Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Deluxe limited edition includes book. Ry Cooder's I, Flathead is the culmination of his ambitious and fascinating 'California Trilogy,' the last of three albums in which the singer and guitarist journeys through the real and imagined history of mid-20th century, multi-ethnic California, sampling the sounds of its barrios and byways, its nightclubs and honkytonks. The CD functions beautifully on its own, but also serves as a sort of soundtrack to the book equivalent. Abetting Cooder in ...
Editorial Product Review: :Parton's first mainstream album in 17 years appeals to all her fans without sounding insincere or compromising. The title track, a fiddle-and-piano colored two-beat that's a sympathetic bit of autobiography, belies her campy doll-like cover pose. The debut single 'Better Get to Livin'' is a page from her own upbeat canon, and when she's downhearted in the steel-guitar weeper 'The Lonesomes' and the cocktail lounge arrangement 'Made of Stone,' she draws on the influence of earlier country ...
Editorial Product Review: :Ry Cooder’s I, Flathead, is the culmination of his ambitious and fascinating 'California Trilogy,' the last of three albums in which the singer and guitarist journeys through the real and imagined history of mid-20th century, multi-ethnic California, sampling the sounds of its barrios and byways, its nightclubs and honkytonks. He encounters the disenfranchised, the hopeful, the cheerfully strange and seriously nefarious, along with the occasional alien who races around in a souped-up flying saucer on the desert ...
Editorial Product Review: :GEORGE JONES - BURN YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN: The Unreleased Duets is a collection of never-before-heard duets between Jones and an illustrious group of guest stars. The recordings range from the mid-70s with his ex-wife, the First Lady of Country Music, Tammy Wynette, to the most recent recording from 2007 with his daughter, Georgette, the only child from the union of George and Tammy. Duet partners include Keith Richards, Leon Russell, Mark Knopfler, Shelby Lynne, Ricky Skaggs, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The unprecedented success that George Strait has earned throughout his illustrious 26-year-career could not be captured in the multi-platinum release of his number one hits alone. The King of Country Music has bestowed the perfect companion piece to his multi-platinum 50 NUMBER ONES with 22 MORE HITS. Scheduled for release November 13, 22 MORE HITS contains exactly that - 22 fan favorites and well known Strait hit singles that despite not quite reaching number one at ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The unprecedented success that George Strait has earned throughout his illustrious 26-year-career could not be captured in the multi-platinum release of his number one hits alone. The King of Country Music has bestowed the perfect companion piece to his multi-platinum 50 NUMBER ONES with 22 MORE HITS. Scheduled for release November 13, 22 MORE HITS contains exactly that - 22 fan favorites and well known Strait hit singles that despite not quite reaching number one at ...
Editorial Product Review: :Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters sound combines the influence of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Kinks, and the Animals, fused with Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Roy Acuff and Hank Williams. Fashioned after a 1960 s-era mod band (including matching suits and ties!), The Boxmasters upbeat rhythms and infectious arrangements contrast sardonically with the very dark themes they explore lyrically.
Editorial Product Review: :Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently released six-song EP, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., added to the buzz and helped land him on Warner Bros./Reprise. Now, twenty years later comes The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, a superb single-disc distillation of the four-CD box, ...
Editorial Product Review: :Of course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on Owens's own work ('Streets of Bakersfield'). So while this collection of Owens covers seems like a project Yoakam should have tackled in the '90s, it took Owens's 2006 death to spur his acolyte to action. Dwight Sings Buck ...
Editorial Product Review: :Her mother was 16 when she had her, and her father moved on when she was two. By the age of 15, with a double-barrel shotgun always at the ready, she was managing a kicker bar in rural Illinois where the corn fields meet the pig farms. That gave Gretchen Wilson something to sing about, with attitude in spades. 'You might think I'm trashy, a little too hardcore,' she admits on the smash single 'Redneck Woman,' 'but ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.