Tales of the Great Rum Runners

Robert Hunter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009NU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,841 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That Train Don't Run Here Anymore

2. Dry Dusty Road

3. I Heard You Singing

4. Rum Runners

5. Children's Lament

6. Maybe She's a Bluebird

7. Boys in the Barroom

8. It Must Have Been the Roses

9. Arizona Lightning

10. Standing at Your Door

11. Mad

12. Keys to the Rain

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great lyrics, Exellent tunes!, November 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Audio CD)

Robert Hunter's first solo album, showcases his awesome songwriting talent, and wonderful musical skills. With such classic songs as "Keys To The Rain", and "It Must Have Been The Roses" (the album's only song played regularly by The Grateful Dead). Tales Of The Great Rum Runners, also contains one of the finest song cycles since American Beauty, Robert Hunter on Rum Runners song cycle:

"I have this short little piece, "Lady Simplicity." I didn't have a song that seemed to properly kick in and get Rum Runners going.
So I wrote this little chorale piece to start it off, and then I didn't have a piece that I felt ended the record satisfactorily, so I did "Boys in the Barroom." These were written to begin and end an album, because the other pieces all wanted to be in the middle somewhere, hanging onto each other for dear life."

Other highlights of the album include "Dry Dusty Road", a wonderful folk-ish song, "Rum Runners" the album's title song, and "Mad", which needs no comment, if you have heard it, and that is the point of reviews, to make you want to hear the album, so I'll leave it at that.

5.0 out of 5 stars Greating drinking music--combo of the dead and johnny cash!, February 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Audio CD)

I stumbled upon this disc and I have cherished ever since. It has a few songs that the dead have done, but overall it doesn't sound much like the dead. Lady simplicity, boys in the barroom, tales of the great rum runners: these are all very original and memorable songs. A great mix of folk and country.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent recordings of original Robert Hunter Classics, July 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Audio CD)

This album is by far one of the greatest collections of songs by the greatest songwriter, post-Dylan.