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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]
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.
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.
Yellow Eyes’ guitar-wielding brothers, Sam and Will Skarstad, take a gothic turn with Sunrise Patriot Motion, bending melodic black metal toward bleak post-punk desperation on “I Search For ...
The album was released on compact disc by Ace Records on June 23, 1998 as tracks 12 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Nelson's 1966 album, Bright Lights and Country Music. [4] Bear Family included the album in the 2008 For You: The Decca Years box set. [5]
The song spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles before reaching number 11 in April 1966. [4] It was later released on his 1965 studio album Bright Lights and Country Music . [ 2 ]
"Bright Lights, Big City" is a classic blues song [1] which was written and first recorded by American bluesman Jimmy Reed in 1961. Besides being "an integral part of the standard blues repertoire", [2] "Bright Lights, Big City" has appealed to a variety of artists, including country and rock musicians, who have recorded their interpretations of the song.
Released in June 1958, Price's version of "City Lights" stalled at #2 on the Billboard magazine Most Played C&W by Disc Jockeys chart later that summer. When Billboard introduced its all-encompassing chart for country music (called "Hot C&W Sides") on October 20, "City Lights" was the new chart's first #1 song. It remained atop the chart for 13 ...