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| | Billy Dean Sings Richard Leigh [CD on Demand] | | | Music Artist : | | billy dean | | Music Style : | | Styles | | Record Label : | | BDMG | | Release Date : | | 2009-09-01 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The Greatest Man I Never Knew
2. Loved And Never Learned
3. Angels
4. Take It From One Who Knows
5. The End Of The World
6. The Only One
7. Watch What Happens
8. It Can't Be
9. Til Someone Comes Along
10. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Underrated Vocalist
Submitted on: 2009-09-09 |
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Billy Dean has been struggling to keep the country career he started in the nineties alive and it is a shame. Billy has one of the greatest voices in any type of music and is given the chance to showcase it in this all new collection.
From his cover of the Reba McEntire classic "The Greatest Man I Never Knew" to the closing "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue", Billy wraps his voice around each of these selections.
My favorite is "The End Of The World", a all new composition not to be confused with the Skeeter Davis hit. Give this CD a try and enjoy the underrated voice of Billy Dean. |
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 Dean and Leigh: A Magical Combination
Submitted on: 2009-08-22 |
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Prime Cuts: The Greatest Man I Never Knew, The End of the World, `Til Someone Comes Along
Some magical moments are worth duplicating. Though the broken heart has had received its fair share of tributes over the years in country music, but no song could capture the lugubrious ache of betrayal as eloquently and as fervently as Billy Dean and Richard Leigh's co-write "Somewhere in My Broken Heart." Interestingly, it is also this plaintive ballad that snowballed for Dean a string of hits establishing him as one of country music's indispensable pillars. For the non cognoscenti Leigh's stature as a songwriter is without peer. Voted as songwriter of the year for seven years by the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Leigh's repertoire includes Crystal Gayle's "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," Steve Wariner's chart topper "Life's Highway" and Kathy Mattea's smash "Come from the Heart." On this new disc, "Billy Dean Sings Richard Leigh," Dean re-unites with Leigh by singing 8 new Leigh compositions and two covers, "The Greatest Man I Never Knew" (a top 5 for Reba McEntire) and "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." Glad to say that Leigh has not given Dean a single filler; in fact, each track is here is hit worthy.
In keeping with Leigh's portfolio, ballads dominate. Dean again works his magic proving once a great balladeer he is with the album's opener "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," a well-written tale about an absentee dad that truly pulls on the heart's strings. With a gorgeous piano backing, Dean's performance here is first class--never hurried Dean's sturdy tenor is packed with so much emotions. Also, equally beautiful is romantic "Why Do Angels Wear Disguises" - this time finding a love-struck Dean singing praises for a female commuter as they catch the same bus together each day. What is most alluring about Leigh's compositions is that his melodic structures are often very simple yet they are so poignant--this is evident in "The End of the World." Though the demise of a relationship is the theme of this song, yet its simple melody is so compelling. Billy Dean shares the pen with Leigh on "Til Someone Comes Along," a power love ballad that starts off slow with Dean and the piano before building up to a gorgeous crescendo finding Dean at his vocal best.
It's hard to tackle the Richard Leigh songbook without dallying with one of Leigh's biggest hits "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." Dean's version, though excellent, stays very close to Crystal Gayle's version even adopting Gayle's jazzy piano frillings. But this is not the only time Dean indulges in some jazzy excursions. On the lazy "Take It From the One Who Knows," a track about taking risks in romance and life, it has some shades of some late night Diana Krall-esque touches. The only real uptempo number is catchy "The Girl Who Loved and Never Learned" a keening lament about a damsel's never dying love for her cad of her sailor-husband. On the other hand, "The Only One" is sure to cause the romantic at heart to swoon with delight as Dean gently nudges all who have found their soul mates into a deeper fidelity.
If you are into melodious ballads that are rich in romantic content sang by one of country music's most soothing voices, you can't really go wrong with this album. There's not a dud here--every song excels in terms of its heart tugging melodies and seasonally matured lyrics. The only criticism is that at just 10 songs, this CD leaves more to be desired. Nevertheless, those magical moments that were created all those years ago with "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" is revived again--and this time round it's so much better.
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