Gene Watson Discography
'In a Perfect World'
Shanachie Records 6206 (2007)
'In a Perfect World' was officially released by
Shanachie Records on Tuesday
25 September 2007.
'In a Perfect World' discography information is presented on this site for
educational purposes only & no infringement of copyright is intended.
About 'In a Perfect World'...
Album Sleeve Notes
'A special thanks to Randall Grass and the great staff at
Shanachie Records
for allowing me to
make this record.
Thanks to some of the greatest musicians I've ever had the pleasure of
working with: Pig Robbins, Shannon Forrest, John Gardner, Sonny Garrish,
Bobby All, Gregg Galbraith, Aubrey Haynie and
David Smith who added their
unique talent to this record. It was a true pleasure and honor to work with
you.
To Brent Rowan, thank you for every
minute you spent working on this record. Your personal dedication to this
project will never be forgotten.
To Craig White, thank you for your fine engineering skills.
To John Lytle, Sarah Brosmer, Hannah Sanford at
Lytle Management
group - thank you
for believing in me and tirelessly working on my behalf.
To Carrie Moore, my agent, thanks for keeping me on the road.
To Sean Brady, thank you for the great job you do managing the website.
To Mark Chesnutt, Vince Gill,
Lee Ann Womack,
Connie Smith,
Joe Nichols and
Rhonda Vincent, I am so flattered for your great contribution on this
record. Each of you makes this world a better place with the beauty of your
music. I couldn't have asked for a better gift than you gave me.
To my Farewell Party Band, without you there would be no Gene Watson style.
Thanks to all my fans who have been so loyal throughout my career.
To Texas - you are my heart, my soul and my inspiration.
Most of all, thanks to God for my health and happiness and allowing me to
continue to share the talent He has given me.
Gene Watson'.
'In a Perfect World' was produced by Brent Rowan
Recorded and mixed by Craig White at Curb studios, Nashville, TN
Assisted by Greg Strizek
Additional recording by Craig White and Brent Rowan at Curb Studios,
Nashville, TN & Studio 44, Nashville, TN
Mastered by Eric Conn and Don Cobb at Independent Mastering, Nashville
Photos by Traci Goudie
Design by Lorien Babajian
Overview
'In a Perfect World'
Shanachie Records
Gene Watson is widely considered the finest pure country singer of his
generation. Here he is joined by an all-star cast as he delivers heartfelt
interpretations of great new songs as well as some classics, all done in
authentic country style!.
In order to promote the release of 'In a Perfect World', a CD single - 'I
buried our love' - was released to country music radio stations worldwide on
Monday 20 August 2007.
'I buried our love'
You can listen to the track (above), courtesy of
Shanachie Records.
'In a Perfect World'
Shanachie Records 6206 (2007)
1 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
Written by
Hank Cochran
Publisher: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Background Vocals: Morgane Hayes & Wes Hightower
Ray Price recorded 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
& included the track on 'The Other Woman' (Columbia Records, 1965); when
released as a single, it reached No.11 on the Billboard country music
singles chart in 1965
Jack Greene
recorded 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
& included the track on 'There Goes My Everything' (Decca Records,
1966)
Ray Price & Willie Nelson recorded 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
& included the track on 'San Antonio Rose' (Columbia
Records, 1980); when released as a single, it reached No.11 on the Billboard
country music singles chart in
1980
Ronnie Milsap recorded 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
& included the track on 'Stranger Things Have Happened' (RCA Records,
1989; when released as a single, it reached No.1 on the Billboard country
music singles chart in 1989 (No.1
for one week: 11-18 March 1989)
George Jones
recorded 'Don't you ever get tired of hurting me'
& included the track on 'One
Woman Man' (Epic Records,
1989)
2 'Let me be the first to go'
Written by Harlan Howard
Publisher: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Background Vocals: Vince Gill &
Wes Hightower
3 'What was I thinking'
Written by Skip Ewing &
James Dean Hicks
Publisher: Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music, Write On Music, On The Mantle
Music/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: John Gardner
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Background Vocals: Morgane Hayes & Wes Hightower
4 'Today I started loving you again'
Written by Merle Haggard & Bonnie Owens
Publisher: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Electric Guitar Solo: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Lee Ann Womack
Merle Haggard
recorded
'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'The Legend of Bonnie
& Clyde' (Capitol Records,
1968; when released as a single,
the title track reached No.1 on the
Billboard
country music singles chart in 1968 (No.1
for one week: 27 April - 11 May), while its 'b'
side ('Today I Started Loving You Again') was never released as a single
Waylon Jennings recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Jewels' (RCA Records,
1968)
Johnny Bush recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Undo The Right'
(Stop Records, 1968)
Hank Locklin recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Softly' (RCA
Records, 1968)
Bill Anderson recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Happy State
of Mind' (Decca
Records, 1968)
Wanda Jackson recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'The Many
Moods of Wanda Jackson' (Capitol
Records, 1968)
Freddie Hart
recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Born
a Fool' (Kapp Records, 1968)
Connie Smith
recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Connie's
Country' (RCA
Records, 1969)
Billie Jo Spears recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Miss
Sincerity' (Capitol
Records, 1969)
Skeeter Davis recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'A Place in the
Country' (RCA Records, 1970)
Don Gibson recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Hits, Hits, The
Don Gibson Way' (Hickory
Records, 1970)
Kitty Wells recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'They're Stepping All Over My Heart' (Decca
Records, 1971)
Jimmy Dean recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Everybody Knows'
(RCA Records, 1971)
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Backroads'
(Jolly Rogers Records, 1972)
Hank Snow recorded 'Today I started loving you again'
& included the track on 'Hello Love' (RCA
Records, 1974)
Sammi Smith recorded 'Today I Started
Loving You Again' (Mega Records,
1975; when released as a single,
it became a Top 10 hit on Billboard in 1975.
Sammi Smith (5 August 1943 - 12 February 2005)
5 'In a perfect world'
Written by Harley Allen &
Tim Mensy
Publisher: EMI April Music Inc., Tunes of Tim/ASCAP, Coburn Music Inc.,
Harley Allen Music/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Fender Rhodes: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Joe Nichols, Morgane Hayes & Wes Hightower
6 'She's already gone'
Written by Tim Mensy
Publisher: EMI April Music Inc., Tunes of Tim/ASCAP
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Fender Rhodes: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Wes Hightower
7 'I buried our love'
Written by Tim Mensy & Tony Haselden
Publisher: WB Music Corp., Patrix Janus Music Inc./ASCAP, Universal
Millhouse Music, Ashwords Music/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums & Percussion: John Gardner
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Mandolin: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Dobro, Wurlitzer & Acoustic Guitar: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Wes Hightower
8 'Together again'
Written by Buck Owens
Publisher: Central Songs/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: John Gardner
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Gut String Guitar: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals:
Rhonda Vincent
Buck Owens recorded
'Together again'
& included the track on
'Together Again/Under Your Spell' (Capitol Records,
1963); when released as the 'b'
side of 'My heart skips a beat', the single reached No.1 on Billboard in
1964
Emmylou Harris recorded
'Together again'
& included the track on
'Elite Hotel' (Reprise Records,
1975);
when released as
a single, it reached No.1 on Billboard in 1976 (No.1
for one week: 24 April-1 May).
Three years later, in 1979, Buck Owens & Emmylou Harris teamed up on a
derivative duet, 'Play Together Again Again'.
9 'This side of the door'
Written by Tim Mensy &
Shawn Camp
Publisher: WB Music Corp., Universal Music Corp., Patrix Janus Music Inc.,
Second Wave Music/EMI Full Keel Music/ASCAP
Musician Credits
Drums: John Gardner
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Electric Guitar: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Mark Chesnutt &
Wes Hightower
Mark Chesnutt
recorded 'This side of the door'
& included the track on 'What a Way to Live'
(Decca Records, 1994)
Tim Mensy
recorded
'This side of the door'
& included the track on 'Tim Mensy' (PJM Records,
2002)
10 'A good place to turn around'
Written by J. Matthews, Rebecca Lynn Howard and
Jon Mabe
Publisher: EMI April Music Inc., Songfighter Music, Castle Street Music
Inc./Hightunes Music (administered by Castle Street Music)/ASCAP, Music of
Stage Three/Mabe It Big Music/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: Shannon Forrest
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle & Mandolin: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Electric Guitar Solo & B-3 Organ: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Connie Smith &
Wes Hightower
11 'Like I wasn't even there'
Written by Wes Hightower,
Tim Mensy & Monty Criswell
Publisher: Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, Shmenonga Music/ASCAP Sony/ATV
Tree Publishing, Wenonga Music, Una Writer Music/BMI
Musician Credits
Drums: John Gardner
Bass:
David Smith
Piano: Hargus 'Pig' Robbins
Acoustic Guitar: Bobby All
Steel Guitar: Sonny Garrish
Fiddle: Aubrey Haynie
Electric Guitar:
Gregg Galbraith
Electric Guitar & Electric Keyboards: Brent Rowan
Background Vocals: Morgane Hayes & Wes Hightower
The mastering of 'In a Perfect World' took place at Independent Mastering,
114 17th Avenue South, Nashville TN 37203 on Monday 9 July 2007.
The mastering was undertaken by Eric Conn, Don Cobb & producer Brent Rowan.
Eric Conn
Eric opened Independent Mastering in Nashville in October 2001, having spent
4 hours at Georgetown (with Don Cobb), 3 years at Doug Sax's Sheffield Lab
recording, 1 year at The Smithsonian & 1 year at The Airshow.
Eric also spent many years in recording & mastering at facilities in
California, Colorado, Washington DC & Nashville. He also spent two years
repairing woodwind instruments, brass winds & orchestral string instruments.
Eric Conn holds a degree in music from The University of Massachusetts in
Boston.
Don Cobb
Don Cobb has been a recoding & mixing engineer for artists such as Take Six,
Quincy Jones & Waylon Jennings. He has managed, edited & mastered at Denny
Purcell's Georgetown Masters for eleven years. Don Cobb is a
multi-instrumentalist & can play mandolin, guitar & bass.
You can read a CMP review of Gene Watson's 'In a Perfect World'
here. The
review, which was written by Jon Philibert, was published in the October
2007 issue of the United Kingdom monthly publication
Country Music People.
'In a Perfect World'
Shanachie Records 6206 (2007)
