| Product Summary | | Label: Cmh Records | | UPC: 00027297841024 | | Release Date: 3/9/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60627418 | | Item#: MQQJPL | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Crazy Train ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) |  | | 2. I Don't Know ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 3. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 4. Paranoid ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 5. Mama, I'm Coming Home ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 6. Supernaut ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 7. Suicide Solution ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 8. Shot In The Dark ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 9. Bark At The Moon ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | | | 10. Flying High Again ~ Iron Horse (Bluegrass) | |
| Thanks to MTV, Ozzy Osbourne and his family are household names-- sort of a Beverly Hillbillies for the 21st century. Black and Bluegrass: A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath couldn't agree more. Trading Ozzy's anguished vocals for high-lonesome harmonies, and screaming guitars for lightning-quick banjos, this collection gives the music of heavy metal's founding father the bluegrass treatment. Performed by Iron Horse and featuring such classics as "Crazy Train," "Paranoid" and "Mama, I'm Coming Home," Black and Bluegrass cooks up a tribute as good as mama's cornbread-- with a side of chicken heads.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Iron Horse: Vance Henry (vocals, guitar); Anthony Richardson (vocals, banjo, dobro); Tony Robertson (vocals, mandolin); Ricky Rogers (vocals, acoustic bass). | | Personnel: Vincent Henry (vocals, tenor, guitar). | | Audio Mixer: Dennis Clifton. | | Recording information: Desert Rose Studio. | | Black & Bluegrass: A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne is the kind of record that should probably never be made. It is a cynical pairing of two completely divergent streams of culture that is obviously only in existence to bilk people out of their money. Still, that being said it is actually a pretty good record. Bluegrass is a surprisingly elastic form of music that can easily transform a heavy metal anthem like "Crazy Train" into something that sounds like it was written by Bill Monroe. Well, almost. The band doing the transforming of both solo Ozzy and Black Sabbath classics is called Iron Horse, and the four guys in the band are very proficient musicians and singers who sound like they are in on the joke. Their take on "Paranoid" is especially fun with plenty of lightning-fast pickin' and a suitable hellfire-and-brimstone vocal. They also do weird things with "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and "Shot in the Dark" that almost defy nature. Most likely bluegrass fans will shun this like the plague, and Ozzy fans, should they stumble across it, will find the concept pretty hokey. It's their loss because Black & Bluegrass is a barrel of fun. ~ Tim Sendra |
Producer: Steve Baccus; Dennis Clifton |
Engineer: Dennis Clifton |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/09/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 8410 | | Label : CMH Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00027297841024 |
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