Vince Gill & Paul Franklin - Bakersfield album flac

Bakersfield is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Vince Gill and steel guitar player Paul Franklin. It was released on July 30, 2013 via MCA Nashville. The album is a collaborative tribute of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens songs. It reached number 4 on Top Country Albums. Vince Gill and his fellow The Time Jumpers band member Paul Franklin re-recorded songs by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard as a tribute, pulling five songs from each artist, all from 1961 -1974.

Bakersfield is a collection of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard tunes from the 1960s, cut by an all-star session band. It not only pays tribute to these giants and the era, but also the sound, and the men who created it: guitarists Don Rich and Roy Nichols, pedal steel guitarist Tom Brumley, and fiddler Jelly Sanders. No one is more qualified to sing these songs than Gill, who is the greatest living vocalist in country music and a killer guitarist whose catalog reveals that he's has been on a creative tear since 2000. Franklin has played on over 500 records; he's a t.

If you want to define country music to me in its greatest era," Gill, 56, said last week, "it would be Bakersfield - it would be Buck and Merle, those songs and those instruments. PHOTOS: Best of the 2013 Stagecoach Country Music Festival

Producer – Paul Franklin, Vince Gill. Recorded By – Matt Rausch. Recorded By, Mixed By – Justin Niebank. Recorded By, Mixed By – Drew Bollman, Matt Rausch. Manufactured and distributed in the United States.

Gill and Franklin released their latest album "Bakersfield," on July 30. (Photo by Donn Jones/Invision/AP). AP) - Vince Gill, country music's modern ambassador, and Paul Franklin, Nashville's most sought after steel guitar player, are bringing the twang back to country with a new collection of songs from the Bakersfield era. The two collaborated on their new album "Bakersfield," out Tuesday, to update the California brand of country that Buck Owens and Merle Haggard popularized in the 1960s. The music took them back to when they first learned to play

Home Country Bakersfield. Release Date: Jul 30, 2013 Record label: MCA Nashville Genre(s): Country, Americana, Honky Tonk, Bakersfield Sound. 78 Music Critic Score How the Music Critic Score works. Bakersfield - Very Good, Based on 5 Critics. Vince Gill and veteran steel guitar ace Paul Franklin have produced this tribute to Bakersfield country by focusing on its two most famous practitioners: Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. They’ve chosen five songs from the catalogs of each. Most are familiar hits - The Bottle Let Me Down, Foolin’ Around, Together Again, The Fightin’ Side of Me - but Gill and Franklin have complemented those classics nicely with a few deep-catalog selections.

Multi-Grammy award winner Vince Gill and renowned steel guitar player Paul Franklin discuss their new project, Bakersfield, which pays homage to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Gill and Franklin showcase musical techniques developed during this period and its impact on music.