Confederate Railroad

Confederate Railroad | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: April 28, 1992
• Label: Atlantic Nashville
• Copyright: 1992 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
• Genres: Classic Rock/Southern Rock, Country/Bluegrass, Country/Contemporary Country
• ASIN: B0011ZWKJ2
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Funny, April 21, 2000

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W. M. Shipman "Music Lover" (Gloucester, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confederate Railroad (Audio CD)

If you can't appreciate the inherent humor in this album, as well as the consummate musicianship of the studio musicians assembled on the album, you are not trying. Now, I'm more a fan of the Ernest Tubb days of country music, but I admit to a soft spot for Merle Haggard and Waylon. Confederate Railroad is more closely related to the latter, and definitely has found the ability to laugh at themselves. Don't take yourself too seriously, just enjoy the album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Outlaw Country Band, October 23, 2003

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Scott W. White "kibbled_bits" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confederate Railroad (Audio CD)

Really good CD, this band is a blend of Southern Rock & Outlaw Country. Their sound is fairly consistent among all of their CDs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly entertaining but not too serious, April 28, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confederate Railroad (Audio CD)

Confederate railroad knew how to have fun, as they showed on this, their debut album. Right from the opening track you know that this is a band that is out to have fun. They can play it straight if they choose to, as on Jesus and Mama and the sad You don't know what it's like. When you leave that way you can never go back is a real tear-jerker - the sort of song you might expect George Jones to sing, but all the more effective for being on an album of mostly fun songs.

Perhaps the song with most instant appeal here is the catchy, danceable Queen of Memphis. She took it like a man (the opening track) is about a woman who gets really angry. It was co-written by two men and a woman, so anybody who is upset by it is taking it too seriously. Other amusing songs, also not to be taken too seriously, are Time off for bad behavior, She never cried, Black label white lies and Trashy women.

Confederate Railroad was made up of Danny Shirley (the lead singer), Michael Lamb, Wayne Secrest, Chris McDaniel, Gates Nichols and Mark DuFresne, but my understanding is that only Danny Shirley went into the recording studio, and that regular studio musicians were used on the album. So this might really be a Danny Shirley solo album, but this is still a wonderful album, regardless of who actually recorded it. Just don't take it too seriously.