Roots

Blue Mountain | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Mountain
• ASIN: B000059M19
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,914 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rye Whiskey

2. Rain and Snow

3. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair

4. Banks of the Pontchartrain

5. That Nasty Swing

6. Spring of '65

7. Riley and Spencer

8. Young and Tender Ladies

9. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes

10. Little Stream of Whiskey

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong Roots, April 9, 2001

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L. Albarado (Millington, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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Heard Laurie and Cary do most of this one live at the Hi-tone in Memphis in mid=March. Bought it on the spot after one of the best shows I've seen in years (second only to Alvin Youngblood Hart two weeks before BM's set). Cary played like a man possessed. Laurie's vocals were superb. (This was the third time I've seen them live -- and no question, the best.) Something about the Hi-tone and Mempho makes musicians shine. Anyway, this is a great CD and has replaced Homegrown as my favorite Blue Mountain effort.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars rocking folk from the heart, March 25, 2001

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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Blue Mountain's take on American folk music is informed, passionate, and engaging. As any number of mediocre recordings have documented, folk music is a whole lot harder than it looks. To do it justice, to make it real, you have to get inside it and speak from its heart. Roots is music from the heart, and it never misses a beat. I'd heard every song but one (Bill Carlisle's "That Nasty Swing") in its traditional form, and the formidable competition notwithstanding, Blue Mountain has made each its own. It even manages to transform the old parlor ballad "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" (whose melody graces a number of subsequent country songs, most famously Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life") into a rock-and-roll song, something I would not have imagined possible. The past year has seen two other memorable fusions of American folk and rock, by the Tarheel Ramblers and Dave Alvin. This CD holds its own in that esteemed company.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Move over Dave Alvin, March 16, 2001

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James Reckling (Roanoke, Va USA) - See all my reviews
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Most Blue Mountain fans favorite BM cd is Dog Days. However mine was Homegrown- until now. Roots is a finely chosen, well played collection of songs that are primarily now in the public domain. Much like Dave Alvin's latest BM puts a contemporary spin on these tunes. Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair has some nice electric guitar on it. That Nasty Swing is a swinging blues number. There are celtic influences in several of the songs also. I have heard Alvin's latest and in my opinion this totally outshines it and it now is my favorite BM cd.