"If you are a Bluegrass fan, or just a pure good music fan, this album should be considered a serious candidate for your collection. "Black Diamond Strings" is a classic, and when Bert Colwell recites "Old Kentucky Miners" as an intro to "Deep Mine Blues" it just might send a shiver down your spine. It did mine. Finally, the title cut, "Murder on Music Row," speaks from the heart for many a country music fan. Congrats to Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time for this great performance."
Powers in Nasville "listen up"
Jack Ward | Atlanta, GA | 02/27/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Congratuations to Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time for a Fabulous song. I'm usually not too much of a fan of bluegrass music but these guys made me a believer. With a great CD and a great performance. Especially the title track. I heard "Murder on Music Row" on WKGE in Atlanta, GA. (a traditional and classics AM station ((1160 AM)). No truer words ever in a song. Powers That Be in Nashville and all around the country that control what we hear on SO_CALLED country stations should listen up and realize that we TRADIONAL fans are still out here. Every REAL Country Music Fan should get this CD and write and call the country radio stations and express the feelings so expertly said in "Murder on Music Row". Congrats. Larry and I hope to hear more from you guys in the near future."
PRICELESS
Angela Stacy | LITT CARR, KENTUCKY | 03/13/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"THIS IS MY FAVORITE CD THAT HAS BEEN OUT IN A VERY LONG TIME. I AM VERY EXCITED THAT LARRY HAS RELEASED SUCH A POWERFUL ALBUM. THE MUSICIANS AND SONGS ARE BOTH UNTOUCHABLE. ALL THE CUTS ARE GREAT, ESPECIALLY "MURDER ON MUSIC ROW", "HARDTIMES", AND "ALL SAID AND DONE". I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT "MURDER ON MUSIC ROW" IT IS ONE THING TO HAVE A GOOD SONG WITH GOOD LYRICS BUT TO HAVE A SONG WITH THE BEST LYRICS AND MUSIC IS HAUNTING. I WANT TO THANK LARRY CORDLE AND LARRY SHELL FOR WRITING THIS SONG. THEY HAVE SAID TO THE COUNTRY MUSIC WORLD WHAT EVERY HARDCORE MUSIC FAN HAS WANTED TO SAY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. SO, ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY, SONGWRITERS, MUSICIANS, AND ESPECIALLY THE FANS, WE ALL THANK THESE GUYS FOR SAYING IT FOR US. I LOVE THIS ALBUM AND I HAVE SATURATED MYSELF IN THE TRADITIONAL, HARDCORE MUSIC IT REPRESENTS."
Honkytonk bluegrass and more
Jerome Clark | Canby, Minnesota | 12/18/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Even without the famous, ruefully hilarious, Nashville-baiting title song, Murder on Music Row would be an exceptional excursion into countrified bluegrass. It is alleged that George Jones once considered a career in bluegrass, and in some ways Larry Cordle tells us what the Possum might have sounded like if he had. My idea of hillbilly heaven would incorporate a honkytonk with Jones's version of Cordle and Leslie Winn Satcher's "Jesus and Bartenders" ("Jesus and bartenders/ Hear it all") on the jukebox. In the meantime, Cordle's own version will do nicely. First-rate songs and hard-driving yet tuneful instrumentals -- all in all, a reminder of just how good good bluegrass can be."