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Artist: The Nitty Gritty Dirt BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-08-29
Music Label: EMI Special Products
Soundtracks:
- Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
- Dirt Band Interview
- Cosmic Cowboy (Part 1)
- Aluminum Record Award
- Fish Song
- Mr. Bojangles
- Vassar Clements Interview
- Listen To The Mockingbird
- The Sheik Of Araby
- Resign Yourself To Me
- Dixie Hoedown
- Cripple Creek
- Mountain Whippoorwill (Or, How Hillbilly Jim Won The Great Fiddler's Prize)
- Honky Tonkin'
- House At Pooh Corner
- Buy For Me The Rain
- Oh Boy
- Teardrops In My Eyes
- Glocoat Blues
- Stars And Stripes Forever
- Battle Of New Orleans
- It Came From The 50's (Blast From The Past)
- My True Story
- Diggy Liggy Lo
Free Music Notes for Stars & Stripes Forever
Free Music Review: Very Good, Mixed with VERY Bad.
Hit: 4 Stars
I loved the NGDB back in their "jug band/bluegrass/eclectic rock" days (before they went mainstream and began sucking with a vengeance), and this is an album I've always mostly enjoyed a lot.
The music is great... kickin' versions of classics like "Mr. Bojangles", "Buy for me the Rain", "Diggy Liggy Lo", "Battle of New Orleans", "Jambalaya". Funny songs like "GloCoat Blues", "The Fish Song", "Cosmic Cowboy". Fabulous fiddling from Mr. Vassar Clements throughout, and excellent bluegrass instrumentals.
The "interviews" are less successful, but are still interesting, for the most part.
Now we come to the two cuts that both make and break this album...
"The Mountain Whippoorwill"... Oh man, the rest of this album could even have been "(c)rap" and I'd have given it 5 stars just for this cut! A brilliant interpretation by John McEuen. With his muted delivery and old-timey banjo accompaniment, he makes this wonderful poem by Stephen Vincent Benet (one of my top 5 all-time favorite poems) really come to life. An amazing, spellbinding piece of live music. Unfortunately, it's more than counterbalanced by:
"It Came from the 50's (Blast from the Past)". One of the most misbegotten attempts at "humour" I've ever heard. So adolescent and unfunny that it transcends stupidity and just becomes pathetic and sad. Sure, 14-year olds might have sniggered at this during the early '70's (I didn't- I thought it was embarassing even back then... when I WAS 14!), but that doesn't make it funny. Almost unlistenable, I hate this cut so much that the album overall loses 1 star.
Other than that, I highly recommend this one, along with "Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy" as THE two quintessential NGDB recordings.
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