Cold Hard Truth

Ed Burleson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Palo Duro Records
• ASIN: B0001L3LNG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,353 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Honky-Tonk Heart

2. All Bucked Up

3. The Cold Hard Truth

4. If You Wanna Go (Just Go)

5. Loneliness

6. Northeast Texas Women

7. Long Distance Love

8. Ramble On

9. Tell Me Why

10. Sneakin' Suspicion

11. I Can't Help Myself

12. The Can

13. Dead Skunk

14. Heart Break

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Honky Tonk country, April 28, 2004

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"tex1972" (Huntsville, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Hard Truth (Audio CD)

If you like Toby Keith dont insult me by reading this review or buying this CD. Ed Burleson is the real deal. This cd is unbelievable, if you liked My Perfect World you'll like this one too, if not better. This guy is too country for Nashville, he's a Texas original. If you are in to Pat Green and the whole Texas country revolution than get this CD. You have to be a country traditionalist because this is fiddle and steel guitar and high pitched singing at its best. The first track will make you get up and two step and you wont stop until the last song. Ed will make a believer out of you that true country singer and song writers arent dead.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Road music for your pickup truck . . ., November 7, 2004

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Ronald Scheer "rockysquirrel" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Hard Truth (Audio CD)

The cold, hard truth is I stopped listening to country some years ago and reverted to Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, and Bob Wills. Now I'm catching up with the country revival, and luck turned me onto Ed Burleson's "Cold Hard Truth." Out of a bunch of CDs I bought lately by new performers I never heard of before, this one is head and shoulders above the rest. I love the energy in these songs, the great musicianship, and the unprocessed sound that takes you back to the good old days.

Burleson's high and tight voice sounds like pure Texas, and the songs are all about tough times, busted hearts, and charging on through no matter what. The opening song, "(Hill Billy Soul and) Honky Tonk Heart," sets the tone for the whole album, of pure fun and orneriness bound to get any man into trouble. And the follower, "All Bucked Up," is a wide-grinning tip of the Stetson to music legend and inspiration, Buck Owens.

There's a quick shift to busted-love songs, "Cold Hard Truth" and "If You Wanna Go Just Go," followed by the mournful "Loneliness (Made Me Do Things I Ain't Proud Of)." This trio is a heart-felt journey through anger, sorrow, and regret, and Burleson sings it like he's been there, for sure.

Other favorites on the album are "Long Distance Love" and the foot-loose anthem "Ramble On." The joy of the album is its embrace of so many different musical styles ranging from roots to Jimmy Buffet. "Dead Skunk" is wonderfully outrageous, and it leads to the rip-roaring, bring-down-the-house finale, "Heartbreak Highway." This CD is on the changer in my car, where it's kept a smile on my face even in the worst traffic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This kicks a**... deserves ten more stars at least!, January 9, 2005

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Hard Truth (Audio CD)

Texas honkytonker Ed Burleson is one of the brightest lights on the independent country scene today. This new record is simply flat-out one of the best hard country albums of the year... Heck, of the century (so far!). Sure, Burleson has plenty of rough edges... that's what makes his music so real. He also has a kick-ass band with guys who know how to play country music with real feeling, and a bunch of songs that sound like a real, live human being wrote 'em, not some committee in Nashville. Burleson's other albums have all been really good... this one is really great... his best to date. Highly recommended!