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"Bright Lights and Country Music" was released as a single by Decca Records in August 1965. [3] The song spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles before reaching number 11 in November 1965. [4] It was later released on his 1965 studio album, also called Bright Lights and Country Music. [2]
Cashbox gave a postive review, saying Nelson "spans the C&W canyon from Rick's own "You Just Can't Quit" to "Kentucky Means Paradise" by Merle Travis" [11]. Suggesting that Nelson "cannily captured the idiomatic feel of contemporary country," biographer and music critic Joel Selvin wrote, "Artistically, Bright Lights served as a stunning reversal of field.
Bright Lights and Country Music was released in November 1965 on Decca Records. [2] The album was released as a vinyl record, with six songs on side of the recording. [3] The album peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on February 12, 1966.
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10. [1]
The album 'The Song of the Singing Horseman', released in 1991, was commended for its "masterly blend of pop melodies, trad fiddles, Spanish guitars, country-and-western rhythms and chamber-music strings" [19] and received critical acclaim for its rich imagery, which was regarded as having come from a fertile Celtic imagination.
William Russell Staines (February 6, 1947 – December 5, 2021) was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New Hampshire who wrote and performed songs with a wide array of subjects. Called "the Woody Guthrie of my generation" by singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith , [ 1 ] he also wrote and recorded children's songs .
Billboard called the song a "plaintive ballad", and declared: "(Nelson) performs it to perfection. Should bring him right back to the top ten. [9] The single entered the Hot Country Singles chart, and peaked at number twenty-four. [10] The song was included as the title track of the album The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs. [11]
[6] The Boot rated it among Anderson's "top 10" best songs in his career. It helped inspire the name for the Po' Folks restaurant chain. It also helped establish Anderson as a singer-songwriter in the country field. [7] As Anderson developed his own touring show, he named his backing band "The Po' Folks Band" (also called "The Po' Boys").