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Artist: Amazing Rhythm Aces
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-19
Music Label: Atl Rhythm Section
Soundtracks:

Third Rate Romance
The 'Ella B'
Life' Railway To Heaven
The Beautiful Lie
Hit The Nail On The Head
Who Will The Next Fool Be
Amazing Grace (Used To Be Her Favorite Song)
Anything You Want
My Tears Still Flow
Emma-Jean
Why Can't I Be Satisfied
King Of The Cowboys

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Free Music Review: Six stars, on a scale of one to five
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This is one of my "two-fer" vinyl albums, meaning I liked it so much I wore the vinyl out and bought a second copy to use soley as a master for making cassettes to play. I searched in vain for years before finding it on compact disc. This is one of those rare albums in that there is not a clunker on the set. The Aces deftly mixed country, bluegrass, R&B and their own brand of Memphis soul to become one of the most eclectic, entertaining bands of the 1970s. "Third Rate Romance," a wry song about the free love atmosphere of the 1970s, was a Top-40 hit that got a lot of airplay when this album hit the airwaves in '75. The song (along with a video) was recently covered by country artist Sammy Kershaw. My favorite tune on this set is "The Ella-B," another Russell Smith-penned song taking the listener on an R&B flavored trip on a Mississippi River paddleboat. "Life's Railway to Heaven" is a nice introduction to this band's instrumental virtuosity in a bluegrass tune with a neat false ending followed by some incredible picking. "Who Will the Next Fool Be?" and "My Tears Still Flow" feature the band's tight harmonies and some tasty James Hooker piano, while "Amazing Grace (Used to be Her Favorite Song)" got some FM radio airplay as a clever, tongue-in-cheek country parody. Emma Jean is a hilarious, Carribean-tempo song about a rather dense man with a crush on a lesbian. The album wraps up nicely with "King of the Cowboys," a wonderul homage to the "dying breed" of the American cowboy. This is THE Aces album to own, although you might consider the two-for CD that includes this album and "Too Stuffed to Jump," a more uneven effort that is worth picking up solely to get the tunes "The End is Not in Sight (The Cowboy Tune)" and "Dancing the Night Away." (Tanya Tucker did a nice cover of "Dancing the Night Away" in the late 1970s.) This band recently reformed and began touring, and would be well worth seeing, although original pianist James Hooker, long-time bandleader for Nancy Griffith, decided not to rejoin the Aces.

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