John Fogerty - The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again [CD/DVD]
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Artist: John FogertyBrand: PBS
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: CD+DVD
CD Release Date: 2009-08-31
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Paradise (John Prine)
- Never Ending Song of Love (Bonnie Bramlett/Delaney Bramlett)
- Garden Party featuring Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit (Rick Nelson)
- I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)(Buck Owens)
- Back Home Again (John Denver)
- I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me) (Ray Price/Rusty Gabbard)
- Change in the Weather (John Fogerty)
- Moody River (Gary Bruce)
- Heaven's Just a Sin Away (Jerry Gillespie)
- Fallin' Fallin' Fallin' (D. Deckleman/J. Guillot/J.D.Miller)
- Haunted House (Robert L. Geddins)
- When Will I Be Loved featuring Bruce Springsteen (Phil Everly)
- The Making of The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
- Acoustic performances
- Trailer for upcoming DVD release "Live from the Royal Albert Hall"
Free Music Notes for The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again [CD/DVD]
Free Music Review: True Country
Hit: 5 Stars
This album plays like an album, and it just flows. This sounds like the country music I grew up with, it sounds like the country music of the 1970s and early 1980s. Quite frankly, in an era when country has pretty much become substitute rock, it is quite refreshing. It's the best new album I've bought made in the 2000s.
Now let me explain that I'm fickle when it comes to music. I very rarely like an entire album. An example would be Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever"....I like every song on that album except for "Alright For Now". Albums don't tend to flow right anymore, unl;ike classics like "Hair Of The Dog" by Nazareth or "Appetite For Destruction" by Guns N' Roses, which are two albums I can listen from start to finish without skipping tracks constantly.
Now onto this album. I've never heard the song "Paradise" before, but every song on this album is a cover. Fogerty does the song in a way that makes me like it, and it's a great song lyrics. Fogerty then does the best version I've ever heard of "Never Ending Song Of Love". It's a song I've heard most of my life never knowing its name or who did it, but it was always a fun listen-and Fogerty's version makes you stand and take notice, and maybe sing along and dance.
The cover of Rick Nelson's "Garden Party" is a very good rendition, and is very comparable to the original. On the DVD that comes with the CD John explains why he chose that song, and his hesitancy to do a few of these covers and how surprised he was that they worked so well. He has a great admiration for these songs, and it shows. It's great to hear a musician's point of view on that introspective song of "Garden Party".
"I Don't Care (As Long As You Love Me)" captures the spirit and essence of Buck Owens, and I have a feeling that only John can pull off great covers of Buck's work. I know Dwight Yoakum's tried, but his covers usually seem a bit off somehow.
I've never heard the original "Back Home Again" by John Denver. On the DVD John tells a good Farm Aid story about this song and seeing John Denver there. It's very rustic, rural, and rootsy. The whole album is great for a sunny afternoon, or a beautiful lazy sun stripped morning like it is right now as I type.
Gonna skip a few tracks here. "Heaven's Just A Sin Away" is a song by the Kendalls I've heard a lot, my dad used to play it quite often the last couple years before he died. John does a very good version, his vocal range hits the vocals just right. Plus, if you've never heard the Kendalls they're female vocalists, and a guy covering a female vocal can be tricky, but he pulls it off.
"Fallin', Fallin', Fallin'" is a great song as sung by John Fogerty. Unsure who did the original, but this track is superb. Then comes the cover of "Haunted House" by Gene Simmons (not the Kiss lead singer). I don't think I've ever heard a country version of it before, only other cover I've heard was done by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs. John's version has some good twang to it. Classic country instrumentation on the track is the kinda stuff modern country just won't touch anymore. This stuff is the real deal of country music.
"When Will I Be Loved" is a classic. First done by the Everly Brothers, it was famously covered by Linda Rondstadt. Here John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen get it more than right, they bring it on home and deliver like nobody's business.
This is the secret gem that should be in everybody's collection.
The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again [CD/DVD] Poster
36 years after the release of his first solo album The Blue Ridge Rangers the rock legend returns to his country roots with Special Guests Bruce Springsteen and Don Henley.Pop Music CDs
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