Track Listing 1. Tennessee River Run 2. I Wouldn't Mind the Shackles 3. I Miss My Friend 4. Callin' Caroline 5. Family Tree 6. Back Where I Belong 7. Least That You Can Do, The 8. I Built This Wall 9. Opportunity of a Lifetime 10. Spread a Little Love Around 11. Pow 369 12. Where Do You Think You're Goin'?
| Details | | Producer: | Frank Rogers, James Stroud | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Darryl Worley (vocals); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Biff Watson, Larry Beaird (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar, dobro); Rob Ickes (dobro); Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Jelly Roll Johnson (harmonica); Steve Nathan (piano, organ); Eddie Bauer (drums); Eric Darken, Brian David Willis (percussion); The Ordinaires (background vocals). Country hunk Darryl Worley's sophomore album is a tour de force of country hooks, steel guitars, and old-timey fiddles--and incidentally some pretty fine songwriting, as evidenced by songs such as "I Wouldn't Mind the Shackles" and the title track, both of which deal with the traditional country dilemmas of love and loss, and how to get a hit record out of them. There's a refreshing lack of gloss in I MISS MY FRIEND, recalling Dwight Yoakam's early releases, with some hot picking courtesy of Nashville's finest, a great road song in "Calling Caroline," and some folksy, homespun philosophy with "Family Tree" and "Back Where I Belong." Worley's a traditionalist in the best sense--Hank Williams would recognize the subject matter of "The Least That You Can Do"--and his songwriting is honest, catchy, and sentimental in the grand Nashville tradition. With more than a hint of iron in its soul, I MISS MY FRIEND is a refreshing antidote to the big-budget bluster of some recent country releases.
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