Sad Songs & Waltzes [Original recording remastered]

Keith Whitley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rounder / Umgd
• ASIN: B00004XSPQ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,414 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just when you thought we lost country to pop music..., September 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sad Songs & Waltzes (Audio CD)

Numerous greatest hits albums and Keith Whitley still has the nerve to give us more incredible unreleased original material. Don't be fooled by the title, this is an album of many moods, sad a serious and down right honky-tonk fun with songs like "Where Are All The Girls I Used To Cheat With". Whitley's sound is like a pool of water in the desert of comercialized pop-country that has been infesting the genre. Hurting for a REAL country musician? Try this on for size.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Country Legend At His Best, September 13, 2000

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Nicholas R. Nahodil (Stow, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sad Songs & Waltzes (Audio CD)

Keith Whitley was and still is country music at its finest. Sad Songs and Waltzes clearly displays the pure raw talent that he possed. For those of you that have been fans of Keith Whitley you can appreciate the talent and these timeless tracks. For those of you who are new to Keith Whitley you are in for a tremendous treat. Considering that this album has sat on the shelfs since 1982 it sounds as fresh and alive as if it were recorded just yesterday. There are very few Country musicians who can hold a candle to one of the greatest Country Musicians of all time...past and present.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Whitley, February 6, 2001

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Don Thomason (Dunbar, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sad Songs & Waltzes (Audio CD)

This reworking of early Whitley recordings (including the entire 1982 album Somewhere Between by J. D. Crowe and the New South, for whom Whitley sang) is the best tribute to date to one of country music's most influential artists at the beginning of his country career. Guest artists (Alison Krauss, Carl Jackson, Diamond Rio`s Gene Johnson, Dale Ann Bradley) add their talents to these tracks, but they do so totally in a support capacity and the only identity evident on this album is Whitley's. And that's more than enough -- the emotion, phrasing, and straightforwardness with a honky tonk pathos that made Whitley (a Lefty Frizzell acolyte) so revered is center stage. The music here is country in its unmistakable, pure form -- featuring "Long Black Limousine," Haggard's "Somewhere Between," Lefty's "I Never Go Around Mirrors," and the Willie Nelson penned title cut, a jewel where the singer laments that his song about his lost love will not be heard: "Though my records may say it/No one will play it/For sad songs and waltzes ain't sellin' this year." Two of these songs from the 1982 album later became hits for other artists, "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" (George Strait) and "(I've Always Been) Honky Tonk Crazy" (Gene Watson). No matter how much or little Keith Whitley you currently own, these fifteen tracks are more than worth being in your music library.