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Summary: Ozark Mountain Daredevils "Quilt Album"
Comment: This debut album sets the tone for the Ozark's next three or four succeeding albums. The down home style blend of mountain music with a rock emphasis is very pleasing to the ear. The Ozarks brought a fresh perspective to the music scene, not really seemin to care if the songs had mass market appeal. Of course this was the early 1970s before music became just another big business concerned only with bottom lines. This music is fun to listen to. Classic rock radio stations still give "If You Want to get to Heaven" some airplay, but that one song does not really define who the Ozarks are (or were as they are mainly retired from the music business now). Those songs with the fiddle or the slow, steady beat are more the Ozark's standards.
If you like this kind of off-beat music then this will be worth your time. If you are more in tune with modern music then this will sound like it came from a completely bygone era. I for one fall into the former catagory and enjoy this album time and again.
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Summary: Get on the Chicken Train!
Comment: I think this is representative of OMD's best. I like many types of music and this has always been one of my all time favorites. It has songs that are fun and crazy like Chicken Train, and melodic, reflective tunes like Country Girl and Spaceship Orion. I think this really shows the peak of their vocal harmony and songwriting talents. I actually like every song on this. In my opinion, if you are a first time buyer of OMD music, this is the one to get.
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Summary: A Good Sampling of Things To Come
Comment: I believe this self-titled album was the debut album for the country/bluegrass/folk group. Very mellow and easy to listen to.
The country and bluegrass roots are the primary flavoring in this album with some indications of the southern rock overtones showing through at times ("If You Wanna Get To Heaven").
And who couldn't love "Chicken train"? A pure front-porch fun song.
I guess the real beauty of this album is it's simplicity. Nothing complicated or deep in it's lyrics and meanings. Just simple, pure, and beautiful in presentation and performance.
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Summary: Oh, yeah ! This album still sounds sweet
Comment: I'm not a huge country music fan, but I gotta say this album (from six talented lads outta Springfield, MO) is some of the sweetest music you'll ever hear.
These fellas write incredible acoustic melodies with really, really interesting lyrics (the other-worldly pondering of "Spaceship Orion" or the contemplative humanity of "Within Without")
Musically?
Yeah, it rocks ("If You Wanna Get To Heaven"), and the guitar solo on "Colorado Song" has heartfelt sonics like I've heard nowhere else. One of my all-time favorite power ballads (i love the closing harmonies--it's like countrified Brian Wilson).
It's also quirky (one of the few discs I own featuring a jaw's-harp---on "Chicken Train" and its offbeat lyrics: "the laser beam / in my dream / i can't tun it on / i can't turn it off")
I even like the country-flavored songs of "Country Girl" and "Standin' On A Rock;" the mandolin on "Road To Glory" and the "revival" feel of "Beauty In The River."
This is pure Americana. It crosses from country to pop to rock and every possible hybrid beyond and in between. These gentlemen are OUTSTANDING songwriters and musicians. With GREAT harmonies, too!
Thank you, OMD, for more than 30 years of pure pleasure.
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Summary: A truly great album
Comment: I bought this CD for my father for Christmas, and found that I love it just as much as he does. It's really just great music--not strictly rock, but not country, and not quite Southern rock. The tracks are all well produced, particularly "Colorado Song." And of course, "If You Want to Get to Heaven (You Got to Raise a Little Hell)" is tons of fun. The entire album is one of my favorites--a really solid debut from a really talented group.
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