Kenny Rogers - A Love Song Collection
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Artist: Kenny RogersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- A Love Song
- Love Will Turn You Around
- You Decorated My Life
- Love The World Away
- You Are So Beautiful
- She Believes In Me
- Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (w/Kim Carnes)
- Share Your Love With Me
- Lady
- We've Got Tonight (w/Sheena Easton)
- All My Life
- Love Is What We Make It
- Islands In the Stream (w/Dolly Parton)
- Crazy
- Buy Me A Rose (w/Alison Krauss)
- I Can't Unlove You
- Through the Years
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Free Music Review: Rich, New 24-Bit Remastering For 2008 From The Original Master Tapes!
Hit: 5 Stars
I must admit that I'm not really that big of a fan of Kenny Rogers. The truth is that I grew up with many of his recordings playing on the radio and among my family, so they've stuck with me. The only other Kenny Rogers release in my collection is the 21 Number Ones release from 2006. While that release featured very good 24-bit remastering by Dave McEowen, the mastering on this 2008 release is even better yet! The difference is, of course, the mastering engineers. According to the liner notes, this release was 96k/24-bit mastered from the original flat master tapes by Robert Vosgien @ Capitol Mastering Studios - Hollywood, CA. Robert has done amazing work time after time in the past, and this is no exception! The audio resolution is impeccable!
Classic ballads such as "She Believes In Me", "Lady", "Islands In The Stream", and "Through The Years" have been given a dimension unheard of in previous masters. Most fans will remember these recordings as sounding rather flat and dull on their original CD releases. That's how most people have always listened to these recordings, so many people probably have no idea that these recordings can actually sound incredible.
Older masters left these songs sounding like they were always playing in the background, so you can imagine my surprise when Robert was able to pull this much fidelity out of the tapes. The drums are punchy, not flat; the instruments are clean, not muddy; and the vocals are clear, not buried. You know something special has been done when you hear a bass line coming from "Through The Years", a recording which I thought had suffered a fate of poor production or poor source tapes. I was wrong! For a 1981 recording, it is one of the best-sounding hits for that time.
So is this collection really worth owning? I'm sure many fans are cringing at the sight of another Kenny Rogers collection on the market. How many more times can you get these songs? Even I rolled my eyes when I saw this release along with the latest Ricky Nelson Greatest Love Songs compilation hit the stores in early 2008. Fortunately, Capitol offered an incentive for these collections by giving fans a fresh new 24-bit remaster by an alternate mastering engineer for '08 instead of using previous remasters. If you care enough about sound quality, then I can't recommend this release enough!
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