A GIRL A BOTTLE A BOAT 8/7/2007 Whereas the earlier Rhino collection

Whereas the earlier Rhino collection THE VERY BEAST OF DIO focuses only on the group's 1980s and early-'90s outings

with enough Maiden-esque melodies percolating underneath to please even the most ardent old-school headbanger

Marcus Miller (soprano saxophone

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whose artsy folk-Western swing-R&B melange may be the album's nearest point of reference

A GIRL A BOTTLE A BOAT 8/7/2007 Whereas the earlier Rhino collectionTrain got a little bit of a shakeup once Jimmy Stafford left the band in the wake of Train Does Led Zeppelin II. Stafford's departure means Train is the Pat Monahan show, a move that doesn't necessarily result in a radical musical makeover on a girl a bottle a boat. Recorded in the months after the proudly retro Train Does Led Zeppelin II, a girl a bottle a boat bears no traces of hard rock whatsoever. Instead, Train dip into a variety of old pop