His new album "Tuskegee" gives us some of his best work, with some of the best that country music has to offer, and I for one, feel it's the perfect marriage. Nashville's backbone comes from a great song and Lionel was smart to bring his suitcase full of classics to town.
A few highlights include Tim McGraw on "Sail On", This was one of my favorites from Richie and Tim did not disappoint with his smooth vocals. Women will faint when they hear Kenny Chesney sing " My Love" and Willie Nelson leaves his Texas blend on " Easy".
The groove of the album missed a beat or two for me, I would've arranged a little differently, but then I can't seem to match socks sometime. So who am I? Still the music is fantastic, production value high, as you'll hear on Shania joining Lionel on " Endless Love" and when Darius Rucker sings "Stuck On You" as if he wrote the song.
Kenny Rogers on "Lady" had to be a no brainer when pairing up songs with the artist, same goes for Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and " Hello". Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts, Little Big Town and Jimmy Buffett round out the 13 cuts, that will surely please not only country fans young and old, but fans of Pop and R&B.
This is a win win for everyone involved, Lionel, all the great Nashville artist, the fans of country music and those girls that are now women that I used to sing to on the telephone. I'll be calling again real soon ladies! Thanks for "Tuskegee" Lionel and thanks for coming to Nashville and being Country to the Bone!
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Lionel Richie's latest album Tuskegee, is a twist of country music into his classics from his solo days and his era with The Commodores. Unlike the remake albums from the past several years from other artists, this one works absolutely well for Lionel Richie. The mixture of country artists bring new life into his classics work absolutely well including Dancing On The Ceiling with Rascal Flatts, Shania Twain and him on Endless Love, where Shania makes it her own in place of what Lionel already did with Diana Ross, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles on Hello works like a charm and keeps it simple with guitar and heart and You Are with Blake Shelton work absolutely well. The other songs here don't feel overpowering, but maintain and showcase a strong and simple class of what made Lionel's music for over 40 years so special to so many generations by keeping it elequent and simple. Every song feels fresh and relevant to its simplest form from every performer from Tim McGraw, all the way to Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers.
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