Labor of Love

Sammy Kershaw | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 1997)
• Original Release Date: November 4, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mercury Nashville
• ASIN: B000001EXP
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sammy's BEST CD, October 13, 1998

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[e-mail] (Dexter NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Labor of Love (Audio CD)

This is with out a doubt a must have CD. Love of My Life is the greatest country love song in years. One Day Left to Live is also a great love song with a little twist from the usaul love song. Matches is a unique break up song. Honky tonk america is a great rockin country song. Not one song on this CD is a bad one. It will make you a Sammy Kershaw instantly.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sammy's best work. Much better than his current release!, June 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Labor of Love (Audio CD)

This CD is great! It starts off with a great tribute to the working man, in "Honky Tonk, America" and finishes with the heartfelt "Love of My Life." This is a good mix of all of what Sammy does well, highlighting his great vocal abilities, but not compromising the traditional country style that has made him a great musician.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sammy Kershaw - Labor Of Love, May 14, 2003

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Xavier Bernard (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Labor of Love (Audio CD)

Here's an underrated singer whose vocal talent shows he deserves more success than he has achieved.

But furthermore he's also become his own man now on this album and vocal comparisons with George Jones are long gone.

Keith Stegall's production here allows Sammy to breathe and gives full presence to his voice rather than hiding it with banging drums and guitars. Even on the rockiest of songs here like the title track or Roamin' Love, the singer sings the hell out of the songs.

The last song on this set, Love Of My Life, is a beautifully-written ballad whose lyrics are simple, it must be said, but had the song been more involved lyrically, it would have diminished its impact and meaning.

Sammy also reflects on life in One Day Left To Live, gets cajun with Little Did I Know and all the others songs work perfectly for him. This is just his best record to date.