Mule to Ride

Tara Nevins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B00000IISJ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,071 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars better wakeup than a triple expresso!!!, July 4, 2001

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Joseph A. Kengor (Somewhereville, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mule to Ride (Audio CD)

At the Telluride Festival last month, I was fortunate to hear Tara and her husband, Jim Miller (both members of the jam band DONNA THE BUFFALO), Dirk Powell, and Tim O'Brien, perform/jam at an Old Time workshop. From the front row I heard these purveyors of Traditional Music. Talk about ear candy!! I thought I'd died and gone the great hearafter. I'd known about Dirk and Tim previously, but not about Tara and Jim. Now it's time everyone does. It seems that this electric rock band DONNA THE

BUFFALO is filled with OLD TIME musicians! After the workshop was over, I hastened yonder to the festival's cd tent, and quickly purchased Tara's cd and one by Jim Miller that they only sell at their concerts, called Herd I'm Drinkin' which I would characterize as the one Gram Parsons always wanted to make, but didn't live long enough to. On Tara's disc, she bows some great fiddle strings, whilst Jim does most of the vocals. There are many songs on this disc that will inspire the lame to dance, the crippled to rise up and grab a partner, and the blind to see the light. This folks, is real down home music, the stuff that runs in all our veins, the kind that is about pure spirit and wholesome energy that will change your life. and go see DONNA THE BUFFALO next time they are in your area, so you can feel the charge they give, and buy Jim's disc while you're there.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great blend of bluegrass and old-time with modern touches, July 27, 2002

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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: Mule to Ride (Audio CD)

Tara Nevins is a brilliant fiddler who also has a lovely singing voice. The only regret I have is that she only uses it on five songs, more often relying on husband Jim Miller for vocals. However, this is but a minor point. Jim is a fine singer, and the musicianship from all concerned is abolutely semsational. You couldn't fall asleep listening to this.

The album is full of contrasts, not just with different voices, but some great instrumentals and a variety of tempos and moods, but generally an upbeat, energetic album which will provide new delights with every listen. To make it even greater value, there are twenty tracks (rare for an album of new recordings) with a running time of about an hour. The quantity in no way dilutes the quality, which never drops.

This is a brilliant album from Tara, who is also (with her husband) a member of Donna the Buffalo.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars new day for old-time, September 29, 1999

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Bill Chaisson (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mule to Ride (Audio CD)

I bought this CD because I like Donna the Buffalo quite a bit. At first I was disappointed that it was entirely old-time (not newgrass), but I have been won over by the directness and accomplishment of the playing and the honesty of the vocals. Jim Miller (Tara's husband) does a lot of the singing and he's got a great country voice. Tara gets to really rip on the fiddle in a way that she is not called upon to do within Donna the Buffalo songs. This album is a good introduction to one of the types of traditional music that inpires DTB songs (another obviously being zydeco). If you have never listened to old-time, then pick up this disc and you might want to hear more ... from people you have never heard of.