Essential Charley Pride

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Artist: Charley Pride
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Before I Met You
  2. Just Between You And Me
  3. I Know One
  4. The Day The World Stood Still
  5. The Easy Part's Over
  6. Let The Chips Fall
  7. Kaw-Liga
  8. All I Have To Offer You (Is Me)
  9. (I'm So) Afraid Of Losing You Again
  10. Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
  11. Wonder Could I Live There Anymore
  12. Did You Think To Pray
  13. I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me
  14. I'm Just Me
  15. Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'
  16. All His Children
  17. It's Gonna Take A Little Bit Longer
  18. She's Too Good To Be True
  19. A Shoulder To Cry On
  20. Don't Fight The Feelings Of Love
Music CD 2
  1. Amazing Love
  2. We Could
  3. Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town
  4. Then Who Am I
  5. I Ain't All Bad
  6. Hope You're Feelin' Me (Like I'm Feelin' You)
  7. She's Just An Old Love Turned Memory
  8. I'll Be Leaving Alone
  9. More To Me
  10. Someone Loves You Honey
  11. When I Stop Leaving (I'll Be Gone)
  12. Where Do I Put Her Memory
  13. You Win Again
  14. You Almost Slipped My Mind
  15. Roll On Mississippi
  16. You're So Good When You're Bad
  17. Why Baby Why
  18. Night Games
  19. The Power Of Love
  20. Down On The Farm

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Music Review: Solid look at Pride's hit-making RCA years
Rating: 5 Stars

This double-disc set is a straight up reissue of 2003's "Anthology," featuring the same 40 tracks, and the same liner notes. That said, it's still the best introduction to Pride's great career at RCA, whatever RCA wants to use as a title. The material spans Pride's entire twenty year run at RCA, from his second single, 1966's "Before I Met You," through his final year's "Down on the Farm" in 1985. In between, the collection does an excellent job of cherry-picking from Pride's extensive catalog and eye-popping chart success. Out of 54 singles issued for RCA, 51 hit the country Top-10, and many of his chart-toppers crossed over to minor pop success.

Pride's commercial success began with the Grammy® winning top-10 "Just You and Me" from 1966. Written by Jack Clement and produced by Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson and Clement, Pride's masterful baritone is set between twangy pedal steel and a countrypolitan background chorus. For all the recognition Pride has received as country music's first (and really only) African American superstar, his music, particularly as produced by Clement, is completely colorblind. His song choices speak to country music's universal experiences of love and loss, and his voice, while quite unique, is marked mostly by his Southern raising.

Taking off from his first chart success, Pride minted an amazing streak of top-10s, including a run of #1s from 1969 through 1971. Of the six ("All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)," "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again," "(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone," "Wonder Could I Live There Anymore," "I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Loving Me," and "I'd Rather Love You), only the last is missing from this set. Clement's use of chorus backings adds an element of resolve and strength to Pride's laments, creating the sense of a man who still has friends to help pick him up after various emotional devastations. His carefree whistling outro to "San Antone" suggests a happier future, and a cover of Merle Haggard's "A Shoulder to Cry On" is more apologetic than Haggard's desolate original.

Pride could also sing happy songs, like his signature "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," topping the country chart and nearly edging into the pop Top-20. The faith-inspired follow-up, "All His Children" (from the film "Sometimes a Great Notion"), adds a sweeping chorus and a Henry Mancini string arrangement. Even more lush are the strings and harmonies for 1978's "Someone Loves You Honey." Pride continued to sound country in voice, even as the productions crossed over to the pop music featured on disc two. The early '80s brought the disco-fied #1 "Night Games" a twangy live cover of George Jones' "Why Baby Why," and the collection closing homage to small farms, "Down on the Farm."

A recording career as deep as Pride's can't be fully covered in only two discs, and so there are missing hits (e.g., 1980's #1 "Honky Tonk Blues") and favorite album cuts that still await reissue. But with the bulk of Pride's catalog still in the vault, these forty tracks will need to sate those new to Pride's catalog, and whet the appetite of those who still hanging on to their original vinyl. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com]
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