Down The Road - Flatt & Scruggs

Advantages: It's the best of 'pop country'
Disadvantages: It's the best of 'pop country'

...Well now just incase there was any lingering doubt about the dubious nature of my taste in music after my two Il Divo reviews, I'm taking another direction and reviewing a country music album by one of the most popular country music bands of recent years. ********How I discovered the Rascal Flatts My road-to-Damascus conversion to liking country music was a bit like the one you get when you reach 30 and suddenly realise you'd rather listen to Radio 2 than Radio 1. My own epiphany occurred a few years ago when I was living in the Midwest (and if you don't know what I mean by 'road to Damascus' then you should read your bible more - which will incidentally also endear you to country music). I was listening to some boring, relentless pop music station in my car and switched in desperation to one of the many country music stations offered... Read review

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Advantages: You might enjoy it
Disadvantages: Ok then buy that Steve Brookstein single!

...'ll be home 4.So long Dad 5.Living without you 6.Last night I had a dream 7.I think its going to rain today Dedicated to Michael Fish. 8.Lovers prayer 9. Maybe I'm doing it wrong A song about a boy wondering if he is getting everything he should out of sex. "There ain't no book you can read, There ain't nobody to tell ya" Obviously it doesn't apply these days! 10.Yellow Man Probably seen as non-PC these days "Got to have a yellow woman if you're a yellow man" 11.Old Kentucky Home Upbeat song in the vein of the "Beverley Hillbiliies" theme tune by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. "Got drunk last night threw Mama down the stair, but I'm alright so I don't care" 12.Cowboy Written for the film Midnight Cowboy, but later dropped, it tells the story of the passing of the cowboy as the horse is overtaken by the train as the main form... Read review

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Advantages: A Fantastic three-piece country group from the US
Disadvantages: Some tracks don't fit in

...keyboards/piano are used, it's usually him. One of the most beautiful tracks ever (Bless The Broken Road) is him on the piano. ~ ~ ~ This Album ~ ~ ~ Me And My Gang is the latest in a stream of brilliant albums from Rascal Flatts. It was released in the US on the 4th April 2006 and sold more than 722,000 copies in it's first week on sale - meaning it hit number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was the countries best selling new release since in Tim McGraw released Live Like You Were Dying in 2004 (766,000 sales) (an album I might get around to reviewing one day!) This album has since become double platinum award winning. The tracks have some very different feels, ranging from depressing topics like death, to a light-hearted track making fun of the cold country music ways. There have already been a number of hits from this album, including... Read review

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