Taste of the Truth

Gene Watson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B002E2LWAY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Country & Western
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 25-AUG-2009

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Delicious Taste Watson's True Country, August 25, 2009

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Timothy Yap "thy4568" (Sydney, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Taste Of The Truth (MP3 Download)

Prime Cuts: Speaking of an Angel, Staying Together, Use Me Again

When Watson sings "Three minutes at a time I get lost in each song," he is also tacitly voicing what pundits of traditional country will say after hearing these 11 tracks. Offering delicious wallops of tortured stone-cold country ballads, sizzling honky tonk barn burners, and tasty treats of slow romantic waltzes, "Taste of the Truth" will have many salivate for more and more such servings. Under the auspices of helmsman Dirk Johnson, Watson is able to secure 7 new songs coming from Nashville's most prolific scribal community such as Billy Yates, Tim Mensy, Harley Allen, and Rebecca Lynn Howard plus four covers. Avoiding the trite and tried route of tackling often recycled classics, Watson has chosen to cover more obscure tracks such as Merle Haggard's "I Know An Ending," Shelby Lynne and Mark Chesnutt's "Til A Better Memory Comes Along," Tim Mensy's "Wrong Way to Find Mr. Right," and Shawn Camp's "Speaking of an Angel." The latter two are virtually unknown save for the two singer-songwriters' avid fans.

Most anticipated is Watson's duet with current hit maker Trace Adkins "I Got a Pulse." Complimenting Watson's high tenor, Adkins' contrasting base is the perfect blend on the propulsive "I Got a Pulse" in voicing the viability and vitality of traditionalism in the backdrop of today's rock-oriented country market. With a touch of wry humor, Shawn Camp's infectious "Speaking of an Angel" details the mercurial nature of love that bears all of the songwriter's unique phrasings that Watson can't help but imitate from Camp's original. Tim Mensy, one of Watson's favourite writers, gets to pen four cuts here. Best among the quartet of songs is the two-stepper "Three Minutes at a Time," an irresistible ditty that best captures why country music is so addictive in a little over three minutes.

Living up to the album's title, there are some truth-telling paeans that only a courageous veteran like Watson has the guts to handle. Rebecca Lynn Howard's title cut "A Taste of the Truth" is a tortured heartbreaker. While "Staying Together," a duet with Rhonda Vincent, tells the sad story of a couple who no longer love each other, yet they stayed together for their children's sake. Similarly devastating is "Use Me Again," a pensive heart breaking ballad about the victimization of a person to love's entanglements is made even more morose with Alison Krauss' plaintive harmonies. "Til A Better Memory Comes Along," an album track that was both found on Shelby Lynne's and Mark Chesnutt's albums from the 90s, deserves to be dusted and revive again. A slow waltz that features some heart tingling lyrics of hope as well as pain, "Til A Better Memory" would have been a hit in let's say George Strait's hands.

Venerated as one of country music's greatest crooners by Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack and Joe Nichols, Watson again shows with this CD that such encomium is not mere palaver. When it comes to raw emotions and honest-to-life lyrics, "A Taste of the Truth" has spades of them. In short, "A Taste of Truth" is a delicious foretaste even when the truth sometimes means heart break at its bleakest moments.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seletions aren't listed here so, August 28, 2010

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Valerie J. Grimes "Music, film, and book fanatic" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taste of the Truth (Audio CD)

Since Amazon has not elected to indicate the selections for this wonderful album, I will:

Gene Watson's album, A Taste of the Truth. Released date August 25, 2009

*Track Listing:

1. Speakin' Of The Angel

2. Taste Of The Truth

3. We've Got A Pulse Feat. Trace Adkins

4. Til A Better Memory Comes Along

5. It's My Lie

6. Staying Together Feat. Rhonda Vincent

7. Three Minutes At A Time

8. Wrong Way To Find Mr. Right

9. Use Me Again

10. Still They Call Me Love

11. I Know An Ending

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gene Watson-Taste of the Truth, March 5, 2010

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S. Severson "pet lover" (Alexandria, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taste of the Truth (Audio CD)

I loved this album but then I am a long time Gene Watson fan. I have loved him ever since I first heard Fourteen Carat Mind. His voice is so smooth. He makes it sound so effortless. His voice is the same as it was many years ago. Like one of the reviewers said, it's like fine wine. I loved the duet Staying Together with Rhonda Vincent. He had another duet (Together Again) with her on his album In a Perfect World which I loved as well. I highly recommend this album.