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I'm not a huge country music fan, but I gotta say this album (from six talented lads outta Springfield, MO) is some of the sweetest music you'll ever hear.
These fellas write incredible acoustic melodies with really, really interesting lyrics (the other-worldly pondering of "Spaceship Orion" or the contemplative humanity of "Within Without")
Musically?
Yeah, it rocks ("If You Wanna Get To Heaven"), and the guitar solo on "Colorado Song" has heartfelt sonics like I've heard nowhere else. One of my all-time favorite power ballads (i love the closing harmonies--it's like countrified Brian Wilson).
It's also quirky (one of the few discs I own featuring a jaw's-harp---on "Chicken Train" and its offbeat lyrics: "the laser beam / in my dream / i can't tun it on / i can't turn it off")
I even like the country-flavored songs of "Country Girl" and "Standin' On A Rock;" the mandolin on "Road To Glory" and the "revival" feel of "Beauty In The River."
This is pure Americana. It crosses from country to pop to rock and every possible hybrid beyond and in between. These gentlemen are OUTSTANDING songwriters and musicians. With GREAT harmonies, too!
Thank you, OMD, for more than 30 years of pure pleasure.
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I bought this CD for my father for Christmas, and found that I love it just as much as he does. It's really just great music--not strictly rock, but not country, and not quite Southern rock. The tracks are all well produced, particularly "Colorado Song." And of course, "If You Want to Get to Heaven (You Got to Raise a Little Hell)" is tons of fun. The entire album is one of my favorites--a really solid debut from a really talented group.
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Great lyrics, fusion of hillbilly-horns-space references and redemption. It did'nt get any better than this for the Daredevils.
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The self-titled debut by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils is great. All of the elements of the band's sound are fully developed here, with harmonica and guitar solos in abundance, especially on the hit single "If You Wanna Get To Heaven." "Country Girl", the opener, is a heartfelt mid-tempo ballad, and "Chicken Train", an interesting novelty song, features mostly vocals and mouthbow. The Ozark Mountain Daredevils would sometimes get this good later, but they never got better.
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Back when I was in high school and college, I loved listening to these guys and hearing their music on CD brings back great memories. They sound better than I remember them, which is is pretty darn awesome. When they played in Whitefish, Montana in 1986, we danced on a wood floor and sang along. Twenty years ago and I know they would have the same affect on me if I could hear them play again. I married a "Country Girl" and got "Back to the Country" and I still love playing harmonica along with the Daredevils in the loft of my garage.
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