Album: Sings Country Vol 2 Ultimate Country Collection
Label:
Humphead
Cat No: HUMP
220
Rel Date: 4th October 2019
Promoted by Humphead Records, it’s been sent to BBC Country
shows, independent stations and shows. Request to hear your favourite track
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
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
