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Album Intro：
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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