Baxter Black's NPR CDs [Audio CD]

Baxter Black (Author)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Coyote Cowboy Company (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939343398
• ISBN-13: 978-0939343393
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #89 in Books > Books on CD > Humor

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful fun!, March 6, 2005

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Ladybug 51 "Ladybug 51" (Kensington, MD) - See all my reviews

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I received this CD set for my birthday after being a fan of Baxter Black for years on NPR. I have enjoyed the CD's greatly. The tracks range from hilarious to exuberant to deeply touching. Some tracks, of course, are a little better than others. but I have gotten so much enjoyment from these discs. I heartily recommend them to anyone who has enjoyed listening to Baxter Black on the radio or to anyone who enjoys humor and stories about real people with a western flavor.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cowboy crossover . . ., March 6, 2006

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Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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Baxter Black is kind of the Garrison Keillor of Western humor, a man in a cowboy hat whose country sensibility crosses over to the mainstream - if urban listeners to NPR count as part of the mainstream. Western humor is often self-deprecating and relishes irones, but under it there is a heartfelt love of the cowboy way and the vanishing values that the cowboy represents - self-reliance, respect for the land, hard work, honesty, fearlessness, the whole code of the West. Black's devotion to those values seems often a winking one. While his wit and cleverness are unparalleled, and his knowledge of his subject matter as a "large animal veterinarian" is unimpeachable, the resonance for me is too often with the funny bone and not the heart.

While I'll be the first to champion Black's "Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky" as a great comic novel, the material on this double CD seems of a different kind. The humor is often more like clowning, and the lapses into pure sentiment, such as the long story poem "He Sang, 'Little Joe the Wrangler'" go for broke, but will seem too far over the top for some listeners. While Black is certainly among the best for cowboy humor and cowboy poetry, this recording lacks the depth of a Wally McRae or Paul Zarzyski, whose work seems more loyal to Elko than NPR.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baxter Black CD set, February 14, 2010

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J. Leonard (Idaho) - See all my reviews

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We love Baxter Black but sometimes get kind of tired of cowboy poetry. However, this CD was a welcome change as it's more like listening to Baxter's weekly columns or the bits he does on RFD TV. Great messages and humor throughout, and that man does have a way with words and the rural lifestyle. We put it in the car's CD player on a long trip and hated to see the trip end before the CD did.