Gene Watson Discography
'Your Money & My Good Looks'
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'Your Money & My Good Looks'
was officially released by
Upper Management Music
on Tuesday 7 June 2011.
'Your Money & My Good Looks' discography information is presented on this site for
educational purposes only & no infringement of copyright is intended.
Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent, pictured
with (recording engineer) Joey Crawford, at Adventure Studios in Nashville, on Tuesday 8 March 2011
Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent, pictured together in concert, at Black Gold
Casino in Hobbs, New Mexico on Saturday 7 May 2011
Rhonda Vincent on location in downtown Nashville on Monday 23 May 2011
during the shooting of a promotional video for the single,
Jimmy Melton's 'Gone
for good'; the video was
premiered at the album release party at the Ernest Tubb Record Store in
Nashville on Thursday 9 June 2011
On Tuesday 24 May 2011, Gene Watson &
Rhonda
Vincent graced the hallowed stage of the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville
& made an appearance on the 'Tuesday Night Opry'.
At 8.16pm CST, Eddie Stubbs introduced Gene onstage who performed 'Got
no reason now for going home' as the opening song.
Gene then performed a playful rendition of Nat
Stuckey's 'Sweet thang', at the beginning of which he was joined onstage by
Rhonda Vincent.
Gene & Rhonda then spoke adoringly about their new album project, 'Your Money & My Good Looks'
(Upper Management Music,
2011), the official release of which will take place on Tuesday 7 June 2011.
Gene & Rhonda then premiered their new single,
Jimmy Melton's 'Gone
For Good', (Jimmy was backstage, according to
Rhonda).
About 'Your Money & My Good Looks'...
Album Sleeve Notes
George Jones says, 'It's The Real
Deal!'
'I love Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent. Together they have created
something very special. I haven't heard country music like this in
years'.
George Jones
Bill Anderson says, 'It
Doesn't Get Any Better Than This'
'The first time I heard Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent sing together, I knew
it was a match made in country music heaven'.
Bill Anderson
Official Press Release
(released on Thursday 21 April 2011)
'Your Money & My Good Looks'
(Upper Management Music)
'Street Date: Tuesday 7
June 2011
Nashville Record Release Party - Thursday 9 June
2011
For further information, visit
Gene & Rhonda
All Duet Project by
Rhonda Vincent, 'The Queen of Bluegrass'
(as crowned by The Wall
Street Journal) & Gene Watson, 'The King of
Country Soul'!
A powerful package of fresh new songs, perfectly combined with familiar
classics.
Two of the greatest voices in both country &
bluegrass music. Each possess an impressive
list of credentials:
Gene Watson with his twenty-three Top 10 &
six No.1
country hits
Rhonda Vincent, the 'Most
Awarded Artist in Bluegrass Music' with over
eighty awards, including
a record breaking ten consecutive SPBGMA
'Entertainer of the Year'
Awards & seven
consecutive IBMA 'Female Vocalist of the Year'
Awards!'
'Your Money & My Good Looks'
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1 'Your money & my good looks'
Written by Terry Herd &
Rhonda Vincent
Published by Sparkinator Publishing/Sally Mountain Publishing - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
2 'Gone for
good'
Written by Jimmy Melton
Published by Castle Street Music, Inc./Bughouse/Administered by Bug- ASCAP
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
3 'It ain't
nothing new'
Written by Betty Key, Larry
Cordle & Larry Shell
Published by Talbot Music Publishing Inc./Universal MGB Songs/Pier Five
Music Inc - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Rhonda Vincent
recorded 'It ain't nothing new', as a duet with
Randy
Travis, & included the track on 'Trouble Free' (Giant Records, 1996)
4 'You could know as much about a stranger'
Written by Nadine Bryant
Published by
B B and C Music Publishing Co/Bob
Moore Music - ASCAP
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Gene Watson recorded the
original version of 'You could know as much
about a stranger' & included the track on
'Love in the Hot Afternoon' (Capitol
Records, 1975)
Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn recorded 'You could know as much
about a stranger' & included the track on
'Dynamic Duo' (MCA Records, 1977)
Billie Jo Spears recorded
'You could know as much about a stranger'
& included the track on 'Standing Tall' (United Artists Records, 1980)
Gene Watson re-recorded 'You could know as much about a stranger'
& included the track
on 'Gene Watson: Then & Now' (Koch Records Nashville, 2005)
5 'Till the
end'
Written by Cathy Gosdin
Published by Hookit Music - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Vern Gosdin
recorded 'Till the end' (with vocal harmonies from
Janie Fricke) & included the track on
'Till The End' (Elektra Records, 1977)
Alan Jackson
recorded 'Till the end' (as a duet with
Lee Ann Womack) & included the track on 'Freight Train' (Arista
Records, 2010)
6 'Alone
together tonight'
Written by Billy Yates,
Ashley
Monroe and Terry Clayton
Published by Music of Cal IV/Pick Them Maters Music/Reynsong Publishing
Corp-Ayden Publishing (all rights o/b/o Ayden Publishing admin. by Reynsong
Publishing Corp.)/Hit Haven Music - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
7 'Out of
hand'
Written by Jeff Barry and Thomas Jans
(Monday 9 February 1948 - Sunday 25 March 1984)
Published by Irving Music Inc - BMI/Alamo Music Corp - ASCAP
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Tom Jans recorded 'Out of hand'
& included the track on 'The Eyes of An Only Child' (CBS Records,
1975)
Gary Stewart (Sunday 28 May 1944 - Tuesday 16 December
2003) recorded 'Out of hand' & included the track on 'Out of Hand'
(RCA Records, 1975); the track reached No.4 on the
Billboard country music singles chart in 1975
The album 'Out of Hand' (RCA Records, 1975), which climbed to No.6 on the
Billboard country albums chart in 1975, is one of the most critically lauded
country albums of the 1970s.
8 'This
wanting you'
Written by Bruce C. Bouton (ASCAP), T Graham Brown
(BMI) and Bruce Burch (SESAC)
Published by EMI April Music
Inc/Sony-ATV Melody
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
T. Graham Brown
recorded 'This wanting you' & included the track on
'Come As You Are' (Capitol Records, 1988)
George Jones
recorded 'This wanting you' & included the track on 'Cold Hard Truth'
(Asylum Records, 1999)
9 'Making
everything perfect tonight'
Written by
Rhonda
Vincent
Published by Sally Mountain Publishing - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
10 'Sweet
thang'
Written by: Nat Stuckey (Sunday 17
December 1933 - Wednesday 24 August 1988)
Published by Sony/ATV Tree Publishing - Su Ma Publishing - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Nat Stuckey recorded 'Sweet
twang' & included the track on 'Nat Stuckey Really Sings' (Paula
Records, 1966); the track reached No.4 on the Billboard
country music singles chart in 1966
Mel Tillis recorded 'Sweet thang' & included
the track on 'Life Turned Her That Way' (Kapp Records, 1967)
Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn recorded 'Sweet twang' & included the track on
'Singin' Again' (Decca
Records, 1967); the track
reached No.45 on the Billboard country music singles chart in 1967
Dottie West & Jimmy Dean recorded 'Sweet twang' & included the track on
'Country Boy & Country Girl' (RCA Records, 1970)
On Saturday 17 August
2002 Gene
Watson, along with fellow
country music artists Tanya Tucker & Nat Stuckey
(Sunday 17
December 1933 - Wednesday 24 August 1988), was inducted into
the
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.
11 'My sweet
love ain't around'
Written by Hank Williams
(Monday 17 September 1923 - Thursday 1 January 1953)
Published by Sony/ATV Rose Music - BMI
Musician Credits
Piano:
Dirk Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Drums: John Gardner
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
Acoustic Guitar: Biff Watson
Fiddles: Stuart Duncan
Harmony Vocals: Rhonda
Vincent
Hank Williams recorded 'My sweet love ain't around' &
included the track on 'Moanin' The Blues' (MGM Records, 1952);
the track had been released as a single in 1947, but it did not chart
Suzy Bogguss (Official Site &
Fan Site) recorded
'My sweet love ain't around' & included the track on 'Somewhere Between'
(Liberty Records, 1989)
Rhonda Vincent recorded 'My sweet love ain't around' &
included the track on 'The Storm Still Rages' (Rounder Records, 2001)
12
'Ashes of Mt Augustine'
(a bonus instrumental track)
Written by
Rhonda
Vincent
Published by Sally Mountain Publishing - BMI
Musician Credits
ACM Musicians of the Year
Piano: Michael
Rojas
Fiddle: Stuart Duncan
Steel Guitar: Mike Johnson
Electric Bass Guitar:
Michael Rhodes
Electric Guitar:
James Mitchell
(Nashville's Hottest New Guitar Player!)
Rhonda Vincent recorded 'Ashes of Mt
Augustine' & included the track on 'All American Bluegrass Girl' (Rounder Records, 2006)
The following piece was posted by John Lawless on 'The
Bluegrass Blog' on Friday 22 April 2011:
Gene Watson & Rhonda Watson hit in June
'Upper Management Music has announced Tuesday 7 June 2011 as the
release date for the new, all-duet album from Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent.
'Your Money & My Good Looks will feature eleven vocal pairings from these
two noted practitioners of traditional country & bluegrass music, plus a
bonus instrumental.
Rhonda told us this morning that they recorded the entire project 'live' (in
the studio) at Ronnie’s Place in Nashville (the former home of Ronnie
Milsap’s studio) in just two days earlier this year.
'It’s true, authentic country music. The music is as much a part
of this project as the vocals. We let the musicians play & ended up
doing an impromptu instrumental at the end of the session, when we had
forty-five minutes left & all the songs were tracked'.
Recording with Gene & Rhonda were Stuart Duncan & Hunter Berry on
fiddles, John Gardner on drums,
Dirk Johnson & Michael Rojas on piano, Mike
Johnson on steel guitar, James Mitchell on electric guitar, Michael Rhodes
on electric bass & Biff Watson on acoustic guitar.
Gene & Rhonda sang duets throughout, with Rhonda adding some harmony vocals
as well.
'There’s not a better singing partner to sing with than Gene Watson.
So the entire process was pure pleasure; and a real treat for me for sing
country music. I've gotten a taste of that in the last few months on
Country Family Reunion.
And since my favourite instrument is the steel guitar & Mike Johnson is one
of my favourite steel players, it was lots of fun as something a bit
different from our bluegrass shows.
We'll be back on the road in full force starting Sunday 1 May 2011, and back
to bluegrass. But Gene & I will be doing many performances this year,
promoting this duet project too'.
Source
John Lawless,
The
Bluegrass Blog
'Your Money & My Good Looks'
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You can read a CMP review of Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent's 'Your
Money & My Good Looks' here.
The review, which was
written by Jon Philibert, was published in the July 2011
issue of the United Kingdom monthly publication
Country Music People.
