Daryle Singletary - Straight from the Heart

Title: Straight from the Heart Artist: Daryle Singletary Release Date: 2/27/2007 Label: Shanachie UPCs: 016351620125, 829410267663 Genre: Country Styles: Contemporary Country, New Traditionalist, Neo-Traditionalist Country Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Bittersweet, Earnest, Earthy, Intimate, Plaintive, Poignant, Reverent, Sentimental, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
2. Black Sheep
3. Some Broken Hearts Never Mend
4. Promises
5. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
6. Jesus and Bartenders
7. These Days I Barely Get By
8. Miami, My Amy
9. I Still Sing This Way
10. Lovin' on the Back Streets
11. Fifteen Years Ago
12. We're Gonna Hold On

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Shanachie 6201

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After five long years, Daryle Singletary returns to recording. From the sound of Straight from the Heart, it's like he never left. Singletary has been called many things since the idle 1990s when he began his singing career -- "new traditionalist," "neo-traditionalist," etc. -- yet he comes from a different, harder stock of vocalist: he stands tall in the great honky tonk lineage of singers like Ernest Tubb, George Jones, early Ray Price, Merle Haggard, and Buck Owens. The song choices on this set are a mix of modern tunes and country music standards -- Hag's "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down," Jones' "These Days I Barely Get By" and "We're Gonna Hold On" (in duet with Rhonda Vincent), Hank Cochran's "Miami, My Amy," Harlan Howard's nugget "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" (with Ricky Skaggs), and Bob Altman's "Black Sheep" (with John Anderson), among others. And for the record, he does these songs straight; he has no need to change an arrangement when his voice is so deep and pure. Certainly the production is a bit on the technological side, but that's the way things are done now, and these are not meant to be archival imitative recordings: they are new readings of heritage material. Singletary's got enough worldliness in the grain of his delivery to make these songs as relevant now as they were when they were first recorded, and enough chutzpah not to sound overly reverent, either. Straight from the Heart is a fine hardcore country music comeback from a truly great singer. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Name Credits Aubrey Haynie Fiddle Brent Mason Guitar (Electric) Bryan Sutton Guitar (Acoustic) Catherine Styron Marx Piano Chuck Rhodes Producer Danny Parks Guitar (Electric) Darrin Vincent Vocals (Background) Duncan Mullins Bass George Jones Author Gregory Cole Producer, Engineer Hargus "Pig" Robbins Piano Joe Caverlee Fiddle John Anderson Vocals, Guest Appearance Lorien Babjian Package Design Mike Johnson Guitar (Steel) Rhonda Vincent Vocals, Guest Appearance, Duet, Vocals (Background) Ricky Cobble Engineer Ricky Skaggs Vocals, Guest Appearance Scott Hunter Photography Shannon Forrest Drums Steve Short Assistant Engineer