Bill Anderson returns to recording studio
Friday, August 7, 2009 – Whisperin' Bill Anderson returned to the recording studio this week with an album due before the end of the year.
Anderson teamed-up with his producer/engineer, Rex Schnelle to start recording a new CD at studios in Nashville. Anderson said the album will contain songs he wrote with such collaborators as Jamie Johnson of The Grascals, Brad Paisley, Jon Randall, Rivers Rutherford, Buddy Cannon, Tim Nichols, Barry Dean and Casey Beathard.
Product is expected to be available before Christmas in select stores and at billanderson.com.
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Whisperin' Bluegrass
After over 40 years in country music, Bill Anderson reaches back to his roots as a South Carolina kid and applies his whisperin' style to bluegrass. He paints the picture in "I've Got a Thing About a Five String," one of three new songs on the project.
Anderson includes two other new songs, "My Perfect Reason" and "Everything I Want (And Not a Thing I Need)" and draws several more from his deep catalog of songs often made famous by other artists such as »»» |
The Way I Feel
Though Whisperin' Bill Anderson had an impressive run of hits in the 1960s, lately he has been best known as a songwriter, penning hits for Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley. Anderson's own version of "Whiskey Lullaby," Paisley's hit duet with Alison Krauss, is included here, though Anderson's delivery isn't quite as haunting without Krauss' accompaniment.
Anderson has earned another lease on his creative life mostly through writing with younger artists, and he continues that trend here with, "Cold »»» |
A Lot Of Things Different
With his well-deserved induction into Country Music's Hall of Fame, Bill Anderson's profile is on the rise. So this disc, self-released last year, finally gets into stores. Anderson remains a vital songwriter, and two of this album's new songs have already received major covers ("Too Country" by Brad Paisley, and the title track by Kenny Chesney). The opening "Love Is A Fragile Thing" is an even more likely hit. Also on board are a couple of his old songs, including "When Two Worlds Collide," »»» |
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Concert Review: McBride, Adkins shine sometimes –
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