Now, remember boys, back in Linda's heyday, she couldn't get on country. You know, Tanya Tucker, Donna Fargo, Barbara Fairchild....
And she used my buddy Mike Auldridge a lot, bringing Dobro to a lot of new folks.
Country? Probably not exactly. But what album covers, huh?
When making a best of list, it's pretty simple that they're working it into a sort of snapshot of a career.
Patsy Cline had eight years in the studio, she produced a body of work that is treasured and today looked back as a classic time.
Yet, by many accounts she herself found a lot of her early pop efforts quite distasteful and learnt to like them as time went by and their popularity grew.
By classification Linda Ronstadt didn't make a country record, she was the first and foremost lady of country-rock, her 1969 debut was cut in L.A. with a crack team (just ask Herb), while her 1970 LP was cut with some of the best Nashville cats at the time with some L.A. overdubs, etc.
Those records sold quite poorly, but is this the Grammy awards where it's about sales, you know, like Milli Vanilli?
It's seems fair to note that when compiling a list one has to take in trends, charts at the time, the sphere into which an album was released, the overall effect of their albums past and present, talent and commercial and music genre influence.
I think k.d.'s 1989 'Torch & Twang' album sold very well and was a rather mature and exquisite release.
The list is not perfect, I don't suppose the magnificent Patty Booker is there at all?
KD Lang? FABULOUS! I went to one of her concerts - must not have been the same one Herb went to, though. I think I was the only woman there. But not so sure, really. Wonder if she's always looked like Martin Sheen? Why did all those people look like the Sheen boys?
DonnaDo
Come on guys, Let's get off of K. D. Lang. Let's talk about Molly O'Day, Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, or Connie Smith. Maybe Dolly Parton, or Norma Jean. Anybody but K. D. Lang. Jody Sanders.
