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Music CD - The Steeldrivers: The Steeldrivers
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Music CD: The Steeldrivers
Artist: The Steeldrivers
List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $12.47
Your Save: $ 5.51 ( 31% )
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Manufacturer: Rounder / Pgd
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Tracks:
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1. Blue Side Of the Mountain
2. Drinkin' Dark Whiskey
3. Midnight Train To Memphis
4. Midnight Tears
5. If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone
6. If It Hadn't Been For Love
7. Hear the Willow Cry
8. Sticks That Made Thunder
9. East Kentucky Home
10. To Be With You Again
11. Heaven Sent
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0011661059825
Label: Rounder / Pgd
Manufacturer: Rounder / Pgd
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rounder / Pgd
Release Date: 2008-01-15
Studio: Rounder / Pgd
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Blues to Excellent Bluegrass
Comment: My main musical interest is Blues/Rock, But after listening to the Steeldrivers I'm ready to explore more bluegrass. The recording is excellent in sound & musicianship. This band plays very well together, Some bands you can just tell that they love what their playing & Enjoy every minute of it, and it shines through on this CD. Excellent variations of songs, Mellow - Bluesy - footstompin, not a bad one in the bunch. All in All, becoming one of my favorite CD's
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Summary: Greatest Sound in Bluegrass
Comment: The Steeldrivers are the greatest happening in Bluegrass music since Allison Krause started, this is an incredible piece of music that has that wonderful voice of Chris Stapleton combined with some of the greatest artist of today. You won't be disappointed no matter what your age is. A touch of country, blues and grass, WONDERFUL.
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Summary: Steeldrivers drive it on home
Comment: After hearing the sound files for this CD on Amazon I ordered it immeadiately. Well it just couldn't come fast enough, but finally i got it yesterday. I've listened to it 5 times already and it just keeps getting better. This one will get lots of play on my radio show Prairie Pickin' on Edmonton's CJSR. Even if you only think you like Bluegrass in small doses, pick this one up...it will knock you on your butt. The vocals are so intense your hair will stand on end. The Steeldrivers are fabulous.
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Summary: Steeldrivers!!!
Comment: Need more Steeldrivers!!! BUY THIS CD! These guys (and Gal) Rock!!! Just what I have been looking for.
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Summary: A Breath of Fresh Air in the Bluegrass Scene!
Comment: ...contemporary bluegrass is such a fertile field right now, with so many new styles, sounds, and ideas complimenting the timeless and traditional core that underpins the music. But even in such a rich community, these guys stand out. So much so that I hesitate to pigeonhole them as bluegrass at all...this is some sort of stringband country soul -- hillbilly r'n'b or something. I can't put my finger on it, and that's what I love about it.
Most reviewers are quick to point out Chris Stapleton's voice, which is riviting and unusual in an acoustic context: a sandpaper-roughened bluesy belt that never sacrifices the soul of the song in favor of histrionics.
But the whole band is greater than the sum of its already-formidable parts: Tammy Rodgers (remember her great duo album with Don Heffington "In the Red"? Buy it now!) nails the high harmonies and comes up with fiddle breaks that are melodic and organic but still surprising; Mike Henderson (you should buy all his Dead Reckoning albums with the Bluebloods, too) keeps the backbeat sharp with his mandolin and tosses in some great Monroe-ish funky solos; banjo vet Richard Bailey is so tasteful, his licks (smoothly blending melodic and Scruggs styles) always complimenting what is going on and never overwhelming it; and Mike Fleming drives it all with his big bass sound and smooth baritone vocals.
As fine as the musicianship is, this is a song band, and these tracks (mostly by Stapleton and Henderson) are all gems: clear and vivid portraits of heartbreak, struggle, and regret. Some have been cut by country acts (Chris has had two #1 hits in the past year, Henderson and Rodgers have both had big chart success as songwriters), but they are reborn here as stringband stomps and are all the better for it. I hate to pick favorites, but if you really don't have much time, check out "Midnight Train to Memphis," "Heaven Sent," and "East Kentucky Home," the latter a very clever variation (particularly the chord changes) on the vintage bluegrass homesickness theme.
Words ain't enough folks -- plunk down the dough and go for it!
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Editorial Reviews:
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With one foot in the field and the other in the factory, The SteelDrivers are a beacon beaming their own version of rhythm'n'bluegrass far across the musical landscape. Highly regarded behind the scenes as songsmiths and session men - with innumerable hits, cuts, and licks to their credit - The SteelDrivers are stepping out at long last. In their ten capable hands, back-country high-lonesome collides with Delta soul, resulting in the freshest sound to emerge from Music City in recent memory. Via eleven original songs, their debut album offers revealing new takes on classic themes of redemption and loss, hope and home delivered with urgency and heart. The SteelDrivers are Richard Bailey, Mike Fleming, Mike Henderson, Tammy Rogers, and Chris Stapleton. "Really soulful bluegrass, with great songs. An incredible combination." -Vince Gill
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