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Australian for Country - Charley Pride, March 10, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Decade of (Souvenir Edition) (Audio CD)
Imagine that being able to hear these timeless classics by Charley from Australia? He's #2 in record sales next to Elvis on RCA, yet try to find any of his work.
You can follow his career on this one. Tunes from his very first album - Busted, Green, Green Grass of Home. Tunes that were maybe made famous by others, but given that touch of Charley - Guess Things Happen That Way, Before the Next Teardrop Falls. To tunes you tapped your feet to in concert - Louisiana Man, Cotton Fields. And let's not forget those songs that took him back to his roots - Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town. To the songs of his later career - Amazing Love, It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer. Or his lesser known album cuts that were sometimes better than most single releases by others - Comin' Down With Love, Mama Don't Cry for Me.
With Charley's tunes - you get a real taste of country - the voice, the arrangements - some of the best steel guitar (hey, I'm a steel guitar fan and play the dobro, too) interludes are in his songs.
He sings and asks - Then Who Am I ... and when you listen to him...you'll agree - one of the legends of country music.
Until RCA wakes up and gives us his classics from the past - this is one of the better samplers of his music through the years and a bargain.
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