Customer Reviews

Classic Country: 1965-74

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This Time-Life collection of four CDs (sixty songs) offers a solid representation of how country music adapted during the turbulent '60s and early '70s. While some performers (Barbara Fairchild, Donna Fargo, the Statler Brothers) relied on novelty to preserve their careers, others began to see how addressing controversial issues, offering more direct questions about romantic relationships, and expressing the dignity of country roots could offer induring messages. This set offers pioneering women singer/songwriters like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. You'll find three Kris Kristofferson songs ("Why Me," Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It through the Night," and Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Comin' Down"). You'll find George Jones and Merle Haggard, too. While, as one reviewer on this site notes, the set contains no bluegrass (bluegrass didn't enjoy much radio airplay during this period of country programming), it does demonstrate what the country traditionalists were doing before URBAN COWBOY contaminated country radio with a pop sensibility that still infects it. Excellent song selection and ear-flattering remastering of the original material earn this set a solid five stars.

I LOVE CONWAY TWITTY'S MUSIC CAUSE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS TRYING TO SAY IN HIS MUSIC. LIKE HELLO DARLIN THAT SONG RIGHT THERE IS TELLING YOU THAT HE LOVED A WOMAN AND CANT QUIT THINKING OF HER. AND LIKE THAT LINDA SONG HES TRYING TO SAY THERE THAT HE LYING WITH SOMEONE IN THE BED BUT HE HAS SOMEONE ELSE ON HIS MIND. MY BOYFRIEND MADE ME LISTEN TO THEM TO SONGS CAUSE HE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT OF ME ALL THE TIME WHEN WE WAS SPLIT UP. IT MADE MY BOYFRIEND REALIZE THAT HE REALLY LOVED ME AND WANTED TO BE WITH ME. THANK YOU CONWAY. IF IT WASNT FOR YOU I WOULD NOT BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

I found this disc was very old stuff. I really didn't care for it but my older friends did.

Got to get more bluegrass tunes.

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