Track Listing

1. Honky Tonk Women - Travis Tritt
2. Paint It Black - Tracy Lawrence
3. Ruby Tuesday - Deana Carter
4. Last Time - The Tractors
5. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rodney Crowell
6. Angie - Sammy Kershaw
7. Wild Horses - BlackHawk
8. Brown Sugar - Collin Raye
9. Beast of Burden - Little Texas
10. No Expectations - Nanci Griffith
11. Time Is on My Side - George Jones

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67477 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

A very good collection item.
The older browser I'm using doesn't allow the star ratings. I rate this a 4. There are two ways a band can handle a cover, make it true to the original or make it your own. Carter, The Tractors, Crowell, Little Texas and Raye do poor copies of the originals. Tritt, Lawrence give their songs energy and new life while true to the Stones. Kershaw makes a bridge between the two styles. Blackhawk makes Wild Horses a song of their own. Made me a Blackhawk fan. Hands down my favorite on this album. Nanci takes command of No Expectations. George Jones makes Time Is On My Side a George Jones song.... but not a very good Jones song.

Got Country If You Want It
After listening to Stone Country you will never listen to Mick and the gang in the same way again. This album is excellent and if you pride yourself on having an eclectic taste in music, you have not, until a copy of Stone Country appears in it.

How can you turn a country song into a Country Song? Listen to Nanci Griffith's version of Beggar Banquet's No Expectation. It is truly excellent and I defy anyone not be singing along to this pacy and uptempo cover. The same can be said of Blackhawks's Wild Horses. Furthermore, with this latter rendition, once you get used to this version, the Stone's original will always sound somewhat dirgelike and lacking.

Everyone I have ever played this album to has bought a copy and the thoroughly readable sleeve notes fully explain the Stone-Country-Stones connection.

I Hate Country
First things first: I don't like country music. Never have. With the exception of Johnny Cash, I find it to be repetitive and saccharine. My roomate brought me a copy of this to try to change my mind. He know I was a Stones fanatic, and at first I choked when I saw this. I know the Stones did some country stuff, but they kept the rock spirit and never let it get silly. So here were people I actively loathe covering Stones songs. I put it in, figuring I was going to hate it and never listen to it again. It ended up being the one country album I listen to. Even the characters I hate the most on the album do a great job. Sammy Kershaw's Angie is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard. The only thing I can argue with is the fiddle on Jumpin' Jack Flash. ::shudder:: Overall, a fantastic effort. I still hate Garth Brooks...