Search - Emmylou Harris, Carl Jackson :: Love Hurts

Misleading

03/12/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Whoops! I gave this 1 star only after being informed that "-" failed the site's edit check.I should have done some better homework before making this purchase. At best, the info available is inadequate. The cover art resurrects some earlier meanings to the term "artful".By my count (and ear), Emmylou can be heard on 5 of the 16 cuts. One or two might generously be called duets. The remaining cuts are Emmylou doing her usual superb and generous backup harmony.To label this as EMMYLOU HARRIS feat. Carl Jackson is very artful marketing. Maybe that's how they do business in E.C. where the CD was made. (Where is E.C.?) As an Emmylou fan, it's helpful to have it listed among the titles in a search on the Amazon site. A little more detail about the performers' roles would have made for a more informed buying decision.I should have done a bit more research....."

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W. T. Schwendler Jr. | Dunwoody, GA USA | 07/20/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I recently bought "Nashville Country", which was made in the UK. It's a very good album with some good duets by Carl Jackson and my real throb, Emmylou Harris. She appears on 6 of the 15 tracks. The notes say that it was not re-mastered and that "the album comprises tracks that Carl Jackson recorded as a demonstration tape while trying to secure a solo recording deal with Columbia Records in 1983." In addition to Emmylou, it includes support from Jerry Douglas on dobro, other musicians, and singers Ricky Skaggs, Melba Montgomery, and Sharon and Cheryl White. However, the "Nashville Country" jacket says it has 14 tracks when it actually has 15. #5 is called "All That's Left for Me" on "Nashville Country", but "Ill Never Love Another" on "Love Hurts". It's the same song as both sets of words appear in "NC". An additional track inserted between #10 and #11, which doesn't appear on the jacket of "Nashville Country", is actually "Always Needed You". So, I was excited to hear [...] that there might be another Emmylou Harris album available. Unfortunately it appears there is only one difference between the two albums, namely the addition of "Love Hurts" the song as track #16 on "Love Hurts" the album. However, Reprise Records has published a great album by Emmylou entitled "duets". On it she does a magnificent "Love Hurts" as a duet with Gram Parsons." So, buy "Nashville Country" or buy "Love Hurts", but only buy one."

Nice Carl Jackson album - NOT an Emmylou Harris album!

Jeremy Segal | Orange County, CA USA | 01/28/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I saw this CD at a local Border's and bought it. If its title said it was Carl Jackson with some harmonies by Emmylou, I might have still bought it, and would probably give it another star in that context. However, this is in no way an Emmylou Harris album. She sings harmonies on less than half of the tracks.



If you like Carl Jackson with Emmylou backing him up, a far better album is Spring Training, which is Carl Jackson and John Starling, with Emmylou and the Nash Ramblers (Sam Bush etc.) as backup. Better harmonies, better songs, better production values.



I'd be willing to bet that Emmylou had no say in the release of this CD, because she would probably not have allowed her name to be used so carelessly."