Luxury Liner (Remastered & Expanded) - Emmylou Harris

Advantages: great tracks with lots of memories
Disadvantages: Nothing we have not heard before

...in 1974)also covered by Whitney Houston. Islands in the stream ( duet with Kenny Rogers) Jolene ( also written by Dolly) Coat of many colours ( written by Dolly) My Tenessee mountain home. Here you come again ( written by her in 1977) Baby i'm burning Love is like a butterfly. The bargain store. Potential new boyfriend. Everything is beautiful ( with willie Nelson) Silver threads and golden needles ( with Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. To know him is to love him ( with Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris) Why'd you come in here looking like that. Romeo ( with Billy Ray Cyrus, Tanya Tucker, Carpenter, Mary Chapin, Kathy Mattea, Pam Tillis). Tennessee homesick blues. Dumb Blonde ( written in 1965 and made 24 in charts) Applejack Old flames can't hold a candle to you. This is a single disk album released 05/ 03/ 07. It runs for 61.26 mins... Read review

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Advantages: Strong songs, not tainted by US
Disadvantages: Heavy metal

...With a growing Stateside following in 1982, Iron Maiden were now in the superstar league and seemed in grave danger of losing contact with their working class roots. In keeping with their new luxury, tax exile lifestyle, they chose to record their fourth album, Piece Of Mind, in the Bahamas, with Martin Birch again producing. By now, Clive Burr had left the group and been replaced by ex Pat Travers and Trust drummer Nicko McBain. The album entered the charts at number 3 while the band toured Britain, and contained two UK Top Twenty singles in Flight Of Icarus and The Trooper as well as To Tame A land, considered by many to be Harris’ best song. Other major tracks on the album include Die With Your Boots On, Quest For Fire, Sun And Steel and Revelations. It was probably their strongest set to date, showing few signs of a plush... Read review

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Advantages: Neat production, intimate vocals
Disadvantages: Thin lyrics

...There's a strangely uneven quality to this collection of songs by Sheryl Crow. It's as if they were all penned hastily on the plane somewhere on the journey from Nashville to LA. Musically, that seems to be the trip Sheryl Crow's always taking. At times, the lyrics are vacuous, almost embarrassing, paper thin. In that context, it's extraordinary to read in the sleeve notes that 'the album was a three year labour of love'. Then she hits you with a couple of gems - 'Safe And Sound' and 'Weather Channel', both of which are dark, incisive and brooding. Remaining songs feature some searing guest vocals from DonHenley, Lenny Kravitz and Emmylou Harris. Crow has also described 'C'mon, c'mon' as a 'fiasco of a project', and that's probably closer to the truth. But the production lifts her, and her voice is still outstanding - close... Read review

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