Radney Foster Why Tamper with Success?
AMERICANA Why tamper with success? Radney Foster’s Del Rio, TX Revisited: Unplugged & Lonesome released 20 years after original by Tom Geddie ’VE HEARD OF PEOPLE REWORKING AN #1 Billboard hit “Real Fine Place der by exploring their feelings I to Start” and has written songs through writing songs and play- Ialbum because they weren’t happy with the way covered by artists as diverse as ing music. Iit sounded the first time. Radney Foster pulled Guy Clark, The Dixie Chicks, Foster also teamed up with “It can be happy or sad or a new one on me, though, by remaking an album Rosie Flores, The Mavericks, New Red Cross to help victims of Grass Revival, The Nitty Gritty Hurricane Isaac. Proceeds from beautiful or angst ridden, or that he already liked and that was both popular and Dirt Band, Poco, The Sweethearts the iTunes sales of his video, influential. of the Rodeo, Keith Urban, and “Louisiana Blue,” go to help just pure fun,” Foster said. “A The original album, recorded about every single detail. With many more. those in need. in 1992, was Del Rio, TX 1959; this new record, you have these “Del Rio’s arguably the best Del Rio, TX 1959 and Del Rio, song like ‘Help Me Make It the new one, which came out last incredible musicians doing sur- country record I’ve ever made,” TX Revisited: Unplugged & Lone- August, is Del Rio, TX Revisited: prising things on the fly. Foster said. “So many young sing- some are the bookends for through the Night” is just Unplugged & Lonesome.
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