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"Greatest Hits" (08/31/2004) Country Womack, Lee Ann, MCA NashvillePersonnel: Lee Ann Womack, Willie Nelson (vocals); B. James Lowry, Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Pat Buchanan (electric guitar); Aubrey Haynie, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Glen Worf (bass); Lonnie Wilson, Chad Cromwell (drums). Producers include: Mark Wright, Lee Ann Womack, Matt Serletic, Frank Liddell, Byron Gallimore. Recorded at Ocean Way, Essential Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel: Lee Ann Womack; Randy Scruggs, B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Pat Buchanan, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Rusty Danmyer (steel guitar); Larry Franklin, Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Steve Nathan, Jimmy Nichols (keyboards); Glenn Worf (bass guitar); Lonnie Wilson, Chad Cromwell (drums); Buddy Miller (background vocals). To earn a greatest-hits compilation after only four albums (not counting a Christmas record that's unrepresented here), you have to make one hell of a splash on the music scene. That's exactly what Lee Ann Womack did between 1997 and this disc's '04 release. Hearing this sampler of Womack's albums, the sweet, angelic voice and solid songcraft jump out in equal measure. Perhaps of more historic importance, though, is the context. If Womack had appeared 10 or 15 years earlier, she would have seemed like a foreshadowing of country's pop-friendly future. After years of being inundated by Faith Hill and Shania Twain's disciples, however, Womack's amiable, relatively modest approach seems downright rootsy, with more ache and twang per bar than any Nashville assembly-line kewpie doll has in her entire catalog. From the lovelorn "The Fool" to the lighthearted romp "I'll Think of a Reason Later," GREATEST HITS shows Womack in her best light.

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"Hot Country Hits of the 90's, Vol. 4" (n/a) Country Various Artists, Platinum Disc Corp.

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"Christmas on the Mountain: A Bluegrass Christmas" (10/15/2002) Country Various Artists, Universal South RecordsCHRISTMAS ON THE MOUNTAIN was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Personnel: Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Mac Wiseman (vocals, guitar); Ronnie McCoury (vocals, mandolin); Sonny Osborne, Tim O'Brien, Bobby Osborne (vocals); Scott Rouse (guitar, background vocals); Terry Eldridge (guitar); Gene Wooten, Jerry Douglas (dobro); Rob McCoury (banjo). Recording information: GrooveGrass Factory, Nashville, TN. Arrangers: Del McCoury; Mac Wiseman; Ronnie McCoury; Scott Rouse.

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"Classic Christmas" (09/01/2005) Country Gilman, Billy, BMG Special ProductsPersonnel includes: Billy Gilman, Charlotte Church. Producers: Blake Chancey, Don Cook, David Malloy. Recorded at Westwood Sound Studio, Loud Studios, Sound Stage Studios and Starstruck Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; Whitefield Street Recording Studios, London, England. Twelve-year-old country wunderkind Billy Gilman--younger than Britney Spears, and at least twice as wholesome--tackles the usual holiday staples such as "White Christmas" here, along with some soon-to-be standards--if "Warm and Fuzzy" doesn't get you, you just can't be had. These all go down as easily as fried chicken, pizza, and hamburgers (his favorite foods, as we're informed in the liner notes). Gilman retains his pre-pubescent Johnny Mathis-type vocal sound, still sounding somewhat androgynous for a country singer. A mainstream crossover probably looms, once his voice breaks.

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"This Woman" (01/25/2005) Country Rimes, LeAnn, CurbPersonnel: LeAnn Rimes (vocals); Dann Huff (guitar, electric guitar); John Willis, B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Charles Judge (keyboards); Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass guitar); Shannon Forrest (drums); Robert Bailey , Lisa Cochran, Vicki Hampton, Bekka Bramlett, Robert Bailey , Russell Terrell (background vocals); Dan Huff (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Tom Bukovac (guitar, electric guitar); Jay Joyce, J.T. Corenflos (guitar); Keith Urban (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Bruce Bouton (dobro); Jonathan Yudkin (banjo, mandolin, fiddle); Tim Akers (accordion, keyboards); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Chris McHugh, Lonnie Wilson, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Dan Tyminski, Joanna Janet, Perry Coleman (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Jeff Balding; Justin Niebank. Liner Note Author: LeAnn Rimes. Recording information: Emerald Entertainment; Jane's Place; The Sound Kitchen, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Frank Ockenfels. When a teenage LeAnn Rimes burst on the scene in the mid-1990s, country fans were astounded by her uncanny vocal resemblance to the late, great Patsy Cline. Perhaps in reaction to this initial pigeon-holing, Rimes moved further and further away from her straight country roots; as the singer's career progressed, she eventually became a country-pop diva on par with Shania Twain and Faith Hill. As the title suggests, THIS WOMAN completes Rimes's transformation into an adult crossover artist. Despite the twangy guitar licks of "I Want to With You," the track has much in common with the driving teen-pop anthems of Lindsay Lohan and Avril Lavigne as it does with Nashville's "new traditionalists." "Something's Gotta Give" delivers an interesting hybrid, pairing careening bluegrass violin with electric sitar straight out of a 1960s film soundtrack. Through it all, Rimes's voice remains a powerful, husky instrument imbued with equal parts stadium glitter and honky-tonk sawdust. In particular, "When This Woman Loves a Man" is a bluesy, Hammond organ-fueled tour de force that sounds like Bonnie Raitt on a drunken night out with Janis Joplin. An assertive statement by a fully formed artist, THIS WOMAN showcases Rimes at the peak of her vocal powers.

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"Hillbilly Deluxe" (08/30/2005) Country Brooks & Dunn, Arista Records (USA)Brooks & Dunn: Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn (vocals). Personnel: Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow (vocals); J.T. Corenflos (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (acoustic guitar, steel guitar); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin); Terry McBride (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Tom Bukovac, Larry Beaird, Bob DiPiero (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg (electric guitar, National guitar); David Grissom, Troy Lancaster, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Russ Pahl, Scotty Sanders (steel guitar); Larry Franklin, Stuart Duncan (mandolin); Hank Singer (fiddle); Kix Brooks (harmonica, background vocals); Harvey Thompson (tenor saxophone); Jim Horn (baritone saxophone); Steven Herrman (trumpet); Charles Rose (trombone); Reese Wynans, Tony Harrell (piano, keyboards); John Hobbs, Bill Payne (piano); Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Scott Williamson, Shannon Forrest (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Chip Davis, John Wesley Ryles, Kim Parent, Lisa Cochran, Ronnie Dunn, Wes Hightower, Perry Coleman, Kim Keyes (background vocals). Additional personnel: Glenn Worf, Michael Rhodes (bass guitar); Eddie Bayers Jr. (drums); Dan Dugmore, Eric Darken, Kenny Greenberg, Stuart Duncan, J.T. Corenflos, Hank Singer, Bryan Sutton. Audio Mixers: Ronnie Dunn; Jason Gantt; Jeff Kersey; Steve Marcantonio. Recording information: Cyber Ranch; Emerald Entertainment's Tracking Room; Lobstar Studio; Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN; Starstruck Studios; Talent Shop Studios; The Rukkus Room; The Sound Kitchen, Nashville, TN; Tin Ear. Photographer: Chapman Baehler. Thanks to the newfound success of "real" country singers like Gretchen Wilson and Toby Keith, not to mention the neo-outlaw duo Big & Rich, Brooks & Dunn return to their Nashville roots on HILLBILLY DELUXE. After a string of increasingly pop-oriented albums, the change does them good. The first single, "Play Something Country," could be the best jukebox song since Alan Jackson's early-1990s hit "Don't Rock the Jukebox." From that opening track onwards, Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks stick to the basics: broken hearts ("Her West Was Wilder" and "I May Never Get Over You") and broken bottles (on the tough-guy "Whiskey Do My Talkin'" and the celebratory "Just Another Neon Night"). They don't abandon their rock flirtations entirely--Sheryl Crow drops by on "Building Bridges," and the stomping title track edges towards Big & Rich territory --but HILLBILLY DELUXE is the most purely country album Brooks & Dunn have released since 1993's HARD WORKIN' MAN, and it's one of their most entertaining ever.

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"20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection: The Best of Reba McEntire" (09/21/2004) Country McEntire, Reba, MCA NashvillePhotographer: Ron Davis. Arranger: Reba McEntire. The twelve tracks on this discount-priced compilation are from the two previous Christmas albums released by Reba (who gave up using her last name on her records in 1998), 1987's multi-million-selling Merry Christmas to You and 1999's Secret of Giving -- A Christmas Celebration. Each of those albums contained ten tracks, so eight selections have been eliminated. For the most part, the omitted songs are ones that were newly written, and they are not much missed. The exception is the standard "Away in a Manger," which should have been retained. But the compilation does include the tracks "I Saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus," "The Secret of Giving," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," and "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," all of which made the country singles charts. Reba's versions of "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night" are appropriately reverent (the former sporting a spoken introduction); "Up on the Housetop" is given a terrific rockabilly arrangement penned by the singer; and while there may be nothing new that can be done with "White Christmas," she does fine by it. Of the non-standards that were kept, "This Is My Prayer for You," co-written by Gary Scruggs, is the most memorable. ~ William Ruhlmann

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"Greatest Hits" (11/09/2004) Country Twain, Shania, Mercury NashvillePersonnel: Shania Twain (background vocals); Shania Twain (vocals); Mark McGrath, Billy Currington (vocals); Brent Mason (guitar, electric guitar); John Willis (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Michael Thompson (electric guitar, slide guitar, E-bow, bouzouki); Billy Crain (slide guitar); B.J. Cole (dobro); Terry McMillan (harp, harmonica, cowbells); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, violin, fiddle, cello); Glen Duncan, Larry Franklin, Rob Hajacos, Aubrey Haynie, Stuart Duncan, Joe Spivey (fiddle); David Hamilton , Irish Film Orchestra, Carl Marsh (strings); Joey Miskulin (accordion); Arthur Stead (piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ); John Barlow Jarvis (piano, Wurlitzer organ); Matt Rollings, Michael Omartian (piano); John Hobbs (organ, Wurlitzer organ); Arthur Stead (organ); Joe Chemay (electric bass, bass guitar, fretless bass); Diamond Duggal, Simon Duggal (percussion); Olle Romo (programming); Dan Huff (guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, wah-wah guitar, electric sitar, talk box, 6-string bass, sound effects); Biff Watson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, nylon-string guitar); Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar, slide guitar); Nashville String Machine (strings); Paul Leim (drums, percussion); Robert John "Mutt" Lange (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Michel Gallone; Lynn Peterzell; Mike Shipley; Steve McMillan. Recording information: A.R.P. Track Productions, St. Anne Des Lacs, Quebec, Ca; Battery Studios, Nashville, TN; Compass Point Studios, Nassau, The Bahamas; Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, TN; GBT Studio, Nashville, TN; Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Javelina Recording Studios, Nashville, TN; Masterfonics Tracking Room, Nashville, TN; Officine Meccaniche Next Recording Studios, Milan, Ital; Recording Arts, Nashville, Yn; Seven Studios, Mamaroneck, NY; Seventeen Grand Recording, Nashville, TN; Sound Stage Studio, Nashville, TN; Windmill Lane Recording Studio, Dublin, Ireland. Arranger: Robert John "Mutt" Lange. With the help of her husband, "Mutt" Lange, a legendary producer who helmed mammoth hits by AC/DC and Def Leppard, Canadian songstress Shania Twain developed a highly commercial style of country-tinged pop music that helped her become one of the biggest stars in America. Though GREATEST HITS doesn't include the two major singles from her 1993 self-titled debut, Twain has released so many hits that the 21-track disc is still overflowing with familiar chart-busters. Listening to these ubiquitous songs all in one stretch will leave listeners awed at the breadth of Twain and Lange's incredible talent for catchy pop ditties that sound cutting-edge while still retaining that ever-important hint of Nashville twang. In fact, though laced with the usual fiddles and steel guitars, many songs end up recalling ABBA and the Cars as much as anything south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Of course, the main attraction is always Twain's smoothly sensual voice, which has won over millions of fans worldwide.

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"Christmas Grass" (10/07/2003) Country Various Artists, Audium EntertainmentPersonnel: Cody Kilby, Danny Parks (acoustic guitar); Rob Ickes (dobro); Scott Vestal, Molly Skaggs (banjo); Ricky Skaggs, Joe Caverlee (mandolin, fiddle); Rhonda Vincent, Ronnie McCoury (mandolin); Alison Krauss, Stuart Duncan (fiddle). Audio Mixer: Gregory Cole. Recording information: Colemine Studios, Smyrna, TN. It's irritating that Christmas Grass doesn't list artist participation anywhere on its exterior, particularly because so many of the performances here are spectacular. Despite its generic packaging, the set is both lively and tasteful, bluegrass and Christmas all wrapped up in 15 of the holiday's most well-known songs. Highlights include a "Carol of the Bells" with mandolin and fiddle leading the way, Alison Krauss' mournful, searching fiddle on "What Child Is This?," and a rootsy, upbeat run through "Deck the Halls" that's more inviting than the steam rising off a hot glass of cider. Christmas Grass is a standout in the foggy storm of seasonal music, because even if you're not a bluegrass aficionado, you still enjoy the great performances. ~ Johnny Loftus

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