Rum and Rodeo [Original recording remastered]

Heather Myles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B0006Z2L4M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,303 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Lyin' Down

2. Changes

3. Rum & Rodio

4. Make A Fool Out of Me

5. Other Side of Town

6. Playin' In the Dirt

7. And It Hurts

8. One Good Reason Why

9. Indigo Moon

10. Beggin' To You

11. When You Walked Out On Me

12. How Could She

13. I'll Be There

14. Read You All Wrong

15. Lovin' The Bottle

Editorial Reviews

Heather Myles' powerful vocals and clever songwriting-married with her love of the West Coast Bakersfield sound and traditional roots convention-recalls classic female country singers like Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Tammy Wynette. She proved with her debut album, Just Like Old Times, to be at the forefront of the alt-country scene that later blossomed into the Americana genre. In the past decade and today, Myles continues to carry the torch for traditional country artistry, having worked with such greats as Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings, and Charlie Daniels.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars West Coast honkytonk was alive and well... in the 1990s, January 29, 2005

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rum and Rodeo (Audio CD)

Of the recent spate of best-of collections coming out on the HighTone label, few could be more welcome than this set looking back at the early work of West Coast honkytonker Heather Myles. A California native heavily under the spell of Buck and Merle, Myles hit the SoCal country scene in the wake of Dwight Yoakam's back-to-basics breakthroughs, and recorded two fine albums for Hightone, 1992's "Just Like Old Times" and "Untamed," in 1995. This disc features a baker's dozen of her best songs, along with a previously unreleased version of "Read You All Wrong," with plenty of good, old-fashioned hard-country shuffles and heartsongs that stand right up there with the best of the old stuff. There's also a bit of her more jangly '60s rock-tinged material, and a brief dip into roadhouse blues, but it's the hard country stuff that makes this disc worth the price of admission. Both of her original albums are also worth tracking down, but this best-of set sure does a good job boiling 'em down into one swell little package, sure to please the old-school country lover in us all.

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5.0 out of 5 stars pure honky-tonk country, February 27, 2010

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J. Williams "Possum Willie" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rum and Rodeo (Audio CD)

Heather Myles sings country music in a classic way that takes me back to roadhouses, jukeboxes, pickled eggs, and neon-colored condoms for two quarters - she is that good - and her music is not stylistically derivative other than the genre itself. Hard to believe I was living in Uganda over a decade ago when I got my hands on "Too Much Rum and Rodeo" - on a homemade cassette tape compilation with no artists mentioned. Thirteen years later, I googled the title and finally found her. Damn, It was worth the wait! If you have only a few country artists for those days when the mood hits you and you pop a top at 10 AM and crank up the box, then Heather should be right in there with Dwight, Possum, Merle, and Randy. That says a lot.

4.0 out of 5 stars Return to traditional country, April 30, 2011

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This review is from: Rum and Rodeo (Audio CD)

If you like the traditional back to roots..country and western..clean instrument backing, no fancy techno effects, powerful vocal..this is one worth collecting.