Country Music Series.
Artist: Vern Gosdin
Type: Compilation (4CD Box Set, Tangent Music Nashville (R)., Vgn, US)
Year: 2008 CD Release (August 28, 2008)
Style: Country / Traditional Country / Cowboy Country
Country: United States
Quality: CBR 320 Kbps Mp3 / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo
Size: 181,20 MB + 181,20 MB + 181,20 MB + 136,67 MB + Booklet
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Biography:
As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit. Sometimes he was known simply as "the Voice." Born in Woodland, AL, Vern Gosdin idolized the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called the Gosdin Brothers. When he was in his late teens, his family moved to Birmingham and began hosting The Gosdin Family Gospel Show on a local radio station. Gosdin and his brother, Rex, moved to Long Beach, CA, in 1961. They began performing bluegrass music in the milieu that gave birth to country-rock, joining a group called the Golden State Boys that evolved into the Hillmen, featuring future Byrds member Chris Hillman. Vern and Rex teamed up to sing country music as the Gosdin Brothers once again, had a Top 40 country hit in 1967 with "Hangin' On," and opened for the Byrds on occasion.
Gosdin moved to Atlanta in 1972, raising a family and running a retail shop. But he never gave up on music completely. He performed at local clubs and began to gravitate toward Nashville, where Emmylou Harris, a friend of Gosdin's from his California days, was laying the foundation for a neo-traditionalist style of country music. Around 1976 Gosdin and Harris cut a demo single consisting of "Hangin' On" backed with a newly written song, "Yesterday's Gone." The demo got Gosdin signed to the Elektra label, and both songs cracked the country Top 20. In the late '70s he notched several major hits, including "Till the End" (with Janie Fricke), "Mother Country Music," and a remake of the Association's "Never My Love."
In 1980, after the demise of Elektra's country division, Gosdin quickly moved through several contracts and landed with the independent Nashville label Compleat. He made the Top Ten consistently in the early '80s, really hitting his stride when he teamed with Max D. Barnes as a songwriting collaborator. The pair specialized in songs of cheating and barroom romance, often delivering an over-the-top emotionalism that got Gosdin compared to the ultimate legend of honky tonk vocals, George Jones. In 1983, Gosdin had two Top Five hits — "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)" and "Way Down Deep." The following year he had his first number one single with "I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)" and had two additional Top Ten hits. His career hit a lull in the mid-'80s, but in 1987, with the new traditionalist movement in full swing and Warner Bros. artist Randy Travis roosting at the top of the charts, he was tapped by the Columbia label. He bounced back into the Top Ten that year with the tortured "Do You Believe Me Now," and in 1988 he hit number one once again with the perennially popular Ernest Tubb tribute "Set 'Em Up Joe." Gosdin's "Chiseled in Stone," co-written with Barnes, won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year award in 1989. His 1989 album Alone was a rarity: a concept album in a traditional country style. It chronicled the dissolution of Gosdin's marriage. Gosdin's popularity declined as rock-influenced country styles surged forward in the 1990s, but he continued to record on small labels and never abandoned the pure country vocalism he had cultivated for so long. ~ James Manheim, All Music Guide
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. I Fell Off the Wagon
02. I'll Try
03. Someone I Can Turn to
04. The Sounds Of Goodbye
05. Any Old Miracle
06. Tennessee Courage
07. The Last To Know
08. Oh Me Oh My
09. Favorite Fool of All
10. Louisiana Man
11. Today My World Slipped Away
12. A Hangin on
13. Baby That's Cold
14. I Feel Love Closin' in
15. Your Strange Love
16. I Couldn't Love You More
17. The Sweeter the Lips
18. My Love Keeps Reaching Out for You
19. To Die No More
20. Love Is Underneath for Us to Find
21. Living in the Love
22. Just Enough to Keep Me from Leavin You
23. Bowling Green
24. Try and Catch the Wind
25. Rodeo Princess
26. Nobody's Done That Yet
CD2:
01. Chiseled in Stone
02. I Wonder Where We'd Be Tonight
03. I Can Tell by the Way You Dance
04. If Your Gonna Do Me Wrong
05. I'll Fly Away
06. If Jesus Comes Tomorrow
07. The Number
08. Slow Healing Heart
09. Who I Came Here to Forget
10. Stone Cold Heat
11. I've Got a Heart Full of You
12. Praying
13. Dead from the Heart on Down
14. Rainbows and Roses
15. What a Price I've Paid
16. Chip Off the Chip Off the Old Block
17. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
18. We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds
19. Back in the Swing of Things
20. For a Minute There
21. I Know What It's Like
22. Toe to Toe With the Devil
23. Right in the Wrong Direction
24. A Better Time to Say Goodbye
CD3:
01. All The Way Thru
02. Alone
03. Dream Of Me
04. Fire In Our Bedroom
05. Friday Night Feeling
06. How Can I Believe In You
07. The Other Side Of Life
08. Maybe Then I'll Be Over You
09. This Ain't My First Rodeo
10. The Wettest Dry County
11. Three Or Four Times A Day
12. Let's Don't And Say We Did
13. Was It Just The Wine
14. Do You Believe Me Now
15. Way Down Deep
16. What I Threw Away
17. Set Em Up Joe
18. Where Do We Take It From Here
19. Would These Arms Be In Your Way
20. Wings Of Faith
21. Dixie's On My Mind
22. Streets Of Gold
23. Heatbreak Hall Of Pain
24. That Just About Does It
25. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
26. I'm Still Crazy
CD4:
01. I'll Understand
02. I'm Gonna Be Movin
03. I'm Where A Memory Can Die For A Night
04. Impossible Mile
05. Is It Raining At Your House
06. Turn, Turn, Turn
07. KT Heartache
08. Love Rolled Away The Stone
09. Running Out Of Reasons To Leave
10. Sarah's Eyes
11. Slow Burning Memory
12. The Biggest Little Arms
13. It's All Coming Back To Me Now
14. A Picture Of Me
15. Jesus Hold My Hand
16. Likes Of Jesus Loving Me
17. What's A Country Coming To
18. That Ole Silvertone
19. Let's Get Down To Business
20. Monteagle
21. Santa's Driving A Chevrolet This Year
22. Rockabye Katie
23. Joy To The World
24. Coldest Bedroom
25. This Song Wrote Itself
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