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Doc Sanchez
Mike, I envy you for your time and this huge range of music you listen to. And that's a compliment.

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1. You've Been Lonesome, Too Alan Jackson
2. The Love That Faded Bob Dylan
3. How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart? Norah Jones
4. You Know That I Know Jack White
5. I'm So Happy I Found You Lucinda Williams
6. I Hope You Shed A Million Tears Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell
7. You're Through Fooling Me Patty Loveless
8. You'll Never Again Be Mine Levon Helm
9. Blue Is My Heart Holly Williams
10. Oh, Mama, Come Home Jakob Dylan
11. Angel Mine Sheryl Crow
12. The Sermon On The Mount Merle Haggard

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(13-CD set, LP-sized slipcase with 304page hardcover book. 334 tracks, playing time: more than 16h:49min). The most comprehensive anthology of music inspired by the Vietnam War ever released. Over 330 titles covering all facets of the war and its aftermath featuring The Doors, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Country Joe McDonald and dozens of other artists. Rarely heard documentary material including patriotic Public Service Announcements, field news reports and intercepted North Vietnamese radio transmissions of Jane Fonda and Hanoi Hannah. A heavily illustrated, full-colour 304-page book containing extensive artist/song notes, Vietnam War history and recollections by vets on their favourite songs. Two discs of music exclusively by Vietnam veterans. Never-before-released tracks recorded during the war by in-country soldiers. Mister, Where Is Vietnam ...NEXT STOP IS VIETNAM: The War On Record, 1961-2008 is a stunning, years-in-the-making anthology of the Vietnam War's musical legacy. Presented on 13 CDs with a 304-page book illustrated with numerous archival photographs, this collection examines the war in a powerful and unprecedented way. Over 330 music and spoken word tracks take the listener through a guided tour of this epochal period of modern history. From America's first, na‹ve impressions of a country called Vietnam through the spirited musical debate over the morality of the war to the healing meditations on the conflict's lengthy aftermath, this set captures it all and more. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez,Merle Haggard, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs, Johnny Cash, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, The Doors, Country Joe McDonald and dozens of other artists including many Vietnam veterans are the tour guides through this enlightening and entertaining journey. - The full-color book that accompanies the music is packed with information on the songs and the artists who recorded them by music scholar Hugo A. Keesing; a history of the war by Vietnam historian Lois T. Vietri; and an oral history of the tunes that 'incountry' vets loved best by authors Doug Bradley and Craig Werner. The introduction to this remarkable tome is written by the legendary Country Joe McDonald. Strap in for a long and fascinating ride ...NEXT STOP IS VIETNAM.

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mike10k
1961-2008 - various artists - next stop is vietnam

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He was gone two years, two years that I thought would never end
Now P.F.C. Williams is just plain old Jimmy again
But he doesn't make faces to cheer up the children
The way that he used to before
He doesn't feed pigeons or sing in the shower
I don't hear his laugh anymore
His face has grown old and his touch has grown cold
And his eyes tell of where he has been
Congratulations, you sure made a man out of him

And I know he won't finish that tree house he started
A month before he went away
And although he takes me to church every Sunday
He sits there but he doesn't pray
He keeps things inside like there’s something to hide
And he gave up root beer for gin
Congratulations, you sure made a man out of him

And sometimes I watch him just sit by the window
And silently stare into space
And once when I watched him, I saw as I watched him
A tear trickle down on his face
I knew there and then it’s no use to pretend
I admit it, you did it, you win
Congratulations.

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Malcolm Middleton

You an Arab Strap fan as well, perchance?

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Hag: Concepts, Live & the Strangers -- The Capitol Recordings 1968-1976

Bear Family's final installment in their series of hefty box sets documenting Merle Haggard's Capitol recordings is Hag: Concepts, Live & the Strangers, a six-disc set that rounds up everything that didn't make it onto Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969-1976: his full-length tributes to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills, his gospel records, his live albums (one of which just happened to be conceptual, too: a Dixie blues LP), and the LP his Strangers recorded on their own. Such a description threatens to consign Hag: Concepts as an odds 'n' ends collection, suggesting that these records were mere afterthoughts, a perception that is wildly inaccurate. If anything, Same Train, Different Time, A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World, Land of Many Churches, and I Love Dixie Blues were all crafted with more care than the albums culled from the studio sessions from this time, demonstrating an exacting level of detail that's even easier to appreciate when the records are grouped together like this. As the albums spool out one by one -- first the tributes, then the live records, and finally the Strangers instrumental records -- it's possible to admire each on an individual basis, but the remarkable thing about this box is that it paints a bigger picture, particularly in how Haggard arrived at grand statements through small, intimate moments. Nowhere is this more true than on Land of Many Churches, a wildly ambitious gospel double LP with each side recorded with a different church, emphasizing different styles of gospel -- a move so subtle that it takes some close listening to fathom exactly what Haggard achieved here.

To a certain extent, that's true of Merle's music in general, especially during the era covered by these two companion Hag box sets -- it flows so naturally, it seems so unforced, that it's easy to overlook how richly intertwined the country, gospel, blues, jazz, and folk are within his music -- but Haggard also had a real sense of adventure, captured best on that Bob Wills tribute, which he recorded not long after learning how to play fiddle himself. This blend of bravado, respect, and restlessness gives his music an almost limitless depth, a fact that's showcased in a set of this magnitude, as the music keeps rolling with no dip in quality (some could call the Strangers instrumentals throwaways but there is such casual virtuosity to these records that they're hard to resist, especially when presented as a coda to the concepts that precede them). Bear Family could have presented this music with the recordings on 2007's Hag, but that would have made for a lengthy, expensive 12-disc set that may have been too much to digest at once (let alone purchase), and this division helps prompt some serious reflection about Haggard's Capitol recordings. The music on Hag: Concepts informs the music on Hag: The Studio Recordings: listen to Concepts first, and you'll hear how these explorations of his roots set up his sly innovations on the studio recordings; listen to it second, and it's easier to appreciate Haggard's back story. Either way, these two box sets provide listening as enduring and nourishing as American popular music gets.

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dollabill
Hell is forgetting your iPod the same week that work decided to block every music site on the internet.