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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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Soulful Dress
Marcia Ball
Price $ 14.99
Lively and bright Marcia's music always brings a smile to my face and spring to my step.I dare you to
have a bad day while listening to Soulful Dress!Made your move too soon and Eugene make me giggle
every time I hear them.Got folks over,rev up any gathering with this cd I promise people will dance ,laugh
and have a good time to this lighthearted music.
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The Basement Tapes
The Band
Price $ 18.97
There's something really cool about the idea of Bob Dylan and The Band in the summer of 1967, holed
up near Woodstock in upstate New York, far away from the "Summer of Love" hoopla, "Sgt. Pepper," and
psychedelia in general, making decidedly anti-hip genre-defying music that has remained timeless (unlike
all those psychedelic "masterpieces"). "The Basement Tapes," a two-record set finally issued in 1975 in
the warm post-"Blood on the Tracks" glow of Dylan's career, is a sampler of those fabled summer
sessions in the basement of "Big Pink" and, although it was never originally intended for mass release, it
contains a good chunk of Dylan's (and The Band's) greatest work. Dylan's "Please Mrs. Henry," "Yea!
Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread," and "Lo And Behold!" best exemplify the cheerful, easygoing madness of
this music, but just about every track is a unique delight, particularly "K! atie's Been Gone," the best of
The Band's half-dozen tracks. It's a drop-dead gorgeous Richard Manuel-Robbie Robertson composition
with one of Manuel's most affecting vocals. If you don't already own this album, you should. (See if you
can spot Neil Young among the throng in the cover shots, taken in the boiler room of the Los Angeles
YMCA in '75.)
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Rumor Town
Clay Blaker
Price $ 13.27
Ten great ones from central Texas singer-songwriter Clay Blaker. Nashville has known for awhile that Clay was a songwriter, but this release showed them that this artist is also a great preformer.
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Arkansas Soul Siblings
The Cate Brothers
Price $ 12.99
Twenty fine songs by the Cate Brothers Band from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Influenced by Ronnie Hawkins and The Band. The Cates have played with not only Levon Helm & The Band but numerous other top notch artists. One of the best bands around.
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LIVE
The Cate Brothers
Price $ 14.49
This album is excellent. The five members of the band are all great musicians. They complement each
other and no one tries to hog the stage. The music is a blues/soul/pop combination. This was recorded
live at "Chester's", a small club in Fayettville, AR. The best...12 great hits!!!!!
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Struck a Vein
The Cate Brothers
Price $ 14.49
This CD continues the trend of tight R&B tunes written by Ernie and Earl Cate. They are the masters of
blue eyed Memphis-based soul music. The cuts on this CD are tight and well written, although is seems
somewhat of an attempt to move toward a mainstream audience compared to their prior release
"Radioland", which is more consistent with their 1970's recordings and song writing. As always, a good
buy. You can't go wrong with these guys. They are the masters of blue-eyed soul music.
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Angels & Outlaws
Brian Burns
Price $ 14.22
Anyone who loves freedom and its expression in Texas and in the South will enjoy this remarkable album. It's not pop, it's for serious
country music fans.
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Highways, Heartaches & Honky Tonks
Brian Burns
Price $ 14.22
In this era when what currently passes for country music is what we used to call, well, rock'n'roll, with nary a decent songwriter on the
horizon, Brian Burns is the Real Deal. You can hear the influences of Lefty Frizzell, Willie Nelson and the other greats of a bygone
era, but with a fresh sound and lyrics. If you love the honkytonk sound that seems to have vanished, stop crying in your beer and get this
CD!
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