Some listeners assume that a relatively recent trend of tribute records to entire albums leads to fragmentation of their original concept due to different musicians’ involvement in such homages, and it indeed ruins the flow – which can’t be said of a single-artist or single-collective approach to covering classics. That’s why platters like Booker T. & the M.G.’s “McLemore Avenue” worked so well – and that’s why the forthcoming offering from Israel Nash, unsophisticatedly titled “Sweetheart Of The Rodeo” and set to reframe THE BYRDS’ groundbreaking country-rock opus, should deliver on its promise too.
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
To be issued on September 25th, it shuffles around the source’s running order and slightly renames “One Hundred Years From Now” to bring the song into the present, but otherwise it’s faithful to the songs Nash loves so much. Strangely, initially available for pre-order on CD and vinyl, its Amazon listings have been – surely, temporarily – removed.
1. Pretty Boy Floyd
2. Hickory Wind
3. You Ain’t Going Nowhere
4. You’re Still On My Mind
5. 100 Years
6. You Don’t Miss Your Water
7. I Am A Pilgrim
8. Christian Life
9. Blue Mountain Rockies
10. Nothing Was Delivered
11. Life In Prison
