... - produced by Less and Mem- music: "If people played my record, I'd send em cookies." The new album is highlighted by phis' native genius Jim Dickinson some heart -tugging ballads featur- Of Music And Video Product GOLD ALBUMS (500,000 units) Barry Manilow, The Complete Col- and recorded in a local studio and a couple of Memphis schools in 1979, ing lush countrypolitan string ar- rangements (by Jerry Yester) , which lection, Arista, his 19th. these extraordinary sessions reveal make brilliant settings for De Lisle's Carman, Heart of a Champion, Spar- Floyd as a great musical fusioneer. rich voice (think of Tammy Wynette, row, his ninth. Conflating blues, hillbilly music, Connie Smith, Loretta Lynn, or Steven Curtis Chapman, ...
... Live about how important the music is to ing bluegrass, gospel, mountain Drum group of the year: Black At The BBC," but bigger than last year's "Yellow Submarine Songtrack," every human being's soul." music, honky -tonk, cowboy, western Lodge Singers. which started with 68,000 units. New ones from Marilyn Manson and the The film began shootingin August swing, and countrypolitan; it also Best blues recording: "Live At Offspring will probably each surpass 100,000 units. and moved to numerous locations, showcases contemporary country Pachyderm Studio 1998," Indigenous including Moab, Utah; Chattanooga, music. (Pachyderm) . LESS SPICY: Its first album debuted at No. 1 in 1997, and with its sec- Term.; Ireland; and Detroit, where ...
... Shaver And Coe: Two Outlaws Look At Sixty BY RAY WADDELL of the "countrypolitan" sound That Ain't Country," and a brace son. Elvis Presley told me, `Play tarist, Eddy, died of a drug over- NASHVILLE- Behind the blind- and a desire to truly reproduce of X -rated albums he's still trying to the audience in front of you. " dose on New Year's Eve, and Sha- ing mid-70s spotlight that illu- the studio faithfully onstage. to live down. While he had his ver himself recently suffered a minated outlaw superstars Way - "To me, `outlaw music' and hits, including "Take This Job THE ROUGH SIDE OF SHAVER heart attack. He says his audi- lon Jennings and Willie Nelson, `outlaw ...
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