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| Breakthrough set from country-rockers. Title song, O What A Thrill, There Goes My Heart, All That Heaven..., I Should Have Been True, etc. |
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| 1 There Goes My Heart |
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| 2 What a Crying Shame |
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| 3 Pretend |
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| 4 I Should Have Been True |
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| 5 The Things You Said to Me |
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| 6 Just a Memory |
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| 7 All That Heaven Will Allow |
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| 8 Neon Blue |
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| 9 O What a Thrill |
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| 10 Ain't Found Nobody |
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| 11 The Losing Side of Me |
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Album Review
The Mavericks fully hit their stride with their third album, 1994's "What a Crying Shame", in which the band's blend of rootsy country and vintage pop sounds finally found the balance they'd been searching for. While producer Don Cook gave the band a significantly glossier sound than that of their first two albums, with a hefty number of guest musicians (and guest songwriters) on board, remarkably enough the Mavericks' personality wasn't subsumed in the process; if anything, the high-priced help seemed to have prodded the boys into playing at the top of their game. Raul Malo's keening tenor gets a superb workout on "I Should Have Been True" and the title cut (the latter of which boasts a guitar hook Roger McGuinn would have been proud to come up with), while "Pretend" and "There Goes My Heart" are honky tonk floor-fillers of the first order. Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin are a rhythm section who can give these songs the nervy drive of a rock band without betraying the Mavericks' country leanings, and they give the covers of "All That Heaven Will Allow" and "O What A Thrill" a taut foundation most contemporary Nashville acts lack. Truth to tell, "What a Crying Shame" doesn't have a single dud track, and offers encouraging proof that it's still possible to make an engaging and idiosyncratic country album while signed to the Nashville division of a major label...and the best news is, the band managed to turn that accomplishment into a hat trick over the next few years. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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