So tough, in fact, that the band was turned over to the pop and rock division of MCA to see if they could make a commercial dent on that side of the radio fence. It wasn’t really that much of a departure from past efforts, though the mariachi-style horns of the single, “Dance the Night Away”, made them a tough sell at country radio. Trampoline, released in 1998, was where the Mavericks got off the contemporary country roller coaster and went wholeheartedly into doing their own thing. Tying in with the more pop sounds to come, this collection includes the band’s take on the classic “Blue Moon”, originally released on the Apollo 13 soundtrack in 1995. That latter tune would prove to be a harbinger of different sounds to come from the band on what would prove to be their final album of new material. Four tracks of this collection are drawn from that effort, including “There Goes My Heart”, “I Should Have Been True”, and their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “All That Heaven Will Allow.”įrom there, the band indulged in a bit of swing and pop tomfoolery on 1995’s Music for All Occasions, which contributes a pair of songs here, including “Here Comes the Rain” and the tejano-flavored “All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down”. The Mavericks next album, 1994’s What a Crying Shame, was their career-maker, eventually going platinum in sales on the strength of the hit title track. The beautifully rendered “This Broken Heart” represents that disc here. After a self-released debut in 1990, their first MCA album, From Hell to Paradise, was released in 1992. Though they enjoyed a modicum of success in their 10-year run, in the end the Mavericks outgrew their audience with an ever-expanding musical palette that ranged far from their original Orbison-esque retro country.Īrriving on the scene as a critically acclaimed band out of Miami, Florida in the late 1980s, their sound was centered on Cuban-American vocalist Raul Malo and a rollicking batch of original tunes influenced by Roy Orbison and Buck Owens.
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