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Rambling Boy  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Decca Catalog: Music Release date: 2008-09-23 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0602517791657 Upc: 602517791657  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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 Single Girl, Married Girl feat. The Haden Triplets (Rachel, Petra, Tanya Haden) Rambling Boy feat. Vince Gill 20/20 Vision feat. Bruce Hornsby Wildwood Flower feat. Rosanne Cash Spiritual feat. Josh Haden Oh, Take Me Back feat. Rachel Haden & Tanya Haden You Win Again feat. Elvis Costello | The Fields Of Athenry feat. Petra Haden Ocean Of Diamonds feat. Dan Tyminski He's Gone Away feat. Tanya Haden A Voice From On High feat. The HadenTriplets (Rachel, Petra, Tanya Haden) Down By The Salley Gardens feat. Ruth Cameron Road Of Broken Hearts feat. Ricky Skaggs Is This America? (Katrina 2005) feat. Pat Metheny | Tramp On The Street feat. Rachel Haden Old Joe Clark feat. Jack Black Seven Year Blues feat. The Haden Triplets (Rachel, Petra & Tanya Haden) Old Haden Family Show feat. 2-yr-old Cowboy Charlie Oh Shenandoah feat. Charlie Haden Nobody's Here But Me (featuring Bruce Hornsby) Exclusive Amazon MP3 Track |
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Listeners familiar with the Charlie Haden's celebrated career may not know of the legendary jazz bassist's early years in country music performing with his family. Charlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy brings the artist's personal history full circle and presents a new generation of the Haden Family - a legendary Midwest music institution in the 1930s and 1940s, now reborn in the 21st century. Rambling Boy includes songs made famous by the Stanley Brothers, the Carter Family, and Hank Williams alongside fabled traditional tunes and some striking original compositions. The performing cast includes Haden, his wife and co-producer Ruth Cameron, all four of his children (the triplets Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden, their brother Josh Haden), and his son-in-law Jack Black-- each of whom has his or her own career in music. In addition, Rambling Boy features guest appearances by some of the most illustrious names in contemporary Americana and popular music: Roseanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Ricky Skaggs & the Whites, and Dan Tyminski and also includes such illustrious musicians as Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton and more. Featured Guest Artists: Ruth Cameron Josh Haden Tanya Haden Rachel Haden Petra Haden Bruce Hornsby Roseanne Cash Ricky Skaggs & the Whites Vince Gill |
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 Written on October 25, 2008 Summary: Multi talented Charlie Haden Charlie Haden has done it again!! Not only is he a superb musician in the Jazz World, he goes back to his roots and with a stellar family and star studded backups, you have a timeless piece of work. Heard it first on NPR and had to have it!!!!! Written on October 24, 2008 Summary: Great Driving Music Don't be fooled by the cartoonish CD cover. The music Charlie Hayden and his family and friends have put together is inspiring. The Hayden sisters harmonize like no other! "Single Girl Married Girl" will move you down the highway like a rushing stream. Written on October 24, 2008 Summary: Nice Assortment of Country Tunes The first song reminded my of Dylan, and each subsequent song reminded me of someone else. Some vocals are male, others female. It's mostly acoustic stuff here, I don't recall any electric guitar. Nice spectrum of tunes, most are satisfying but there were a few which I wasn't crazy about. I love folk/country music, and overall I think this is worth having in my collection.  Written on October 24, 2008 Summary: Avant garde jazz pioneer revisits his homespun roots First of all, many of those hearing this recording without appropriate preparation will be wondering, "Is this the SAME Charlie Haden who played in Ornette Coleman's early quartet and led an ensemble called the Liberation Music Orchestra, which recorded 'Song for Che'...?!" Well, yes it is...yet it somehow isn't. Apparently, little Charlie grew up yodeling on the radio in The Haden Family Show back in the Forties, and this record was apparently made in order to recapture some of that family feeling, as exhibited by the presence of his wife and adult children. Unfortunately, while some of the material does stand up to the scrutiny of an old-time music purist, much of it falls flat, sounding alternately amateurish or cynical. Amateurish when Haden's wife, Ruth Cameron, attempts a traditional Irish tune, Down By The Salley Gardens, or his son Josh deadpans his way through an awful attempt at pseudo-gospel redemption. Bless their hearts and her earnest attempts, but neither really has any business attempting to sing this type of material - or perhaps any. The recording turns cynical when you the get the slick modern country arrangement of Rambling Boy, or the stereotypical (and sterile) Road of Broken Hearts. Much of the weaker material is salvaged somewhat by truly great performers such as mandolinist Sam Bush and Dobroist Jerry Douglas, who could make anything sound good. Elsewhere, Haden's daughters do some justice to some of the tradional tunes, but Petra Haden, an artist with a solid career, stands out with an interesting arrangement of Fields of Atheny. Back to the cynical, the ubiquitous Elvis Costello lends star power but nothing else to an utterly pedestrian take on Hank Williams' You Win Again. I won't even mention son-in-law Jack Black's overalls-and-straw hat take on Old Joe Clark. Some of the tunes hint slightly at what might have been, had Haden's mastery of free-form jazz been truly wed to the instrumental prowess of some of the bluegrass stars. Bruce Hornsby's surprisingly agile singing on the quasi-experimental 20/20 Vision is one such moment. But little else stands out that warrants making this record, as Ricky Skaggs and Dan Tyminski crank this stuff out all the time, and let's face it - bluegrass ain't exactly known for featuring stand-out bass playing. I have heard the interviews on NPR featuring Haden and family explaining the sentimental value of all this stuff, but I can't help but feel that this was somehow an attempt to latch onto the now-fading interest in traditional "Americana" music spawned by the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack some years ago. If it truly is an earnest effort to capture Charlie Haden's musical heritage, then it was a noble, but ultimately failed, effort. (And I can still imagine some unwary free jazz fan flinging this disc angrily across the room when the first strains of fiddle and mandolin come out of the speakers...) Written on October 23, 2008 Summary: Sometimes Good Americana Charlie Haden's early career in bluegrass music before he became a well know jazz bassist is a snap shot into country music's past before big hair and pop hooks. And, at times, Rambling Boy really shines with its old-timey music sounds. But, at other times, the music is kind of flat and lifeless and makes you wish for a more "modern" take on the old-timey music with Gillian Welch and Allison Krauss. That is not to say that any of it bad; only that much of this album did not get my feet a stompin' or my hands a clapin'. |
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| Release date | 2008-09-23 | 2008-10-14 | 2008-08-05 | 2008-09-30 | 2008-06-10 | 2008-07-08 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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