Artist: Ed Ames
Album: Remembers Jim Reeves
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 1972/2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 29:49
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 1,19 GB

Tracklist:

01. Ed Ames – He’ll Have To Go (02:39)
02. Ed Ames – Adios Amigo (03:11)
03. Ed Ames – Four Walls (03:39)
04. Ed Ames – Is It Really Over? (02:17)
05. Ed Ames – The Blizzard (03:50)
06. Ed Ames – Home (02:16)
07. Ed Ames – Distant Drums (03:17)
08. Ed Ames – Welcome To My World (02:34)
09. Ed Ames – Anna Marie (03:05)
10. Ed Ames – Blue Side Of Lonesome (02:57)

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Ed Ames’ flirtations with country music with and without the Ames Brothers make his 1972 tribute to Jim Reeves a little less surprising than it might seem at a glance. Reeves was the archetypal pop-sounding country artist, and Chet Atkins says that Reeves was a great admirer of Ames’ voice, so the project makes a kind of sense after all. No one would mistake Ames, with his prim enunciation, for a country singer, but producer Joe Reisman wisely approached the album from a country-pop rather than easy listening direction. The subdued pedal steel and sparse accompaniment prevent the end product from seeming schmaltzy or corny, both of which are ever-present dangers when non-country artists cut country records. The slightly modernized reading of “Distant Drums” and Ames’ weary recitation on “The Blizzard” are two highlights on this thoroughly respectable tribute. ~ Greg Adams