Friday, October 13, 2006

Vince Gill releases four albums at once

Apparently, Vince Gill took a look at the Beatles and shook his head over the crush of albums they released one after the other. (For example, "Help" came out in August of '65. "Rubber Soul" came out four months later in December of '65. "Revolver" came out nine months later in September of '66.) Why can't I do that, he wondered. So instead of whittling down a batch of 30+ songs for one album, Gill just kept on recording and now he's bundled four separate CDs and putting them all out on Tuesday. One is straight country, one a bit more rock-ish, one acoustic bluegrass and one heavy on Gill's signature ballads. The LA Times has the story.

2 comments:

Thomas said...

I'm looking forward to purchasing it tomorrow. It's gonna take quite a while to get through, though. 4 discs. Damn...

Michael in New York said...

Well, on the bright side, three of the CDs only have 10 songs. True, most country albums stay to a sane 12 songs, but with so many pop albums overstuffed, these mostly under 40 minute albums will be a lot more enjoyable to listen to. It's probably only equivalent time-wise to just a little more than two pop albums and given the positive early reviews, I'm sure it'll be worth it.