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by: Charlie Haden
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Released: 2008-09-23

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Title Tracks for Rambling Boy
  • 1. Single Girl, Married Girl
  • 2. Rambling Boy
  • 3. 20/20 Vision
  • 4. Wildwood Flower
  • 5. Spiritual
  • 6. Oh Take Me Back
  • 7. You Win Again
  • 8. The Fields Of Athenry
  • 9. Ocean Of Diamonds
  • 10. He's Gone Away
  • 11. A Voice From On High
  • 12. Down By The Salley Gardens
  • 13. Road Of Broken Hearts
  • 14. Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
  • 15. A Tramp On The Street
  • 16. Old Joe Clark
  • 17. Seven Year Blues
  • 18. Old Haden Family Show
  • 19. Shenandoah
Product Features
Rambling Boy
  • HADEN CHARLIE FAMILY AND FRIENDS: RAMBLING BOY
Product Review
Album Description
Listeners familiar with the Charlie Haden's celebrated career may not know of the legendary jazz bassist's early years in country music performing with his family. Charlie Haden Family & Friends: Rambling Boy brings the artist's personal history full circle and presents a new generation of the Haden Family - a legendary Midwest music institution in the 1930s and 1940s, now reborn in the 21st century. Rambling Boy includes songs made famous by the Stanley Brothers, the Carter Family, and Hank Williams alongside fabled traditional tunes and some striking original compositions. The performing cast includes Haden, his wife and co-producer Ruth Cameron, all four of his children (the triplets Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden, their brother Josh Haden), and his son-in-law Jack Black-- each of whom has his or her own career in music. In addition, Rambling Boy features guest appearances by some of the most illustrious names in contemporary Americana and popular music: Roseanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Ricky Skaggs & the Whites, and Dan Tyminski and also includes such illustrious musicians as Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton and more.

Featured Guest Artists:

Ruth Cameron

Josh Haden

Tanya Haden

Rachel Haden

Petra Haden

Bruce Hornsby

Roseanne Cash

Ricky Skaggs & the Whites

Vince Gill

Product Details
Rambling Boy
  • Audio CD: 0 pages (2008-09-23)
  • Publisher: Decca
  • Label: Decca
  • Studio: Decca
  • Sales Rank in Music: #48472
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Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (122 customer reviews)
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome bluegrass from some unlikely sources, September 23, 2008
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Mark F. Braun (Norridge, IL) - See all my reviews
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When the pretensions of celebrity recordings gets stripped away, there's not a lot that I'd buy today. Then, along comes this brilliant gem. It is a wonderful circle of true believers, honed on PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION that delivers the goods like these gorgeous tracks. It takes big talent to step back and cut a simple, small-sounding disc, and by god, they've done it and done it really well.

With the purity that American mountain music emotes, "Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy" is as pure as a mountain stream and a beautiful reminder of what great, traditional Americana sounds like.

Neatly assembled and brilliantly simple, this collection of tracks brings together A past Decemberist (Petra Haden), an actor (Tanya Haden's husband, Jack Black), a couple of modern country legends (Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill), a jazz man (Pat Metheny), an indie/FM artist or two (Bruce Hornsby, Elvis Costello) and a better cross-section of talent you'd be hard-pressed...Read more
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54 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great old-time country, bluegrass, folk, Americana, a little jazz, a lot of heart, September 21, 2008
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Long before he became a legendary jazz bassist, Charlie Haden was Little Yodeling Cowboy Charlie. He began his professional career in the late 1930s, not quite two years old, singing old-time gospel and country on the radio with his parents and siblings throughout the South and Midwest. (One of his very early performances is on the next-to-last track of this CD.) He did that for thirteen years; then, at age 15, polio weakened his voice, leaving him to focus on the instrument that led him to jazz fame. He long had in mind to return to his musical beginnings and renew the legacy of family performance with his own children. In January, 2008, at age 70, it finally happened.

A lot of the great country and bluegrass players love jazz, so Haden had a fan club in Nashville ready to help out. It's a dream band. Jerry Douglas plays Dobro on almost every track. Stuart Duncan plays fiddle on most. On mandolin, Sam Bush plays on about half, Dan Tyminski on a couple, and Ricky...Read more
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars refreshingly different - a satisfying, soulful family journey across folk, bluesgrass, gospel, and country, September 28, 2008
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Paul Christensen "gadget geek" (West Chester, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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From the very first toe-tapping track "Single Girl, Married Girl" you know this is going to be a very different music experience from the over-produced, electronic pop of today. And I must say that in the end, this collection more than delivers a thoroughly entertaining journey that reaches across the traditional boundaries of folk, bluegrass, gospel, and country.

Many times, I shy away from collaborations with famous artists as the results can be forced, commercialized, or inconsistent. And while this album has plenty of famous artists (Vince Gill, Bruce Hornsby, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Pat Metheny), in the end they are just visitors.

It is Charlie Haden and his family who really sets this apart, providing consistency and talent with an unvarnished, heartfelt performance that warms your soul. In fact, were it not for the crisp vocals and lush instrumentation, you could almost imagine sitting in the Haden living room with many famous guests...Read more
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