Gene Watson plans album for September release
Special guests on his new CD are Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, Joe Nichols, Mark Chesnutt, Connie Smith and Rhonda Vincent.
"A Perfect World" was produced by Brent Rowan. The disc features a mix of new material and classic country songs, with the emphasis on new material in the classic country tradition.
Watson said, "I contacted some of the best writers in the business, and we started to get some premium songs. Tim Mensy, just about everyone in the traditional country field knows him; plus he's just one of the finest singers and musicians around. Skip Ewing, he's just fantastic. I talked to Skip personally and Tim too about the songs."
Watson picked all of the cover songs. He said, "'Today I Started Loving You' is a song that's been in my show for quite awhile. I'm a huge Merle Haggard fan, and I usually do one of his songs in my shows and people have always responded to "Today I Started Loving You."
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Gene Watson's "Real. Country. Music." serves as a companion piece to his 2014 release "My Heroes Have Always Been Country" as he again pays tribute to the songs and songwriters that have influenced him in his more than 40-year career. Watson again focuses on relatively obscure material, including covers of "Ashes to Ashes" from his own 1987 album "Honky Tonk Crazy" and the title track from 1981's "Old Loves Never Die."
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As suggested by the title, Gene Watson's latest project is a collection of cover tunes written and recorded by some of his musical heroes. After more than four decades in the business, Watson remains a strong performer of country ballads and pure honky tonk. Watson is at his best on ballads such as the George Jones hit "Walk Through This World with Me" and the Hank Cochran tune "Make the World Go Away" made famous by Eddie Arnold. On Nat Stuckey's "Don't ...
On We've Got a Pulse, Gene Watson affirms "Just as long as I'm alive, there will be songs about grievin' and cheatin' and drinkin' and lovin' a good woman right" with such gusto and assuredness that even the most cynical music critic might believe that traditional country music is not on its deathbed. And there are undeniably some younger country artists who understand and appreciate their roots, artists like Brad Paisley, who took Watson out on tour to ...
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