Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 24-Feb-99 Re: Hyper produced
Bobby Bare by "lance davis"@simplecom.
> you have to allow for those moments where
> individual talent rise above. Some folks' tastes run to Bare or Snow. Mine
> sure run to Ray Charles and Charlie Rich, two cases where (lip-)glossy
> production values didn't always hurt their ability to make a soulful
> artistic country statement.
Not at all. Charles's version of Your Cheatin' Heart uses strings,
backup singers and gloss to wonderful effect, accentuating his phrasing.
It'd be a fine song a capella, but the production does him right.
Carl Z.
