The world of hip was enthralled in 1969 by the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and Bob Dylan's"Nashville Skyline" records from Nashville. Up North nobody bought 'em, but I did. And so did the rest of the Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, Moby Grape, Incredible String Band, Dillards, Bill Monroe painfully hip yeah it's OK to be white and thinking about Mama, one too many flashback crowd. But Tracy Nelson, Scotty Moore, Pete Drake, Ben Keith, D.J. and the Jordanaires trumped everybody. In retrospect it was kind of easy, considering the woman singer happens to be one of the 10 greatest singers in the history of POPular music. Hyperbole? Listen. There are a precious few "perfect" albums of pop music. Two or three by the Beatles, one by Marvin Gaye, two or three by Frank Sinatra, two by Ray Charles and the odd one on (Moby Grape's first, name your favorite here ______) But THIS is more than arguably the single greatest country music record ever recorded by a woman singer. But anybody in that very late 1960's early 70's zeitgeist, understands perfectly that one of the greatest blues singers of all time. with ears a mile wide and the ability to sing anything written by Sammy Khan or George Gershwin, could pull this off. And she did.