"...Heartache Following Me..."
BGO of the UK have gotten rather good at these
kind of value-for-money twofers – the fourth volume in their reissue campaign
covering the first Gentleman of Country.
Offering up four complete 70ts albums onto 2CDs
from Jim Reeve's vast back catalogue - you get "My Friend" and
"Missing You" (both 1972), "Am I That Easy To Forget"
(1973) and "I'd Fight The World" - all originally on RCA Victor
Records in Stereo. And even though he'd been gone since 1964, back in the
Country-obsessed 70ts US charts - his well of unissued recordings were still
being mined and his popularity with the public as strong as that of say Buddy Holly
(these posthumous albums all charted).
UK released 8 June 2018 - Beat Goes On BGOCD
1313 (Barcode 5017261213136) has the now ubiquitous card slipcase that lends
the release a sort of class and even elegance, great new liner notes and best
of all - high def remastering from their resident engineer ANDREW THOMPSON.
These RCA Victor recordings were always
recorded well, but listening to his own "Could I Be Falling In Love"
or Ray Baker's "There's A Heartache Following Me" or Dale Noe's
"Missing Angel" and the production values for overdubbed material are
amazing. For sure some of the cardigan stuff on album two can be cloying, but
more often than not the fact that the Texas troubadour wrote almost 90% of
what's on here is seriously impressive.
"...Heartache following me..." has
never sounded so good. Recommended...
