Artist: Jamey Johnson
Album: Living For A Song (A Tribute To Hank Cochran)
Bitrate: 220kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Mercury
Genre: Country
Size: 89.41 megs
PlayTime: 0h 53min 59sec total
Rip Date: 2012-10-24
Store Date: 2012-10-16
Track List:
01. Jamey Johnson with Alison Kraus 3:04
- Make The World Go Away
02. Jamey Johnson with Merle 4:42
Haggard - I Fall To Pieces
03. Jamey Johnson with Leon Russell 3:02
And Vince Gill - A Way To
Survive
04. Jamey Johnson With Emmylou 3:17
Harris - Don't Touch Me
05. Jamey Johnson With Ray Price - 2:43
You Wouldn't Know Love
06. Jamey Johnson With Ray Benson 3:23
And Asleep At The Wheel - I
Don't Do Windows
07. Jamey Johnson With Elvis 2:45
Costello - She'll Be Back
08. Jamey Johnson - Would These 3:38
Arms Be In Your Way
09. James Johnson With George 3:10
Strait - The Eagle
10. Jamey Johnson With Ronnie Dunn 2:20
- A-11
11. Jamey Johnson With Bobby Bare - 3:25
I'd Fight The World
12. Jamey Johnson With Willie 5:08
Nelson - Don't You Ever Get
Tired Of Hurting Me
13. Jamey Johnson With Lee Ann 3:21
Womack - This Ain't My First
Rodeo
14. Jamey Johnson With Kris 3:14
Kristofferson - Love Makes A
Fool Of Us All
15. Jamey Johnson With Leon 3:34
Russell, Willie Nelson And
Vince Gill - Everything But You
16. Jamey Johnson With Hank 3:13
Cochran, Kris Kristofferson,
Willie Nelson And Merle Haggard
- Living For A Song
Release Notes:
During the last couple of years of his life, legendary songwriter Hank Cochran
served as both a professional mentor and a close personal friend to acclaimed
country artist Jamey Johnson. That deep connection informs every aspect of
Living for a Song, the reverent tribute album Johnson has recorded for the late
songwriter. Johnson and the small army of country stars he's enlisted to
collaborate on the project all wisely keep the focus on Cochran's extraordinary
songwriting, making for an album that highlights the depth and range of
Cochran's catalogue and the monumental influence his writing has had on country
music.
The album opens with covers of two of Cochran's best-known compositions, as
Johnson is joined by Alison Krauss on a lovely rendition of "Make the World Go
Away" before teaming up with Merle Haggard for a spirited, bluesy take on "I
Fall to Pieces." Both songs showcase the economy of language in Cochran's
writing, and the polished, unobtrusive production by Buddy Cannon and Dale
Dodson strikes the same balance between traditional and contemporary styles that
made Johnson's That Lonesome Song and The Guitar Song so distinctive. The
production nods toward the era in which Cochran wrote the material without
relying on traditionalism as a crutch for credibility.
Ultimately, Cochran's writing provides all of the genre bona fides the album
could ever need. "Would These Arms Be in Your Way" and "Don't You Ever Get Tired
of Hurting Me" are among the finest ballads about heartbreak in all of country
music, while the wry turns of phrase on "I Don't Do Windows" and "This Ain't My
First Rodeo" are no less clever and funny now than they were decades ago. Songs
like "A-11" and "You Wouldn't Know Love" repeatedly prove the extent to which
Cochran's straightforward narratives, evocative melodies, and plainspoken
language have come to define the conventions of country songwriting, such that
even more obscure cuts like "She'll Be Back" and "I'd Fight the World" still
seem familiar.
If the material on Living for a Song trades heavily in archetypes, the
performances by Johnson and his collaborators offer some welcome surprises.
Johnson's never been known for the quality of his vocal performances or his
range of expression, but he's never sounded better than he does here. His
rough-hewn baritone is well suited to a weary song like "Would These Arms Be in
Your Way," and he proves himself to be a deft harmony singer on "Don't Touch
Me," a duet with Emmylou Harris. Both the lighthearted duet with Asleep at the
Wheel's Ray Benson on "I Don't Do Windows" and his back-and-forth repartee with
a feisty Lee Ann Womack on "This Ain't My First Rodeo" are notable departures
from his grizzled persona. To that end, Living for a Song allows Johnson to
challenge himself artistically even as he pays tribute to a dear friend.
No.35 of AllMusic's 2012 50 Best Albums
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