The Best of Jesse Winchester

by Jesse Winchester

Overview

Jesse Winchester wrote and recorded more than enough great songs for Bearsville to fill a single-disc compilation, which means that some of them were bound to be left off. The trick was to balance the material from the brilliant first two albums with a careful selection from the subsequent five albums, each of which had its virtues. This 14-track album chooses four from Jesse Winchester, including the essential "Yankee Lady," "Biloxi," and "The Brand New Tennessee Waltz," and three from its follow-up, Third Down, 110 to Go. There are three from Learn to Love It, one each from Nothing But a Breeze and A Touch on the Rainy Side, and two from Talk Memphis. Lesser material such as "Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt" and "Rhumba Man" could have been excised in favor of more from Third Down, but the selection is good enough to give a reasonable representation of Winchester's seven Bearsville albums, which contain some of the most impressive songwriting of the '70s. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/1990
Label:	Rhino
UPC:	0081227008529
Rank:	64205

Tracks

1. Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt
2. Mississippi, You're on My Mind
3. Yankee Lady
4. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
5. Biloxi
6. Talk Memphis
7. Bowling Green
8. Do It
9. Defying Gravity
10. Say What
11. I'm Looking for a Miracle
12. Do la Lay
13. Skip Rope Song
14. Everybody Knows But Me
15. Rhumba Man
16. A Showman's Life
17. Dangerous Fun
18. All of Your Own Stories

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jesse Winchester   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Jacqueline Ertel   Composer
Terry Slater   Composer
Bill Flanagan   Liner Notes
Traditional   Composer
Jesse Winchester   Composer