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Country Music for Kids (Disney) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)

If your youngsters are running around the house with an achy-breaky heart, and they don`t why exactly, it might be helpful if Mom or Dad picked up this country-music primer for their enlightenment. Produced for Disney`s Spotlight Artist Series by Jay Levy and Herb Pedersen, it features original and traditional songs with a good-timey-and a decidedly non-condescending-bluegrass feel. Merle Haggard kicks things off with a gruff ”Bingo” (B-I-N-G-O, in a whisky-chafed voice), but things get mellower with Patty Loveless, Chris Hillman, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Emmylou Harris offerings. Also delightful are Buck Owens` ”If You Can`t Find a Reason to Be Happy” and Pedersen`s ”Clean Room Blues.” Aimed at younger listeners, adults need not feel embarrassed if they find their toes tapping, as well.

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