That is a good song, and so is “Galveston.” If he wasn’t writing his own pieces, he knew how to pick them.
Young male country singers today rarely have that kind of big, rich voice. I often find myself asking, “Why is this guy a star? He can’t sing!”
re: If he wasn’t writing his own pieces, he knew how to pick them.
Jimmy Webb wrote a lot of Campbell’s hits.
Check him out singing “Still Within the Sound of My Voice.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqJMHvDz7Y.
Linda Ronstadt was a great singer, and did a great version of this song, but his version is sublime.
I grew up loving country music but today's stuff? Yuck. You tune in to a country music station and all you hear is some generic version of the music with voices that seem all the same, and not good ones at that.
It's as though the industry has chosen to not seek out talented song-writers to produce memorable tunes but just to belt out something that imitates country music, of course, with the mandatory southern accent.