Country Fever

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Country Fever
Studio album by
Rick Nelson
Released April 17, 1967
Genre Country
Length 28 : 53
Label Decca
Producer Charles "Bud" Dant
Rick Nelson chronology
On the Flip Side
(1966) 		Country Fever
(1967) 		Another Side of Rick
(1967)
Singles from Country Fever
  1. "Alone"
    Released: October 1966
  2. "Take a City Bride"
    Released: April 1967

Country Fever is the sixteenth studio album by American singer Rick Nelson , and his ninth for Decca Records , released on April 17, 1967, on Decca Records. which features Nelson's composition of "Alone" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Walkin' Down The Line", Nelson's earliest Dylan cover.

The sessions also produced a couple of numbers taken from old Sun Records by Elvis Presley; "Mystery Train", which was included on the album. [1] He sampled the classic country catalog, including "You Win Again," "Funny How Time Slips Away," and "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Blow." "Alone" was a self-penned tune while "Walkin' Down the Line" was the first Bob Dylan song that he recorded. [2] These songs formed a kind of semi-autobiographical trilogy, as he sketched himself as a desolate but determined loner. [1] Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it, this was the last of fifteen consecutive Nelson studio LPs , produced by Charles "Bud" Dant.

Reception [ edit ]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [3]
New Record Mirror [4]

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic said that "Country Fever continued the country direction of Nelson's previous album, Bright Lights & Country Music, and the approach of each record was similarly weighted toward interpretations of country classics". [3]

Record Mirror called it "one of his consistent perfromaces" and stated that "His own compostition is more than honky-tonk can rare with treatments by long-time contry greats. [5]

Track listing [ edit ]

Side one [ edit ]

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Take a City Bride" Gib Guilbeau 1:57
2. " Funny How Time Slips Away " Willie Nelson 2:56
3. " The Bridge Washed Out " Mel Melshee, Jimmy Louis, Sandra Smith, Slim Williamson 1:47
4. "Alone" Ricky Nelson 2:38
5. "Big Chief Buffalo Nickel (Desert Blues)" Jimmie Rodgers 2:01
6. " Mystery Train " Junior Parker 2:26

Side two [ edit ]

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Things You Gave Me" Glen Hardin 1:52
2. " Take These Chains from My Heart " Hy Heath , Fred Rose 2:36
3. " (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle " Hank Williams , Jimmie Davis 2:38
4. " Walkin' Down the Line " Bob Dylan 2:23
5. " You Win Again " Hank Williams 2:50
6. " Salty Dog " Zeke Morris, Wiley Morris 2:35

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Selvin, Joel (1990). Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation . Chicago: Contemporary Books. p. 170. ISBN   978-0-8092-4187-3 .
  2. ^ Homer, Sheree (2012). Rick Nelson, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer . Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 86. ISBN   978-0-7864-6060-1 .
  3. ^ a b " "Country Fever" - Album Review" . Allmusic . Retrieved 2023-10-08 .
  4. ^ Jopling, Norman; Jones, Peter. "Rick Nelson: Country Fever " (PDF) . New Record Mirror . No. 131. p. 8 . Retrieved 20 May 2024 .
  5. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (23 September 1967). "Peter Jones new albums reviewed by Norman Jopling: Bumper Month for L.P.'s' Albums issued by Sinatra, Geno, John Mayall, Johnny Cash, Rick Nelson, Gene Vincent,Tony Hatch, King Curtis, Ventures, 5th Dimension, Proby, Ben E. King, Slim Whitman, Jefferson Airplane, Julie Andrews, Francoise Hardy & David Garrick" (PDF) . New Record Mirror . No. 2. p. 8 . Retrieved 20 May 2024 .
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