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Pam Tillis - RCA Country Legends Audio CD

A fair review of the Pam Tillis "RCA Country Legends" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Pam Tillis reviews here, or go back to the Pam Tillis tabs.

Pam Tillis Band: Pam Tillis
Title: RCA Country Legends
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Release Date: 2002-04-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Don't Tell Me What To Do 2: One Of Those Things 3: Maybe It Was Memphis 4: Shake The Sugar Tree 5: Let That Pony Run 6: Spilled Perfume 7: When You Walk In The Room 8: Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) 9: I Was Blown Away 10: Fine, Fine, Very Fine Love 11: Sweetheart's Dance 12: Betty's Got A Bass Boat 13: Land Of The Living 14: It's Lonely Out There 15: You Can't Have A Good Time Without Me 16: Mandolin Rain

Till you hear Tillis
Pam has a good soprano voice and can really put feelings into songs. This album is a good piece of contemporary 90s country. The songs on here are different from each other and also pretty substantive, no silly fluff or just same old stuff. I didn't quite feel it enough for 5 stars.


A++++++++++++++
I think that I got great service and everything went very fast and got it in good shape.


More tracks but not more hits
In actuality, Greatest Hits is the far better collection. On first glance, this might appear to be a better Pam Tillis retrospective than 1997's Greatest Hits as this collection has 16 tracks to Hits' 12.

Four of the tracks found here (Fine Fine Very Fine Love, It's Lonely Out There, You Can't Have A Good Time Without Me, and Mandolin Rain) weren't even singles while Betty's Got A Bass Boat barely dented the charts. Not included here are such major hits as "All The Good Ones Are Gone" (Tillis' most touching recording ever), "Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial" (her most humorous), and the gorgeous, reflective "River And The Highway. " All of those three are on Greatest Hits. This set even passed up the chance to include her post-Greatest Hits singles: the hypnotic jangler "I Said A Prayer," the poignant "Every Time," and the exceedingly hearfelt "Please. "

So. . . if you can only afford one Tillis collection, definitely go with Greatest Hits. Unlike this uneven compilation, there's not a dud in that bunch.


Pam's best of the nineties

All the tracks have appeared on at least one other Pam Tillis album, and eight of them were included on Pam's 1997 greatest hits package, so Pam's diehard fans will not find anything new here. Pam was very successful for a few years with her brand of contemporary country music, but the momentum was not maintained in the late nineties, although she is still active and still making great music.

This was only my second album of Pam's, but the quality of her best music, as showcased here, is very high indeed, and makes me wonder why I didn't already own more of her wonderful music.

My favorites here are Mi vida loca (her only #1 hit) and When you walk in the room (a cover of the sixties classic, and a #2 hit for Pam), both of which first appeared on her Sweetheart's dance album (which is the best as well as the most successful of her original nineties albums).

If you haven't got any of Pam's music, this is a great place to start.


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