From 1990 to 1996 Joe Diffie landed five songs at number one on the country charts. He had eight other top ten hits. Since then he has only managed four top ten songs. Diffie's hit songs tended to be humorous and blue collar and for whatever reason his ability to churn out such songs seemed to fade. After a few albums failed to produce any hits Diffie turned toward more traditional country and found success with A Night to Remember.Homecoming follows that path turning toward bluegrass. I really enjoy watching bluegrass live, but on vinyl it seems to lose something. That being said this album is a solid bluegrass effort with twinges toward more traditional country.
I could see playing this at a family picnic.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.
i like the black crows cover a good bit.
ReplyDeletethe black crows' drummer, by the way, overlapped with me at wku for a bit. i didn't know him, but we shared some mutual friends at the newspaper. he was apparently forever joining this band or that band around town, and one day he stopped by the office to tell his friends that he was withdrawing from school because over the weekend he had won a tryout to play drums for a new band being formed by two brothers down in atlanta. and there you go.
oh, cool, this recollection actually checks out. Matthew, could you please add hopkinsville and bowling green labels to this post?
by the way, i had completely forgotten about "Ricky Nelson Story," which i thought was a really good name for a band. still do.
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