The Rockin' Side

Travis Tritt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B00005V6QF
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,642 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rough Around The Edges

2. T-R-O-U-B-L-E

3. Bible Belt (featuring Little Feat)

4. Blue Collar Man

5. Wishful Thinking

6. Start The Car

7. Back Up Against The Wall

8. Looking Out For Number One

9. Double Trouble (featuring Marty Stuart)

10. Ten Feet Tall And Bulletproof

11. Put Some Drive In Your Country

12. Take It Easy

13. The Whiskey Ain't Workin' (featuring Marty Stuart)

14. Hard Times And Misery

15. No More Looking Over My Shoulder

16. Still In Love With You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Questionable Song Selection, February 9, 2002

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jekyllnhyde "jekyllnhyde" (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rockin' Side (Audio CD)

Travis is a master at everything from soft country ballads to southern rock. This collection supposedly concentrates on the latter. However, a couple of tracks here don't fit the theme while a couple of obvious choices were overlooked. "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'", Travis's duet with Marty Stuart, is included here. While this is a good song & I like it a lot, it's nothing more or less than a honky-tonk country song. Not very "rockin'". Travis's cover of the Eagles' "Take It Easy" is also here. Again, nothing against the song. But just because it's by a "country rock" band doesn't necessarily qualify it as a "rockin'" song. Actually, it's pretty easygoing (hence the title).
On the flip side, where's "Homesick", unquestionably Travis's hardest-rocking song & one of his very best? This was an absurd omission. A case can also be made for "Southern Justice", a moody, almost Bad Company-ish song with a "rockin'" chorus.
The new isn't all bad, though. There are great country-rock & southern-rock tracks here, such as "Put Some Drive in Your Country" (in which he pays tribute to Duane Allman), & Travis's hard-charging cover of the great Jude Cole song "Start the Car". Other very good tracks here include "Looking Out For Number One", "Blue Collar Man" & "Hard Times and Misery". Taken as simply a collection of Travis Tritt songs, this is an excellent cd. But given it's "rockin'" theme, it could've been a lot better.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ass kicking "yiaaaah" rock&roll with a touch of country, January 3, 2006

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Kurt Olav Helle "Kurt Olav Experience" (Lonevåg, Osteroy Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rockin' Side (Audio CD)

Travis Tritt is more of a country & western artist, but on this one much of the songs has an ass kicking" yiaaaah" rock and roll feel over it with a stream of country on some of the tracks, as they are the weakest one on this CD. But how can you possible go wrong when you use Little Feat as a backing band on tracks like the "fast moving" Bible Belt, (Track 3). The ones i realy like is rock and roll tunes like that which shows the rock and roll side of Travis Tritt. Maybe we can call it "foot stomping" rock & roll, with a dash of hard rock feel. Like Track 2 T.R.O.U.B.L.E which sometimes has the magic of Jerry Lee Lewis with the "humping" and "stomping" over the piano, with enough woooha and yiaah to make youre feet move automatically to the rythm. Skip trough the slower ones, which doesnt show his "real rockin side" . Sorry to say i don`t like his version of the Eagles hit Take it Easy, otherwise this is a fine collection which realy shimmering one most of the tracks, on the "rockin" side, but not one the slower ones which doesnt has the right "rockin sting".

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must, January 11, 2007

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Patrick Ruymen (Ghent, Belgium, E. U.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rockin' Side (Audio CD)

A absolute must for R & R scolars and fans alike, a great album.