Bright Lights.../Country Fever (Import) (CD)

Rick Nelson was a teen idol in the 1950s, thanks to his role in TV's OZZY & HARRIET, his numerous pop hits, and his cover-boy looks, but in fact he was a serious musician who was in on the ground floor of the rockabilly revolution. In the '60s, when his pop-star phase had passed, he made some credible country and folk-rock albums. In the early '70s he formed an early country-rock group, the STONE CANYON BAND, and made some of the finest records of his career. Tragically, he died in a plane accident in 1985, but his progeny achieved fame after his death--his sons Gunnar and Matthew in the pop group Nelson, and his daughter Tracy as an actress.

• Category:  Music  »  Oldies  »  Rock 'N' Roll
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: June 23, 1998
• Label: Ace Records (UK)
• UPC: 029667167024
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106652382
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Personnel includes: Rick Nelson, Glen Campbell, Clarence White.

By the mid 1960s, Ricky Nelson had dropped the Y from his first name and moved away from the rockabilly-styled pop he'd been associated with. His albums BRIGHT LIGHTS & COUNTRY MUSIC and COUNTRY FEVER showed him fully embracing the country sound that had long been lurking in the periphery of his music. While there are still a few rockin' cuts here ("Mystery Train," "Night Train to Memphis") that recall Sun Studios-era rockabilly (an almost inescapable sound, given Nelson's band, which featured legendary axe-man James Burton), the order of the day here is stripped-down, rootsy country.

The sound suits Nelson well, and his choice of cover material is uniformly strong. Tunes by Willie Nelson, Merle Travis, Hank Williams, and Glenn Campbell (who also plays on the album) sound fine in Nelson's tender tenor, and there is the ubiquitous Dylan cover in "Walkin' Down the Line." Those who had written Nelson off as a teen-idol nostalgia act were forced to contend with this reinvention, which also presaged the emergence of country-rock in the late '60s and early '70s.

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