Moving up Country

Moving up Country

Track Listings

1. In Your Hands

2. St. Patrick

3. Sweet Jesus

4. Tender to the Blues

5. Moving Up Country, Roaring the Gospel

6. Cheating the Game

7. I Spy Dogs

8. 6: 30 Is Just Way Too Early

9. Patience Song

10. I Know My Love

Tracks:

Sara Jean
These Days
Affair Of The Heart
Anybody Seen My Life
I Will
Busy Missin' You
The One
Fallen Star
The River
Nashville
Fall In Love Again
Last Chance
Angel

Album Description

Nick Ashton has teamed up with some of the best jazz musicians in Los Angeles including Max Bennett,Mike Miller, Dave Hooper to name a few, and some of Nashville's finest including Johnny Helms(Toby Keith). The result is an album full of honest songs written by Ashton, peppered with tasty melodies and great lyrics. Affair of the Heart is the new sound of West Coast Country.

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Moving on Up
Scooter Lee
Manufacturer: Southern Tracks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000007OAL
Release Date: 1998-12-01

Tracks:

Locomotion
Moving On Up
I Wanna Make You Mine
Blue Eyes
This Love Of Ours
OeeOeeO
Livewire
Here Lately
Ribbon Of Highway
Lets Break Up Tomorrow
Dizzy

Average customer rating:

Moving Up Country
Look Who's Getting Along
Slow burning stunner.
Can't stop listening
Buy This Album!!

Moving Up Country
James Yorkston and the Athletes
Manufacturer: Domino
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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Costello Music

ASIN: B000068FTA
Release Date: 2002-09-10

Customer Reviews:

Moving Up Country.......2004-06-11

James Yorkston's melancholic vocals and soft melodies are the perfect antidote to todays up-tempo, hi-profile, style obsessed, substance starved artists. Walking a non-existent line between early folk, blues, and some form of pop, he comes to a halt in a joyously confusing melting pot of genres, fine musicianship and wonderfuly melodic, guitar based genius. Now i use the phrase genius loosley as this is only his first complete album, however it is fascinatingly addictive and gentle as a summers day spent lying on a grassy hill, surrounded by rabbits while staring aimlessly at the clouds. Sounding fresh and original is a tall order of late, yet Yorkston manages to fashion something very fresh and exciting with the familiarity of something old. The album complements any circumstance, its perfectly suited to sunny days, dark nights, warm rooms, cold breezes, with friends, with enemies, with no-one, whatever, wherever, this album is the perfect accompaniment. He's an old soul with a new sound, and thats too good to miss.

Look Who's Getting Along.......2004-02-02

James Yorkston's *Moving Up Country* is a pastoral album of wandering meadows, roaming fields, and babbling brooks. This is all fitting given that Yorkston grew up around the countryside of the British Isles. His vocals are reminiscent of Beck's on *Mutations* and *Sea Change* - weary enough from the burdens of the labor of love but forward enough to keep pursuing the dream. "Tender To The Blues" even sounds as if it could've been lifted from Mr. Hansen's songbook. Title track, "Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel" and "Cheating The Game" have an old saloon feel to them while "I Spy Dogs" is easily the most raucous cut centered on a soul-like piano melody. Unfortunately Yorkston puts some of the least accessible tunes at the beginning of the disc which makes *Moving Up Country* initially slow to appreciate, but repeated listens prove an album worthy of the beautiful landscape it depicts.

Slow burning stunner........2003-04-05

I was in a Rough Trade Records store in Notting Hill when i noticed this album in a stack of cd's. The clerks there said it was phenomenal and when I got back stateside and investigated, they proved to be right. One of the best albums to come out in 2002, Yorkston mixes quality lyrics with beautiful folk music. Every track is simply a delight. Highlights would defiently be St. Patrick and the title track. Lots of cellos, harmonicas, shakers and other smooth sounding instruments. A+++

Can't stop listening.......2003-04-04

I have had this CD since last fall but pulled it out again after I saw James Yorkston perform in NY earlier this week. If you like Nick Drake but want something that sounds more hopeful, James Yorkston is it.
There's really gorgeous, gentle arrangements that are delicate as air and continue my love of contemporary Scottish bands. Acoustic guitar, harmonium, piano, violin and percussion form the background but Yorkston's got this soft plaintive voice that's heartfelt and sincere.

Buy This Album!!.......2002-11-29

I first saw James and his Athletes supporting David Gray in Dublin. I was really impressed - it was an unusual choice of support, but the songs stood out for themselves. I bought a copy of "moving up country" on the way out of the gig, and it's been my "discovery" of the year. 3 of the songs they played are on this album - "Tender to the blues", "Sweet Jesus" and "6:30 is just way too early". Each one is a pure marvel, but why they didn't play "St. Patrick" (from the album) is beyond me, it has to be the most beautiful song i've heard for years. Even my boyfriend admits to liking it!
I strongly recommend you buy this album and fall in love. it's my most rewarding purchase since "White Ladder"
bye!!

Average customer rating:

I Still Feel

Manufacturer: Reve
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA6XN6
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Average customer rating:

This CD is great
Great album!

Better Weather
Heavy Blinkers
Manufacturer: Brobdingnagian
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
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Heavy Blinkers
The Night and I Are Still So Young
The Night and I Are Still So Young

ASIN: B00005N8PH
Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

It's Finally Done
Baby Smile
Far as You Are
Heartstrings
Long as I Am Able
Malm
Lazy in Love
Didn't Even Have Time to Dream It
I Used to Be a Design
Broken Wave
Helicopter Blues
Weight That Can't Be Carried
It's Finally Done

Customer Reviews:

This CD is great.......2002-07-17

If you like the Beatles, Beach Boys, Sloan, Carpenters, Matthew Sweet, Paul McCartney, Mike O'Neill or similar artists, then you will like this CD by the Heavy Blinkers. It consists of pop songs which are beautifully arranged and orchestrated.

Great album!.......2002-05-17

Left Banke meets FRIENDS-era Beach Boys. Highly recommended.

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Moving Up Country

Manufacturer: Domino/Ada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000065TQA
Release Date: 2003-08-04

Average customer rating:

Moving on Up
Scooter Lee
Manufacturer: Strac
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000024XHD
Release Date: 1998-06-11

Tracks:

Loco-Motion
Moving on Up
I Wana Make You Mine
Blue Eyes
This Love of Ours
Oeeoeeo
Livewire
Here Lately
Ribbon of Highway
Let's Break Up Tomorrow
Dizzy

Average customer rating:

Lookin Up

Manufacturer: CTG Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAKBTI
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Average customer rating:

Moving Up Country

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000QUU5IG
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Album Description

Personnel includes: James Yorkston (vocals); Sun Li (vocals, violin); Holly (mandolin, whistle, small pipes); Reuben (piano); Dougie (bass); Faisal (drums). PREVIEW :Q (8/02, p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Hooray for fey-free folk..."Mojo (7/02, p.96) - "...A lovely lilting album..."Magnet (10/02, p.110) - "...It's a cultural tangle, to be sure, and one Yorkston shows he's capable of pulling off..."NME (6/1/02, p.38) - 8 out of 10 - "...James Yorkston is a folk musician from Scotland. Realistically this suggests that the only way he'd make it into the pages of NME was if he smacked one of the Strokes over the head with a banjo. But his debut album, sweetly but firmly demolishes your preconceptions..."

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