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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: Curb Special Markets
Salesrank: 75614
Released: October 6, 1998 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Montana Cafe: Original Classic Hits, Vol.21 Track Listing:
1. Country State Of Mind
2. Montana Cafe
3. My Girl Don't Like My Cowboy Hat
4. When Something Is Good (Why Does It Change)
5. Medley: Harvest Moon/St. Louis Blues
6. You Can't Judge A Book (By Looking At The Cover)
7. My Name Is Bocephus
8. Loving Instructor
9. Fat Friends
10. Mind Your Own Business
Montana Cafe: Original Classic Hits, Vol.21 Reviews:
Country State of Mind 
2008-08-13 - "Country State of Mind" is my favorite song ever. It is the first song on this CD. I can listen to it over and over. I love both the words and the music. It is about being in the country and fishing. Lots of Hank Jr.'s songs are about the country, and that's one reason why I like his songs so much.
hanks last good record before he became a cliche of himself 
2004-07-12 - Between 1975 and 1983, hank made some of the best country rock records out there. Slowly, over the next five years, he became a joke. This album marks the last remnants of the old hank jr. and gives a frightening look at the hank that will dominate for the next several years.
An album of contrasts 
2004-03-07 - Hank's style of music mixes blues, rock and country in a way that is all his own. This album is a great example of his music, though blues and rock are much more evident on this album than country. Hank wrote or co-wrote seven of the ten tracks here, but his choice of covers is, as usual, outstanding.
The opening track, Country state of mind, is actually a bluesy song despite its title - very moody. Montana café is a very reflective song. The tempo picks up on the next song. My girl don't like my cowboy hat, which really rocks. The tempo slows again for When something is good why does it change. Next comes a medley of two very old songs - Shine on harvest moon (from 1909) and St Louis blues (only a few years younger). Hank's bluesy covers of these classics may not please everybody but they suit his style and I'm glad he included them. Another cover follows, this time it's the blues rocker, You can't judge a book, from the songbook of Willie Dixon.
Hank sings about himself in My name is Bocephus - a moody blues rocker. Loving instructor is another great blues rocker. Fat friends also rocks but is more light-hearted. Perhaps the best track of all is the last (and the only one that sounds country) - a cover of his father's Mind your own business, in which Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Willie Nelson and Reverend Ike each sing a few lines.
This album has little to do with country music but it is a high quality album that demonstrates Hank at his best.
Montana Cafe 
2000-08-02 - This is some Hank Jr. best work. It got it all, from ballads, to western swing.