Look Who's Blue

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共32首歌曲

艺人: Don Gibson
语种: 英语
厂牌: RCA Victor
发行时间: 1960年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Pemberton Roach

Look Who's Blue dates from Don Gibson's '70s tenure with Hickory Records, a time which saw him make something of a comeback. He had recently rejoined The Grand Old Opry and become sober, and his recordings were consequently of consistently high quality. This album is no exception and finds Gibson effectively maintaining his pop instincts while, for the most part, returning to a straight country format. There aren't a lot of surprises here -- just quality songs (written by Gibson, Eddy Raven, Lorrie Morgan, and others), expertly sung and played. Truly the king of the crossover country singers, Gibson makes it all sound so easy. Whereas followers like Ronnie Milsap and Kenny Rogers are pop or country singers depending on the particular song being sung, Don Gibson has a voice that sounds inherently stone-cold country, but is just smooth and unaffected enough to appeal to a wider audience. At times sounding like a subtler combination of George Jones and country-era Jerry Lee Lewis, he attacks each song on the album with sincerity and flawless phrasing throughout. As always, the joys of Don Gibson come from repeated listenings -- his artistry, like that of Waylon Jennings, is of the kind that speaks not just to drunken nights and hung-over mornings, but to a deeper existential loneliness only fully comprehended in quieter moments. Not surprisingly, the only misstep here is the one pure pop song, the Burt Bacharach standard &Any Day Now,& which was later an international smash for Milsap. While Gibson's performance is beautifully and darkly bitter, the Nashville session cats (Grady Martin, Buddy Emmons) are unusually stilted, which causes the song to stick out like a sore thumb among the other, more relaxed tracks.