Grammy Nominee Best Album Notes - The Bakersfield Sound : Country Music Capital Of The West, 1940-1974
Scott B.Bomar, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Scott B.Bomar, album notes writer (Various Artists)
Press Archive - King Size Taylor Dr. Feelgood - Taylor Made LP (LP, 10inch) - musikreviews
FAZIT: Zitieren wir hier einfach mal aus dem „Scrap Book“, das dieser extrem raren, streng limitierten und sogar mit einem Autogramm-Foto samt Originalunterschrift versehenen, remasterten 10“-Vinyl-Version plus gut 65 Minuten langen CD beiliegt: „Neben den beiden Bonustracks aus einer frühen Demo-Session der Band enthält das Album, das du in deinen Händen hältst, auch Decca/Ariola-Tracks, die 1964 in Hamburg aufgenommen wurden. Dabei enthält die CD die kompletten 50er-Jahre-Demo-Sessions (hier zum ersten Mal auf CD!), sowie eine äußerst seltene UK-Decca-Single von 1964… This is KING SIZE TAYLOR's rock'n'roll-beat-slop-twist-parade!“
„Taylor Made“ von KING SIZE TAYLOR ist ein musikalischer Edelstein aus dem Hause Bear Family Records, mit dem sie sich zugleich selbst übertroffen haben! Absoluter Raritäten-Alarm auf höchstem Niveau!
FAZIT: Zitieren wir hier einfach mal aus dem „Scrap Book“, das dieser extrem raren, streng limitierten und sogar mit einem Autogramm-Foto samt Originalunterschrift versehenen, remasterten 10“-Vinyl-Version plus gut 65 Minuten langen CD beiliegt: „Neben den beiden Bonustracks aus einer frühen Demo-Session der Band enthält das Album, das du in deinen Händen hältst, auch Decca/Ariola-Tracks, die 1964 in Hamburg aufgenommen wurden. Dabei enthält die CD die kompletten 50er-Jahre-Demo-Sessions (hier zum ersten Mal auf CD!), sowie eine äußerst seltene UK-Decca-Single von 1964… This is KING SIZE TAYLOR's rock'n'roll-beat-slop-twist-parade!“
„Taylor Made“ von KING SIZE TAYLOR ist ein musikalischer Edelstein aus dem Hause Bear Family Records, mit dem sie sich zugleich selbst übertroffen haben! Absoluter Raritäten-Alarm auf höchstem Niveau!
Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - ricentral.com
Founded in 1975, Bear Family Records of Germany has pretty much set the golden standard for box set reissues beginning with multi-LP sets in its early days and moving to compact disc with its advent as a medium in the 1980s. The latter, by virtue of being able to contain up to 80 minutes of music on a single disc, afforded Bear Family the opportunity to amass even larger and more comprehensive retrospectives on an artist or genre spanning 10-CD sets focusing on such cats as Lefty Frizell and Fats Domino or more recently a compilation chronicling the Bakersfield, California country music scene from the 1940s to ‘70s. Consider Bear Family the vault raiders who invade the tombs of record companies and grab as much as they can on an artist and turn it into a lavish box set oft-times replete with hard-cover coffee table type book containing everything you need to know about the artist and recordings contained within. The country music singer/songwriter Bobby Bare has certainly qualified for legend status thanks to early smashes like “500 Miles from Home,” “Miller’s Cave,” “Four Strong Winds,” “Streets of Baltimore,” and “Detroit City,” as well as later hits “Marie Laveau” and “Daddy, What If.” A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a master of the country ballad, that last mentioned hit leads us into this week’s Ear Bliss focus which is the newest box set from Bear Family Records chronicling Bare’s work with the writer Shel Silverstein. Silverstein’s name is one mostly synonymous with children’s literature thanks to books like “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “Light in the Attic.” So how does a Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein connect? Whereas they had met prior thanks to Bare covering the hit song “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook & His Medicine Show which just so happened to be written by Silverstein, it wasn’t until meeting again at a music industry party that would get the collaborative ball rolling. It was also lead to a friendship that would last until 1999 when Silverstein succumbed to cancer. Over the course of that friendship, Bare by his own recollection would record over 100 Silverstein compositions, many of which made it to records beginning with the hit Bare album from 1973 entirely written by Silverstein called Lullabys, Legends and Lies. It leads off the new released 8-CD LP-sized box set titled Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus from Bear Family. It features some 137 songs representing six full albums including 25 previously unreleased tracks. It gets the Ear Bliss look-see this week. Let’s get to it.
Founded in 1975, Bear Family Records of Germany has pretty much set the golden standard for box set reissues beginning with multi-LP sets in its early days and moving to compact disc with its advent as a medium in the 1980s. The latter, by virtue of being able to contain up to 80 minutes of music on a single disc, afforded Bear Family the opportunity to amass even larger and more comprehensive retrospectives on an artist or genre spanning 10-CD sets focusing on such cats as Lefty Frizell and Fats Domino or more recently a compilation chronicling the Bakersfield, California country music scene from the 1940s to ‘70s. Consider Bear Family the vault raiders who invade the tombs of record companies and grab as much as they can on an artist and turn it into a lavish box set oft-times replete with hard-cover coffee table type book containing everything you need to know about the artist and recordings contained within. The country music singer/songwriter Bobby Bare has certainly qualified for legend status thanks to early smashes like “500 Miles from Home,” “Miller’s Cave,” “Four Strong Winds,” “Streets of Baltimore,” and “Detroit City,” as well as later hits “Marie Laveau” and “Daddy, What If.” A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a master of the country ballad, that last mentioned hit leads us into this week’s Ear Bliss focus which is the newest box set from Bear Family Records chronicling Bare’s work with the writer Shel Silverstein. Silverstein’s name is one mostly synonymous with children’s literature thanks to books like “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “Light in the Attic.” So how does a Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein connect? Whereas they had met prior thanks to Bare covering the hit song “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook & His Medicine Show which just so happened to be written by Silverstein, it wasn’t until meeting again at a music industry party that would get the collaborative ball rolling. It was also lead to a friendship that would last until 1999 when Silverstein succumbed to cancer. Over the course of that friendship, Bare by his own recollection would record over 100 Silverstein compositions, many of which made it to records beginning with the hit Bare album from 1973 entirely written by Silverstein called Lullabys, Legends and Lies. It leads off the new released 8-CD LP-sized box set titled Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus from Bear Family. It features some 137 songs representing six full albums including 25 previously unreleased tracks. It gets the Ear Bliss look-see this week. Let’s get to it.
Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - The Big Takeover
Bobby Bare – Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (Bear Family)
Bobby Bare Shel Silverstein
10 November 2020 by Jon M. Young
A celebrated children’s book author (“Where the Sidewalk Ends”), as well as a cartoonist and playwright, the multi-dimensional Shel Silverstein probably made his biggest mark as a songwriter, with such witty hits as the Johnny Cash smash “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone” to his credit. The performer most associated with his tunes, however, was the smooth country crooner Bobby Bare, who helped craft the template for the polished countrypolitan sound in the ‘60s on such smashes as “Detroit City” and “Five Hundred Miles Away from Home.”
Bare shifted gears in the early ‘70s, becoming a charter member of the outlaw movement that rejected conservative Nashville formulas and made superstars of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. From 1972 to 1983, he recorded more than a hundred of Silverstein’s inventive compositions, in the process creating the classic albums Lullabys, Legends and Lies and Down & Dirty. Offering 137 tracks (most written or co-written by Silverstein) on eight CDs, including more than two dozen previously unreleased cuts, along with a large, 128-page hardcover book, this wonderful set is a feast of irreverent humor, bracing social commentary and tender vignettes.
Among the six full or expanded albums featured in Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus are Hard Time Hungrys, a chronicle of economic struggle, and the family-oriented Singin’ in the Kitchen, while two discs of “Stray Bare Tracks” collect singles-only releases or otherwise-overlooked Silverstein songs from other projects.
On the basis of sheer bulk alone, this massive compilation could seem daunting, which is the opposite intent of the music. A supremely genial vocalist, Bare’s easygoing style brings a warm glow to gentle ballads and boozy barroom singalongs alike. Dig almost anywhere and a gem awaits! A few highlights: the toe-tapping tale of voodoo queen “Marie Laveau,” which topped the country charts in 1974; “Yard Full of Rusty Cars,” a sly, talking blues-style account of down-home hospitality; and the aching love song “When She Cries.”
Much like a great short story collection, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus brings all manner of memorable characters to life, celebrating oddballs, losers and renegades. It’s a perfect match of brilliant composer and masterful interpreter.
Bobby Bare – Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (Bear Family)
Bobby Bare Shel Silverstein
10 November 2020 by Jon M. Young
A celebrated children’s book author (“Where the Sidewalk Ends”), as well as a cartoonist and playwright, the multi-dimensional Shel Silverstein probably made his biggest mark as a songwriter, with such witty hits as the Johnny Cash smash “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone” to his credit. The performer most associated with his tunes, however, was the smooth country crooner Bobby Bare, who helped craft the template for the polished countrypolitan sound in the ‘60s on such smashes as “Detroit City” and “Five Hundred Miles Away from Home.”
Bare shifted gears in the early ‘70s, becoming a charter member of the outlaw movement that rejected conservative Nashville formulas and made superstars of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. From 1972 to 1983, he recorded more than a hundred of Silverstein’s inventive compositions, in the process creating the classic albums Lullabys, Legends and Lies and Down & Dirty. Offering 137 tracks (most written or co-written by Silverstein) on eight CDs, including more than two dozen previously unreleased cuts, along with a large, 128-page hardcover book, this wonderful set is a feast of irreverent humor, bracing social commentary and tender vignettes.
Among the six full or expanded albums featured in Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus are Hard Time Hungrys, a chronicle of economic struggle, and the family-oriented Singin’ in the Kitchen, while two discs of “Stray Bare Tracks” collect singles-only releases or otherwise-overlooked Silverstein songs from other projects.
On the basis of sheer bulk alone, this massive compilation could seem daunting, which is the opposite intent of the music. A supremely genial vocalist, Bare’s easygoing style brings a warm glow to gentle ballads and boozy barroom singalongs alike. Dig almost anywhere and a gem awaits! A few highlights: the toe-tapping tale of voodoo queen “Marie Laveau,” which topped the country charts in 1974; “Yard Full of Rusty Cars,” a sly, talking blues-style account of down-home hospitality; and the aching love song “When She Cries.”
Much like a great short story collection, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus brings all manner of memorable characters to life, celebrating oddballs, losers and renegades. It’s a perfect match of brilliant composer and masterful interpreter.
Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - amazon review!
Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
So, I was thrilled when I saw that the German-based reissue label Bear Family Records – which always goes “first class” on reissuing deluxe boxsets of artists who deserve, but rarely get, attention, I knew I’d learn more about the two of them. Yes,, like most reading this review, I knew Bobby Bare from basically one other recording back in the 1960s from his hit single “Detroit City” (written by Nashville writers Danny Dill and Mel Tillis) but other than the “LLandL album”, I knew little. After spending (literally) hours with this EIGHT-CD (plus 128-page hardbound Lp-size book) box I feel I know both guys. Thanks to the capacity of a CD vs. vinyl, the original two discs fit on the first CD. Then we get the follow-up album “Hard Time Hungrys (another misspelled title!) where not all, but most, are penned by Silverstein. Tracks recorded though not on the original album are added. “Singin’ in the Kitchen” – with the whole Bare family joining in gets the same treatment. A brief break in the flow of issued releases fills the next two CDs, “Stray Bare Tracks” and “More Stray Bare Tracks” before we get to “The COMPLETE Great American Saturday Night” ,and finally two albums from the 80s: “Down and Dirty” and “Drunk & Crazy” which ends with “Desperados Waiting For A Train”, the Guy Clark song made famous by the late Jerry Jeff Walker.
The book has an essay on Silverstein and a new interview with Bare plus the lyrics to all 137 songs in the set.
Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
So, I was thrilled when I saw that the German-based reissue label Bear Family Records – which always goes “first class” on reissuing deluxe boxsets of artists who deserve, but rarely get, attention, I knew I’d learn more about the two of them. Yes,, like most reading this review, I knew Bobby Bare from basically one other recording back in the 1960s from his hit single “Detroit City” (written by Nashville writers Danny Dill and Mel Tillis) but other than the “LLandL album”, I knew little. After spending (literally) hours with this EIGHT-CD (plus 128-page hardbound Lp-size book) box I feel I know both guys. Thanks to the capacity of a CD vs. vinyl, the original two discs fit on the first CD. Then we get the follow-up album “Hard Time Hungrys (another misspelled title!) where not all, but most, are penned by Silverstein. Tracks recorded though not on the original album are added. “Singin’ in the Kitchen” – with the whole Bare family joining in gets the same treatment. A brief break in the flow of issued releases fills the next two CDs, “Stray Bare Tracks” and “More Stray Bare Tracks” before we get to “The COMPLETE Great American Saturday Night” ,and finally two albums from the 80s: “Down and Dirty” and “Drunk & Crazy” which ends with “Desperados Waiting For A Train”, the Guy Clark song made famous by the late Jerry Jeff Walker.
The book has an essay on Silverstein and a new interview with Bare plus the lyrics to all 137 songs in the set.
Press Archive - Jerry Lee Lewis The Ballads Of Jerry Lee Lewis - musikreviews.de
„Elvis war der Größte, ich war der Beste!“ (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Die meisten von uns bringen mit dem Namen JERRY LEE LEWIS sowie seinem Spitznamen „The Killer“ sofort leidenschaftlich-feurige Rock'n'Roll-Nummern der Marke „Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On“ oder „Great Balls Of Fire“ in Verbindung.
Aber Balladen?! Wenn ein paar vielleicht, oder?
Bear Family Records belehren uns mal wieder eines Besseren und präsentieren auf diesem JERRY LEE LEWIS-Album gleich 27 Balladen vom letzten noch lebenden Rock'n'Roll-Urgestein, die eine satte Laufzeit von 72 Minuten in Anspruch nehmen.
Na, wer hätte das gedacht?
„The Ballads Of JERRY LEE LEWIS“ offenbaren die sicher nicht nur uneigennützige ruhige Seite des Mannes, der durchaus auch mal sein Klavier in Brand setzte, wenn er „Great Balls Of Fire“ spielte, denn neben seiner leidenschaftlichen Rocker-Wildheit war auch sein leidenschaftlicher Hang zur Erotik bekannt, wobei Lewis in dieser Beziehung absolut nichts anbrennen ließ.
Und was half ihm bei seinen Verführungskünsten besonders?
Natürlich auch ein paar feine, herzerweichende Balladen zu schreiben, spielen und singen, bei denen nicht nur die Augen der weiblichen Zunft feucht wurden. Und genau die hört man im Grunde komplett auf diesem Balladen-Album – allesamt beschränkt auf die Zeit von 1956 bis 1963 und unter dem Sun-Records-Label aufgenommen.
„Elvis war der Größte, ich war der Beste!“ (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Die meisten von uns bringen mit dem Namen JERRY LEE LEWIS sowie seinem Spitznamen „The Killer“ sofort leidenschaftlich-feurige Rock'n'Roll-Nummern der Marke „Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On“ oder „Great Balls Of Fire“ in Verbindung.
Aber Balladen?! Wenn ein paar vielleicht, oder?
Bear Family Records belehren uns mal wieder eines Besseren und präsentieren auf diesem JERRY LEE LEWIS-Album gleich 27 Balladen vom letzten noch lebenden Rock'n'Roll-Urgestein, die eine satte Laufzeit von 72 Minuten in Anspruch nehmen.
Na, wer hätte das gedacht?
„The Ballads Of JERRY LEE LEWIS“ offenbaren die sicher nicht nur uneigennützige ruhige Seite des Mannes, der durchaus auch mal sein Klavier in Brand setzte, wenn er „Great Balls Of Fire“ spielte, denn neben seiner leidenschaftlichen Rocker-Wildheit war auch sein leidenschaftlicher Hang zur Erotik bekannt, wobei Lewis in dieser Beziehung absolut nichts anbrennen ließ.
Und was half ihm bei seinen Verführungskünsten besonders?
Natürlich auch ein paar feine, herzerweichende Balladen zu schreiben, spielen und singen, bei denen nicht nur die Augen der weiblichen Zunft feucht wurden. Und genau die hört man im Grunde komplett auf diesem Balladen-Album – allesamt beschränkt auf die Zeit von 1956 bis 1963 und unter dem Sun-Records-Label aufgenommen.
Presse Archiv - KRAUT! - Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 - streetclip
Nachdem sich der erste Teil dem Norden und Teil zwei der Mitte Deutschlands widmete, handelt vorliegender dritter Teil von Bands aus dem Süden der Republik und da werden Orte genannt, die nun auch mal in meiner Nähe liegen. Ja, mehr als das, denn mit Zweibrücken ist sogar meine ehemalige Heimatstadt vertreten und da kann es nur eine Band geben, die auf so eine Zusammenstellung gehört. Eine Band, die wohl (u. a.) Uriah Heep das Fürchten gelehrt hätte, wäre sie nicht in der Provinz, sondern vielleicht im Hannoveraner Raum oder in anderen bekannten urbanen Schmieden am Werkeln gewesen: Action.
Gerade diese Band in der vorbildlichen Kompilationsreihe deutscher Musikgeschichte zu sehen, erfreut mich ungemein. Es zeigt auch, wie tief gegraben wurde, um Bands für "Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock" auszuwählen, denn der Bekanntheitsradius dieser Band dürfte den südwestpfälzisch-, saarländischen Raum nicht sehr weit übersteigen.
Nachdem sich der erste Teil dem Norden und Teil zwei der Mitte Deutschlands widmete, handelt vorliegender dritter Teil von Bands aus dem Süden der Republik und da werden Orte genannt, die nun auch mal in meiner Nähe liegen. Ja, mehr als das, denn mit Zweibrücken ist sogar meine ehemalige Heimatstadt vertreten und da kann es nur eine Band geben, die auf so eine Zusammenstellung gehört. Eine Band, die wohl (u. a.) Uriah Heep das Fürchten gelehrt hätte, wäre sie nicht in der Provinz, sondern vielleicht im Hannoveraner Raum oder in anderen bekannten urbanen Schmieden am Werkeln gewesen: Action.
Gerade diese Band in der vorbildlichen Kompilationsreihe deutscher Musikgeschichte zu sehen, erfreut mich ungemein. Es zeigt auch, wie tief gegraben wurde, um Bands für "Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock" auszuwählen, denn der Bekanntheitsradius dieser Band dürfte den südwestpfälzisch-, saarländischen Raum nicht sehr weit übersteigen.
Presse Archiv - KRAUT! - Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock 1968-1979 - rocktimes
Nachdem sich der erste Teil dem Norden und Teil zwei der Mitte Deutschlands widmete, handelt vorliegender dritter Teil von Bands aus dem Süden der Republik und da werden Orte genannt, die nun auch mal in meiner Nähe liegen. Ja, mehr als das, denn mit Zweibrücken ist sogar meine ehemalige Heimatstadt vertreten und da kann es nur eine Band geben, die auf so eine Zusammenstellung gehört. Eine Band, die wohl (u. a.) Uriah Heep das Fürchten gelehrt hätte, wäre sie nicht in der Provinz, sondern vielleicht im Hannoveraner Raum oder in anderen bekannten urbanen Schmieden am Werkeln gewesen: Action.
Gerade diese Band in der vorbildlichen Kompilationsreihe deutscher Musikgeschichte zu sehen, erfreut mich ungemein. Es zeigt auch, wie tief gegraben wurde, um Bands für "Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock" auszuwählen, denn der Bekanntheitsradius dieser Band dürfte den südwestpfälzisch-, saarländischen Raum nicht sehr weit übersteigen.
Nachdem sich der erste Teil dem Norden und Teil zwei der Mitte Deutschlands widmete, handelt vorliegender dritter Teil von Bands aus dem Süden der Republik und da werden Orte genannt, die nun auch mal in meiner Nähe liegen. Ja, mehr als das, denn mit Zweibrücken ist sogar meine ehemalige Heimatstadt vertreten und da kann es nur eine Band geben, die auf so eine Zusammenstellung gehört. Eine Band, die wohl (u. a.) Uriah Heep das Fürchten gelehrt hätte, wäre sie nicht in der Provinz, sondern vielleicht im Hannoveraner Raum oder in anderen bekannten urbanen Schmieden am Werkeln gewesen: Action.
Gerade diese Band in der vorbildlichen Kompilationsreihe deutscher Musikgeschichte zu sehen, erfreut mich ungemein. Es zeigt auch, wie tief gegraben wurde, um Bands für "Die innovativen Jahre des Krautrock" auszuwählen, denn der Bekanntheitsradius dieser Band dürfte den südwestpfälzisch-, saarländischen Raum nicht sehr weit übersteigen.
Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - Elmore magazine
No BS, when it comes to box sets, Bear Family Records seems to set the standard. Just consider the numbers on their latest LP-sized deluxe offering: 137 tracks on 8 CDs, 6 complete albums, 25 previously unreleased masters, one 128 page hardcover book, containing interviews, tributes, photos and more photos, no selfies, but beaucoup “shelfies” (portraits by Lawson Little), along with a down-to-the-last-detail discography of sessions that ran across two decades, all of it artistically packaged and remastered beautifully so it sounds like it was recorded yesterday.
Like “sessions,” the often-repeated word in Bare’s first big 1959 hit “All American Boy,” playing on lots of sessions were always very important to Robert Joseph Bare Sr.. The music world first knew Bobby as “Bill Parsons” thanks to sloppy label copy on that Top 40 hit.There’s no sloppiness here with this outstanding Bear Family production of the now CMHOF legend’s prolific partial lives work. The bulk of it originates from one irrepressible songwriter, Shel Silverstein. Much of it is conceptual, a term that did not exist in the Music Row that cranked out standard issue LPs back then, with one or two hits and eight placeholders.
No BS, when it comes to box sets, Bear Family Records seems to set the standard. Just consider the numbers on their latest LP-sized deluxe offering: 137 tracks on 8 CDs, 6 complete albums, 25 previously unreleased masters, one 128 page hardcover book, containing interviews, tributes, photos and more photos, no selfies, but beaucoup “shelfies” (portraits by Lawson Little), along with a down-to-the-last-detail discography of sessions that ran across two decades, all of it artistically packaged and remastered beautifully so it sounds like it was recorded yesterday.
Like “sessions,” the often-repeated word in Bare’s first big 1959 hit “All American Boy,” playing on lots of sessions were always very important to Robert Joseph Bare Sr.. The music world first knew Bobby as “Bill Parsons” thanks to sloppy label copy on that Top 40 hit.There’s no sloppiness here with this outstanding Bear Family production of the now CMHOF legend’s prolific partial lives work. The bulk of it originates from one irrepressible songwriter, Shel Silverstein. Much of it is conceptual, a term that did not exist in the Music Row that cranked out standard issue LPs back then, with one or two hits and eight placeholders.