Jim Reeves - Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]
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Track List: Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]
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Disc 1:
- Mexican JoeDownload & Buy
- BimboDownload & Buy
- Beatin' On The Ding DongDownload & Buy
- Penny CandyDownload & Buy
- Drinking TequilaDownload & Buy
- Yonder Comes A SuckerDownload & Buy
- According To My HeartDownload & Buy
- Waiting For A TrainDownload & Buy
- Four WallsDownload & Buy
- Two Shadows On Your WindowDownload & Buy
- Blue BoyDownload & Buy
- It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)Download & Buy
- Billy BayouDownload & Buy
- HomeDownload & Buy
- He'll Have To GoDownload & Buy
- I'm Gettin' BetterDownload & Buy
- I Know OneDownload & Buy
- I Missed MeDownload & Buy
- Am I Losing You?Download & Buy
- The BlizzardDownload & Buy
Disc 2:
- Losing Your Love
- Adios Amigo
- I'm Gonna Change Everything
- Is This Me?
- Guilty
- Welcome To My World
- Love Is No Excuse
- I Guess I'm Crazy
- I Won't Forget You
- This Is It
- Is It Really Over?
- Snow Flake
- Distant Drums
- Blue Side Of Lonesome
- I Won't Come In While He's There
- I Heard A Heart Break Last Night
- That's When I See The Blues (In Your Pretty Brown Eyes)
- When You Are Gone
- When Two Worlds Collide
- Angels Don't Lie
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Album Details: Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]
- Release Date:
- 05/30/2006
- Label:
- Rca
- UPC:
- 828768143025
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Expertly picked 40-track anthology of Nashville hi
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Pro Reviews: Essential Jim Reeves [RCA Nashville/Legacy]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews RCA/Legacy's 2006 release The Essential Jim Reeves is a repackaged reissue of BMG Heritage's 2003 compilation Anthology, containing a different title and cover art, but bearing the same 40 tracks and annotation. There has been no shortage of Jim Reeves compilations over the years, ranging from cheap budgetline collections to Bear Family's absurdly comprehensive 16CD set, Welcome to My World. In between those two extremes were 1993's doubledisc Welcome to My World: The Essential Jim Reeves and 1995's singledisc The Essential Jim Reeves, both of which covered the basics quite well, and 2000s doubledisc German release The Singles, 1953 to 1960, an excellent distillation of his peak years. Despite the strengths of these releases, no set offered such a wideranging and complete overview as this superb collection, now titled The Essential Jim Reeves. Spanning 40 tracks over two discs, the set begins with his first big hit, "Mexican Joe" in 1953, and ends with "Angels Don't Lie," which charted in 1970, six years after his tragic death in 1964. Reeves had plenty of hits even after 1970 he appeared on the Billboard country charts regularly for 20 years after his death and he had so many hits during his lifetime that they can't all be condensed into one 40track collection, but what makes The Essential Jim Reeves so good is its expert song selection. It picks both the biggest hits and greatest songs, making this both the best hits collection and summary of his career for those who want a thorough but not exhaustive overview of his work. Those other collections are excellent in different ways, but this is the one that should be in every country collection. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: Right-sized collection of Reeves' essential sides.
Cons: Reissue of 2003 "Anthology" release with a new title and cover art.
Reeves was a consistent presence in the country charts throughout the late 50s and early 60s, landing single after single in the upper reaches of the country charts, and often finding crossover success in the pop world. So unquenchable was the public's thirst for his work that even his untimely death in a 1964 plane crash couldn't quell his commercial success; his posthumous releases continued to land at the top of the country chart throughout the rest of the '60s, and albums that mixed these hits with previously released material continued to sell briskly.
Reeves' earliest successes, recorded for Fabor Robison's Abbott label, hardly predicted the soft Nashville Sound he'd spearhead just a few years later. 1953's "Mexican Joe" and "Bimbo," are chock full of twang, and though the playful lyrics are more Arthur Godfrey than Hank Williams, the barrelhouse piano, fiddle and steel are miles from the pop-influenced material Reeves would record at RCA. It was that 1955 transition, moving from Abbott to RCA (and not coincidentally moving from the Louisiana Hayride to the Grand Ol' Opry) that gave Reeves his new sound.
It wasn't an instantaneous transition, as 1955's "Yonder Comes a Sucker" shows. Reeves is still singing country, and his 1956 cover of Jimmie Rodgers' "Waiting for a Train" still has fiddle and steel at the break. Where you can really start to hear the turn is with 1957's Chet Atkins produced "Four Walls," on which the tempo is slowed, smooth background singers are added, and Reeves draws out his vocal into a bona fide croon. Throughout the rest of the decade Reeves and Atkins continued to explore and tune the new sound, smoothing out both the singing and arrangements as they went.
Reeves discovery of himself as a ballad singer had nothing but a positive effect on his career, sustaining his country success and crossing over with the likes of "Four Walls, "He'll Have to Go," and "Welcome to My World." Throughout the early '60s his singles continued to top the country chart while regularly turning up in the lower reaches of the pop top 100. Though Reeves could write his own material, he and Atkins also had good ears for songs from Nashville stalwarts like Roger Miller, Bill Anderson, Harlan Howard, and many others. The result is an unusually strong and deep catalog of easy-going material that shares some of the somnambulistic qualities of Perry Como, but retaining a hint of the edge with which Reeves began.
Among the dozens of Reeves collections, this 2-CD set stands tall. Originally released in 2003 under the title "Jim Reeves ...