Don Gibson

Don Gibson - Don Rocks (2008) {Bear Family Records BCD16991AR rec 1957-1966}
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© 1957-66, 2008 RCA Victor / Bear Family Records | BCD 16991 AR
Country / Rockabilly / Country-Pop / Nashville Sound

Never deliberately flashy, Don Gibson had an unerring ability to take complex emotions and turn them into deceptively simple-sounding songs, and as any songwriter knows, that's far from an easy trick to pull off, but Gibson did it time and time again. Unassuming to a fault, his best songs like "Sweet Dreams" (a hit initially for Faron Young in 1955 but ultimately defined a few years later by Patsy Cline's version), "Oh Lonesome Me" (slowed down, a key track on Neil Young's After the Gold Rush album), and "I Can't Stop Loving You" (covered by countless artists, but most notably by Ray Charles) are models of graceful construction (amazingly, the latter two songs were written by Gibson in a trailer park on the exact same afternoon).

The 11 years covered in this first of two Don Gibson retrospectives by the German Bear Family label are the most captivating in his career.