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Most Colorful Hillbilly Band

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by: The Maddox Brothers & Rose

Release Date March 02, 1998
While the California-based Arhoolie label has long done right by the Maddoxes and their seminal 1947 to 1951 recordings for 4 Star, the group's later Columbia recordings (1952-1957) have been far harder to come by, the only CD collection up until now being a semi-bootleg European import entitled "The Hillbilly Boogie Years." Fortunately, Bear Family has stepped up to the plate with this superb collection, collecting not only the group's entire output for Columbia, but also Rose Maddox's complete solo Columbia sessions, including her brief pairing with sister-in-law Retta Maddox as Rose and Retta. While collectors have long tended to gravitate towards the group's 4 Star recordings because of their sheer wildness, the act was ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 162
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Untamed Hawk: The Early Recordings of Merle Haggard

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by: Merle Haggard

Release Date March 31, 1995
This box set of Merle is the utimate collection for the Merle lover.......buy this set....you won't regret it...love mundo

CD-Charts Position 163
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Ultimate Collection

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by: Bill Haley

Release Date April 10, 2006
This cd has all the charted top 40ty hits unfortunatly it suffers from sloppy mastering the beguing of "Sway With Me" is missing as is the ending of "Rip It Up" but this version is the one heard in the movie "Don't Knock The Rock" has the ending mising too it might have been released that way in England the sound is excelent and I would recomend this collection I would recomend getting this along with the movies "Rock Around The Clock" and "Don't Knock The Rock " also the earlier hits collection 51-54 and a live album "still Rocking Around The Clock" an BMG it is a reisue of a concert from 1971? that was originaly released on the Kamma Sutra label although they have the tracks out of order Bill was one of the true pioneers of rock and ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 164
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Paradise

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by: Wylie & the Wild West Show

Release Date October 16, 2001
I have other albums of theirs that I like better but this is still good music.

CD-Charts Position 165
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Run That By Me One More Time

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by: Willie Nelson & Ray Price

Release Date July 01, 2003
Willie and Ray sound incredible together. This record goes to show that some voices don't grow old but just mellow and develop different personalities.

CD-Charts Position 166
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Western Swing Chronicles, Vol. 3

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by: Ocie Stockard & the Wanderers

Release Date March 23, 2004
If your knowledge of western swing starts at Big Sandy & stops at Bob Wills, you're off to a good start but you've got more to go. Along with the amazing Milton Brown & The Light Crust Doughboys, you've got Ocie Stockard and The Wanderers, surely my new favorite! With many of Milton Brown's boys backing him up the stand out musician is Harry Palmer. A trumpeter & vocalist with sure traces of Louis Armstrong in his horn & Jack Teagarden in his voice, this is his only session recorded & it is a bold session at that! His contribution to the first 14 tracks on this cd from 1937 contain more jazz than some players ever get across. His stand out track is Black & Blues (a thinly veiled 'What Did I Do To Be So Black & Blue') with his ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 167
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That's for Me

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by: Susie Arioli Band

Release Date January 08, 2007
So cool, so romantic, so terrific, Arioli sings like a dream and the guitarist
challenges Jango. We LOVE this CD!!!

CD-Charts Position 168
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Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers: More from the Golden Age of Western Swing

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by: Various Artists

Release Date January 31, 2005
I found this box set a considerable disappointment. Big step down from Proper's previous superb Western Swing anthology: Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys: the Golden Age of Western Swing. A few good pieces but for most part both songs and playing are undistinguished. They might be hard to find, but perhaps there is an obvious reason for this obscurity. Also, as a previous reviewer has noted, many of songs are Western Swing only by broadest possible definition of term.

This is the fourth 4 CD set of Western Swing music Proper has put out (besides Doughboys, etc. the other two showcase Bob Wills and Milton Brown). Could be by now bottom of barrel is being scraped. In any case, the result here is ordinary music. Don't invest your money in ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 169
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Best of Jimmy Boyd

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by: Jim Boyd

Release Date May 09, 2006
Haven't yet actually heard this CD edition, but I'm thrilled to see so much of Little Jimmy Boyd's music made available again! It's going on my Wish List...

Having said that, sorry - - but it's just not the 'best of' if it doesn't include 'God Bless Us All' or his completely brilliant proto-rockabilly '(I've Got Those Wake Up 7:30 Wash Your Ears They're Dirty Eat Your Eggs And Oatmeal Rush To School) Blues'.

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The Texas Fiddle Collection

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by: Johnny Gimble

Release Date April 16, 1995
Enjoyed the music. Great fiddle swing music, and I couldn't believe he could play that fast on one of the songs. Good dance music.