The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)
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| Released | June 15, 1983 | |||
| Recorded | January 17–21, 1983 | |||
| Studio | Masterfonics, Nashville[1] | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 28:30 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. - WB-1-23870-1 | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Bowen | |||
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
The Nashville Sessions is a 1983 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen.[2][3][4][5][6] This was Martin's last album.[1]
The album consists of country standards, recorded in country pop arrangements.[2]
Martin sang two of the songs in duet, "My First Country Song" with Conway Twitty, and "Everybody's Had the Blues" with Merle Haggard.[1]
Track listing
[edit]- "Old Bones" (John Hadley)
- "Everybody's Had the Blues" (Merle Haggard)
- "Don't Give Up on Me" (Ben Peters)
- "In Love Up to My Heart" (Chester Lester)
- "Shoulder to Shoulder" (Dallas Frazier)
- "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)
- "My First Country Song" (Conway Twitty)
- "Drinking Champagne" (Bill Mack)
- "Hangin' Around" (Chip Hardy, Rick & Janis Carnes)
- "Love Put a Song in My Heart" (Ben Peters)
Personnel
[edit]- Dean Martin - vocals
- Reggie Young, Billy Joe Walker Jr. - guitar
- Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar
- John Hughey, Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
- David Hungate - bass
- David Briggs, Alan Moore - keyboards
- Buddy Spicher - fiddle
- Kieran Kane - mandolin
- James Stroud - drums
- Denis Solee, Sam Levine - horns
- Carol Chase, Dennis Wilson, Diane Tidwell, Donna Sheridan, Doug Clements, Gary Janney, Karen Taylor, Lisa Silver, Lori Brooks, Louis Nunley, Philip Forrest, Sherilyn Huffman, Terry Dearmore, Tom Brannon - backing vocals
- Nashville String Machine - strings
- Al De Lory - string arrangements
- Carl Gorodetzky - concertmaster
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nick Tosches (13 April 1999). Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. Random House Publishing Group. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-385-33429-7. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- ^ a b c The Nashville Sessions: Dean Martin, AllMusic
- ^ "The Nashville Sessions". Amazon. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "The Nashville Sessions". mtv.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "The Nashville Sessions". music.msn.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Dean Martin– The Nashville Sessions". discogs.com. 15 June 1983. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
External links
[edit]- The Nashville Sessions at Discogs (list of releases)