Track Listings (13) - Disc #1| All Artists: Pam Tillis Title: It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Release Date: 9/3/2002 Genres: Country, Pop Styles: Cowboy, Today's Country Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 696998654624 |
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Tribute albums often suffer from a lack of cohesion, but not in this case. That's because the delightful It's All Relative features just one singer--Pam Tillis--and the artist she celebrates just happens to be her father, ... more » |
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Amazon.com Tribute albums often suffer from a lack of cohesion, but not in this case. That's because the delightful It's All Relative features just one singer--Pam Tillis--and the artist she celebrates just happens to be her father, the legendary singer-songwriter-actor Mel Tillis. Daughter Pam tackles 13 of her dad's songs, some of them famous ("I Ain't Never," "So Wrong"), some of them more obscure ("Violet and a Rose," "Not Like It Was with You"). High-profile guests include Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Dolly Parton, the Jordanaires, Delbert McClinton, Marty Stuart, Ray Benson (who produced four tracks), and Papa himself, who helps out on the rousing closer "Come On and Sing." Pam's arrangements are mostly familiar--she does "Burning Memories" in the same honky-tonk shuffle style that Ray Price used on the hit version--but she takes liberties with Price's "Heart over Mind," here done as a heartfelt ballad, and Bobby Bare's "Detroit City," played as an orchestrated, "Ode to Billie Joe"-style folk song. It all hangs together, though, making It's All Relative a success from start to finish. --David Hill Similarly Requested CDs
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Member CD Reviews C G. (countrygal) from SAINT FRANCIS, AR Reviewed on 4/7/2007... Pam sings the songs her dad made famous. 0 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
CD ReviewsHomage to dad James E. Bagley | Sanatoga, PA USA | 05/16/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "As one of country's first ladies to produce her own discs, Pamela Tillis stands tall among aging country stars' performing daughters such as Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter (Cash's stepsister) and Lorrie Morgan. No one's better suited than Pam to do It's All Relative, a tribute to her famous singer/songwriter father Mel Tillis. Snug in her hillbilly crib (a guitar case on the floor), she was sometimes the first to hear his works in progress. Mel's songs touch a lot of bases, as does his eldest daughter's delivery. "Mental Revenge" gets a slow, smoky blues groove (whereas Waylon Jennings charged through it on his 1967 rendition). Her playful western-style "I Ain't Never" contrasts to honky-tonk hit versions by Webb Pierce in 1959 and Mel himself in 1972 as well as the 1973 retro-rockabilly cover by John Fogerty (as The Blue Ridge Rangers). "So Wrong" recalls Patsy Cline's torch-and-twang 1962 rendition, while on "Detroit City," Pam's quiet moan "I want to go home" is one of most primal hooks in all of country music. With not a dud in sight, dad should be awfully proud." All in the Family Dennis Brislen | Omaha, Ne USA | 01/25/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Has it really been 15 plus years since Pam Tillis had her breakthrough hit Don't Tell Me What to Do? Much has happened since then, most of it good. Tillis has recorded quality material with several mega-hits that have established her as a great talent. With the arrival of Faith, Shania, and Leanne Womack, Pam has been played less than in her glory days. This is due more to the vagaries of Nashville than any slippage in her talent level. Indeed, if anything, she is better now than in the past. Her voice still retains its distinctive resonance and her inflection and presentation of lyrics are better than ever. This CD love letter to her father is a tour-de force! She is as good as she has ever been on this project. She takes each Tillis song, those that were hits for her father and those that hit for others and makes them her own. Listen to Heart Over Mind and you will get the idea...she creates a new tempo and in doing so, creates a totally unique version. Ditto Detroit City.I don't know whether or not this CD will sell well or not...I can only say what OUGHT to happen. This OUGHT to be a BIG seller. Faith and Shania are talented ladies but this CD is much better than either of their latest efforts. Go Pam Tillis...you go girl!!!"
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