Rebecca Lynn

Following on from the success of Just The Hits: 80s and Just The Hits: 90s, Just The Hits: Rock it was only right we covered off some country classics, in a jam packed two album set! We've got all angles covered with a mix of nothing but the biggest country hits from the likes of Toby Keith, Sam Hunt, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kip Moore, Canaan Smith, Sugarland, Josh Turner, Trisha Yearwood, Brothers Osborne, The McClymonts, Reba McEntire, Eric Paslay, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and far too many more to mention! If you want the hits, then Just The Hits Country is the album for you!!

The best way to experience Delbert McClinton's rowdy roadhouse combination of blues, roots rock, R&B, country, and Tex-Mex is on-stage with a couple of hundred other fans on a Saturday night. In that spirit, McClinton's second live album, and first since 1989's Live from Austin, documents a single 2003 performance at Norway's Bergen Blues Festival. Originally intended only as a radio broadcast, this is an unpolished example of a typical show. Although it shares five songs with its single-disc predecessor, Live features McClinton weaving newer material in with hits he's been playing for decades, such as "B-Movie Boxcar Blues," "Giving It Up for Your Love," and "Going Back to Louisiana." McClinton's in terrific voice and spirits throughout, and his seven-piece band (including two horns) is tight but loose and ragged enough to grind through rockers with garage band enthusiasm.

Vaughan Williams had been interested in folk music since he was a boy. In December 1903, he noted down the tune of Bushes and Briars from a 70 year-old labourer who lived in the Essex village of Ingrave. Over the next ten years he collected more than 800 songs, and they had a profound effect on his development as a composer. Particularly significant was a week long visit to King’s Lynn in 1905, during which he collected some 30 songs. One was The Captain’s Apprentice as sung by the fisherman James Carter. This melody was used in the Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, the Sea Symphony and the Pastoral Symphony. Another was Ward the Pirate, used as a theme in both the first and second Rhapsodies.