Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles (CD)

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• Release Date: March 25, 2003
• Label: Capitol/EMI Records
• UPC: 724383171224
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106262826
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"All My Loving," performed by Suzy Bogguss and Chet Atkins, was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.

Includes liner notes by Jim Bessman, and Chet Flippo.

Everyone seems to be coming together to salute the Fab Four these days, but this collection of Beatles songs interpreted by modern country artists seems especially dubious...at first glance, anyway. Yet even the most skeptical Beatle-maniac will be immediately put at ease when they hear the hardcore honky tonker David Ball give a brisk, poppy reading of "I'll Follow The Sun." His version not only pays proper tribute to the more melodically and rhythmically reserved side of early Lennon/McCartney compositions, but offers a heretofore unexplored pop side of Ball as well.

On COME TOGETHER, the Beatles catalog gets raided far beyond the obvious classics. Willie Nelson's take on "One After 909" turns the searing R&B rocker into a downhome, acoustic folk/blues song. The ever-torchy Tanya Tucker adds sultry fire to George Harrison's countrified "Something" (or in Tanya's case, "Somethin'"), while John Berry soars as high as his radiant tenor can take him on "The Long And Winding Road."

But a tribute to the greatest pop songbook of the latter half of the 20th Century just wouldn't be proper without some takes on Beatles "standards," and the Nashville set does not disappoint. Delbert McLinton's rough 'n' rowdy version of "Come Together" is punctuated by a stinging harp solo and McLinton's spirited roots-rock inflections. Shenandoah's "Can't Buy Me Love" captures the vitality of the young, teeny-bopper Fab Four, while Randy Travis gives "Nowhere Man" a darker interpretation through his stark and resonant baritone. "In My Life" gets the spiritually redeeming gospel treatment from contemporary Christian stars Gary Chapman and Susan Ashton, and acclaimed songwriter (and part-time Highwayman) Kris Kristofferson is the perfect choice to perform the ultimate authors' song, "Paperback Writer."

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