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| The Elf Albums | 
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| Artist: Ronnie James Dio & Elf
Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music
List Price: $32.99
Buy New: $13.12
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 16426
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766482159949
EAN: 5015773912233
ASIN: B000005REW
Release Date: June 30, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | Carolina County Bail | | • | L.A.59 | | • | Ain't It All Amusing | | • | Happy | | • | Annie New Orleans | | • | Rocking Chair Rock 'n' Roll Blues | | • | Rainbow | | • | Do the Same Thing | | • | Blanche | | • | Black Swampy Water | | • | Prentice Wood | | • | When She Smiles | | • | Good Time Music | | • | Liberty Road | | • | Shotgun Boogie | | • | Wonderworld | | • | Streetwalker |
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Album Description
UK collection brings together Elf's second & third albums, Carolina County Ball & Trying To Burn The Sun (1974 & 1975), featuring Ronnie James Dio, before Rainbow. 17 tracks with fold-out sleeve containing detailed notes & photos. Connoisseur Collection.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 you need to remember.. February 10, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
that Dio is one of the longest lasting pioneers of harD rock. He truly delved into the innermost ricHes of the creative process tO bring us colaborations oF long lastinG signifiganCe anD prowRess.DuDe..Ritchie Blackmore teamed up with ELF (ProgRess, ProWrEss..) to forM RainBow.Ronnie's wife is chairman of CHildren of the Night, an organisation devoted to helping prostitues Ages 11-17.
 Elf - 'Carolina County.. / Trying To Burn ...' (Connoisseur) March 23, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
A good 2 lp's-on-one CD release of Elf's second and third albums,'Carolina County Ball'('74)and 'Trying To Burn The Sun'('75).A should-have for most Dio fans.One thing you need to keep in mind is that the material here isn't as well written or as strong sounding as,say his solo efforts or the CD's he'd done with Rainbow or Sabbath.It's decent early '70's hard rock.Some of the tracks I thought were impressive were "Annie New Orleans","Do The Same Thing","Black Swampy Water","When She Smiles" and "Liberty Road".See what you think.Line-up:Ronnie James Dio-vocals,Mickey Lee Soule-keyboards,Steve Edwards-guitar,Craig Gruber-bass and Gary Driscoll-drums.
This is one CD that desperately needs to be remastered. November 7, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This terrific CD's only letdown is how poorly it was transferred from its original source tape to CD. Ronnie James Dio and company have created some of the best feel good southern blues rock this side of Lynard Skynard. The ballad When She Smiles could have easily been a Top 40 hit had it been released as a single. Mickey Lee Soule's piano playing is very good. The guitarist on this album is an improvement over the one on the first Elf record. Ronnie should get with old pal Roger Glover and obtain the original source tapes for a complete remastering job. This music is definitely worthy and would probably be bought again by everybody who already owns it. Apparently Ronnie or somebody at Rhino was able to track the original source down because there is a remastered version of the song Carolina County Ball on his Stand Up and Shout Anthology. Spitfire records would do many Dio fans a great service by rereleasing this CD as part of their Masters series.
 5 stars for the music 3 stars for the transfer March 26, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
These two albums are definitely among Dio's best work,along with rainbow and a couple of the Sabbath recordings.Both are better than the first Elf album..It has more diverse styles of music than any of the other bands mentioned.Boogie shuffles to blues-rock to soothing spacey ballads to swaggering beats.The problem with this release is that there is a glitch at the beginning of Liberty Road.This is an official release so the only excuse for this is if something damaged the original master since the original release.If so ,I think it should be easy enough to fix by lifting that second or two of music from later in the song as it is repeated ,or from a copy of the vinyl.I have the original and it doesn't have that glitch.Any way it's pretty much inexcusable for an official release.Although personally, out of all of the songs from the Tryin'to Burn the Sun album ,liberty road isn't particularly a stand out so I'll only deduct one star over all.
 It's alright March 31, 2003
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I see this album gets top rating, but I must say that even if it's good - it's not musically anything like "Holy diver" or "Heaven and hell". It's not heavy metal, not even hard rock. Much of the music is piano driven rock so the average metal head might have some problems with this... Some songs are great like "Liberty road" but since this CD actually is two LP's it has a tendency to be a bit too much of the same in the long run. Personally I find Elf's self titled debut from 1972 better. And for the curious I can mention that original guitar player David Feinstein (who later formed a power trio called The Rods) is Ronnie James Dio's cousin.
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