Raven [Australia]
2006
Bougainvillea's Call: The Very Best Of Dickey Betts
About This Album
While Dickey Betts classic country solo album Highway Call deserves its own 24-bit remastering job, Raven Records from Australia do what they do best: issue a single-disc retrospective that gets to the heart of the matter of Betts as a solo artist. There are 17 cuts on Very Best of Dickey Betts: 1973-1978 Bougainvilleas Call, and they touch on most aspects of Betts' recording career with the exception of his earliest sides with the Allman Brothers. The sides on Raven's collection are those which forged his individual identity as an artist. The first four tracks -- "Long Time Gone," "Rain," "Highway Call," and "Let Nature Sing" -- are the signature pieces of an album that was as defining as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings' albums were: they were a re-defining of country music in the early '70s. Of course, "Ramblin' Man," from the Allman Brothers' first posthumous Duane Allman/Berry Oakley album, was recorded in 1973, and became the band's single greatest hit. Betts emerged as the band's second lead vocalist. There's the fine Jimmie Rodgers cover "No Hard Times" from the Hotels, Motels and Road Shows sampler on Capricorn as well.
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