Search - Bill Anderson :: Oh Boy Classics Presents Bill Anderson

+1/2 stars. A Nashville old-timer revisits classic material

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 02/07/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Songwriter "Whispering" Bill Anderson was one of the big movers and shakers in Nashville of the 1960s. He placed dozens of songs with numerous artists, and enjoyed a pretty healthy hitmaking career himself, despite possessing a pretty modest vocal range. As with other albums in this odd series, this disc doesn't provide any info about when these recordings were actually made; I'd guess they are from somewhere in the 1980s, or possibly the '90s. Obviously, it's from way past Anderson's commercial heyday of the 1960s and early '70s, but in some ways these re-recorded, bare-bones versions of classics such as "Po' Folks" and "I Love You Drops" are a little bit more accessible than the more ornate "Nashville Sound" originals. Anderson's voice was never that masterful to begin with, and it hasn't changed much by the time these tracks were laid down with, so in essence what you get here is a chance to revisit these songs with simpler, less pretentious arrangements, but the old Bill Anderson charm pretty much intact."

Bill Anderson's Classics

Sally M. Mann | Lewisburg, Pa. | 06/16/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is great to have some of those older songs from my records on cd. Love this cd!!!"

Oh Boy...A Rip Off

Buck Dempsey | South Central WI United States | 10/23/2009

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Contrary to what the add says, these are not original hits. They are inferior remakes and Oh Boy Records joins my list of never buy record companies like Direct Source, Gusto, King and TeeVee Records."