The Spectacular Johnny Horton
- 艺人
- Johnny Horton / Billy Barton
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Legacy Recordings
- 发行时间
- 1960年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Richie Unterberger
Horton's brief flurry of country-pop mega-stardom coincided with some of his less interesting music, as this 1960 album proves. Corny Americana became his meal ticket after &The Battle of New Orleans& (which leads off the disc), and more of the same follows on the gold-prospecting tales &Sam Magee& and &When It's Springtime in Alaska.& Those songs are country-pop with a banjo for a whiff of (not quite genuine) authenticity. On several of the other tracks, he didn't bother with the banjo, leaving average or below-average country-pop balladry to remain. Yet he hadn't forgotten how to play and sing gutsy rockabilly cum honky tonk, as shown on the album's best cuts. His self-penned &The First Rain Headin' South& is certainly the best of the crop; the cover of &Cherokee Boogie,& like Warren Smith's &Ubangi Stomp,& flirts with imagery that will strike many as un-PC these days; and &Got the Bull by the Horns& and the cover of Hank Snow's &The Rocket& are respectable up-tempo numbers. Half a good album, then, and Horton wouldn't have a chance to resolve his conflicting directions, dying in the same year as the LP's release. The 2000 CD reissue adds three bonus tracks: the lame 1958 ballad &Counterfeit Love,& the mild 1958 rockabilly number &All Grown Up,& and a bizarre version of &The Battle of New Orleans& cut especially for the English market, in which the rebels flee from the British instead of vice versa.
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