[ Post a Response | JIM REEVES FAN FORUM ]
Posted by Larry Jordan
on July 10, 2008, 4:24 pm, in reply to "It's arrived !........"
69.66.111.56
Al "Rusty" Courtney was a friend of Jim's from KGRI days, and wrote some songs with Jim then. In Jim's later career Rusty also penned some tunes, which he sold to Jim, conveying all rights. Jim wanted to help his friend out because he'd gotten into some trouble. Jim went into Nugget studio in June 1964 to record some of Mr. Courtney's songs, including "He Will."
Rusty was quite a talented songwriter, who also composed "Deep Dark Water," "Before You Came Along" and "Crying Is My Favorite Mood," (even though Jim has his name on them).
Thus Jim recorded his friend's songs at the beginning and end of his professional career. I'll have more about this in my book.
Glad you liked the CD. I was listening to it myself this afternoon in the car, and I have to admit one of my favorites is "Lonesome Waltz." I'm proud of the job we did restoring Jim's vocal on that. If you compare it with the RCA release years ago, you'll find that theirs sounded muddy (tape hiss). We got rid of all that and then put on new instrumentation. It's a night and day difference, and one of my favorites...
Responses:
TO RETURN TO THE JIM REEVES WAY, CLICK ON JIM'S NAME AT TOP OF PAGE