Bakersfield
by Paul Franklin
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  1. Brutaljuice
    Jul 31, 2013
    9
    I really hate most of today's contemporary country music or as some call it, country-pop. It lacks the soul, depth, and the tradition old school country has. Thank you Vince Gill and Paul Franklin for making this beautiful tribute to Buck and Merle.
    I use to have to work out in Bakersfield a lot and this takes me back. This album represents something of a master class in Bakersfield's    I really hate most of today's contemporary country music or as some call it, country-pop. It lacks the soul, depth, and the tradition old school country has. Thank you Vince Gill and Paul Franklin for making this beautiful tribute to Buck and Merle.
    I use to have to work out in Bakersfield a lot and this takes me back. This album represents something of a master class in Bakersfield's golden age of country. So well done and something I just missed hearing. I really hope they will do another album because there are so many more songs/artists out of good old Bakersfield, Wynn Stewart, Jean Shepard, Susan Raye, and Freddie Hart. Yes! maybe a women Bakersfield country album.    … Expand

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  1. PopMatters
    Aug 22, 2013
    70
    [Gill's] instrumental work on Bakersfield, while it never strays far from the originals, is unfailingly effective. Famed session player Paul Franklin earns his co-billing.
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  2. Boston Globe
    Jul 30, 2013
    80
    Bakersfield gives us two current masters paying homage, not through note-for-note reproduction, but by putting their own reverential take on the music of two country music titans.
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  3. AllMusic
    Jul 30, 2013
    80
    The bottom line is Bakersfield smokes from top to bottom; a fitting tribute, it is one of, if not the, best country album of 2013.
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