The Highwaymen - Highwaymen/Standing Room Only!
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Track List: Highwaymen/Standing Room Only!
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- Santiano
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Ala Carte Fontaine
- Carni Valito
- Ah Si Mon Moina
- Sinner Man
- Michael
- Take This Hammer
- Au Claire De La Lune
- Greenland Fisheries
- Irish Work Song (Pat Works On The Railway)
- Cindy Oh Cindy
- Cotton Fields
- Black Eyed Suzie
- Rise Up Shepherd
- Nostalgia Tucmar's
- Three Jolly Rogues
- Pollerita
- The Gyspy Rover
- The Carlton Weaver
- Wildwood Flower
- Johnny With The Bandy Legs
- The Great Silkie
- Run Come See Jerusalem
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Album Details: Highwaymen/Standing Room Only!
- Release Date:
- 09/12/2000
- Label:
- Collector's Choice
- UPC:
- 617742013627
Pro Reviews: Highwaymen/Standing Room Only!
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The Highwaymen exhibit an enthusiastic optimism that can seem overly sugarcoated in the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate world. How many groups today would attempt to sing a song like "Big Rock Candy Mountain" without a heavy dose of irony? But The Highwaymen were young when they started performing and made their first two albums, The Highwaymen and Standing Room Only, in 1960 and 1961. Songs like "Santiano" and "Michael" have the same tight harmony and joyous presentation as the early material of the Kingston Trio or the New Christy Minstrels. Their version of "Cotton Fields" has little in common with Leadbelly's, but few people listening at the time would have been aware of the original version. Neither would these listeners have thought it odd that five clean-cut college boys were singing about being in "cold iron and shackles" in "Take This Hammer." The Highwaymen must be understood and appreciated for what they attempted to be: popular interpreters of folk songs. Just about everything on their first album, The Highwaymen, sounds fresh and energetic, and the arrangements are simple and straightforward. Standing Room Only varies this formula with less success. This album sounds "more produced" and the song choice less inspired. The guitar lead on a dulcimer-driven "Wildwood Flower" almost sounds electric. (And this is at least four years before folk-rock) Musically, listeners will also notice that many of the tracks on both albums have drums. All nitpicking aside, these are fun albums that will transport the listener back to the heights of the folk revival when it was still "cool" to sing songs filled with hope. - Ronnie Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide |
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It's easy enough to dismiss the Highwaymen as representatives of a brand of folk music that has gone out of fashion, at least among the media tastemakers. Their kind of harmony singing, coupled to traditional songs and ballads, has seldom been writte...Full The Highwaymen Biography
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