Leon Everette If I Keep On Going Crazy - Hurricane - Doin' What I Feel (2-CD)

(2017/Morello Records) 34 tracks incl. 5 bonus tracks - 3 Classic Albums on 2 CDs

This 2 CD set comprises 3 original albums plus 5 bonus tracks all released on RCA Records and features 17 hit singles. If I Keep On Going Crazy released in 1981 provided many hit singles including the title track.

Other hits are Shadows Of My Mind, Over’, I Don’t Want To Lose, Don’t Feel Like The Lone Ranger, I Love That Woman (Like The Devil Loves Sin) and Giving Up Easy.

Hurricane (1981), gave Leon his biggest hit with the title track. The other chart single from this album was Midnight Rodeo, while the revival of Stonewall Jackson’s Don’t Be Angry revealed the singer’s fondness for old-time country music.

The third album in this collection Doin’ What I Feel contained the hits The Lady, She’s Right which featured harmony vocals by Rex Gosdin (brother of Vern), I Could’a Had You and Shot In The Dark. The five bonus tracks are taken from the 1983 mini album Leon Everette and includes the hits My Lady Loves Me (Just As I Am), Soul Searchin and Just Give Me What You Think Is Fair. First time release on CD.

geb. 21. 6. 1948 in Ward - South CarolinaRecord Labels: True, Orlando, RCA, MercuryErster Hit: l Love That Woman (1977)Erster Top Ten Hit: Over (1980)Leon Everette schaffte bei dem kleinen Label „True“ seinenersten Hitparadenerfolg. Mit der rührigen Firma Orlandokam er 1980 erstmals unter die Top Ten und erregte dasAufsehen der RCA, die ihn noch im gleichen Jahr unter Vertrag nahm. Dann folgte ein Top Ten Hit nach dem anderen,nur, der Spitzenreiter wollte sich nicht einstellen. Für einegroße Firma nach einer kleinen Wartefrist meist ein Signal,den Künstler wieder zu entlassen.