty Acres
- Prairie Fire
- This Peaceful Sod
- Strawberry Roan
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- My Love
- They're Hanging Me Tonight
- El Paso
- Running Gun
- Billy The Kid
- Big Iron
- I've Got No Use For The Woman
- Ride Cowboy Ride
- San Angelo
- Song Of The Bandit
- Cool Water
- In The Valley
- Streets Of Laredo
- She Was Young And She Was Pretty
- Little Green Valley
- Five Brothers
- Master's Call
- Utah Carol
Release date: 1996-06-10
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.49
Review Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs/More Gunfighter Ballads / Marty Robbins:
Tracks Green Grass and High Tides
- Freeborn Man
- Girl From Ohio
- Knoxville Girl
- You Are The Show
- Breaker Breaker
- Stick Around For Rock 'n' Roll
- Hurry Sundown
- Prisoner
- South Carolina
- Green Grass And High Tides
- Song For You
- Gunsmoke
- Take It Anyway You Want It
- Waterhole
- Ghost Riders In The Sky
- There Goes Another Love Song
Release date: 1999-06-26
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.24
Review Green Grass and High Tides / Outlaws:
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Greatest Hits, Lonely Runs Both Ways, The Very Best of Alan Jackson, All Time Greatest Hits, The Ultimate Collection, Still Crooked, Just Us Kids, The Man in Black - The Very Best of Johnny Cash, Dragonfly, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, Asking For Flowers, The Definitive Everly Brothers (2CD), Rumor and Sigh, At Folsom Prison, Greatest Hits, Southern Rock Opera, The Good Life, There You'll Be: The Very Best Of Faith Hill, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs/More Gunfighter Ballads, Green Grass and High Tides |
