The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute The Majesty of Bob Wills

Jon Langford, Pine Valley Cosmonauts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B00000DBYL
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,602 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Musically awesome, vocals....., August 8, 2000

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"gator480" (Cave Creek, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute The Majesty of Bob Wills (Audio CD)

The Cosmonauts play with zest and enthusiasm. Vocally, this thing runs the gamut. Some vocals are obvoiously phoned in, while others are right on the money.

Give these guys credit for keeping it loose and having fun. While most "tributes" are either staid in their reverance, or needlessly experimental, thsi one hits the perfect balance between reverance and entusiasm. And I can't get enough of Kelly Hogan's singing!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great music by talented musicians; less than quality vocals., April 14, 1999

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[e-mail] (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute The Majesty of Bob Wills (Audio CD)

Wonderful renditions and arrangements of some of Bob Wills' classics by obviously talented musicians. Regrettably, some of the worst vocals I have ever heard.... I knew Bob back in the early sixties...he would have patted his foot to this music, but he would not have sung along.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bob Wills meets the Mekons, October 21, 2001

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m_noland "m_noland" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute The Majesty of Bob Wills (Audio CD)

Pretty good musicianship: some good guitar work, nice to hear those mariachi-by-way-of-Lubbock horns on "San Antonio Rose," but the rhythm section doesn't seem to understand that this music is supposed to swing. Oops.

Vocals extremely variable: the girls (especially Kelly Hogan and Jane Baxter-Miller) can sing, but the boys can't, more or less. This is a problem, if, like me, you grew up on the originals. The most painful example is "San Antonio Rose" where Alejandro Escovedo seems lost (and out of his range) while Tommy Duncan's vocals on the original sound nearly effortless. Jimmie Dale Gilmour is wonderfully suited for this material, but the other male vocalists tend to be less successful. Robbie Fulks can sing but exhibits his tendency to degenerate into howling on succeeding verses - Bob Wills as incipient psychopath - hadn't thought of that one.

This one is hard to rate inasmuch as the quality varies so much from track to track.