Search - Red Sovine :: 16 Gospel Super Hits

Nice later recordings

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 02/07/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Red Sovine, best known for his 1950s and '60s trucker songs and recitations, is captured here in these late-vintage sessions clearly mining Tennessee Ernie Ford territory -- poppish country gospel with a painfully earnest "oooh-waaah" chorus singing behind him. Actually, these recordings are pretty good, particularly for folks who are into Southern Gospel style music... The songs that were more simplistically written ("Church Around The Corner," for example...) suit him well. As with many of these latter-day King releases, the liner notes are pretty vague, and don't tell us exactly when these recordings were made... I'd guess the mid-1970s, or so. Sovine fans won't be disappointed."