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The American Farewell Tour
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Lyle Lovett Live In Texas
from: MCA
: :One decade's oddity is the next decade's institution. Or at least that's been the case with Lyle Lovett. The Lone Star eccentric emerged in the 1980s ostensibly as a country artist, but it became clear pretty quickly that a Southern accent and a pair of cowboy boots does not a Nashville favorite make. In time, however, Lovett's free-range brand of swing, blues, gospel, folk, and whatever has been embraced by a coterie of fans who have as little interest in genres as their hero. Live in Texas is something of a ...
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Live at the Charleston Music Hall
: :More than two decades ago, former Ralph Stanley and Emmylou Harris sideman Ricky Skaggs found mainstream stardom by reconfiguring bluegrass to make it accessible to a broader audience. Trends come and go but Skaggs, who never abandoned traditional bluegrass even during his peak hit-making years, had refocused on it long before the O Brother soundtrack gave it mass popularity. This live show showcases Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, with a repertoire heavy on traditional tunes, the Stanley Brothers, and Bill Monroe. The energy rarely lets up as flawless hot licks ...
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Dwight Live
: :Dwight Live, with its generous helping of 17 songs, provides a useful summary of Yoakam's career thus far. He's recorded all but one of the songs before, but the six numbers from the '80s are deepened by everything Yoakam and his terrific band have learned from their years on the road, and the six numbers from his '93 album, This Time, are liberated from their radio-ready studio arrangements to kick up a little dust. For example, the come-back-home plea of the '87 hit, 'Please, Please Baby,' takes on a new urgency ...
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Always ... Patsy Cline: Live At The Ryman Auditorium (1995 Original Nashville Cast)
: :Dwight Live, with its generous helping of 17 songs, provides a useful summary of Yoakam's career thus far. He's recorded all but one of the songs before, but the six numbers from the '80s are deepened by everything Yoakam and his terrific band have learned from their years on the road, and the six numbers from his '93 album, This Time, are liberated from their radio-ready studio arrangements to kick up a little dust. For example, the come-back-home plea of the '87 hit, 'Please, Please Baby,' takes on a new urgency ...
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Live from the Limo, Vol. 1
: :Supergroup live albums are rare things; rarer still are those that work strictly on musical terms, rather than star fascination. This first volume of Texas Tornados concert recordings surpasses expectations partly because, after nine years together, the Tornados are no longer an uber-collaboration but instead are a road-wizened ensemble. Part Texas bar-band deluxe (as on the shout-along 'Hey Baby Kep-Pa-So'), part keepers of the conjunto flame (as on Flaco Jimenez's scale-scorching accordion showcase 'La Múcura/A Mover el Bote'), the Tornados have developed a swaggering on-stage personality without ever devolving into Tex-Mex ...
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Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Cafe-New Orleans
: :Supergroup live albums are rare things; rarer still are those that work strictly on musical terms, rather than star fascination. This first volume of Texas Tornados concert recordings surpasses expectations partly because, after nine years together, the Tornados are no longer an uber-collaboration but instead are a road-wizened ensemble. Part Texas bar-band deluxe (as on the shout-along 'Hey Baby Kep-Pa-So'), part keepers of the conjunto flame (as on Flaco Jimenez's scale-scorching accordion showcase 'La Múcura/A Mover el Bote'), the Tornados have developed a swaggering on-stage personality without ever devolving into Tex-Mex ...
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Live in London
: :Supergroup live albums are rare things; rarer still are those that work strictly on musical terms, rather than star fascination. This first volume of Texas Tornados concert recordings surpasses expectations partly because, after nine years together, the Tornados are no longer an uber-collaboration but instead are a road-wizened ensemble. Part Texas bar-band deluxe (as on the shout-along 'Hey Baby Kep-Pa-So'), part keepers of the conjunto flame (as on Flaco Jimenez's scale-scorching accordion showcase 'La Múcura/A Mover el Bote'), the Tornados have developed a swaggering on-stage personality without ever devolving into Tex-Mex ...
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Live and Unplugged
: :As much time as country artists spend out on the road--200 or more nights a year in most cases--you'd think they'd release a lot more live albums. Yet the whole idea of concert recordings seems to scare the pants off the control freaks at Nashville's record companies. Fortunately, a handful of country acts have dispensed with the conventional wisdom and released terrific live discs. Tracy Lawrence's --Live is a fine example of what can happen when you put an exciting singer in front of an excitable audience. At the baby-cheeked age ...
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Live
: :As much time as country artists spend out on the road--200 or more nights a year in most cases--you'd think they'd release a lot more live albums. Yet the whole idea of concert recordings seems to scare the pants off the control freaks at Nashville's record companies. Fortunately, a handful of country acts have dispensed with the conventional wisdom and released terrific live discs. Tracy Lawrence's --Live is a fine example of what can happen when you put an exciting singer in front of an excitable audience. At the baby-cheeked age ...
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