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I have a large music collection and had ‘Crazy Love’ on a mixed artist CD, but never really listened much to anything else by Poco. I was familiar with “Rose of Cimarron” but by Emmylou Harris and always liked the song very much. I confess to having quite a few of Emmylou’s recordings dating back to vinyl. I ordered this Poco somewhat familiar with “Heart of the Night” and less so with “Keep on Trying” and figured “Rose of Cimarron” couldn’t get butchered too bad in another arraingement. I found “Rose” to be excellent-now my favorite version of the song (although Emmylou still does the best versions of many other songs I’ve heard)”Heart of the Night was stronger than I recalled and “Keep on Trying” better harmony that recalled from my FM radio rememberances. I have listened to the entire disc a few times now and haven’t been snagged by any other songs in particular, but the four mentioned have made their way into my MP3 favorites and feel they made the disk a worthwhile purchase for me.

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“American Beauty” finds the band at the height of their creative powers, writing songs that ended up being among their greatest. Here, as on “Working Man’s Dead”, Garcia and company delve into the folksy side of their musical heritage to deliver cuts beyond anything they would be able achieve in the studio either before or after.

Garcia was heavily involved in the production and used extra musicians, such as David Nelson and John Dawson of New Riders Of The Purple Sage, to great effect. A particularly beloved example of this is David Grisman’s mandolin playing on “Ripple”. Jerry also adds some pedal steel on “Candyman” and “Sugar Magnolia”, while Howards Wales plays the piano on “Brokedown Palace”.

Spurred on by co-producer Steve Barncard’s love of acoustic music, this record has more beautiful melodies than any other album I can think. It also contains my all time favorite song, “Box Of Rain”, with the lyric, “Such a long, long time to be gone, And a short time to be there”, that perhaps best catches what the Grateful Dead experience was all about. Certainly the band was better known for it’s live performances than it’s studio material. But this is one Dead record that will no doubt stand the test of time and be considered as among the finest releases in rock music history.

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To the people both unfamiliar and unappreciative of this kind of whimsical but cool music: Get a life! You’re missing the point, the boat, the EVERYTHING. Who cares if it’s a short (EP length) covers album of an eighties pop band!? So what!? This is one of the most fun, nostalgic, and danceable albums I’ve heard in ages. Yes, its production is simple (some might say unsophisticated or cheesy) but, once again, that is the point! The retro keyboards and sparse, electro-rhythms are part of the charm. This is great pop music without all of the modern, soul-sucking technology. Anyone who gives this less than three stars probably only listened to the samples – ignore these buffoons and buy it!

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This is a great album. Greatest hits 1 and 2 and the Essential 2 disc collection give us the unedited, full-length version of all the songs, which is really nice. However, it is nice to hear the edits for a change, and this album gives them to us: the shorter version of Piano Man, taking out about a verse and a half, and the shorter version of All About Soul gives us the great guitar work that is not in the original recording. I also like the version of My Life, its a little more rocking and moving without the high piano notes coming in until the very end and fewer piano measures between the verses. My favorite Billy Joel edited song, however, is I Go To Extremes. When i was a kid and the song came out on the radio, it pretty much had the first rocking piano solo, followed by 2 lines of singing, then the second piano solo (which rocks even more). At the end of the second solo, it goes back to Billy singing and the song fading out. I have tried to find this everywhere to get onto my ipod along with the great original recording and have been unable to find it anywhere. I figured when this album came out and I read about the edited versions that I Go To Extremes would defintiely be on there. It isn’t But the rest of the album is great stuff

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