Men From Earth

Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New Era (Burnside)
• ASIN: B00007E8P8
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,881 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fly Away Home

2. You Know Like I Know

3. Breakaway (From Those Chains)

4. The Red Plum

5. Mountain Range

6. Watermill

7. Noah

8. It's How You Think

9. Arroyo

10. Homemade Wine

11. A Dollar's Worth Of Regular

12. Roscoe's Rule

13. Better Days

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This highly revered album is now available on CD for the first time ever! The package includes the original cover art, photos, and lyrics. All 10 of the original album songs are on the disc, plus 3 "bonus tracks". Many will find they have never heard these 3 songs before. All 13 tracks have been Digitally-Remastered from the Original Master Tapes.

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils united as a band in December of 1970. The group was signed to A&M Records in 1972 and, in 1973, they recorded their first self-titled album in London, England, resulting in the hit song "If You Wanna Get to Heaven". The second album, "It'll Shine When It Shines", included the song "Jackie Blue", a world-wide No. 1 hit. While at A&M Records, the band recorded eight albums resulting in two Gold Records in the US and Canada. The band subsequently signed with Columbia Records in 1981, where they recorded one album. At least three other projects followed in the '80s.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic !!, January 9, 2003

By	S. M. Engel (Amsterdam Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great to see this fantastic album on CD ! This album is an absolute classic and anyone interested in good pop/country rock should buy this album. The remastering is also very well done.
I do have one little point of criticism though; the track "You know like I know" has a running time of 3 minutes and 41 seconds while my vinyl version clocks at 4 minutes and 6 seconds. This CD version has the omission of 25 reallybeautiful seconds from the middle of the song.
But despite this............go out and buy it, folks !!

Martin from Amsterdam

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally on CD!!, November 26, 2002

By	Man From Earth (Illinois) - See all my reviews

A must have for all OMD fans. Long awaited and well over due, this is the second release in a series of four from New Era Productions. These four albums have never been available in CD format until now. Digitally remastered from the original studio master tapes, the sound quality is unsurpassed. From the smooth and mellow "You Know Like I Know", "Watermill", and "It's How You Think", to the more upbeat and foot stompin' "Homemade Wine" and "Fly Away Home", you will not be disappointed. In my opinion this is one of their best albums. Also included are three bonus tracks never released on any album. "Better Days" was only released on the B side of the "Jackie Blue" 45. "Roscoe's Rules" and "A Dollar's Worth Of Regular" saw very limited release on a thin red vinyl record. For all of you wanting to replace all of your worn out tapes and vinyl, this is your chance. No more tape hiss or annoying pops and cracks. Next to be released from New Era will be "It's Alive" (Spring 2003), followed by "Don't Look Down" (Fall 2003}.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a long-awaited treat, December 13, 2002

By	Ronald W. Garrison (Chapel Hill NC USA) - See all my reviews

What is it that would make an album like this one of my never-will-get-tired-of-this favorites? I don't know, but I'm delighted to have it on CD at last. I'm also pleased with the bonus tracks.

On the whole, the sound is outstanding too. So far, I haven't noticed a *trace* of tape hiss--although I'm not sure if this is from very clean original tapes, or from modern signal processing (which is not necessarily without its downside). The CD has a much more bottom-heavy sound than the LP, and to my ears it seems like that's due to making instruments like the bass and drums more prominent, rather than EQ changes.

One thing they did flub, though--the fadeouts on some tracks should've been gentler. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that the end of "Homemade Wine" was botched, and I may eventually try to splice the end of the copy on my hits CD onto it to fix the abrupt end.

I remember, in the heyday of Napster, downloading some tracks from the Pickwick CD release of *Don't Look Down*, and finding some of the same abrupt endings, only worse. I was well acquainted with the LP, so it was hard not to notice. Note to New Era people: Are you listening? Please be careful about those fades!

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One further comment, in answer to the later reviewer: The Daredevils' CD hits collection (called The Best) has the same shortened version of You Know Like I Know. (I don't know why they would do that, unless the original master tape was seriously damaged or something.)