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Wide Open
:Album Description:Propelled by a star producer and a legion of Nashville's most awarded songwriters, Mountain Heart speeds into 2006 with Wide Open, the band's third album from Skaggs Family Records. Looking to maintain its edge as one of the most adventurous and exciting young acts in acoustic country music, Mountain Heart turned to producer Mark Bright, the studio mentor to such multiplatinum acts as Rascal Flatts, Blackhawk, Carrie Underwood, Sara Evans, and Jo Dee Messina. It was a perfect match. 'I idolize these guys and their musicianship', Bright declares.Central to Mountain ...
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Wondrous Love
:Album Description:'The album Wondrours and musicians in the business. When you put 'em together in one band, you have the best that bluegrass today can offer.
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High Lonesome and Blue
:Album Description:Perennial winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award and recent Grand Ole Opry inductee, Del McCoury possesses one of the most soulful voices in bluegrass. Here are the best of his definitive Rounder Records recordings, made as he was on the cusp of his now burgeoning popularity with bluegrass, country, jam band and rock audiences alike. There's one great song after another here, sung 'high lonesome and blue' as only Del McCoury can.
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Country Music Hall of Fame
: :This collection offers a fine introduction to the most agreeable of country crooners, sampling a variety of styles. Red Foley puts his conversational baritone to gospel favorites, catchy novelties (including one here with Ernest Tubb), souped-up boogies, and of course, the sentimental classic 'Old Shep,' a boy-and-his-dog tale that manages to be both mawkish and moving at the same time. --Marc Greilsamer
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Home for Christmas: Voices from the Heartland
:Album Description:From the Western swing of Riders in the Sky to the Memphis R&B of Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave) to the Missouri bluegrass of Rhonda Vincent to the New Orleans gospel of Irma Thomas, Home for Christmas is chock full of soulful interpretations of holiday classics. Whether you love uptown blues or downhome country, you'll find the heart of American music in these grooves. The perfect stocking stuffer for any true music fan.
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Isaacs Bluegrass: A Cappella
:Album Description:From the Western swing of Riders in the Sky to the Memphis R&B of Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave) to the Missouri bluegrass of Rhonda Vincent to the New Orleans gospel of Irma Thomas, Home for Christmas is chock full of soulful interpretations of holiday classics. Whether you love uptown blues or downhome country, you'll find the heart of American music in these grooves. The perfect stocking stuffer for any true music fan.
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Songs of Inspiration, Vol. 2
: :The second release of inspirational music from the country harmonizers mixes plenty of familiar, traditional spirituals with a few originals. The guitar-driven 'I Am a Pilgrim' has the trademark lope of a Waylon Jennings arrangement, while more acoustic fare such as 'Children in the Wildwood' and 'If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again' has a folkish purity. Alabama join forces with the Del McCoury Band for a revival of 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' and with Riders in the Sky for campfire cowboy harmonizing on 'Love Lifted Me.' The set-closing ...
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An Old-Fashioned Christmas
: :The second release of inspirational music from the country harmonizers mixes plenty of familiar, traditional spirituals with a few originals. The guitar-driven 'I Am a Pilgrim' has the trademark lope of a Waylon Jennings arrangement, while more acoustic fare such as 'Children in the Wildwood' and 'If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again' has a folkish purity. Alabama join forces with the Del McCoury Band for a revival of 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' and with Riders in the Sky for campfire cowboy harmonizing on 'Love Lifted Me.' The set-closing ...
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Gospel Music of Johnny Cash
: :The second release of inspirational music from the country harmonizers mixes plenty of familiar, traditional spirituals with a few originals. The guitar-driven 'I Am a Pilgrim' has the trademark lope of a Waylon Jennings arrangement, while more acoustic fare such as 'Children in the Wildwood' and 'If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again' has a folkish purity. Alabama join forces with the Del McCoury Band for a revival of 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' and with Riders in the Sky for campfire cowboy harmonizing on 'Love Lifted Me.' The set-closing ...
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Shine On
: :Spiritual songs have long provided the musical bedrock for bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley, from the heavenly strains of the Stanley Brothers' 'Angel Band' through the a cappella chill of 'O Death.' This collection of sacred material shows the expressive range and soulful depth of Stanley's keening tenor, with his Clinch Mountain Boys providing gospel harmonies and spare instrumental backing. Some of the highlights are all voice--Stanley's stately solo rendition of the traditional 'The Old Church Yard,' the four-part harmonies of 'Sing Songs About Jesus'--while 'On a High, High Mountain' features Stanley ...
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