This is as close to country music as this site is likely to get, but at least it's for a good cause. Kate Kirk, age 3, is afflicted with Niemann-Pick disease type A/B, and she recently received a life-saving cord blood transplant at a cost exceeding $100,000. (UPDATE: All the foregoing was as of the time of the original writing. There is no available information as to the girl's current condition; links to her story have gone dead and have been removed.) Friends of the family, including E Streeter Garry Tallent, put this fundraising 2005 CD together with artists the trades call Americana, folks who cross country, folk and rock indiscriminately. So you've got everybody from BR549 to Buddie and Julie Miller, Rosie Flores to Raul Malo, a duet with Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, Jason and the Scorchers and Joe Ely among others. There's also a song by John Corbett, the star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Sex and the City" and "Northern Exposure." There are lots of good performances here, and I'm partial to the Scorchers rocked-up "Oh! Holy Night," Malo's "Pretty Paper" (I would have bet money he'd do it), and The Big Happy's "Gift Wrapped Boy" is pretty cute, as is Flores' "Christmas Everyday" (not the Smokey Robinson song). But the preponderance of music on here is more country than anything else, so keep that in mind. Two more things: the CDDB listing had the songs in the wrong order, so I resubmitted it (no, don't thank me), but I don't know what you can do if you're presented two options to download the titles. And "Gift Wrapped Boy" is reprised as a bonus cut with a little girl's voice. Is it Kate? They don't say, and she sounds too good to be only 3. The album remains in print as a CD or download, click the album art to grab it from Amazon.
To: Kate, various artists (Western Beat Entertainment)
This is as close to country music as this site is likely to get, but at least it's for a good cause. Kate Kirk, age 3, is afflicted with Niemann-Pick disease type A/B, and she recently received a life-saving cord blood transplant at a cost exceeding $100,000. (UPDATE: All the foregoing was as of the time of the original writing. There is no available information as to the girl's current condition; links to her story have gone dead and have been removed.) Friends of the family, including E Streeter Garry Tallent, put this fundraising 2005 CD together with artists the trades call Americana, folks who cross country, folk and rock indiscriminately. So you've got everybody from BR549 to Buddie and Julie Miller, Rosie Flores to Raul Malo, a duet with Steve Earle and Allison Moorer, Jason and the Scorchers and Joe Ely among others. There's also a song by John Corbett, the star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Sex and the City" and "Northern Exposure." There are lots of good performances here, and I'm partial to the Scorchers rocked-up "Oh! Holy Night," Malo's "Pretty Paper" (I would have bet money he'd do it), and The Big Happy's "Gift Wrapped Boy" is pretty cute, as is Flores' "Christmas Everyday" (not the Smokey Robinson song). But the preponderance of music on here is more country than anything else, so keep that in mind. Two more things: the CDDB listing had the songs in the wrong order, so I resubmitted it (no, don't thank me), but I don't know what you can do if you're presented two options to download the titles. And "Gift Wrapped Boy" is reprised as a bonus cut with a little girl's voice. Is it Kate? They don't say, and she sounds too good to be only 3. The album remains in print as a CD or download, click the album art to grab it from Amazon.
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