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Heather Myles
Rum and Rodeo
Genres: Country, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Love Lyin' Down
2. Changes
3. Rum & Rodio
4. Make A Fool Out of Me
5. Other Side of Town
6. Playin' In the Dirt
7. And It Hurts
8. One Good Reason Why
9. Indigo Moon
10. Beggin' To You
11. When You Walked Out On Me
12. How Could She
13. I'll Be There
14. Read You All Wrong
15. Lovin' The Bottle

CD Details

All Artists: Heather Myles
Title: Rum and Rodeo
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hightone Records
Release Date: 1/25/2005
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Country, Pop, R&B
Styles: Americana, Roadhouse Country, Neotraditional
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 012928817820

Synopsis

Album Description

Heather Myles' powerful vocals and clever songwriting-married with her love of the West Coast Bakersfield sound and traditional roots convention-recalls classic female country singers like Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Tammy Wynette. She proved with her debut album, Just Like Old Times, to be at the forefront of the alt-country scene that later blossomed into the Americana genre. In the past decade and today, Myles continues to carry the torch for traditional country artistry, having worked with such greats as Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings, and Charlie Daniels.

CD Reviews

West Coast honkytonk was alive and well... in the 1990s

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 01/30/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Of the recent spate of best-of collections coming out on the HighTone label, few could be more welcome than this set looking back at the early work of West Coast honkytonker Heather Myles. A California native heavily under the spell of Buck and Merle, Myles hit the SoCal country scene in the wake of Dwight Yoakam's back-to-basics breakthroughs, and recorded two fine albums for Hightone, 1992's "Just Like Old Times" and "Untamed," in 1995. This disc features a baker's dozen of her best songs, along with a previously unreleased version of "Read You All Wrong," with plenty of good, old-fashioned hard-country shuffles and heartsongs that stand right up there with the best of the old stuff. There's also a bit of her more jangly '60s rock-tinged material, and a brief dip into roadhouse blues, but it's the hard country stuff that makes this disc worth the price of admission. Both of her original albums are also worth tracking down, but this best-of set sure does a good job boiling 'em down into one swell little package, sure to please the old-school country lover in us all."