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Music CDs
Our hand-picked collection of albums from the artists listed here at Honky Tonk
Texas, USA, including our comments and reviews.
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Turn, Turn, Turn
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
The Byrds' second album closely follows the same formula, but
what a formula: durable American folksongs (from Pete Seeger, Bob
Dylan, and even Stephen Foster) and their own strong originals are
laced with the band's keening vocal harmonies and chiming guitars
in a mix since institutionalized as a perennial rock dialect. With
Seeger's classic title song, the Byrds brought Ecclesiastes onto the
charts, importing the urban folk movement's social and political
consciousness to the pop mainstream. If the album couldn't repeat
the revelatory impact of its predecessor, it's still an earful, from
Gene Clark's urgent, ardent "It Won't Be Wrong" to Dylan's
contemplative "Lay Down Your Weary Tune."
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Untitled [Remaster]
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
A fine album that is sadly underrated by most people (including McGuinn
himself). With "Untitled" McGuinn and company proved they could put out a
record that easily ranks with their best work; the song writing is terrific and the
studio performances are subtle and well thought out. The live cuts are light
years beyond any done by the original line up.
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Younger Than Yesterday [Remaster]
The Byrds
Price $ 11.97
Four of the five original Byrds were aboard for this folk-rock landmark. Within
months of its release in the summer of 1967, David Crosby would move on and
the group would enter a permanent period of flux. Younger Than Yesterday,
however, finds songwriters Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and Chris Hillman
prodding one another with varied but complementary triumphs. "My Back
Pages" is one of their best Dylan covers (and the Byrds had plenty of them),
while "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (written as a jab at the Monkees)
represents two minutes of compressed pop cynicism that's as valid today as it
was when it hit the airwaves. --Steven Stolder
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Hey! Baby
Bruce Channel
Price $ 12.99
HEY! BABY is an especially memorable tune. It reached the No.1 spot on Billboard's HOT 100 on the 3rd
week in March, 1962. It is strangely related to the Beatles,too as Ringo Starr covered it on his LP RINGO'S
ROTOGRAVURE in 1976.(but I prefer Channel's.) John Lennon wrote the famous harmonica part of LOVE ME DO influenced
by the impressive harmonica phrasing of this tune (by Delbert McClinton. One of the great songs of all time.
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Classic Country
Johnny Duncan
Price $ 9.97
I have all these songs on various albums & I would love to update my collection to CDs. There is no better singing voice to my ears &
I miss his recordings in this day & time. I'm hoping you will get this back in stock for those of us who remember when listening to
music was a pleasant experience! I can't get too much of THIS Johnnie Duncan. (Different from the one on The Last Train To San
Fernando). Hurry, cause my records are about worn out! Thanx! Lila Gayton in Jacksonville, Florida (By the way, I remember getting
a response out of Johnny when I put my shoes on the stage while he sang, "She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed, Anytime!)by Julie Robbins
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Letter To Loredo
Joe Ely
Price $ 9.49
Flamencobilly travels through the souls of other sides of life. No worry, plenty of rock remains from Austin's Flatland Troubeadour.
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Twistin In The Wind
Joe Ely
Price $ 11.49
The intensity of the guitar work of Jesse Taylor and David Grissom combined with Joe's ever present "Flamencobilly style, leaves us fortunately with yet another great one.
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All That May Do My Rhyme
Roky Erickson
Price $ 13.27
Everything by this man is gold. I know of few other artists who are able to speak from the heart in
this way. A miracle that this album exists at all. But it does and it shares very few similarities with
his earlier solo work or his work with the elevators. To me it is every bit as great. Roky shows
himself to be the true Texas heir to Budddy Holly's crown. from Amazon.com
from HonkyTonkTx.com
with two versions of "Starry Eyes", one with Lou Ann Barton, this Cd is rated amoungst the top 10 that would go to the Desert Island along with Gram Parsons, Hank Cochran (Desperados), Phases and Stages(Willie), Sweetheart of The Rodeo (The Byrds with Parsons) some Hank, and a few others."Please Judge" is one of the finest tunes ever written. I have suggested for a couple years that Willie does it. Time will tell. Listen, Shorty.
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