Sweet Sad & Salty

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All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Omni Recording Corporation specializes in digging out the oddities in an established veteran's catalog, and their 2012 Burl Ives compilation Sweet Sad & Salty is no exception. Concentrating on his Owen Bradley-produced Nashville sessions of the '60s, this 31-track collection samples from eight different LPs released between 1961 and 1973, adding four previously unreleased tracks -- "Time to Bum Again," "Born for Trouble," "Unemployment Check," and "Hobo Jungle," none given specific copyrights in the liner notes -- to the mix. Many of these songs were written by Nashville heavyweights -- there's a ton of songs credited to Harlan Howard, and many more to Hank ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Omni Recording Corporation specializes in digging out the oddities in an established veteran's catalog, and their 2012 Burl Ives compilation Sweet Sad & Salty is no exception. Concentrating on his Owen Bradley-produced Nashville sessions of the '60s, this 31-track collection samples from eight different LPs released between 1961 and 1973, adding four previously unreleased tracks -- "Time to Bum Again," "Born for Trouble," "Unemployment Check," and "Hobo Jungle," none given specific copyrights in the liner notes -- to the mix. Many of these songs were written by Nashville heavyweights -- there's a ton of songs credited to Harlan Howard, and many more to Hank Cochran, Jack Clement, Boudleaux Bryant, Hank Cochran, and Mel Tillis -- which, combined with the role of Bradley and the omnipresent Anita Kerr Singers, goes a long way in explaining how firmly entrenched this music is within Music City, no matter what the candy-colored psychedelic artwork suggests. Only a handful of these cuts date from the back half of the '60s, and if the songs sometimes address the shifting tides (granddad Burl reads a "Girlie Magazine" in his easy chair; he sings a ditty about the "longhair boys and screaming females" on "The Sixties"), the bulk of the record consists of amiable country-pop performed with panache and a sly wink. Bradley's productions are a little more adorned than Ives' early folkier work, but this is still in that vein -- it's just that the songs are a little more varied musically and thematically, the productions a bit fuller. It's enjoyable and sometimes curious, but not revelatory.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 4/17/2012
  • Label: Omni
  • EAN: 9326425806210
  • Catalog Number: 157
  • Sales rank: 101,981

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Burl Ives Primary Artist
Floyd Cramer Piano
Hank Garland Guitar
Grady Martin Guitar
Bill Pursell Piano
Harold Bradley Guitar
Ray Edenton Guitar
Buddy Harman Drums
Hargus "Pig" Robbins Piano
Velma Smith Guitar
Charlie McCoy Harmonica
Bob Moore Bass
Fred Carter Jr. Guitar
Joe Sinkan Bass
Technical Credits
Bill Anderson Composer
Mel Tillis Composer
Paul Clayton Composer
Burl Ives Composer
Johnny Russell Composer
Andy Badale Composer
Freddie Hart Composer
Carl Belew Composer
Owen Bradley Producer
Boudleaux Bryant Composer
Jack Clement Composer
Hank Cochran Composer
Charles L. Cooke Composer
Milt Gabler Producer
Harlan Howard Composer
David Landis Layout
Ed Penney Composer
Wayne Walker Composer
Marijohn Wilkin Composer
Fred Carter Jr. Composer
Danny Dill Composer
Tommy Blake Composer
Warren Barnett Remastering
L. Wolfe Gilbert Composer
Frank Stanton Composer
Fred Burch Composer
Dixie Deen Composer
Traditional Composer
Lyle Moraine Composer
Alvin Lucia Liner Notes
Murray Semos Composer
John Dorurad Composer
Ernie Wymer Composer
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