Reggae's Gone Country - Various Artists (Audio CD - 2011)

Country music devotee Cristy Barber, Vice President of Marketing and Promotions at VP Records, the world's largest reggae label, and a Grammy nominated producer for the 2003 dancehall reggae-hip hop compilation album Def Jamaica, envisioned this project two years before release and teamed up on lead production with John Rich of the multi-platinum selling country duo Big & Rich and the winner of this year's Celebrity Apprentice, and the acclaimed Jamaican saxophonist and top reggae producer Dean Fraser.Reggae's Gone Country takes some of Jamaican's favorite classic American country songs and puts their beats and whole instrumentation around it while still having that root of country. "It is this crazy cool idea," says John Rich. The majority of the album was recorded at Kingston's Grafton and the Marley owned Tuff Gong Studios. The tracks were mixed by Errol and Shane Brown, then sent to Nashville where they were embellished with country instrumentation by legendary pedal steel player Mike Johnson and Jonathan Yudkin on fiddle/ banjo with John Rich overseeing the production at Fireside Studios, formerly owned by the late country legend Porter Wagoner. Condition:NEW. Punched upc. TRACK LISTINGS 1 California / Romain Virgo 2 He'll Have To Go / Luciano 3 Wolverton Mountain / Richie Stephens 4 Crazy / Etana 5 The Chair / Tarrus Riley 6 He Stopped Loving Her Today / Beres Hammond 7 Suspicions / Duane Stephenson 8 Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue / Tessanne Chin 9 Feels So Right / Gramps Morgan 10 The King of the Road / Freddie McGregor 11 El Paso / Sanchez 12 Flowers On the Wall / L.U.S.T. 13 The Gambler / Busy Signal