Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

James Lee Stanley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Beachwood
• ASIN: B0000017JX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #663,081 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

2. Worry 'Bout You

3. Born to Love You

4. YoYo Dance

5. Clockworks

6. Racing the Moon

7. Give Yourself Away

8. Open Your Eyes

9. I Only Have Eyes for You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack to a Novel, January 22, 2012

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Audio CD)

James Lee Stanley was so enamored of Tom Robbins' novel "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" that he created an album based on the individual characters. However, the man was hampered by the fact that a big screen adaptation, starring Uma Thurman, was being released to theaters with a major label soundtrack featuring the music of KD Lang. Stanely had a secret weapon in his pocket, and that was Robbins himself. Robbins co-wrote the title track to the lonesome, harmonica driven title song. While Lang's movie soundtrack movied from the rodeo to the elctric disco, Stanely's felt like a trek across the prairie.

James' CD also sounds like it should accompany the book. Where the movie soundtrack played like an accompaniment to the visuals, songs like "Racing The Moon" or "Open Your Eyes" made more a theater of the mind as you recall the book. Even the cover of "I Only Have Eyes For You" feels properly placed. James Lee Stanley may not have been the the music on the silver screen, but it ultimately is his version/vision of "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" that has the musical staying power.