North American Country Music Association International
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Heather Martin – Like Him – Original Composition – Pigeon Forge TN 3-09
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Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology $11.18 Of the musicians who rose to prominence in the 1990s during the alternative country scene’s 15 minutes of media prominence, the Jayhawks were at once the band that best exemplified what was satisfying about the new country rock scene, and a group that avoided the twangy clichés that became so large a part of what their less gifted peers were doing. The high lonesome melodies and evocative wordplay of Gary Louris and Mark Olson’s fine songs suggested a country influence without forcing the particulars into the arrangements (a mandolin here and a fiddle there was enough), and though Louris’ guitar work made it clear he’d listened to a few Neil Young albums, the Jayhawks’ musical vision made as much room for pure pop and ’70s West Coast sounds as rocked-up country. The group’s sound became even more eclectic after Olson departed the band in 1996, and over the course of their career, the Jayhawks created a distinctive and powerful body of work that showed clear evolution and fresh thinking on each successive album. In 2008, Louris dropped hints to fans and writers of a “Herculean project” of remastering and expanding the Jayhawks’ albums, and Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology is presumably the first salvo in these efforts, a career-spanning compilation that offers highlights from their five albums for American Recordings as well as one track each from their first two independent efforts. This set sounds and feels like a “Jayhawks Greatest Hits” disc, pulling the best-known tunes and likely fan favorites from each album, but given how consistently strong their music was, this isn’t a serious flaw, and the chronological sequence of the album plays to the growth and shifts in the group’s approach while mimicking the creative arc of their career, encompassing songs as brilliant as “Martin’s Song,” “I’d Run Away,” “The Man Who Loved Life,” “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me,” and “Save It for a Rainy Day.” If you’ve never had the pleasure of listening to the Jayhawks, this collection is a marvelous place to start, and fans will be reminded of just how much good music this group made, and how well it has stood the test of time. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Performers: Gary Louris – Fuzz Guitar, Chamberlin, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic); Bernie Leadon – Banjo; Jessy Greene – Viola, Violin; Richard Causon – Accordion, Piano; Steve McCarthy – Pedal Steel, Vocals; Tim O’Reagan – Conga, Vocals, Percussion, Guitar (Acoustic), Drums; |
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The Award-Winning Songs of the Country Music Association $18.95 By Various. For voice, piano and guitar (chords only). Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Country. Difficulty: medium. Songbook. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams and black & white photos. 288 pages. Published by Hal Leonard |
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North American Fiddle Music $75 North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and research guide on the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada. |
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Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology [Deluxe Edition] $27.98 Of the musicians who rose to prominence in the 1990s during the alternative country scene’s 15 minutes of media prominence, the Jayhawks were at once the band that best exemplified what was satisfying about the new country rock scene, and a group that avoided the twangy clichés that became so large a part of what their less gifted peers were doing. The high lonesome melodies and evocative wordplay of Gary Louris and Mark Olson’s fine songs suggested a country influence without forcing the particulars into the arrangements (a mandolin here and a fiddle there was enough), and though Louris’ guitar work made it clear he’d listened to a few Neil Young albums, the Jayhawks’ musical vision made as much room for pure pop and ’70s West Coast sounds as rocked-up country. The group’s sound became even more eclectic after Olson departed the band in 1996, and over the course of their career, the Jayhawks created a distinctive and powerful body of work that showed clear evolution and fresh thinking on each successive album. In 2008, Louris dropped hints to fans and writers of a “Herculean project” of remastering and expanding the Jayhawks’ albums, and Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology is presumably the first salvo in these efforts, a career-spanning compilation that offers highlights from their five albums for American Recordings as well as one track each from their first two independent efforts. This set sounds and feels like a “Jayhawks Greatest Hits” disc, pulling the best-known tunes and likely fan favorites from each album, but given how consistently strong their music was, this isn’t a serious flaw, and the chronological sequence of the album plays to the growth and shifts in the group’s approach while mimicking the creative arc of their career, encompassing songs as brilliant as “Martin’s Song,” “I’d Run Away,” “The Man Who Loved Life,” “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me,” and “Save It for a Rainy Day.” If you’ve never had the pleasure of listening to the Jayhawks, this collection is a marvelous place to start, and fans will be reminded of just how much good music this group made, and how well it has stood the test of time. [Fans who want something that digs a bit deeper into their archives will want to pony up the extra money for the "Deluxe Edition" of the collection, which tosses in a second disc of rare demos, unreleased tracks, B-sides, compilation and soundtrack contributions, and other hard to find material; while it's not as consistent as the first disc, there are some true gems to be found, including "Old Woman From Red Clay" (an early version of what would become "Two Angels"), "Someone Will" (another early draft, this time a rough version of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"), "Get the Load Out" (a witty hard rock pastiche), and a lively cover of "Break My Mind"." A DVD of videos and live footage of the Jayhawks is also included with the expanded package.] ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Performers: |
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Award Winning Songs of the Country Music Association $19.95 (E-Z Play Today Volume 226). By Various. E-Z Play Today. 264 pages. Published by Hal Leonard |
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Hal Leonard Award Winning Songs Of The Country Music Association 3rd Edition E-Z Play 226 Standard $17.96 Hal Leonard Award Winning Songs Of The Country Music Association 3rd Edition E-Z Play 226 Standard |
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Country Life International – Subscription $3.6 Country Life International – the dedicated International property magazine in association with Country Life. Bringing you the best property for sale across the globe, with editorial on travel, lifestyle, food & drink and the latest property news. Coming out three times a year, Spring, Summer and Autumn/Winter. |
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Queen of Country Music [Box Set] $89.98 Bear Family, the venerable German label that does reissue boxes of U.S. artists better than any American label — with the possible exception of Mosaic — has taken the cream of Kitty Wells’ career and issued one of the most historically important collections in the history of country music. The Queen of Country Music is a four-CD box, with exhaustive biographical and session notes by Charles Wolfe that document, in their entirety, nine years of Ms. Wells career, from its inception through to its turning point and superstardom, the years 1949 to 1958; there are 114 tracks in all. Along with every major hit and B-side from the eras, the set includes classic original versions of “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” “Hey Joe!,” “I Hear the Jukebox Playing,” “Lonely Side of Town,” “Making Believe,” “Dust on the Bible,” “The Place That Kills,” “Right or Wrong,” “Just When I Needed You,” “The Great Speckled Bird,” “Jealousy,” and many others. There are plenty of alternate takes, unissued tracks and, as the session notes attest., Ms. Wells was the beginning point for many, including the legendary producer Owen Bradley, who worked with her and Patsy Cline simultaneously. Box sets such as this one, while geared to the collector and fanatic have, it would seem, limited appeal, but The Queen of Country Music can be looked at in a different light entirely. The story of Ms. Wells ascent to stardom also accurately reflects the changing tides in Nashville and the changing popular attitudes toward country music. Like Don Gibson, Ms. Wells, while remaining firmly a country, roots, and honky tonk vocalist, nonetheless, because of Bradley’s production techniques and marketing changes ushered in by Chet Atkins at RCA, experienced a certain amount of crossover success due to massive jukebox play in barrooms and lounges all over the North, As in the Gibson set, this one offers a real view of Nashville’s evolution into its real glory years from 1955-1970. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi Performers: Benny Martin – Fiddle; Clyde Baum – Mandolin; Emory Martin – Banjo; Harold Morrison – Banjo, Guitar (Steel); Ray Crisp – Baritone (Vocal), Fiddle, Vocals; Thomas Lee Jackson Jr. – Vocal Harmony, Fiddle, Tenor (Vocal), Harmony Vocals; Alex Garland – Guitar; Bob Moore – Bass; Bud Isa |
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This Is Country Music $11.02 Consciously backpedaling from the all-encompassing embrace of American Saturday Night, Brad Paisley narrows his definition of what constitutes modern country on his seventh collection of new songs, This Is Country Music. Gone are the casual multiculturalism, the allusions to the age of Obama, the subtle instrumental flourishes that suggested a world outside of country; whenever Paisley chooses to broaden the horizons on This Is Country Music, he brings in Don Henley to duet on a power ballad or kicks up the reverb for a bit of landbound surf-rock. From the album title right on down to a rousing tribute to “Old Alabama” — a tribute so clever it seamlessly references a handful of the band’s ’80s hits, its chorus playfully inverting “Mountain Music,” then enlists the group to sing the punch line — Paisley celebrates the strict confines of country, gently bending its topical borders but adhering to country customs so strictly he even convinces Clint Eastwood to whistle a Morricone melody on a spaghetti Western instrumental tribute to the actor. Here’s where Paisley’s skills as a craftsman come into play. Always a traditionalist — the kind who saluted the Grand Ol Opry by regularly having Bill Anderson and Little Jimmy Dickens come out to do some cornpone humor on his albums — he builds a song with care but is keenly aware that he’s living in 2011, not 1965. Even when he’s determined to rein in his ambition, his music is rich and surprising. His silly novelties (“Camouflage” and “Be the Lake”) are underpinned by a sly sense of humor not readily apparent on their hammy choruses; he has an eye for details, whether it’s how a relationship builds (“Toothbrush”) or how a soul erodes in this modern world (“A Man Don’t Have to Die”); he opens the album by singing “You’re not supposed to say the word cancer in a song,” then breaks that very rule a few songs later; his twanging Telecaster may echo back to Don Rich, but is equally indebted to the shredders of the ‘80s. Paisley’s determination to keep This Is Country Music lean and lanky does mean it’s not as wily as his other records, but his consummate skill as a musician and big heart are always evident, always keeping things compelling. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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American Country Music : American Country Music $23.96 Description not provided. |
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The North Country $14.42 “North Country derives inspiration from mythology & traditions of the past looking toward a world of wholeness and tradition. The past is not history, but the mythic past of the beginning time of might and magic where the worlds were first created & can still be created anew. Acoustic and ambient soundscapes form a background for Karlsdottir’s haunting and melodic lyrics. Guest appearances by Ian Read (Fire+Ice), Annabel Lee (Blood Axis), Jim Chisholm (Rune Gild Master, author of True Hearth), Spike the Percussionist (Astrogenic Hallucinauting) & Johnathan Kramm (Industrial Orchestra).” Performers: Jim Chisholm – Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part; Al Rutger – Vocals; Alice Karlsdóttir – Tambourine, Vocals, Percussion; Annabel Lee – Violin; Ian Read – Vocals; Jonathan Kramm – Double Bass, Vocals; Paul Fredric – Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic), Keyboards; Spike the Percussionist – Percussion, Drums |
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American Heart Association Cookbook $20 American Heart Association Cookbook |
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Finest American Vintage Country $33.59 75 american vintage country tracks Finest american vintage country is a specially priced 3cd collection |
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The New American Heart Association Cookbook $7.99 When the American Heart Association, the country’s most-trusted authority on heart-healthy living, published the first edition of its cookbook twenty-five years ago, it could hardly have predicted that the book would become a runaway bestseller and set the standard for healthful and delicious eating. To celebrate the book’s silver anniversary, the AHA has completely updated and revised this jewel of its renowned cookbook library. This latest edition is a must-have for every chef who wants tasty, good-for-you recipes in step with how we eat today.        Each of the more than 600 recipes–including over 150 that are brand-new–has been kitchen-tested for high flavor and ease of preparation.          Dishes such as Risotto with Broccoli and Leeks, Grilled Tuna with Pineapple-Nectarine Salsa, and Minted Cantaloupe Soup with Fresh Lime prove that healthful food doesn’t have to be boring, spartan, or old-fashioned. Here you’ll find recipes for the hottest trends in cooking, from wrap sandwiches and pesto to vegetarian entrées and ethnic cuisines. If you’re a chef on the go, you’ll appreciate the many recipes that will help you put a meal on the table in a flash–from quick-and-easy offerings and twofer recipes that let you have delicious planned-overs for later in the work week to one-dish meals and microwave recipes. The handy menus will help you mix and match recipes not only for weekday dining but also for the perfect holiday meal, party, or other special occasion. And with the AHA’s suggestions, you can turn treasured family favorites into heart-healthy classics.        You’ll also read the latest on how what you eat can affect your health. In addition to the AHA’s dietary guidelines and recommendations, you’ll find discussions about the importance of fiber, folic acid, and eating a variety of foods. Each kitchen-tested recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional breakdown, including total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, calories, fiber, and more, so it’s easy to work any of the recipes into any eating plan. The New American Heart Association Cookbook will be the basic cookbook you’ll find yourself reaching for again and again. The American Heart Association is the nation’s most-trusted authority on heart-healthy living and diet. Its best-selling library of cookbooks includes: American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook, Second Edition American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook American Heart Association Quick & Easy Cookbook American Heart Association Around the World Cookbook American Heart Association Kids’ Cookbook From the Hardcover edition. |
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American Folk and Country Music Festival $74.98 Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau began organizing their American Blues and Jazz Festivals in 1962, bringing to Europe American blues and jazz players for a series of successful tours, and in the early spring of 1966 Lippmann and Rau switched gears a bit and brought over a package of the New Lost City Ramblers, the Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Band, Cyp Landreneau’s Cajun Band, Cousin Emmy, and Roscoe Holcomb, billing it as the American Folk and Country Music Festival. Although it was somewhat less fiscally viable than the blues and jazz fests, it was certainly a varied and rewarding show, and thankfully several of the stops were recorded, leading to this wonderful two-disc set featuring generous selections from all of the participating artists. Among the high points are a haunting, high lonesome version by Roscoe Holcomb of “East Virginia Blues,” the New Lost City Ramblers’ take on “Coo Coo Bird” (based, obviously, on Clarence Ashley’s famous arrangement of the song), Cyp Landreneau’s bayou meets gypsy sound on “La Danse du Lac Charles,” the harmonica and banjo playing of Cousin Emmy, and the sleek yet rustic sound of the Stanley Brothers on “Riding on That Midnight Train,” which, while it is definitely bluegrass in approach, still has an old-timey string band feel to it. Lovingly assembled like all of the Bear Family’s remarkable box sets, and generously annotated, American Folk and Country Music Festival is both a valuable historical document and a fun, even revelatory, listen. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi Performers: Don Miller – Fiddle; Ralph Stanley – Banjo, Vocals; George Shuffler – Guitar; John Cohen – Vocals; Mike Seeger – Vocals; Tracy Schwarz – Vocals |
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Award-Winning Songs of the Country Music Association, 1997-2000 by Edition , 0 $19.99 This collector's edition features winning and nominated entries for the Country Music Association's highly coveted "Song of the Year" from 1997-2008. It includes megahits from stars such as Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Lonestar, Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, George Strait and others, as well as an introduction, photos of all the nominated artists, and facts about the beautiful trophy the winners receive. Songs include: Alcohol * Amazed * Beer for My Horses * Blue * Breathe * Butterfly Kisses * I Hope You Dance * Jesus Take the Wheel * Live like You Were Dying * Red Dirt Road * Redneck Woman * Whiskey Lullaby * and many more! |
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The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music 1927-1928 $143.98 5-CD set + 120 page LP size hardcover book. The recording trip made by Victor Records to Bristol, Tennessee in July-August 1927 was a defining moment in country music. Producer Ralph Peer found two acts that acquired national and international fame: Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. But more than a hundred other recordings were made at the Bristol sessions of 1927 and ’28. There were ballad singers, street evangelists, string bands, gospel quartets, harmonica virtuosos, Holiness preachers, blues guitarists and rural storytellers. A snapshot of rural American music was caught in an era of rapid change: pictures of a past almost beyond recall, but preserved for ever in these magnificent recordings. The five CDs in this set gather every surviving recording from these sessions, including alternative takes. The accompanying 120- page, LP-sized hardcover book contains newly researched essays on the background to the sessions and on the individual artists, with many rare and unpublished photographs. Also included are complete song lyrics and a detailed discography, illustrated with reproductions of the original recording sheets. |
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Country $67 American country music is a blend of musical traditions, from the balladry and dance tunes of the British Isles to African-American blues and gospel, to minstrel show and Tin Pan Alley commercial tunes, to the music of immigrant Acadian, German, and Hispanic groups, to the ballads of the coal miners and cowboys. Commercial recordings such as the landmark Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane recorded by Fiddlin John Carson and the WLS National Barn Dance and WSMs Grand Ole Opry helped bring the music of Appalachia, the South, and the West to the attention of the rest of the country. The 1930s and 1940s saw new artists develop new styles, including western swing and honky tonk. Despite several dry spells in country music history, mostly during the 1950s, real country music never died and made a comeback in the 1970s. American Popular Music: Country documents the evolution of this genre as it carved a place for itself in the music industry, one song at a time. |
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North Country $21.58 Description not provided. |
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Native North American Child: An Odyssey $10.38 Buffy Sainte-Marie has always been a good deal more versatile as a musician than most people realize, roaming through folk, blues, country, pop, and even electronica on her various albums, always using her Cree ancestry as an anchor, and very few singers have dealt with cultural polemics as intelligently as she has. Perhaps because of her restless drive to try new forms, Sainte-Marie’s albums are often woefully erratic and inconsistent, but each contains hidden gems, and while her eerie, vibrato-laden singing style can sound affected at times, her drive to constantly pull her agenda into new musical territories is inspiring. Native North American Child is a best-of collection of sorts, originally released in 1974 at the end of her long run with Vanguard Records, but it has an obvious theme as it traces the indigenous strain of Sainte-Marie’s writing, opening with one of her best early songs, “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone,” and closing with another, the beautiful “Little Wheel Spin and Spin.” In between, listeners are treated to the extremes of Sainte-Marie’s view of the modern world. “Poppies,” from 1969′s brave electronic experiment Illuminations, is a haunting and deeply atmospheric piece of musical vérité, while — at the opposite end of the scale — “The Piney Wood Hills” is a simple country shuffle full of autobiographical yearning. There are arguably better collections out there that do a better job of spanning Sainte-Marie’s career, but Native North American Child does a wonderful job of defining her central themes. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi Performers: Buffy Sainte-Marie – Guitar, Vocals |
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My North Country Home $137.59 George Hamilton IV is known for his 1956 smash “A Rose and a Baby Ruth,” but roughly ten years later he embarked on a more interesting journey, heading up toward the Great White North to cut a series of six albums of Canadian songs. These albums were somewhat lost to time, never seeing reissue until Bear Family’s 2011 set My North Country Home, which contains each of the six LPs over the course of three CDs. Hamilton’s ear was turned by Gordon Lightfoot and he soon discovered Leonard Cohen, Ian Tyson, and Joni Mitchell, recording their work and songs by other Canadian tunesmiths that were more explicitly about their homeland. This had a considerably folkier bent than the music Hamilton was making in Nashville, yet the soft, hazy arrangements were hardly meant for coffeehouses; this was soothing soft pop that fit his clean, honeyed voice. By any other name this is middle-of-the-road pop, distinguished by its slight country-folk bent and dogged concentration on Canadian writers, which is enough to make My North Country Home a gently fascinating period piece. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi |
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North American Canoe Country $12.71 This book is in New – Excellent condition |