Overview
The 'Sometimes I Get Lucky' album spawned three Top 10 hits for
Gene Watson on the Billboard country music singles chart; 'You're out
doing what I'm here doing without'
reached No.2 in 1983, 'Sometimes I
Get Lucky' reached No.9 in 1983 & 'Drinkin' my way back home' climbed
to No.10 in 1984.
The 'Sometimes I Get Lucky' album doesn't just have the distinction of
including three of Gene's biggest hit songs. The album also has the
distinction of being the first Gene Watson release to feature members of
his acclaimed Farewell Party Band on record, thus affording listeners
the opportunity to hear this authentic group of musicians for the first
time, in a studio setting, recreating a concert sound.
The Farewell Party Band line-up at this time included Larry Booth
(bass), Joe Eddie Gough (piano), Doug Boggs (drums), Daniel (Danny) T.
Rainwater (guitar), the late Dave Kirby (guitar), Norm Kastner (guitar)
& Chris 'Tiny' Olson.
The 'Sometimes I Get Lucky & Forget' album was produced by Russ Reeder
& Gene Watson for G-J Productions.
The 'Sometimes I Get Lucky & Forget' album was recorded at Pete's Place,
Nashville, Tennessee where the Recording & Mixing Engineer was Al Pachucci.
The 'Sometimes I Get Lucky' album achieved a chart position of
Number 16 on the Billboard Top Country Album Chart in 1983.
'Sometimes I Get Lucky'
MCA Records MCA5384 (1983)
Track Listing
1 'Speak
well of me'
Written by Hank Cochran
Published by
Tree Publishing
Company, Inc. /
Tree Group (BMI)
2 'In love all alone'
Written by
Jesse Shofner &
Randy Hatch
Published by
Almarie Music (BMI)
3 'You're out doing what I'm here doing without'
Written by Bo
Roberts & Allen Frizzell
Published by
Desert Rose Music /
Ski Slope Music (BMI)
4
'Sometimes I get lucky and forget' •
Written by Ernie Rowell & Bob House (RIP)
Published by
Blue Creek Music /
Booth & Watson Music /
On The House Music (BMI)
5
'She sure
makes leaving seem easy'
Written by
Sonny
Throckmorton
Published by
Tree Publishing
Company, Inc. (BMI)
6
'You waltzed yourself right into my life'
Written by
Ron Moore
Published by
Low Ball Music Inc. (BMI)
7
'You put out an old flame last night' •
Written by Dave Lindsey & Ernie
Rowell
Published by
Blue Creek Music /
Booth & Watson Music /
Cross Timbers Music (BMI)
8
'You're
just another beer drinking song'
Written by
Warren Robb &
Dave Kirby (RIP)
Published by
Millstone Music
Company (ASCAP) /
Baray Music, Inc. (BMI)
9
'Thinking 'bout leaving'
Written by Randy Albright, Mark D. Sanders &
Butch Paulson
Published by
Milene Music (ASCAP)
10
'If I were you, I'd fall in love with me'
•
Written by
Dave Kirby (RIP) & Warren Robb
Published by
Almarie Music (BMI) /
Millstone Music
Company (ASCAP)
Musician Credits
Gene Watson's Farewell Party Band
Bass:
Larry Booth
Piano:
Joe Eddie Gough
Drums:
Doug Boggs
Guitar:
Daniel (Danny) T. Rainwater, Dave Kirby (RIP) & Norm Kastner
Steel Guitar: Chris
'Tiny' Olson
Fiddle:
Lisa Silver & Buddy Spicher
Background Vocals:
The Tennessee Express (Beckie Foster, Joy Gardner, Ronnie Drake
& Curtis Young (the latter filling in for Al Henson)
Re-recorded
versions of 'Sometimes I get lucky and forget', 'You put out an old
flame last night' & 'If I were you, I'd fall in love with me' (tracks
indicated thus •)
can be found on the 'Gene Watson: Then & Now' album, which was released on Koch Records
Nashville in June 2005.
You
can read a review of Gene Watson's
'Sometimes I Get Lucky' album
here. The review, which was written by
Alan Cackett, was published in the July 1983 issue of
the United Kingdom monthly publication
Country Music People.
