CD: Memphis meets Nashville...........

[BrendaBrick]

THINK ABOUT THIS!!!!!!

Rhythm County & Blues - 1994 MCA

http://www.amazon.com/Rhythm-Country-Blues-Various-Artists/dp/B000002OR2

..this was 'back in the days' of actual record stores some years ago...so like, I'm chilling, ya know? Flipping through albums/cds - yadda - yadda - yadda - then all of a sudden I hear Al Green. Cool. Groovin' to it...then all of a sudden...who is that? Lyle Lovett? Lyle Lovett? AND Al Green? What? What's this??? I'll tell ya what it was.....Al Green & Lyle Lovett singing: "Funny How Time Slips Away."

OI! An incredible album which is all too unrecognized today!

Few more samples: (If you can imagine THIS!:) Vince Gill & Gladys Knight - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing. Aaron Neville & Trisha Yearwood: "I Fall To Pieces."

Little Richard & Tanya Tucker belting out: " Somethin' Else." OK ya'll. Picture THIS: "Patti LaBelle and Travis Tritt:" "When Somethin' Is Wrong With My Baby...oh yeah - crosses ALL divides...BAR NONE~!!!! Umph. umm. umm. umm!

What's more: Sam Moore & Conway Twitty (Conway's last recording as I understand it...) "Rainy Night in Georgia" Dang! How much better can this be?/get????

Clint Black & The Pointer Sisters..."Chain of Fools" - couple this with....Oh yeah. oh yeah. Get this: Natalie Cole & Reba McEntire: "Since I Fell For You" - Umph. umm. umm. umm.

You just GO SISTERS!!!!!

Next up is Chet Atkins & Allen Toussaint: "Southern Nights" Yep. It gets even better! The Staple Singers & Marty Stuart: "The Weight". Last song.....George Jones & B.B. King..."Patches"

Dang ya'll! IF Memphis & Nashville can get their stuff together like this....shoot - why can't the rest of the world?????????

Ya know? Right??????????

Fricking INCREDIBLE!!!!!

[dbt]

1. 98% of the time, Patsy's work is sacred.

No sense even trying her songs, because they've been done. Cline set the bar so high you can get a nosebleed just from looking at it. But the version of "I Fall To Pieces" wrought by Aaron Neville and the scandalously underrated Trisha Yearwood is worth the price of the whole CD.

Listen to the way she NAILS that low note at 1:46. Soak you up some of his slow, lazy New Orleans vibrato floating like a cloud beneath her at around 2:34:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTzVKhw64o

Yeah, they did!

:smoke:

[BrendaBrick]

4. Oh Yeah.....GOOSEBUMPS!!!

Trisha nails it alright! (Listening to it right now!) Yep. I agree with you about Patsy. Ummm. Ummm. Ummm. Timeless.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. I have this CD...

Don't know where I got it, but it's always in the rotation.

[nolabear]

3. Oh hell, I might have to buy this one.

I hate CW but I seem drawn to everything that is just to the left or even more "country" that that: bluegrass, Lyle, KD Lange at her country-ist, and Lord knows I love me some blues and gospel. I'm apparently an emotion junkie, but the CW emotionalism creeps me out for some reason (could be a Daddy thang with me).

This sounds possibly awesome.

[BrendaBrick]

5. I like the ole "classic country" myself......1960's - 1970's stuff

not so much the "big and shiny stuff" of today...but the old timeless classics that talked about love and loves lost etc...simple and nitty-gritty stuff, you know?

Conway Twitty, (whose many songs/lyrics at the time, btw, were thought of as rather 'risque' at the time) Charley Pride, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn (who also - at the time was thought of as rather 'progressive' at the time in her recording talking about the - 'gulp' - birth control pill....way back then...) Dolly Parton still rocks in my book and exudes one heck of a humble and tremendous spirit and still cuts right to the chase in her songwriting..and shares her fame with her family members in "Dollywood" in TN.

I think that Randy Travis still kind of taps into that ole sentiment of yesteryear - though I haven't heard much from him lately...