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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227811228 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Warner Bros./Rhino Manufacturer: Warner Bros./Rhino Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros./Rhino Release Date: March 01, 2004 Studio: Warner Bros./Rhino Sales Rank: 9650
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Rating: - Traditional country masterpiece
Traditional country masterpiece Blue Kentucky Girl is a real roots country album, both in the sound and the nature imagery of the songs, as is obvious from titles like Beneath Still Waters, Hickory Wind, Sorrow In The Wind and Rough & Rocky.
The rhythmic uptempo number Sister's Coming Home with its great fiddle opens the album, and is followed by the stirring slow ballad Beneath Still Waters. Hickory Wind is the Gram Parsons song, and of course Emmylou makes it her own with a ... Read More
Rating: - My favorite Emmylou album
Emmylou has recorded many brilliant albums throughout her career but the string of albums that she recorded between 1975 and 1980 are ultimately her most important legacy. Everybody has his or her favorite - this is mine, perhaps because traditional country is what I like best, and that's what this album is filled with.
The set opens with Sister's coming home, an up-tempo song written by Willie Nelson, on which Tanya Tucker joins Emmylou for an incredible duet. I love Willie's music, but ... Read More
