Audio Cassette review:
Vince Gill - Next Big Thing

Vince Gill - Next Big Thing

Band: Vince Gill Title: Next Big Thing Rating: Release Date: 04 February, 2003 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Next Big Thing 2: She Never Makes Me Cry 3: Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away 4: Someday 5: These Broken Hearts 6: We Had It All 7: Young Man's Town 8: Real Mean Bottle 9: Whippoorwill River 10: Sun's Gonna Shine on You 11: From Where I Stand 12: You Ain't Foolin' Nobody 13: Old Time Fiddle 14: Without You 15: Two Hearts 16: This Old Guitar and Me 17: In These Last Few Days

Editoral Review Honoring styles that inspired him, he zigzags from rockabilly (the opening title track) to the Beatle-esque ballad "Someday" (cowritten with Richard Marx) into unfettered traditionalism on the shuffle "Without You," the majestic "Two Hearts," and the Merle Haggard tribute "Real Mean Bottle. Having earned respect for creating mainstream country that proudly maintains a deep vein of traditional elements, Vince Gill draws from a broader palette on this unusually lengthy offering of originals and collaborations. " His philosophical "Young Man's Town" could easily be a commentary on today's Nashville. While he could have dropped a couple of the more-mundane numbers (especially the clichéd cantina ditty "We Had It All"), he projects the same clean consistency that's marked all his work. True, he takes few risks, but then the cutting edge was never his chosen place. And as the album's sole producer, he shows better sense than most current Nashville producers. Gill, the omnipresent guest harmony singer on so many others' records, used surprisingly few guests himself, which keeps the focus where it belongs. --Rich Kienzle .. You can see a complete list of all Vince Gill discography, or go back to the Vince Gill tabs