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Because You Believed in Me / Beautiful Country
Gene Watson
Because You Believed in Me / Beautiful Country
Genres: Country, Pop
 
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Between his major label debut on Capitol Records in 1975 & the present day, Gene Watson has excelled with his traditional slant on country music and has enjoyed several hit singles on the Country charts. Watson is a si...  more »

     
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All Artists: Gene Watson
Title: Because You Believed in Me / Beautiful Country
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hux Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 10/10/2005
Genres: Country, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Roadhouse Country, Classic Country
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 682970000725

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Album Description
Between his major label debut on Capitol Records in 1975 & the present day, Gene Watson has excelled with his traditional slant on country music and has enjoyed several hit singles on the Country charts. Watson is a singer in country music's grand tradition & has the skill to give powerful vocal performances and draw all the emotion from his selected material effortlessly. In 1976, Watson released his second LP on the Capitol label, Because You Believed In Me, the title track of which was a Top 20 hit single. Beautiful Country, released the following year, included the hit singles 'The Old Man & His Horn', 'I Don't Need A Thing At All', and 'Cowboys Don't Get Lucky All The Time', which was a hit in 1978. This latter song also appeared on the soundtrack of the Sam Peckinpah movie 'Convoy?. The two albums on this CD are drawn from the most commercially successful period of his career and capture Watson in his prime. Both released here on CD for the first time. Hux. 2005.
 

CD Reviews

Can't find the right words to classify this twofer....!
Ronald Van Scherpenzeel | Madrid, Spain | 08/05/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"When you like to find out some more about an artist whom you

casually heard a song of you liked very much, the next step is

to get a "greatest hits" compilation and see if the initial

impression is possitive indeed. When I bought the "Ultimate

Collection" of Gene Watson, I liked it so much that I gave it

5 stars (see one of the previous reviews). Since there were

more "greatest hits" compilations I kept on buying them and

every time I was more impressed with Gene's style of singing

and the selection of songs. Only 2 or 3 weeks ago I bought

his latest CD from 2005 (that means a gap of 16 years)and

again it was 5 stars worth because nothing had changed: a

beautiful way of singing great songs. Finally I decided to

purchase these two original LP's on one CD although I was a

little bit worried about its contents because when any artist

normally has some good songs on a LP or CD there are also

usually some minor songs. Wrong!!! To anyone who likes Gene

Watson or country music in general THIS IS A MUST! I can't

find the right words to describe these two complete LP's on

one CD. There's everything within the country music: rock,

blues, honky tonk, bluegrass even the incredible "jazzy" song

"The Old Man and His Horn" (one of the nicest songs ever

recorded on a country record) and most of all his beautiful

ballads. I have been collecting records for almost 50 years

now and never thouhgt a "new" discovered singer would replace

my preferences on the private list for the best artists around.

However this has happened and I'm glad it did. This guy is

givin' me hours of listening pleasure and I immediatley have

asked for his other double LP on CD released also by the HUX

label. These "packages" are beautifully remastered and the

sound quality is superb."
Two Great Albums on One CD
Paul W. Dennis | Winter Springs, FL USA | 11/29/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Gene Watson was at his peak during his tenure at Capitol and these are just two of several outstanding albums he issued for the label. BECAUSE YOU BELIEVED IN ME was Gene's second album with the title cut reaching the Top 20. BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY was (I think) his fourth album, and contains my all-time favorite Gene Watson single "The Old Man and His Horn" which has a definite New Orleans feel to it(including trumpet solos)and a terrific narrative story. Other singles drawn from this album include "I Don't Need A Thing At All", and "Cowboys Don't Get Lucky All The Time" (which appeared in the soundtrack of the movie 'Convoy'). Seven of the songs on this CD were penned either by Ray Griff or Dallas Harms. Great stuff



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