VERN GOSDIN Alone 12" Vinyl LP RARE 1989 Pressing Post-divorce USED FC 45104

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Vern Gosdin

Alone
12" Vinyl LP RARE 1989 Vinyl Pressing 

Item Description:

Tracklist

A1 That Just About Does It

Written-By – M. D. Barnes*, V. Gosdin*

3:59

A2 Take Me Home To Alabama

Written-By – M. Vickery*, V. Gosdin*

3:44

A3 I'm Still Crazy

Written-By – B. Cannon*, S. Gosdin*, V. Gosdin*

2:46

A4 Paradise '83

Written By – M. Baker

Written-By – B. Cannon*, V. Gosdin*

3:26

A5 Do Me A Favor

Written-By – B. Cannon*, H. Cochran*, V. Gosdin*

3:11

B1 Tanqueray

Written-By – H. Cochran*, J. Vest*, M. Vickery*, V. Gosdin*

3:01

B2 Alone

Written-By – M. D. Barnes*

4:40

B3 Right In The Wrong Direction

Written-By – H. Cochran*, M. Vickery*, V. Gosdin*

2:13

B4 I'm Only Going Crazy

Written-By – M. D. Barnes*, V. Gosdin*

3:27

B5 You're Not By Yourself

Written-By – B. Cannon*, H. Cochran*, V. Gosdin*

3:25

Companies, etc.

Produced For – Tree Productions

Credits

Producer – Bob Montgomery

Notes

Artist Biography by James Manheim

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit. Sometimes he was known simply as "the Voice." Born in Woodland, AL, Vern Gosdin idolized the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called the Gosdin Brothers. When he was in his late teens, his family moved to Birmingham and began hosting The Gosdin Family Gospel Show on a local radio station. Gosdin and his brother, Rex, moved to Long Beach, CA, in 1961. They began performing bluegrass music in the milieu that gave birth to country-rock, joining a group called the Golden State Boys that evolved into the Hillmen, featuring future Byrds member Chris Hillman. Vern and Rex teamed up to sing country music as the Gosdin Brothers once again, had a Top 40 country hit in 1967 with "Hangin' On," and opened for the Byrds on occasion.

Gosdin moved to Atlanta in 1972, raising a family and running a retail shop. But he never gave up on music completely. He performed at local clubs and began to gravitate toward Nashville, where Emmylou Harris, a friend of Gosdin's from his California days, was laying the foundation for a neo-traditionalist style of country music. Around 1976 Gosdin and Harris cut a demo single consisting of "Hangin' On" backed with a newly written song, "Yesterday's Gone." The demo got Gosdin signed to the Elektra label, and both songs cracked the country Top 20. In the late '70s he notched several major hits, including "Till the End" (with Janie Fricke), "Mother Country Music," and a remake of the Association's "Never My Love."

In 1980, after the demise of Elektra's country division, Gosdin quickly moved through several contracts and landed with the independent Nashville label Compleat. He made the Top Ten consistently in the early '80s, really hitting his stride when he teamed with Max D. Barnes as a songwriting collaborator. The pair specialized in songs of cheating and barroom romance, often delivering an over-the-top emotionalism that got Gosdin compared to the ultimate legend of honky tonk vocals, George Jones. In 1983, Gosdin had two Top Five hits -- "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)" and "Way Down Deep." The following year he had his first number one single with "I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)" and had two additional Top Ten hits. His career hit a lull in the mid-'80s, but in 1987, with the new traditionalist movement in full swing and Warner Bros. artist Randy Travis roosting at the top of the charts, he was tapped by the Columbia label. He bounced back into the Top Ten that year with the tortured "Do You Believe Me Now," and in 1988 he hit number one once again with the perennially popular Ernest Tubb tribute "Set 'Em Up Joe." Gosdin's "Chiseled in Stone," co-written with Barnes, won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year award in 1989. His 1989 album Alone was a rarity: a concept album in a traditional country style. It chronicled the dissolution of Gosdin's marriage. Gosdin's popularity declined as rock-influenced country styles surged forward in the 1990s, but he continued to record on small labels and never abandoned the pure country vocalism he had cultivated for so long.

Review by Thom Owens

Written and released directly after a painful divorce, Alone is a moving set of honky tonk that works better in theory than it does in practise. Though Gosdin's performance is frequently sublime, his songs aren't always strong. However, when he has a good song at his disposal -- such as "Right in the Wrong Direction," "I'm Only Going Crazy," "That Just About Does It" and "I'm Still Crazy" -- his heart-felt delivery and tortured lyrics makes for some truly memorable music.

Jacket Condition: EX

Excellent, some ring wear and previous owner's sticker is on the back of the jacket cover (see pictures).

Vinyl Condition: EX

Excellent, Vinyl has original shine, looks hardly played, no scratches of scuffs, very minor post hole label cracking (see pictures).

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