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Emmylou Harris - Songs of the West Audio CD

A fair review of the Emmylou Harris "Songs of the West" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Emmylou Harris reviews here, or go back to the Emmylou Harris tabs.

Emmylou Harris Band: Emmylou Harris
Title: Songs of the West
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Release Date: 1994-09-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I'll Be Your San Antone Rose 2: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 3: Amarillo 4: Sweetheart of the Rodeo 5: Queen of the Silver Dollar 6: One Paper Kid 7: Rose of Cimarron 8: Spanish Is a Loving Tongue 9: Cattle Call 10: Montana Cowgirl

emmy lou
I wonder did she ever record an album with Buddy Holly songs. i have always been a great fan . This album is excellent.


A Classic Album
Around the house I can dance my housework as well. Emmylou can harmonize with anybody, and I prove it riding in my car with this album on. Gulf Coast Highway with Willie Nelson is one I hadn't heard before this album came out, but it describes my old home town so well it brings tears of reminiscence. (The rice fields are mostly gone now--it's cheaper to import from China. ) Queen of the Silver Dollar, Cattle Call, One-Paper Kid--can't identify with those but love them anyway because they are so perfectly rendered I can picture the scenes as though they were a movie. This album has been a favorite of mine for years, alongside albums by Eagles, Don Henley, Trisha Yearwood, Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Mickey Newbury, and Sarah McLachlan.


Some of EH's best
But then what of her work doesn't qualify?. This is some of Emmylou Harris' best.


Very listenable, a few great songs
I'm a huge Emmylou fan, particularly of her more recent stuff (Wrecking Ball in particular). . but this collection has a few absolute gems. I am not too concerned about what other albums they were on, or all that history, etc - I just enjoy the music for what it is. "Rose of Cimarron" is my faraway favorite, and it is a great road song as well. "One Paper Kid" showcases some very unusual, but very beautiful, harmony with Willie Nelson. "Spanish is a Loving Tongue" is another favorite - it is a classic take on that enduring south of the border love story - I know it well - and the tragic end brought on by classic Western troubles. "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" is a gorgeous song, very much a country tune, and quite unabashedly so. "Cattle Call" never sounded better (I can't take Eddie Arnold in the first place). "San Antone Rose" - well, if there's anyone who has danced a slow song with a passionate, mysterious stranger that can't relate to that song, I don't know what to say. "Queen of the Silver Dollar" is the first song I ever heard from this collection - it must have come from another album, because I seem to remember it on Canadian radio when I was a kid (Ottawa's CKBY - my dad always had his old school country on in the morning when I was getting ready for school). I wasn't too excited about this album the first time I heard it many years ago, but it has become one of my favorites. It showcases Emmylou's vocals in a more mainstream, less convoluted way than some of her more recent offerings. There can be no doubt that Emmylou has one of the most beautiful, unique and haunting voices in music, and this album gives her a more subtle, less contrasting musical backdrop for those vocals.


Not the Best of the West . . . or of Emmylou
Her more recent western songs, like "Ballad of a Runaway Horse" from _Cowgirl's Prayer_ and "My Antonia" from _Red Dirt Girl_, are far superior than any on this cd. I'm a big Emmylou fan, but this cd was a disappointment. The one thing I like about this cd is that I can put it in my cd player with other western cds and put it on random play without breaking the cowpoke mood (except fot the unfortunate pinball machine in Amarillo), which doesn't work with her other cds with their more southern flavor. Still, I might have used the money more wisely elsewhere, on some other Emmylou album or some other western cd.


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