Redd'
s CD Review
REDD STEWART
"I REMEMBER"
Ambridge Music, Inc.
www.reddstewart.com
Playing Time: 27:18
"I Remember" is a very fitting and well-deserved tribute to the "fiddle-playin', guitar-pickin'cowboy with the "voice as smooth as honey..."
Many fans of good Country music are probably unaware, as I was, of Redd Stewart's marvelous impact on Country music, songslike the immortal "Tennessee Waltz," still the biggest selling single ever for a female artist (Patti Page), and "Bonaparte's Retreat," which propelled singer Kay Starr into the limelight. Both were written by Redd with his Golden West Cowboys sidekick, Pee Wee King. Here, Ambridge Music brings back 11 wonderful Redd Stewart cuts, a high quality, well-engineered recording assembled with a handsome and informative liner booklet complete with lyrics. Classics all, six written or co-written by Redd, and all sung in his unmistakable, resonant Country baritone. Redd's own title cut appropriately kicks this fine collection off very well; originals like, "Sunshine Over The Hill," and "Dreamin' Again" are interspersed creatively with covers like Rod Morris' "Bimbo," Don Gibson's "Having Second Thoughts," and Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart."
This is wonderful music that takes me back at once 50 years to AM Radio and real, honest Country music, and again to just a few years ago performing them myself in local bands ..... timeless! Unaware of his name I might have been, but certainly not the music or the voice. Easily the equal of names like Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Ernest Tubb (who made Redd's "A Soldier's Last Letter" a crossover hit in 1944), and others surrounding him during this Golden Age of Country music; it's even more amazing and quite disappointing to realize that Redd has not been given a prominent place among his peers in the Country Music Hall of Fame. If only for composing "Tennessee Waltz," Redd Stewart certainly belongs there. And with all this excellent Country music here alone, it's downright criminal he isn't . . . . . .
Joe Falletta
Free-Lance
Writer and Reviewer for
joezeke5@yahoo.com
March 18, 2005
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