Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard (in una delle sue ultime registrazioni), Ringo Starr, Kacey Musgraves, Cake, John Goodman, Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Loretta Lynn, Asleep At The Wheel, Rodney Crowell, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Daphne, Mystery Machines, Dead South e Earls Of Leicester (con Shawn Camp) sono tra i protagonisti di questo tributo a Roger Miller, l'artista americano 'in parte Hank Williams, in parte Will Rogers', poeta dell'assurdo e autore di alcune delle piu' originali, irresistibili ed eccentriche canzoni degli anni Sessanta, dalla celeberrima 'King Of The Road' (un inno alla vita vagabonda) a 'Dang Me', da 'Chug-A-Lug' a 'You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd'. Un artista influente e amato dai colleghi, come dimostra il coinvolgimento in questo progetto di stelle di primissima grandezza del country, di esponenti del movimento folk roots - Americana e di nomi importanti della scena alt rock statunitense (c'e' anche l'attore John Goodman, interprete negli anni '80 a Broadway del musical 'Big River' basato sulle 'Avventure di Huckleberry Finn' di Mark Twain con una colonna sonora firmata da Miller). Prodotto dal figlio del leggendario artista, il cantautore Dean Miller, in collaborazione con Colby Barnum Wright del Wright of Center Music, questo bellissimo tributo (che contiene anche la versione di 'King Of The Road' dell'artista scomparso nel 1992 e suoi interventi parlati su vari argomenti) permette di riapprezzare non solo la straordinaria e imprevedibile ricchezza dei testi di Miller ma anche le sue straordinarie qualita' melodiche in ballate spezzacuori come 'The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me', un successo per Eddy Arnold qui magnificamente interpretato dalla angeliche voci della Parton e di Alison Krauss
track list
1
Greatest Songwriter (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:23
2
Chug-a-Lug (feat. Huey Lewis)
by Asleep at the Wheel
2:07
3
Dang Me
by Brad Paisley
1:58
4
Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go
by The Stellas & Lennon & Maisey
3:40
5
Kansas City Star
by Kacey Musgraves
2:31
6
World So Full of Love
by Rodney Crowell
3:16
7
Old Friends (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:14
8
Old Friends
by Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard
3:39
9
Lock Stock and Teardrops
by Mandy Barnett
3:26
10
You Oughta Be Here With Me/I've Been A Long Time Leaving (feat. The Cox Family)
by Alison Krauss
4:19
11
The Crossing (feat. The Blind Boys Of Alabama)
by Ronnie Dunn
4:08
12
In The Summertime (feat. Shawn Camp)
by The Earls Of Leicester
2:18
13
Fiddle (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:35
14
England Swings
by Lyle Lovett
2:11
15
You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd
by Roger Miller
2:17
16
Half a Mind
by Loretta Lynn
2:24
17
Invitation to the Blues
by Shooter Jennings & Jesse Colter
3:21
18
It Only Hurts Me When I Cry (Live)
by Dwight Yoakam
3:06
19
Mouth Noises (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:46
20
Oo De Lally
by Eric Church
1:49
21
Engine, Engine #9 (feat. Jon Randall)
by Emerson Hart
3:10
22
When Two Worlds Collide
by Flatt Lonesome
3:11
23
Reincarnation
by CAKE
3:09
24
You Can't Do Me This Way (feat. The McCrary Sisters)
by Dean Miller
2:30
25
Chicken S#$! (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:32
26
Nothing Can Stop My Love
by Toad The Wet Sprocket
2:50
27
Husbands and Wives (feat. Emmylou Harris)
by Jamey Johnson
2:41
28
I'll Pick Up My Heart and Go Home
by Lily Meola
2:45
29
I Believe in the Sunshine
by Daphne and the Mystery Machines
2:21
30
Guv'ment
by John Goodman
2:09
31
Old Songwriters Never Die (Banter)
by Roger Miller
0:12
32
Hey, Would You Hold it Down?
by Ringo Starr
2:48
33
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me (feat. Alison Krauss)
by Dolly Parton
3:05
34
I'd Come Back to Me (feat. Tawnya Reynolds)
by Radney Foster
2:56
35
One Dying and a Burying
by The Dead South
2:13
36
Do Wacka Do
by Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
1:47
37
King of the Road
by Roger Miller
3:20 |
