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Straight From the Heart

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Once again another great album from Daryle Singletary. No one else has his rich, deep voice. Black Sheep with John Anderson is awesome. And Daryle describes best himself on "I Still Sing This Way". And I for one am glad of that fact. This album is a must buy for any Daryle Singletary fan, and any fan of good country music.

Daryle is just about the greatest honkytonk singer around, so it was going to be hard to top his seminal CD, "That's Why I Sing This Way." This CD comes close. My quibble is that a few of the songs--"The Bottle Let Me Down," "Black Sheep," and "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail"--are so tied to the original artists that any remake, even though Daryle sings them great, is redundant. However, with songs like "Jesus and Bartenders" and the great original "I Still Sing This Way" and the amazing "Fifteen Years Ago," you'll get honkytonk chills up your spine. Anyway, thank God Daryle has a new album, and thank God he still sings this way.

Simply great! Daryle has the best country vocal of any contemporary singer... truly an amazing voice that should (by right) earn him many music honors. But he isn't given much air-play, and that is a price he pays for being "too country!" But if you love real country music, it doesn't get any better than this!! Thank you, Daryle... keep making great music that is "Straight from the Heart!"

Randy Travis had a lot to do with Daryle, certainly early in his career. This is pure country as it should be. The cover of Randy Travis's 'Promises' is pitch perfect. One of the best country artists of today.

Daryle Singletary never managed to become a megastar, mostly because he has too much soul and integrity for today's Nashville. Simply put, Daryl is "too country".

This album picks up where Daryl's 2002 album THAT'S WHY I SING THIS WAY left off, with one original song "I Still Sing This Way", one cover of a recent hit, the Larry Cordle-penned Rebecca Lynn Howard hit "Jesus and Bartenders" and ten classic country covers sung with feeling.

THe cover songs are as follows:

"The Bottle Let Me Down" - a Merle Haggard hit from 1966

"Black Sheep" (w/John Anderson) - a #1 for John Anderson in 1983

"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" - a #1 for Don Williams in 1977

"Promises" - a minor Randy Travis hit which Randy co-wrote

"I've Got A Tiger By The Tail" (w/Ricky Skaggs) - a Buck Ownes classic from 1965

"These Days I Barely Get By" - a top ten George Jones record

"Miami, My Amy" - Keith Whitley's first top twenty record from 1986

" Lovin' On Back Streets" - a #5 record for Mel Street in 1973. Like Daryle , Mel Street was 'too country', and like Daryle, he was a fine, emotive singer

"Fifteen Years Ago" - Conway Twitty's immediate follow up to "Hello Darling", I always thought that Conway's performance was better than the song's rather maudlin lyric. Daryl also handles it well, although it's still a silly song

"We're Gonna Hold On" (w/Rhonda Vincent)- a George & Tammy classic from 1973 that comes off very well. No surprise, really since Rhonda is a better singer than Tammy ever was, and Daryle hold up his end of the bargain.

The presence of legendary pianist Hargus "Pig Robbins" lends a strong sense of authenticity. Best of all no electronic keyboards or synthesizers - this is real country music played on real country instruments.

I've heard a bunch of good albums this year and this is my favcrite album so far this year, better even, than the Nelson - Haggard - Price collaboration. This is not to say that Singletary is quite in their league as a singer, but his pipes are at least 30 years younger and in better shape.

This is one of the best country albums that I own. I have all of Daryle Singletary's albums and I knew from his debut CD that he was real country. It's a shame that artist like him keep losing their record labels because he doesn't do what Nashville wants him to do. He sings country music, not this pop-country crap that Nashville is putting out now. This album is similar to "That's Why I Sing This Way". It contains a bunch of classic country songs that he has re-recorded from some of his favorite classic country artists including Merle Haggard, a duet with John Anderson, Don Williams, Buck Owens, George Jones, Keith Whitley, Mel Street, Conway Twitty, and a duet with Rhonda Vincent on a George Jones and Tammy Wynette classic. He also throws in a few of his own new songs that sound just as country as the other classics. So if you are a real country music lover like myself do not hesitate and buy this album now. I guarantee that you will not be let down.

Daryle Singletary is one of our family's favorites, he stays true to country music. The new crap, I mean the new country music cannot touch this man's voice. Hurray for someone 'keeping it real' country. My husband and I had the priviledge of seeing and speaking to him at a small concert in Maryland, he was a great, nice, down home guy. He even sang our wedding song to us, with him singing alone with just his guitar. "Walk through this world with me". It was a night to never forget!

K. Carlucci is absolutely right. It's a dirty rotten shame that the ones with real talent are pushed aside in favor of all this new "city" country music because they don't "rock out" or appeal to a more, less country, fan base.I can't imagine listening to this new stuff in the country. Although this is a "cover" album, he does all the original perfomers proud, as George Jones stated. His cover of the late great Keith Whitley's "Miami, My Amy" absolutely beautiful. Not to mention the breathtaking performance of Conway Twitty's "Fifteen Years Ago" and Buck Owens' "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail". Daryle and Rhonda Vincent's take on George and Tammy's "We're Gonna Hold On" simply gives me chills. If you want to hear what REAL country music is...LISTEN TO THIS!

Daryle's a decent singer, but he brings nothing new to these country covers. They sound like the original versions, only a little bit blander.

Well what can you say about the lastest offering from Daryle Singletary apart from the fact it is a brilliant CD, he has a singing voice that comes across as a cross between George Jones and Merle Haggard in fact listening to the CD if you didnt know it was Daryle singing you would think it was George Jones, he may not be one of the biggest stars on the country scene like Toby Keith or Alan Jackson but he certainly would give the big boys a run for there money.