David Frizzell - Confidentiality
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Track List: Confidentiality
- Cowboy Hats
- Warm Spanish Wine
- Why Wasn't It Me
- Boogyin' & Woogyin'
- It Takes Me All Night Long
- American Nights
- Reckless Wind
- In the Pine
- Confidentially
- Run Like the Wind
- Paint by Numbers
- Distance and Time
- Let the Good Times Roll [#][*]
- Sweet Memories [#][*]
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Album Details: Confidentiality
- Release Date:
- 11/30/2004
- Label:
- Madacy Records
- UPC:
- 628261087723
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Confidentally
, August 3, 2005Reviewer: James G - See all James G's reviews
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| EXPERT RATING: No Rating From AMG Reviews David Frizzell's recording, Confidentially, is one of those offerings that makes us remember where country music peaked creatively. The new material here is very strong, beginning with "Warm Spanish Wine," a ballad with all the great trappings of a good country song: lost love, regret, memories, and the comfort of alcohol. But this is no hardbitten honky tonk song; it's full of passion, not pathos. It's a love song that echoes in the hallways of the mind. Frizzell's own "It Takes Me All Night Long," with Jimmy Fortune, is that cut time honky tonk number, but it's a paean to lost youth. Frizzell's "Why Wasn't It Me,?" (the second of four originals here) with new duet partner Amy Clawson, offers a portrait of the country singer in astonishing form. His voice erases, rather than reminds us, of all the years he's been out there. Clawson's contralto is a perfect foil to float with Frizzell's in this tale of unrequited love, and it comes from the belly as the pedal steel whinnies and whines with strings falling in the middle of the mix and a chorus sweetly crooning behind the entire proceeding. "Cowboy Hats," with Bobby Bare, is a goodtime, rollicking countryrocker, full of genuine redneck joy, and a scathing indictment of Nash Vegas' business practices; but it is the oddity here, not the rule, and Frizzell sacrifices not one ounce of his integrity, and neither does Bare. While there are many fine songwriters who contribute to this worthy and skillful rebirth of a genuine legend Kostas, Roger Alan Wade, Dennis Knutson, Dewayne Blackwell, and more it's Frizzell's songs that are the most satisfying here. One can hear not only the heart in his delivery, but the artful craft, the entire history of country music itself. Confidentially is not some halfassed comeback record to put a little cash in the bank for the artist who is lingering in obscurity, it is a major statement, a force to be reckoned with, a fierce thing of beauty by an artist who changed the music, and who is so utterly viable, so completely in possession of his powers as a writer and performer, that his songs should be covered by anyone interested in the real thing. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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David Frizzell Biography
Just like Hank Williams Jr. he's standing in the shadows of a very famous man, but David Frizzell became a country star in his own right during the '80s. The younger brother of country legend Lefty Frizzell, David was born September 26, 1941, in El D...Full David Frizzell Biography
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Pros: New material
Cons: Cd not given any exposure
The opening song,"Cowboy Hats"is a very much true song of record labels these days as the song says"We are pulling stars out of cowboy hats"."Warm Spanish Wine"is a tale of first love and has a mild spanish guitar and vocal flair,nice song.Most of the other songs are good by standards with the exception the lower point of the album is the song,Let the good times roll.It does not really suit the singer or the overall CD.Davids' voice is still uneven but that has always been the case.The producer done an admiral job as well as the harmony and background singers to help level the effect.Agood album on the whole. ...