Prairie in the Sky

Prairie in the Sky

Track Listings

1. Pass Me By

2. Priscilla Drive

3. Ballad of Weaverville

4. Back to Salinas

5. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky

6. Last Cannonball

7. It's My Time

8. Cornerstone Cowboy

9. Prairie in the Sky

10. Cole Younger

11. Dealers

12. My Love

Tracks:

Pass Me By
Priscilla Drive
Ballad Of Weaverville
Back To Salinas
Ghost Riders In The Sky
Last Cannonball
It's My Time
Cornerstone Cowboy
Prairie In The Sky
Cole Younger
The Dealers
My Love

Customer Reviews:

Haunting lyrics, memorable melody.......2002-03-10

I first became aware of Mary McCaslin after hearing "The Last Cannonball" on another CD. Her melancholy story of riding "The Last Cannonball" was an immediate favorite. Much to my surprise, I found her other performances on this CD to be equally compelling. If you like songs about the west, ballads with just the right mixture of folk and country, or superb background guitar work, you will like this CD. Turn up the volume to get a full appreciation of all of the background nuances. Several of these songs will raise goosebumps on your spine, and at least one will have you blinking back a tear or two. Extraordinarily fine folk music from a very talented performer!

truly western music.......1999-04-22

If you're a Willy Nelson, or a Tracy Nelson fan, you should know Mary McCaslin. She sings in an unaffected folk manner, and she is witty, to boot. This album personifies what the girl the cowboy is waving to on the cover of Quicksilver's "Happy Trails" album would sing on her front porch swing. The beautiful "Cole Younger" piece haunts like Emmylou's "Pancho and Lefty", but is less refined and more gritty, "campfirey"(if that's a word), and sung in a very persuasive first person. This is a fun album, especially if you toss into a shuffle play mix on the CD changer with Riders in the Sky, Bob Wills, and Willy Nelson. Enjoy!

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A Prairie Portrait
Umberto Giordano , Percy Grainger , Stan Jones , Daniel E. Kelley , Kelly , Eugene O'Brien , Spoken Word , Traditional , American Traditional , Various Composers , John Giordano , and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Manufacturer: Dualtone Music Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
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The Bard And The Balladeer: Live From Cowtown
West of Yesterday
A Western Jubilee: Songs and Stories of the American West
Elko! A Cowboy's Gathering
Songs of the Trail

ASIN: B0002IQLJY
Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

Texas Trilogy (Yellow Rose Of Texas, Streets Of Laredo, Deep In The Heart of Texas)
Roundup In The Spring
Sage & Cedar I
Home On the Range
Commutin
Annie Laurie/Bad Half Hour
Irish Tune From County Derry (Danny Boy)
Santa Rose Serenade
Throwback
West Of Yesterday
(Ghost) Riders In the Sky
Horses, Dogs, And Cowboys
Cowboy Love Song
Sage And Cedar II
Shenandoah
Around the Campfire From A Prairie Portrait

Product Description

Tracks:

Ser, Op.17 No.2
Tomorrow, Op.27 No.4
Cupid, Op.68 No.5
I Would Have Bound A Nosegay, Op.37 No.2
Mother-Talk, Op.43 No.2
Clearings In The Sky: She Had Reached The Low-Lying Meadow
Clearings In The Sky: She Is Solemnly Cheerful
Clearings In The Sky: Sometimes I Am Sad
Clearings In The Sky: A Poet Said...
Clearings In The Sky: At The Foot Of My Bed
Clearings In The Sky: If All This Is But A Poor Dream
Clearings In The Sky: We'll Love Each Other As Long As
Clearings In The Sky: You Gazed At Me With All Your Soul
Clearings In The Sky: The Lilacs Which Had Flowered
Clearings In The Sky: Two Columbines
Clearings In The Sky: Through What I've Suffered
Clearings In The Sky: I Keep A Medallion Of Her
Clearings In The Sky: It Will Be A Year Tomorrow
In My Garden At Night, Op.38 No.1
To Her, Op.38 No.2
Daisies, Op.38 No.3
The Pied Piper, Op.38 No.4
Sleep, Op.38 No.5
A-oo (The Quest), Op.38 No.6

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Prairie Serenade
Riders in the Sky
Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music

General | Country | Styles | Music

Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music

General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music

Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music
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Weeds & Water
Three on the Trail
The Cowboy Way
It's the Cowboy Way: The Amazing True Adventures of Riders in the Sky
Silver Jubilee

ASIN: B0000002FG
Release Date: 1992-02-14

Tracks:

Prairie Serenade
Jangle Jingle Jingle
Blue Shadows On The Trail
Pretty Prairie Princess
Cowpoke
Nevada
Down The Trail To San Antone
I Ride An Old Paint
Utah Trail
Old El Paso
Chasing The Sun
Home On The Range

Average customer rating:

Take a Trip Inside His Mind's Eye
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum - "There are tears of things"

Inside My Mind's Eye
Jim Haptonstahl
Manufacturer: Oasis
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Folk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00073FGL8
Release Date: 2004-12-10

Tracks:

Escape From Camp Cusino
The Moon Is Blue
Prairie Trance
Arctic Repentance
Gone Too Soon
Lachrymale
Inside My Mind's Eye
Never To Be Lost Again
Lamentia
Orphans of Shadows
KLAA2 #9
Skip Rocking

Album Description

INSIDE MY MIND'S EYE The new CD from Jim Haptonstahl A powerful journey through the heart to the center of the mind . . . Veteran singer-songwriter Jim Haptonstahl creates a swirling tapestry of sound, evoking images of prairie land and sky-scapes mixed with voyages into deep recesses of the soul. Inside My Mind's Eye winds through complex emotional and psychological territory—from escape and alienation to meditation and personal redemption, from anxiety and self-doubt to hope and self-renewal. The title song serves as the central piece of this artful puzzle. Haptonstahl tackles his creative demons while trying to stay connected to those he loves, and to the cosmic forces in his mind. The twelve songs of Inside My Mind's Eye represent a wide sonic spectrum, yet form an organic whole to match with the CD's theme. The music includes a mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electric guitars. Haptonstahl's voice is at once strong and clear, then pensive and earnest. He supports the songs with a broad palette of percussion, lyrical bass lines, and inspired psychedelic effects.

Seven instrumental tracks are featured, including three solo acoustic finger-style compositions, and mixtures of intricately arranged 6-and 12-string guitars, electric guitar, bass, mellotron and eerie soundscapes. Haptonstahl's five vocal tunes are richly layered ensemble pieces, featuring stirring melodies, transcendent harmonies and glistening guitar solos.

The CD is family artistic affair. Haptonstahl's 16-year-old daughter Julia provides accomplished accompaniment on bass for two songs. His brother Max's mind-bending intaglio print serves as the CD artwork. Surreal images interspersed throughout the CD package match the mood of the music.

Customer Reviews:

Take a Trip Inside His Mind's Eye.......2006-02-09

What a trip inside Jim Haptonstahl's Mind's Eye! He brings the listener a sense of harmony mixed with edginess, with side-trips into the subconscious. Fine fingerstyle guitar work on the instrumentals, but also a deft touch with the muted attack on electric guitar, creating flute-like tones in counterpoint lines. Evokes everything from John Renbourn to Jimmie Spheeris to Steve Hackett. But Haptonstahl also stakes a claim to a new and original voice: poetic musings within a dense thicket of reality, with some magic and heart thrown in for good measure.

Sunt Lacrimae Rerum - "There are tears of things".......2005-01-03

This CD album delivers on the promise of its title and the surreal skies of the cover art: introspective but airy, flowing through many complex moods and colors - and stretches of wonderful passion. Tinted with a dark sadness throughout, but always believing in, and hoping for, something wonderful at the root of nature.

First the bad news - the title song was a comparative thud measured against the emotionally driven palette of the rest of the offerings. Plodding in composition and delivery, as though JimHap was taking an emotional breather.

That said, after putting the disk in the player the first time, I played the tracks repeatedly throughout the evening and into the morning... and the next evening. JimHap puts his fingers to the frets in search of beauty, and finds it. His riffs are reminiscent of many influences, from Frank Zappa to Pat Metheny, David Crosby, Leo Kottke, Will Ackerman and, well, Joni Mitchell among others.

I'm familiar with JimHap's work from previous decades, and there's clearly an evolving maturity in his instrumental technique. The voice of the golden youth has acquired an understated quality well suited to the aging child.

This work being vocally a solo effort, I think JimHap would benefit from some help on the harmonies. His backup voice tracks seem to falter sometimes, as though he's worn out from all the emoting on the lead tracks. Get yourself some compatible but contrasting singing voices behind you on the next one, Jimmy! Anyway, I recommend you get this CD. And be prepared to spend some quality time with it!

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