Faron Young sings A Tribute to Jim Reeves

In 1966, (two years after the death of "Gentleman Jim"), Faron Young released a tribute album, (" Faron Young sings The Best of Jim Reeves"), these three tracks are from that album.

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Music

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• Faron Young
• Jim Reeves
• Country

[greathodgy22]

How could it get better. A great singer singing songs that another great singer made famous. I am a great Jim Reeves fan and Faron does justice to the ones Jim did.

[joepilot48]

How well I remember the news of Jim's plane crash in 1964. These are very good covers of Jim's work. But Faron's life ended in a tragedy as well, at his own hand. And the sad thing is, there are just no artists of their calibre to take their place. After watching the ACM awards a few nights ago, I was left with a sick feeling about what has happened to the genre. And we are poorer because of it.

[briartlaw]

@greathodgy22 Very true i agree with that 100%..

[larryisno1]

todays country misic is not country

i dont know what they call it but i dont listen to it.

[1darrclar]

God forgive the Opry. Country music is dead. RIP

[lindaforbes100]

i love faron and jims music you cant beat it

[briartlaw]

A GREAT tribute to a great singer by a great singer..

[riv4life618]

@riv4life618 Country had some degree of singing talent (ie Carrie, Shania, Faith, Keith Urban, Sugarland, Kenny Chesney, etc etc) even if they are about as Country as Jay Z. Now you got people like Swift who not only aren't Country at all, but also can't sing at all. A total joke. It kills me to see people like her stand on the Opry stage, and people like Rascal Flatts become members of the Opry. Hank Williams wasn't even reinstated in the Opry. No wonder Faron ended it the way he did = (

[riv4life618]

@joepilot48 So so true. When the CMA handed TS the Entertainer of the Year award in '09 I broke down and cried. I thought it was bad before, but now it's just horrific. The majority (imo) of the artists called Country over the last 30+ years have been Country flavored Pop at best, but there was always still a strong (real) Country base around (ie Alan Jackson, George Strait, Josh Turner, The Dixie Chicks,etc). Now there's next to nothing, and at least before the pop artists selling themselves

[riv4life618]

@joepilot48 Shame on you for mentioning that person in the company of giants, lol, jk You're not too old, I think I'm only a few months older than the abomination that is TS and there's no one I dislike more. Such a tragedy that legends like Faron Young are all but forgotten in the town they helped build and genre they helped make while Nashville's giving Entertainer of the Year awards to that nothing left and right. Nah it doesn't have anything to do with age, the girl sucks.

[charliekucharski]

Faron, wherever you are, what a great tribute to a man held so dear to so many. Thanks.