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Title: A for effort, C for results
Review: I would really have liked to be able to say that this is a good album, but sadly it isn't. It has a lot of good ingredients, but they don't mix very well. The sound is murky, and almost every song sounds like it was recorded in a rush - and that applies to the choice of tempi as well. Allison Moorer's rendering of "Back street affair" is simply awful. Dwight Yoakam sounds like he is doing a parody of.....Dwight Yoakam, and about half of the other singers just try to mimick Webb Pierce's (unimitable) singing style. Most have chosen songs that do not fit their voices, and even George Jones has lost his "soul". There are few instrumental efforts that deserve any notice - even Weldon Myrick's steel playing sounds uninspired. And so on... OK, Mandy Barnett does fine, as does Willie Nelson, and it was nice hearing Crystal Gayle again, but my overall impression is that Webb Pierce's legacy deserves better.
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