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BARGAIN BASEMENT
COMPACT DISCS - Country, Bluegrass & Old Timey
Gene Autry -> Charley Pride
| GENE AUTRY | B.A.C.M. 016 | We've Come A Long Way Together | ● CD |
| 20 tracks from the period 1937 through 1948 not
duplicated elsewhere.. GENE AUTRY: Angel Song/ Bible On The Table/ Blue Montana Skies/ Don't Send Me Your Love By Mail/ End Of My Round Up Days/ I Don't Belong In Your World/ I Guess I've Been Asleep/ I'll Be True While You're Gone/ I'm Coming Home Darling/ I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues/ Little Pardner/ Sail Along Silv'ry Moon/ Sweethearts Or Strangers/ That Little Kid Sister Of Mine/ There Ain't No Use In Crying Now/ There's Only One Love In A Lifetime/ We've Come A Long Way Together/ When I'm Gone You'll Soon Forget/ You Are The Light Of My Life/ You Waited Too Long |
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| THE BLUE SKY BOYS | Rounder 11536 | In Concert, 1964 | ● CD |
| 19 tracks, 71 mins, recommended We've turned up a few copies of this long out of print CD. The Blue Sky Boys, real names Bill and Earl Bolick, recorded prolifically from the mid-30's well into the 60's with very little change in their style. This CD features recordings cut live at The University Of Illinois in Ocotober, 1964. Originally issued on LP as Rounder 0236, this CD adds nine additional tracks from the same concert. It's full of their sweet lonesome harmonies and their pleasing guitar and mandolin work on traditional ballads, popular, sentimental and sacred songs - Are You From Dixie/ I'm Just Here To Get My baby Out Of Jail/ After The Ball/ The Last Letter/ The Sweetest Gift/ Uncle Josh Comedy Skit/ Kentucky/ Sweetheart Mountain Rose, etc. (FS) |
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| BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS | Acrobat ACRCD 132 | Volume 1 : Saturday Night Rag, 1934-1936 (16 tracks) | ● CD |
| 16 early sides by this fine Western Swing band featuring
the vocals of Bill or his brother Jim with excellent instrumental work
from the likes of Art Davis, Jesse Ashlock or Cecil Brower/ fiddle,
Walter Kirkes/ banjo, "Lefty" Perkins/ steel and others. Excellent sound
and booklet has brief notes and full discographical info. About half a
dozen tracks duplicate BACM 49. BILL BOYD & HIS COWBOY RAMBLERS: Barn Dance Rag/ Draggin' It Around/ Going Back To My Texas Home/ Goofus/ I Can't Tame Wild Women/ I'm Gonna Hop Off That Train/ Mama Don't Like No Music/ Ramblers Rag/ River Blues/ Saturday Night Rag/ The Windswept Desert/ Under The Double Eagle/ Wah Hoo/ Way Out There/ You Shall Be Free Monah/ he Strawberry Roan |
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| JOHNNY CASH | Scena 70506 | Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride | ● CD |
| 16 tracks, recommended 16 tracks recorded live at the famed Louisiana Hayride between 1955 and 1963. On the earlier sides Johnny is accompanied by the Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins/ gtr & Marshall Grant/ bass) - later on they are joined by a drummer, usually W.S. Holland). Most of the songs were hits for Johnny on Sun and Columbia and the arrangements don't vary much from the stduo recordings though Johnny does some amusing ad-libs on Rock Island Line. Sound quality is a bit disappointing as many of the performances sound pretty muffled - these important performances deserve more of an effort at sound restoration. Booklet has notes by Paul Kingsbury and some great vintage photos. (FS) |
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| THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS/ KEITH & ROONEY | Prestige 9920 | The Prestige/ Folklore Years, Vol. 6 | ● CD |
| 22 tracks, 64 mins, highly recommended When you think of Prestige Records you may not think of bluegrass, but the label did make several folk and bluegrass records during the early '60's. They included recordings of the Lilly Brothers, the Carolina String Band, and this compilation of bluegrass bands from the Boston area. Actually over half the cuts feature the Charles River Boys in 2 different incarnations; the later recordings include Joe Val on mandolin and Tex Hogan on fiddle. They prove to be a thoroughly professional and authentic sounding group who really get down on a mixture of classic tunes like The Auctioneer and Angel Band and originals like When you See Those Flying Saucers. The singing and playing here is consistently excellent. Joe Val also joins Bill Keith and Jim Rooney for a rousing collection of tunes including Livin' on the Mountain/ New Muleskinner's Blues/ Kentucky Moonshiner, and Log Cabin on the Lane. All in all a very satisfying bluegrass album produced by Paul Rothchild, who later worked with the Doors! (DP) |
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| COWBOY JACK CLEMENT | Dualtone 1187 | Guess Things Happen That Way | ● CD |
| 12 tracks, 32 min., highly recommended He hired on at Sun Records back in the glory days and produced tracks by Charlie Rich, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis (including Whole Lotta Shakin'). Since then he's produced Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Louis Armstrong, and U2 (on the "Rattle & Hum" CD), to name a diverse few. And his songwriting credits are at least as impressive. This album is his second solo release--his first came about 25 years ago. This one opens with the Rolling Stones' composition No Expectations, previously covered by Johnny Cash, whose influence is all over this disc. But mainly Clement sings from his own pen, including Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (a #14 charter for Cash, who lends his voice and guitar), and the titular track (a #11 hit for Cash who again lends vocal assistance). Credit his sense of humor for Drinking Carrot Juice ("it will clean your goozle out"), though Leavin' Is The Lovin' Thing To Do is more typical. And political country fans will appreciate Every Place I've Ever Been, co-written by Zell Miller! It may be a long wait for the next one. (JC) |
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| HUGH CROSS | B.A.C.M. 211 | Old Time Music From The Smoky Mountains | ● CD |
| 20 tracks recorded between 1927 and 1930 by singer/
guitarist Hugh Cross who worked and recorded with Gid Tanner & His
Skillet Lickers and other groups as well as recordings under his own
name. There are solo sides, duets with his his wife Mary, with Riley
Puckett and with Clayton McMichen. The latter includes the original
recording of When It's Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia which was
later recorded by Jimmie Rodgers. The emphasis of the material is on
sentimental songs including Don Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow/ If
Only I Had My Home Sweet Home/ Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home/
Clover Blossoms, etc. HUGH CROSS: A Mother's Plea/ Clover Blossoms/ Dearest Sweetest Mother/ Down Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow/ Down Where The Swanee River Flows/ Go Feather Your Nest/ I'll Climb The Blue Ridge Mountains Back To You/ If I Only Had A Home Sweet Home/ In My Little Home In Tennessee/ Left My Gal In The Mountains/ Mansion Of Achin' Hearts/ My Old Cabin Home/ Never No More Blues/ Pretty Little Blue Eyed Sally/ Smiles/ Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home/ Wabash Cannonball/ When I Lived In Arkansas/ When It's Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia/ When The Flowers Bloom In The Ozarks |
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| DARBY & TARLTON | Acrobat 4016 | Ooze It Up To Me | ● CD |
| 23 tracks, 73 mins, essential Fabulous collection of sides by one of the finest and most influential traditional country duos from the 20s and 30s. Thomas Darby and Jimmy Tarlton were the originators of the oft recorded and incredibly popular Columbus Stockade Blues (included here). Their recordings for Columbia, Victor, and A.R.C. from 1927 to 1933 made them among the most popular of the traditional country acts recording at that time, and their influence since then has been immense. Jimmy Tarlton is credited with introducing the steel guitar to hillbilly musicand was a great yodeler; his style seems derived in about equal parts from Hawaiian steel guitar styles and those of black country blues artists. Tom Darby was rhythm guitarist and an appealing singer whose lead vocals featured his melancholy delivery of the duo's repertoire, which consisted of sentimental parlor songs from before the turn of the century, traditional Appalachian folk ballads, and rags and blues from the black tradition. Selections here include Birmingham Jail/ After The Ball/ Alto Waltz/Lonesome Railroad/ Slow Wicked Blues/ Ain't Gonna Marry No More/ Little Bessie/ Freight Train Ramble/ The Maple On the Hill/ Rising Sun Blues/ By The Old Oaken Bucket Louise and others. Sound quality is fine and there are informative notes by Keith Briggs. There is no duplication with Couty 3503 ($15.98). If you want the complete recordings of this great duo you might want to check out Bear Family 15764 ($73.98) which has pristine sound, 71 tracks and extensively annotated booklet. But this CD makes for a perfect introduction. (FS) |
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| JIMMIE DAVIS | Acrobat ACMCD 4220 | Midnight Blues, 1929-1933 | ● CD |
| 26 tracks, 76 mins, highly recommended Old-timey country singer, steeped in the blues. You could say that he is part Jimmie Rodgers and part Jimmy Rogers, with comparisons to the "Singing Brakeman" being closer to the mark. Acrobat rounds up a few years worth of old Jimmie Davis in his prime when he was one of the most beloved and respected pre-WW2 Hillbilly singers. A religious man who would later run for--and win--local public office; nonetheless, his early tracks are bawdy and wild, full of double entendre. Davis would cement his name in music annuls with his 1940 composition You Are My Sunshine, certainly a great song, but not near as fun as much of the material herein. Shes a Hum Dum Dinger/ Bear Cat Mama From Horners Corner/ Midnight Blues/ Pea Pickin Papa/ Red Nightgown Blues/ Tom Cat and Pussy Blues and many, many more fine tracks to enjoy! (JM) |
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| DEKE DICKERSON & THE ECCO-FONICS | Hightone 8110 | More Million $ellers | ● CD |
| Recommended 2nd CD of fine rockabilly & rockin' country
from one of Burbank's best guitarist - not bad as a vocalist either!
This rockin' quartet as a guest star Joey D'ambrosio, original tenor
blower of Bill Haley & The Comets & later The Jodimars (when he was
known as Joe Ambrose). Nice mixture of originals & covers, with guests
Hadda Brooks, Carl Sonny Letland & Billy Zoom. With an intro by Billy
Barty & the closing theme done by Jerry Scoggins to the tune he's best
known for, The Beverly Hillbillies Theme! One great highlight is
a cover of the Joe Maphis/ Larry Collins classic Rockin' Gypsy,
Also includes Red Headed Woman/ The Hatchet Man/ My Name Is Deke
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| THE DIXON BROTHERS | Acrobat 4022 | How Can A Broke Man Be Happy? | ● CD |
| 23 tracks, highly recommended Fine selection of sides from the early 30s by this superb brother duo who strongly modelled themselves on the great Darby & Tarlton (see Acrobat 4016) accompanying themselves on slide guitar (Howard Dixon) and regular guitar (Dorsey). Their material was a mix of traditional songs, gospel songs as well as some great originals penned by Dorsey - several reflecting their life as workers at the cotton mills as well as some whimsical ditties like the great Intoxicated Rat and Sales Tax On The Women. Also includes Weave Room Blues/ Grenback Dollar/ My Girl In Sunny Tennessee/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Easter Day/ Heaven's Life/ Little Bessie/ How Can A Brpke Man Be Happy/ Call Me Pal Of Mine/ The Girl I Left In Danville/ Down With Old Canoe (their song about the sinking of the Titanic) and more. Sound quality is generally good though some tracks are from somewhat noisy 78s. Brief interesting notes from Keith Briggs. (FS) THE DIXON BROTHERS: After The Ball/ Always Waiting For You/ Are You Sure?/ Beautiful Stars/ Beyond Black Smoke/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Call Me Pal Of Mine/ Dark Eyes/ Darling Do You Miss Me?/ Down With The Old Canoe/ Easter Day/ Fisherman's Luck/ Greenback Dollar/ How Can A Broke Man Be Happy?/ Intoxicated Rat/ Little Bessie/ My Girl In Sunny Tennessee/ Sales Tax On The Women/ Spinning Room Blues/ The Girl I Left In Danville/ Weave Room Blues/ What Can I Give In Exchange |
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| THE FLATLANDERS | New West 6161 | Hills And Valleys | ● CD |
| 13 tracks, 52 mins, highly recommended The Flatlanders debut record from way, way back was a magical affair and a watershed moment in the history of "Alt. Country." Thankfully over the years they have delivered us a little more magic on some rare occasions, the last time being about five years ago. Comprised of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely, and using some of the finest session musician available, like Lloyd Maines and Bukka Allen plus many more, to provide us a richly detailed album that truly lives up to the legend. Mixing dreamy, ethereal Country and lively Tex-Mex, this record just sounds fantastic and will surely please the old fans and hopefully get some new heads to appreciate it. You get political cuts like Homeland Refugee, and Cry For Freedom, with love songs, whether about a relationship as in Borderless Love, or the travelin' lifestyle of the life-long musician in Thank God For The Road. This album is full of love throughout and I love it right back, easily one of the best releases so far this year. (JM) |
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| RED FOLEY | B.A.C.M. 064 | Tater Pie | ● CD |
| 20 track collection including a couple of his earliest
recordings from 1933 and 1934 with the rest covering the period 1941
through 1952 - Single Life Is Good Enough For Me/ Be Honest With Me/
Is It True?/ Someday, Somewhere, Sweetheart/ Too Many Blues/ Just A Man
And His Dog/ Somebody's Cryin'/ I Want To Be With You Always/ Dixie/
Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes/ I Gotta Have You, etc RED FOLEY: Be Honest With Me/ Cincinnati Dancin’ Pig/ Dixie/ Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes/ Echoes Of My Old Plantation Home/ I Don’t Care Anymore/ I Gotta Have You/ I Want To Be With You Always/ Is It True?/ I’ll Be True To You My Darling/ I’m Throwing Rice/ I’m Waltzing With A Broken Heart/ Just A Man And His Dog/ My Heart Cries For You/ Pals Of The Saddle/ Single life Is Good Enough For Me/ Somebody’s Cryin’/ Someday, Somewhere Sweetheart/ Sugar Foot Rag Square Dance/ Tater Pie/ Too Many Blues |
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| JOE GOLDMARK | HMG 3014 | Strong Like Bull ... But Sensitive Like Squirrell! | ● CD |
| 2001 album from fine and idiosyncratic Bay Area steel
guitarist - mostly original tunes with accompaniments from The Axe
Murderers, The Heavenly Horns, The 10 Gallon cats and others - Joe's
Jump/ Butane/ Okra Dokey/ Going Up The River/ take Four/ Fog City/
Presence Of The Lord/ Sensiive Like Bull, etc. |
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| HANK III | Curb 77949 | Risin' Outlaw | ● CD |
| 1999 album by Hank Williams' grandson - 13 tracks - I
Don't Know/ 87 Southbound/ On My own/ Cocaine Blues/ Blue Devil,
etc. |
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| WAYLON JENNINGS | New West 6091 | Live From Austin, Texas | ● CD |
| 17 tracks, 56 mins, highly recommended Waylon in top form in 1989 with his fine band including the great Ralph Mooney on steel guitar plus Jerry BRidges on lead guitar, Barry Walsh on piano and others. All your Waylon favorites are here - I'm A Ramblin' Man/ Rainy Day Woman/ Amanda/ Me And Bobby McGee/ Mamas Don't Let Your baby's Grow Up To Be Cowboys/ Bob Wills Is Still The King/ Good Hearted Woman and best of all Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way. Waylon's wife, Jesse Colter, joins him for a couple of songs but doesn't really add a lot to the proceedings. No real surprises here - just a solid set of fine music. Also available on DVD ($17.98) (FS) |
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| GEORGE JONES | Scena 271900 | Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride | ● CD |
| 16 tracks, 41 mins, highly recommended Another fine selection of live recordings from the famed Louisiana Hayride which broadcast over KWKH in Shreveport for many years. This volume is devoted to one of the greatest of all honky tonk singers - the great George Jones recorded live at the Hayride between 1956 and 1969. George is in consistently great form featuring some of his most popular songs including You Gotta Be My Baby/ Nothing Can Stop My Lovin' You/ I'm Ragged But I'm Right/ Accidentally On Purpose/ Don't Stop The Music/ Things Have Gone To Pieces/ The Race Is On/ She Thinks I Still Care/ Walk Through This World With Me and more. Sound quality isn't perfect but George's heartbreaking voice comes through loud and clear. 12 page booklet has notes, photos and a reproduction of a poster for one of George's appearances on the Hayride - George is top billed with second billed artists being Elvis Presley, Johnny Horton, Jimmy Newman and others. (FS) |
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| JIM LAUDERDALE & RALPH STANLEY | Rebel 1755 | I Feel Like Singing Today | ● CD |
| 15 tracks with The Clinch Mountain Boys - I Feel Like
Singing Today/ Fly, Lovebird, Fly/ I Wish Today Could Be Tomorrow/ What
About You/ I Will Wait For You, etc. |
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| LAURIE LEWIS | Rounder 0400 | Earth & Sky - Songs Of Laurie Lewis | ● CD |
| 16 tracks, 64 min., highly recommended This is a collection designed to highlight Laurie Lewis's impressive gifts as a songwriter. And that it does - very nicely indeed. Twelve of the numbers were previously released on Flying Fish albums, and four tracks are issued here for the first time. All of the tracks are well chosen, displaying, as they do, intelligence, insight, and musical accompaniment indebted to bluegrass, western swing, Celtic tunes and other roots sources. Featured selections include Girlfriend, Guard Your Heart, Fine Line, The Bear Song, and Magic Light as first time issues, plus Don't Get Too Close, Old Friend, The Point of No Return, and Haven of Mercy among the reissues. Absolutely delightful music in the new grass/Americana mold. Not to be missed. (DH) |
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| THE MCCOURY BROTHERS | Rounder 0230 | Mccoury Brothers | ● CD |
| Del McCoury, one time guitarist and lead singer for Bill
Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, has long been considered one of the premier
traditional bluegrass vocalists around. Here he joins with
bassist-vocalist brother Jerry and David McLaughlin, Eddie Stubbs and
Richard Underwood of The Johnson Mountain Boys to create one of the
nicest traditional new bluegrass records in a while. On I'll Never
Make You Blue/ My Sweet Love Ain't Around/ Lonesome Wind and 9
others, Del and Jerry evoke memories of the great brother duets of the
past. (RP) |
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| CLAYTON MCMICHEN | B.A.C.M. 142 | The Legendary Fiddler, Vol. 2 | ● CD |
| Another collection featuring this brilliant fiddler
including early old time string band sides, sentimental songs and later
jazzy swing items. CLAYTON MCMICHEN: Ain't She Sweet/ Alexander's Ragtime Band/ Darling Nellie Gray/ Done Gone/ Fiddlin‘ Medley (old Time Fiddlers‘ Medley)/ Fifty Years Ago/ I Gotta Ketch Up With My Settin'/ I'm A-gonna Learn To Swing/ In The Pines/ Is There Still Room For Me/ Just An Old Chimney Stack/ Just Tell Them That You Saw Me/ Killing Of Tom Slaughter/ Only A Faded Rose/ Rye Straw/ The Blind Child's Prayer Pt. 1/ The Blind Child's Prayer Pt. 2/ Wabash Blues/ When The Bloom Is On The Sage/ Whispering |
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| HEATHER MYLES | Hightone HCD 8035 | Just Like Old Times | ● CD |
| This might be just the strongest and most promising
country & western debut I've heard since Dwight Yoakam showed up.
Singer/ songwriter Heather Myles first appeared on Hightone's Points
West compilation last year, and her two contributions Rum And
Rodeo/ Lovin' The Bottle (both included here) showcased a vibrant
new performer who could shake up preconceptions of what contemporary
country could sound like, so a full record this good was probably
inevitable. Steeped in the Western swing-tinged California country
sounds of Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, Myles covers old
(Stonewall Jackson's Why I'm Walking) and new (Jim Lauderdale's
Stay Out Of My Arms) classics with equal aplomb. But it's her
writing and the sprightly arrangements on her tunes that carry Just
Like Old Times. She's an ideal country performer, in that she
acknowledges and adores traditional country, yet refuses to be limited
by existing definitions. An impressive new voice. JG) |
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| JIMMIE OSBORNE | B.A.C.M. 128 | Vol. 2 (25 tracks) | ● CD |
| 25 tracks, 62 mins, highly recommended Second Collection of sides by this superb but little known honky tonk singer whose career ended with his suicide in 1958. Jimmie had a fine twangy vocal style and was accompanied by excellent musicians with fine fiddle and steel guitar and occasional mandolin. These sides were recorded between 1947 and 1954 and include a number of interesting topical songs - a number of which were hits. Among the topical items his the grim My Saddest Mistake about a man who lets his young child play with a loaded gun with disasterous consequences. (FS) JIMMIE OSBORNE: A Million People Have Died/ A Tennessee Ocean/ An Empty Old Cottage/ Blue Days & Lonely Nights/ Don‘t Slam The Door/ Forever Far Apart/ God Please Protect America/ I Did & I Does & I Do/ I Just Received Word Mom Is Dying Tonight/ It Just Tears Me All To Pieces/ It‘s Just A Habit With You/ It‘s Me Who Has To Suffer/ It‘s So Hard To Smile/ Love Me Or Leave Me/ Missing In Action/ My Saddest Mistake/ My Tissue Paper Heart/ Not Unloved Nor Unclaimed/ Old Family Bible/ Son Please Meet Me In Heaven/ Tell Me Daddy If You Know/ You All Come/ Your Lies Have Broken My Heart/ Your Lovin‘ & Huggin‘/ You‘re The Only Angel |
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| WEBB PIERCE | Acrobat ADDCD 3026 | The Complete Four Star & Pacemaker Recordings | ● CD |
| Two CD set with 30 tracks featuring the complete Four
Star and Pacemaker recordings recorded by Webb in 1949 and 1950 before
his signing with Decca and his numerous hits. |
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| CHARLEY PRIDE | RCA 67428 | The Essential Charley Pride (20 tracks) | ● CD |
| 20 tracks - Just Between You And Me/ Please Help Me,
I'm Falling/ Kaw-Liga/ I'd Rather Love You/ I Can't Believe That You've
Stopped Loving Me/ Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'/ I'm Just Me/ Amazing
Love/ I'll Be Leaving Alone/ Burgers & Fries, etc. |
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