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| | Private Radio | | | Music Artist : | | Billy Bob Thornton | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Umvd Labels | | Release Date : | | 2001-09-25 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Dark & Mad
2. Forever
3. Angelina
4. Starlight Lounge
5. Walk Of Shame
6. Smoking In Bed
7. Your Blue Shadow
8. That Mountain
9. He Was A Friend Of Mine
10. Private Radio
11. Beauty At The Back Door
12. Lost Highway
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Worst piece of crap ever!
Submitted on: 2009-04-10 |
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| Not even worth getting into - heard this at a friends and we all had a good laugh at how pitiful it sounded! |
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 Fresh, new, different - totally Billy Bob!
Submitted on: 2005-09-28 |
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| Worth every penny! An excellent album! It's hard not to cringe through "Angelina" though... |
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Ham Radio
Submitted on: 2005-09-01 |
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| It would be an easy jibe to say the actor Billy Bob Thornton's album was a vanity project. He's keen to establish his cred - he played in Southern boogie bands as a teenager, including a ZZ Top tribute outfit called Tres Hombres - and his album Private Radio (Lost Highway) certainly sounds good. That's due to producer Marty Stuart and the band of brothers he's hired (including keyboardist Barry Beckett). The great title fits the concept - his personal musical journey - but that's the problem. His songs are Southern gothic cliches, and as a singer he's a ham. He's trying so hard to be a tough, but twisted hombre. In `Forever' a trucker calls his gal to declare his commitment - while wearing her pink panties. And his ode `Angelina' should have stayed behind closed doors: "They said we'd never make it / Two crazy panthers on the prowl / They said we would only fake it for a while / But we just looked at them and growled." To be quickly filed beside William Shatner's album. |
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Private Radio a Must-Have!
Submitted on: 2004-02-09 |
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Okay, I admit it: I bought this CD primarily out of curiosity. I've been a Billy Bob fan since Slingblade, and read that he had a CD. Heard a few cuts here at Amazon, and bought both Private Radio and Billy Bob's later recording, The Edge of the World. I must say that I prefer the former. Billy Bob Thornton comes across on Private Radio as a down-to-earth working guy who no doubt grew up listening to rock & roll, with some healthy doses of Waylon, Willie, Johnny and Merle. The lyrics are honest and heart-felt, and the music is as down-home foot stompin as you can get: Marty Stuart on acoustic guitar and mandolin, Gregg Stocki on drums, and Barry Beckett on Hammond B-3 organ and Wurlitzer piano (how classic can ya get?). Add the musicianship on selected cuts from Randy Scruggs, Hank Singer and Larry Paxton, and you've got a well-rounded album, indeed.
The music runs from the smoky barroom reflections of "Your Blue Shadow" and "Walk of Shame" to the intimate 'settin 'round the frontroom' story Billy Bob tells as the intro to "That Mountain" to Bluesy "Forever" to the narrative "Beauty at the Back Door" to the Rockin' "Smoking in Bed." And in every cut, Billy Bob bares his heart and soul.
I think it's the unpolished "Hey, y'all, let's get Marty over here and cut a record" intimate atmosphere that appeals most to me about Private Radio. Billy Bob comes across as a man you'd like to sit on the front porch with one summer evening and shares a few jokes, stories, and maybe pick a few songs with.
Overall, Billy Bob's lyrics reveal a down-to-earth yet deep and complex man; the music as real and varied as the characters he creates on the screen. Unpretensious, real, and honest.
Heck, just buy the CD. You'll dig it. |
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Incredible
Submitted on: 2003-02-27 |
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| I don't know what it is that keeps me coming back to this album. It's a masterwork by one of Hollywood's most well-known, but it also goes to show that you just can't lump a talented individual into one category alone. Just as he is in his movies, Billy Bob is all over the place. Whether it be the moody "Dark and Mad" or the lustful spoken-word of "Forever" or the more uptempo "Smoking in Bed" or the sad-but-true "Walk of Shame" he's telling a story and it's all great. If you take this album seriously, you will most certainly be rewarded and you'll also find yourself forgetting that this is the man who wrote, directed, and starred in Sling Blade. His vocal range is pretty incredible and the music is great, but what truly shines is the songwriting and the delivery. Whether it be spoken word, or hillbilly twang, you'll get the message and don't be surprised if you catch yourself singing "Smoking in Bed" while you're at work. In short, there isn't a weak track to be found and what's here will make you long for more. It never gets old. |
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