Brenda Lee SINGS COUNTRY VOL 2-CD features the best tracks from her nine albums alongside hit singles.

Artist:    Brenda Lee

Album:  Sings Country Vol 2  Ultimate Country Collection

Label:      Humphead

Cat No:    HUMP 220

Rel Date: 4^th October 2019

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Though Brenda Lee cut her teeth on country music and her initial chart successes in the mid-1950s came on the country listings, she was not really considered a country singer until the 1970s when she recorded a series of classic modern country albums. Between 1971 and 1985 Brenda charted 32 singles on the American country charts including eight of them making the top 10.

In the first volume of BRENDA LEE SINGS COUNTRY, we featured all of those hit singles plus many of the excellent B-sides, most appearing on CD for the first. 

In this second volume we have chosen the best tracks from the nine albums that Brenda recorded during that time. Alongside the hit singles, these original vinyl LPs also featured Brenda’s distinctive renditions of such then current hits by Johnny Nash (I Can See Clearly Now), Jean Shepard (Slippin’ Away), Merle Haggard (Everybody’s Had The Blues) and Barry White (You’re The First, the Last, My Everything).

Really lovely double disc, really like her later stuff, very nice album, some really nice ballads – Marie Crichton 
BBC Radio Shropshire BBC Page

Album Of The Week 50 Tracks in total a cornucopia of country music. She’s got a great voice. There are songs recorded by other artists, she makes a cracking job of them as well. A classic album if you like country music like it used to be. Brenda Lee at her very best – Brian Clough The American Connection/ (CMA International Broadcaster 2009)

Alan Cackett wrote: I’m delighted to announce the release of two more 2-CD compilation sets for which I selected and compiled the tracks and also wrote the extensive and informative liner notes. 
The first is Brenda Lee Sings Country Vol. 2 (Humphead Records HUMP220) a 50-track collection that covers the country recordings that Brenda Lee made between 1972 and 1985. Included are Brenda’s distinctive renditions of such classics as Everybody’s Had the Blues, Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends, Before the Next Teardrop falls, Loving Arms and We Had It All. The second release is Del Reeves Hits On the Billboard (HumpHead HUMP218) which covers all of Del’s country hits from 1965 through to 1978. This includes several truck-drivin’ classics like One Bum Town, Trucker’s Paradise, Belles Of Southern Bell and The Girl On the Billboard. Both releases are available online from www.humpheadcountry.com or Amazon and other retail outlets.

CD1

1. I Can See Clearly Now

2.Sweet Memories

3.My Sweet Baby

4.Something's Wrong With Me

5.Run To Me

6.Here I Am Again

7.Why Me?

8.My Love

9.You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

10.We Had It All 

11.Everybody's Had The Blues

12.Slippin' Away 

13.You're My Man Again

14.Words

15.Nothing From Nothing

16.Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends

17.Seeing You Again

18.Never My Love

19.Love Me For A Reason

20.You're The First, The Last, My Everything

21.Never Let Him Go

22.Take A Picture Of Me

23.Before The Next Teardrop Falls 

24.Still

25.When Our Love Began (Cowboys & Indians)

CD2

1.One More Time

2.I Let You Let Me Down Again

3.Mary's Going Out Of Her Mind

4.Saved

5.The Lumberjacks Had A Lady

6.It's Another Weekend

7. Love Ain't Seen The Last Of Me

8.At The Moonlite

9.Memories For Sale

10.What Am I Gonna Do 

11.Take Me Back

12.You Put It All Together

13.Staring Each Other Down

14.Cracker Jack Diamonds

15.Didn't We Do It Good

16.We're So Close

17.Love Letters

18.There's More To Me Than What You Can See

19.I Know A Lot About Love

20.Fool Fool

21.That Was The Way It Was Then

22.He Can't Make Your Kind Of Love

23.Loving Arms

24.Roll Back The Rug

25.How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

BRENDA LEE BIOGRAPHY

Once known as 'Little Miss Dynamite,' (she is under five feet), Brenda Lee was the world's most popular female singer from 1960-65. Something of a child prodigy, she burst upon the pop world as a fifteen-year-old with the million-selling Sweet Nuthin's in 1959. For the next six years she hardly put a foot wrong as she dominated the charts with a mix of teen angst ballads and uptempo rockers such as I'm Sorry, All Alone Am I, Dum Dum, Fool No.1, Break It To Me Gently and the perennial Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree.

Raised on country music, almost all of her pop hits were recorded in Nashville, with the same session players that were working on then current country hits by Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold and Marty Robbins.

Following several minor hits in the States, Brenda hit the top in 1960 with I'm Sorry, one of the best pop songs from rather an indifferent era. The lyrics had everything a good teenage song should, and it really captured the times. Believing rock'n'roll to be a fad, but sensing they had a voice with long-term potential, Decca Records executives pushed Brenda toward supper-club shows and ballads such as I Want to Be Wanted, Emotions and Fool # 1 once she hit her mid-to-late teens. Such career moves may have cut into her hit-making days as a rock'n'roller, but they did give Brenda a broad foundation from which to build a lengthy career.

Now an elder statesperson of the Nashville pop-country crossovers of the 1960s, Brenda Lee remains a highly regarded and sophisticated international star. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame.

She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

She continues to tour worldwide, with a large and loyal following in Japan, Germany, the UK and Australia. In recent years she has served on various CMA boards and committees and been heavily involved in charitable organisations. As you listen to this selection of recordings, many appearing on CD for the first time, you can tell that despite all of her pop and rock'n'roll history, Brenda has always been first and foremost a bona fide country singer. – Alan Cackett