Sing Great Country Hits

发行时间:2014-01-01
发行公司:K-tel
简介:  The Everly Brothers' homage to some of the best country songs of their era (and their authors and originators) seems like a no-brainer today, and ought to be regarded as a classic record, right up there with their ownRoots, not to mention as beloved as anything bythe Louvin Brothersor even, say,the Brown's Ferry Fourin its sheer beauty and simplicity. Instead, partly thanks to the early Warner Bros. Records' inability to market their LP releases (or do much else right), and also some unfortunate timing in its release, it's ended up overlooked by most fans and listeners. Actually, swept aside would be more like it, along with most of the Everlys' other LP work, by the tidal wave of the British Invasion, which hit North American shores just two and a half months after the album's release.   PhilandDondo right, and then some, byHank Williams,Don Gibson,Hank Locklin, et al.; the singing is heavenly and the playing is spot-on perfect, and even if the public overlooked it, one might easily presume thatRoger McGuinn,Gene Clark, and a few other soon-to-be-important folk-rockers heard at least some of these renditions. They're still priceless, the singing is some of the most beautiful in the Everlys' output, and the arrangements are models of creative simplicity -- and for fans of the duo, it's almost as essential a record asRoots. [In 1997, the Collectors' Choice Music label reissuedSing Great Country Hitswith seven additional bonus cuts.]
  The Everly Brothers' homage to some of the best country songs of their era (and their authors and originators) seems like a no-brainer today, and ought to be regarded as a classic record, right up there with their ownRoots, not to mention as beloved as anything bythe Louvin Brothersor even, say,the Brown's Ferry Fourin its sheer beauty and simplicity. Instead, partly thanks to the early Warner Bros. Records' inability to market their LP releases (or do much else right), and also some unfortunate timing in its release, it's ended up overlooked by most fans and listeners. Actually, swept aside would be more like it, along with most of the Everlys' other LP work, by the tidal wave of the British Invasion, which hit North American shores just two and a half months after the album's release.   PhilandDondo right, and then some, byHank Williams,Don Gibson,Hank Locklin, et al.; the singing is heavenly and the playing is spot-on perfect, and even if the public overlooked it, one might easily presume thatRoger McGuinn,Gene Clark, and a few other soon-to-be-important folk-rockers heard at least some of these renditions. They're still priceless, the singing is some of the most beautiful in the Everlys' output, and the arrangements are models of creative simplicity -- and for fans of the duo, it's almost as essential a record asRoots. [In 1997, the Collectors' Choice Music label reissuedSing Great Country Hitswith seven additional bonus cuts.]