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Album name:Are You Ready for the Big Show?
Recorded over two nights in September 2000 at Austin's Continental Club, Are You Ready for the Big Show? stitches together a handful of Radney Foster favorites, five new songs, a little stage patter, and the whoops of an adoring crowd to produce a compendium of good-time Texas roots-rock. Aswirl in organ, slide guitar, and twinkling mandolin (courtesy of Nickel Creek's Chris Thile), the first four tracks sound like so much fun you won't notice they're all about hard luck and heartbreak. Things drag a bit in the middle--blame the far too precious 'Went for a Ride'--but Foster recovers quickly with a sharp version of his 1992 hit 'Nobody Wins' and a blazing pair of tunes drawn from 1999's See What You Want to See: 'Folding Money' and the set-closing 'I'm In.' The likes of Pat Green, Jack Ingram, and brothers Bruce and Charlie Robison may aspire to the success of Robert Earl Keen, but this disc offers a better role model. --Anders Smith-Lindall
1. Are You Ready for the Big Show? 2. Tonight 3. God Knows When 4. Just Call Me Lonesome 5. Something Stupid 6. School of Hard Knocks 7. Intro to Went for a Ride 8. Went for a Ride 9. I'm Used to It 10. Folding Money 11. Leaning on What Love Can Do 12. How You Play the Hand 13. Nobody Wins 14. We Know Better 15. I'm In 16. Texas In 1880 - Radney Foster 17. Tonight - Radney Foster
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