Folk Music

I ordered this CD for the song "Songbird" for my sons wedding. He and I are going to dance the Mother/Son dance to it. It is just beautiful. I will have to be sure and have my kleenex with me while we are dancing. Eve Cassidy is a wonderful artist. I ordered this on Amazon and was very pleased with their service. All the songs are really great on this CD. HappyMother/SelmerTennessee.

I heard of this woman from my sister, who recommended I check her videos out on YouTube. Her voice blows you away almost instantly, and you know you need to have her recordings to share and enjoy with others. This is the album with her best stuff. The title song, as well as "Over the Rainbow" and "Fields of Gold" and "I'll Know You by Heart" will have you hitting the repeat button over and over, as they take you away to the most beautiful places your mind can go. If you have an appreciation for incredible talent, and a soul for music....you'll be listening to this magnificent voice forever!

Although I am not an especially religious person, Eva Cassidy is certainly heaven sent. Her songs pierce my heart and brings me to tears.
Her flame was short lived - but did it ever burn bright! There are just no superlatives than can describe this amazing voice.
Simply - the best there ever was, IMHO: the absolute complete package!

I discovered this song goddess on Pandora listening to "Fields of Gold"

Her album is an album I hope spans many generations. This is an album my parents would absolutely love.

In my eyes, she is a legend to me. Do you ever listen to a singer and think, "This person could never sing a bad note. It's not possible."

Her voice is so illuminating and healing that I cannot get enough of this CD. Right after I received it I ended up getting her "Live at Blues Alley" album. Simply brilliant.

She is the kind of singer that can do a cover and make it her own. I usually hear a cover song and say, "The original is better." With Eva you wished she had been the original singer.

Her voice takes you on a journey within your heart and soul. Not enough people know about her. Buy two CD's. One for you and give it to someone else. Or put yours on your MP3 and give this one away.

It's so unfortunate that her life was short lived. Rest in Peace Eva. May your music reach millions and millions for all to hear.

Never have I heard such a crisp, clear, overwhelming voice as this!! Its like an armour pierecing shell that you don't feel, don't understand, but is nonetheless deadly, just the same! From Tennessee Waltz to Over the Rainbow she will impregnate you with a feeling that you've NEVER heard any of these covers before -- that's because no one has ever done it this good before! Eva is Spectacular!

she did an amazing tour with Buddy Miller and Debra Dobkin last year. It would have been great to have a recording of that. This is just Shawn and her guitar.

I love Steve Earle, but found his voice too gravelly/hoarse on this album. Some arrangements of Townes' songs were not so great. One bright note: an excellent blues rendition (8th cut)is worth the entire album. Earle's voice was right for this one.

Either I don't like Townes Van Zandt or Steve Earle didn't do a good job covering his songs, but I just could not get into this CD. Some of the slower tunes were decent enough, but the more uptempo numbers did not work at all for me. I also felt Earle's vocals were far too grizzled, or something. Perhaps he was trying to set a tone, but it lost me at the bakery. I'll stick to Earle's CD's featuring original material, which I have enjoyed.

This is basically a tribute album to the great TVZ from the great Steve Earle. Most of the album is straight ahead interpretations of TVZ material. An outstanding version of "Lungs" with a Steve Earle twist is the standout for me. "Mr Mud and Mr. Gold" is interesting as a duet with Steve's son. Nice production and great instrumentation throughout, but I prefer Steve doing Steve and the many TVZ originals available. Still, a nice album, and a good intro for those unfamiliar with Earle's friend and mentor, TVZ.

This is his best album since Copperhead Road. It is an excellent blend of blues, rock, and bluegrass. I even liked his version of Pancho and Lefty. What I really like about this album is its stripped down feel. Much of the album is just Steve and his guitar. Drums are more or less hinted at during those songs. He blends the bluegrass in very well. The album makes up a nice cohesive whole, while the songs are strong enough to stand on their own.

This lead me to an amazing journey of Townes Van Zandt discovery. I'm not a huge country fan but these songs grabbed me from the start and I haven't stopped listening since I purchased it.

I just love their music, every song on the CD and it sounds great to me...no song by song analisys here!...its just a great CD.

This is a classic, classic album for anyone that remembers the wonderful sound of America .. they were just wonderful! Still are in my eyes!

It has proven to be a safe and fast way for me to acquire many things, especially CD's since few people carry them at all anymore. I have yet to be disappointed.

Has all which this great band is known for. A great compilation. If you don't have separate albums, this will make it hard for you not to collect them all.

I've loved America from their first album. This collection is great. All the memorable songs plus a few of their "newer" ones. The two new songs never on a project before are okay but I'm "into" the "oldies but goodies"

This product has great rock and roll sound from the 70's. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young put together a true masterpiece that will live on through eternity.

This is a great album. It captures better than any other the self absorption of the hippy element. These guys are like the Beach Boys - great albums, out of tune live. They were very into themselves and very self-important.

Love it. The service was awesome, had the CD in just a matter of days after ordered.

From the vantage point of the aughts, it is easier than ever to define the near-magical qualities of this album. It is also easy, at least for me, to face the fact that it is far from perfect. Deja Vu has its fair share of clunkers. CS&N's first album was not perfect either, but it came so close to perfection that criticism would be merely petty. Deja Vu, however, was more of a mixed bag: Teach Your Children is a suprisingly, almost shockingly schlocky top-40 material that seems designed to bridge the ol' generation gap and get the pouty youths and wise papas and mamas to love each other and hug a lot; worse is Our House, Graham's syrupy bid for middle-class pleasures. Carefully crafted with imagery straight from Hallmark cards, it could appeal to pretty much anyone on the planet, especially if they were in the throes of a first "serious" coupling, looking forward to babies and the picket fence. The fact that it was written by someone whose vision of a cozy house was drastically different - several million dollars different - than that of your basic working stiffs, didn't seem to bother anyone, and these sucrose songs were both tremendous radio fodder and huge hits. Graham Nash had a gift for what was essentially teenybopper music, and, in retrospect, one must wonder what attracted the other three to him. Then there's Helpless. I confess I've always disliked this song because it's so awfully simple - the same three chords again and again; it seemed to me that a self-respecting musician shouldn't write something that was no more than a continuous hook. As if to counter this argument, Neil also wrote Country Girl, which is the other extreme: pompous, bloated, so overproduced that it probably made Phil Spector whimper in his dreams. And how about those lyrics: "...no pass out sign on the door set me thinking, are waitresses paying the price for the their winking...?" Yes, Neil, those words rhyme, now stop taking the crystals, you're really losing it. I am not enamored of what the guys did with Mitchell's Woodstock, either: a nice rocker, sure, but the chill that this song carries in Mitchell's ultra-sophisticated version is completely gone. And finally, Everybody I Love You is a mush of sound, a sort of a meaningless good-time improv that musicians of this caliber could probably come up with accidentally at any moment during rehearsals, just goofing around in the studio.
So, with all this, why still 5 stars? Do the few remaining songs really deserve such high praise just for themselves? Yes, they do. They embody qualities that seem to be entirely lost in the way that rock music is written today, whether good or bad. There is the unmatched melodic invention: it is supported by impeccable musicianship, Crosby's unique harmonic gifts, and exceptional vocal harmonies (there, I've killed three adjectives in one sentence, but they're well deserved). Secondly, there is the depth of imagination, and the sheer beauty to which imagery is attached: you don't have hooks per se, you just float along on entire songs that are stuctured so that no section can be separated from the others, even though, interestingly, several songs are put together of different parts composed in different keys or tempos. Thirdly, there is fearless artistic exploration. When did you last hear something so out of left field for its era as these songs were for theirs? Yep, there's Country Girl again: it may have been over the top, but what an experiment! Compare it with the nasally-monotone rubbish of almost anything that hits top 40 today and find an ounce of the same originality, introspection, lunacy, or vision. How about the gorgeous weirdness of the song Deja Vu itself, or the straight-out rock of Carry On, or the anthemic (yet not in the least arena-pretentious) Almost Cut My Hair - I have little of said item left, yet whenever I hear the song, I still feel like letting my freak flag fly. You can contrast that with the lesson in meaningful simplicity that is 4+20: a small folk memento that says so much in just two minutes, with one acoustic guitar. And, folks, this was all done, for the most part, with two guitars, a bass, a drum, a keyboard, and just a bit of singing... The harmonica counted as a special effect, as did the echo chamber. It didn't go much farther than that (yes, okay, Neil invited about four philharmonic orchestras to Country Girl).
You think I've run out of cliches, but wait, I have one more: they just don't make them like this anymore. Ten stars wouldn't be enough.
oh, a p.s.: i'm not really concerned with remastering. Some of it is merely expanding the dynamics and compressing them at the tips, meaning that you can get louder without distortion, and a lot of it is plain baloney. I heard the bass clearly on vinyl, the harmonies were clear too, thank you, I have no hearing problem, I'll pay attention to the remastering some other time.

This is a great album. I did grow up listening to this...my parents vinyl LP. I mean, the whole album is great. Deja Vu just shows how good the four sound in harmonies. This is an album for its time. Not to say it's dated per se, but you can tell that there was turbulence in society and these four talking heads were giving their spin on how they saw life.
But you can listen to this and just enjoy this. It isn't noise, it isn't necessarily Top 40, it's just good folk/protest rock. It's good for nostalgia if you're old enough to have been there for this, and good if your youngish and want to listen to what I consider the best four part vocal band....EVER.

When received, the case was broken in several pieces, the Album Jacket was torn and something was ripped off the inside packaging. The second song on the CD is defective. My worst purchase ever through Amazon.com.

While still not as good as the first CD (I preferred Sugarland as a trio rather than the current duo), this is still a pretty darn entertaining CD. I keep it in my car to listen to on long drives.
"It Happens" is getting a lot more airtime recently, and it is such a great song for those days when it seems nothing is going wrong. The first time I heard the song, I cracked up realizing there is a "Shhh" right before It Happens. Singing along with this song on the drive home after a stressful day at work means that I am in a much better mood by the time I walk through the front door. It's a great song for rolling down the windows and driving.
The Deluxe Fan Edition is much better than just the regular version. The extra tracks are a treat. They cover Matt Nathanson's "Come on Get Higher" and Jennifer Nettles voice suits the song very well.
This isn't the type of CD that will produce songs for the ages like George Straight, but it is a very entertaining bit of today's country.

I can't get enough of this artist. This CD has a good mix, there are maybe two tracks that were not so great, but all in all it is really good.

I just love Sugarland and this CD is great! Once again, they have released a CD that has more than one hit on it. I love all the songs and my personal favorite is "Already Gone". I would recommend this CD to all Sugarland fans!

If you like Sugarland, you'll like this CD. Great harmonies, great guitar work and just fun.

Please, Please Me, I Want to Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, and She Loves under one cover. Priceless.

I bought this double album CD set because I wanted a good collection of earlier Beatle hits to put on my iPod. While the first four songs are in mono, the rest are in stereo and sound great. It was announced a few days ago that the entire Beatles catalog will be reissued in remastered stereo in original UK editions. I have held off purchasing the Beatles hits on CD because they have not been remastered. I still have a large selection of records of their music and will be looking forward to the remastered CDs coming later this year. It is great to hear these songs on my iPod since Beatle music is not available in digital form yet. The Beatles still rock!

What can I say about the Beatles? I'd raise my own children on these songs. The recording quality is very good on this CD. Definitely a worthwhile purchase.

I'm curious. You say that the "two track stereo tapes for Love Me Do and She Loves You are no longer in existence" when the original versions of these tracks were in Mono to begin with. What happened to them and why can't they just separate the channels of these tracks like they did when they released these tracks in Mono?
It wasn't real stereo to begin with since they were working with Mono Masters.

I grew on the Beatles and am partial to the early recordings. Having seen the first Ed Sullivan shows live. Getting a 8x10 black and white picture of the Beatles at a train station for going to see "Hard Days Night"( by the way which is still my favorite Beatles album). My only gripe is on the red vinyl album, they started Help with the guitar solo from James Bond theme and went straight in the the song. I was wondering why they left this off the CD version?

This collection of songs is both written and played in stone rather than washing away in chalk. It will stand the test f time as firmly as if written on a stone tablet. Great CD!
Larry Stone

This is my first experience with Buddy and Julie Miller but definately not my last. I can't get enough of this unique blend of country, blues, bluegrass and the kitchen sink. In this time of homogenized, sound-alike, yawning country (and rock and pop) artists, Buddy and Julie stand like a beacon. I haven't enjoyed a CD this much since I first heard Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans.

Buddy and Julie do it again. You can hear the frailty in Julie's voice and writing (she suffers from a chronic illness... and as much as I'd hope she can get better, it makes for some great expressions musically... kinda like making lemonade from your lemons), the playing and recording is superb as always (handled adeptly by Buddy).

In short, some great "roots" music, with a lot of influences (not just country/bluegrass). Buddy and Julie are a national treasure, and this album is NOT to be missed.

You've seen them backing Emmylou, you've heard them on soundtracks and yet each of their albums always bring something new that I love hearing again and again that will fit whatever mood I'm in.
Some times you just have to shout, Halleluhya!

Except that Buddy & Julie Miller (for some reason) remain as one of the most underated, unheard un known talents in the US today!

They are charming, musicians with wonderful, simple songs and beautiful melodies. Like Matraca Berg, who know one knows, either..........the songs are sweet, melodic with an undercurrent of tear stained memories of lost loves, lost coal miners and forever.

I could listen to their music forever and ever.

Saw them for the first time on the Grammies - hooked forever now! Fantastic lyrics, rich wonderful tunes. I hope these two are together forever! Music about real life given a twist of the exotic with rare special talents.
Love this album!

Sugarland's sophomore album is incredible for being written in a time span of only a few weeks. SETTLIN and COUNTY LINE rev you up for an exciting ride. WANT TO and HAPPY ENDING and APRIL SHOWERS~ all have a dream like quality to take you on a trip of love, whether you question where it's going or maybe you're looking for it or you wonder if you should take a chance on it. THESE ARE THE DAYS is a duet of sorts for the duo and it's a good song. STAY is a raw, emotional, slow heartbreak of a song. MEAN GIRLS and SUGARLAND evoke high school memories of survival and puppy love. Finally my favorite EVERYDAY AMERICA is extremely catchy (WHOA WHOA EVERYBODY'S DREAMIN BIG...THAT'S HOW IT GOES IN EVERYDAY AMERICA A LITTLE TOWN AND A GREAT BIG LIFE). THE RIDE IS ONLY ELEVEN SONGS~ A LITTLE SHORT BUT THERE IS ALWAYS THE REPEAT BUTTON! :)

Startin out with Settlin... how many of us have found ourselves in THIS situation before. But this is about growing up and NOT SETTLIN'anymore.. then it flows thru so nice with some feel good music, some happy endings, some mean girls, who can't be forgiven! LOL ... but I have to hit that Repeat whenever Stay comes on!! Beggin him not to leave... but the next time she calls... U STAY! I mean... it doesn't get much better than this. Reminds me of the first time listening to Mindy McCready's album.

Normally if I like one song by an artist, I like most of their songs. But I can't seem to figure Sugarland out. I liked Baby Girl from there first CD but not really anything else. Then I stopped liking Baby Girl as much as I did. I HATE Stay. I sort of like Settlin', Want To, and Everyday America. But none of them scream "SUGARLAND IS AMAZING!", so I borrowed the CD because I liked All I Want to Do (from Love on the Inside) and thought, who knows I may enjoy some songs on this CD. Well none of them are really that great, but I can say I really like County Line.
So if you really liked Settlin', Want To, Stay and Everyday America I'd give this CD a try.

I bought all 3 of their CD's at the same time. They are all equally good.
Have had them only a short time and probably already wore them out. Good thing I downloaded the music to my iPod.