Del Rio Texas 1959

Radney Foster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B000002VMT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,008 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All that and a bag of pork rinds, July 28, 2003

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Steven Clem Haley "Steve is in Stillwater" (Stillwater, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Del Rio Texas 1959 (Audio CD)

I'm not a country aficionado. And the fact that I used the word aficionado proves that I am far too pretentious to be an expert on the Nashvillian ilk.

But dad-gum there are times when you just have to stick the Miles Davis and Alan Hovhaness back in the jewel case and drive the ol' Chrysler with the windows down across the Panhandle. And when those times come, this is the cd you need to be listening to.

Foster is Country and Western's answer to Marshall Crenshaw. He cannot write a bad tune. He cannot write an unclever phrase. But alas, he also cannot get the publicity he so richly deserves.

The pictures he paints in his songs makes you actually concerned about the people who live 6 miles from I-40 on FM1643. They make you hope things turn out for them. They make you want to call your grandfather and talk about the wheat crop. They make you want to go just out of town and hear "the lonesome sound of diesels winding up the grade".

I will probably never become a fan of country music. But if country turns more like Foster's work, I may indeed buy me a hat and some snakeskins.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's only 5 stars because it don't go no higher!, March 31, 2002

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Michel Lewellyn "kccoachmike" (Lees Summit, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Del Rio Texas 1959 (Audio CD)

I first saw Radney Foster in Olathe Kansas at Old Frontier Days. We thought we were going to hear some "young country" wannabe. Instead we saw and heard songs that took me back to my days growing up on a working ranch. This was the music I heard in Austin years later. This was real, honest to God, straight from the heart American country music. Harmony, twangy guitars when they fit, a great steel guitar, and lyrics! My God, someone remembers how to write lyrics that reach into your heart. Every song is great! Every word reaches out at several levels. Radney Foster got some limited air play with this album but if he keeps doing this excellent, no compromise, American Heartland music he will never be heard on country radio again.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Line in Between Good and Great, July 2, 2002

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Jack Williams (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Del Rio Texas 1959 (Audio CD)

A superb record. Radney Foster writes the sort of irresistible country music that only a few others seem capable of (such as Buddy Miller), complete with uniquely catchy melodies, smart lyrics, and enough emotion in a 4 minute song to change your day in under 5 minutes.

Here, every track is solid, particularly the country radio hits as well the stunning closing tune, "Old Silver." Throughout this record, it's hard to figure out how Foster isn't being begged in Nashville to repeat this magic. And as anyone who's seen him live can attest, Radney's no fluke, proving in his live show his voice, talent, and songwriting are as strong as anyone's going. Let's hope his recent problems with his manager are easily laid to rest, allowing him to crank out a new record a year.

A flat out great country record.