Comments on: Exclusive Music http://blog.purecountrymusic.com/commentary/exclusive-music/ Your #1 Source for Classic Country Music News and Information! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:53:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ACcountryFan http://blog.purecountrymusic.com/commentary/exclusive-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1919 ACcountryFan Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:14:55 +0000 http://blog.purecountrymusic.com/?p=1825#comment-1919 Come on, now...beating up on Ray Stevens of all people simply because he had his trucker CD exclusive to Pilot travel centers for a month but then it became available at his web-site's store. When you criticize Garth Brooks for having CD's exclusive to Wal*Mart, what's the big deal? It isn't like Wal*Mart is an out of the way store nobody can find...they're everywhere. There's five Wal*Mart stores in a 20 mile radius where I live...so going to the store for a Garth Brooks CD wasn't and shouldn't have been too much of a burden. Ray's free download, "Concrete Sailor", is not a 'stinker' as you call it. Perhaps if one is only wanting to hear songs with the same instruments all the time then, of course, "Concrete Sailor" won't be up a person's alley. It has impeccable sound and a good lead-off for the trucker CD. I have the trucker CD and all of the songs are good. "Cooter Brown", a song from the CD, is wonderful. quote: "And as if you didn’t get tired of Ray re-doing his classics..." The bonus tracks are not new re-recordings. Instead, they're from 1992. That was the year he released his million selling home video, "Comedy Video Classics". He re-recorded quite a few of his songs for those music video's and it's those 1992 recordings that are on the trucker CD as bonus tracks. Most people don't really understand music rights and record label ownership. Ray recorded for quite a few labels in his 50+ career and because of legalities a lot of his songs aren't available. A lot of his songs were recorded for subsidiaries of major labels. Barnaby Records, for example...he recorded for that label during 1970-1975...but the distribution was handled by CBS at first and then by Janus Records. GRT Records, i think, handled distribution in Canada. Those recordings the last I saw were owned by a company called Celebrity and they haven't really budged and won't release Ray's Barnaby recordings in any proper collection. Warner Brothers and RCA, the two labels he recorded for during 1976-1983 haven't re-issued his material much at all...not even on MP3 in this internet age. Then we get to MCA Records...those songs and the ones he recorded for Curb in the 1990's are available on-line. So, it isn't a case of a singer re-recording his hits because he doesn't have anything new to sing which is the way it comes across in your commentary. It's a little bit more complicated than that as to why Ray has re-recorded his hit songs in recent times. Come on, now…beating up on Ray Stevens of all people simply because he had his trucker CD exclusive to Pilot travel centers for a month but then it became available at his web-site’s store.

When you criticize Garth Brooks for having CD’s exclusive to Wal*Mart, what’s the big deal? It isn’t like Wal*Mart is an out of the way store nobody can find…they’re everywhere. There’s five Wal*Mart stores in a 20 mile radius where I live…so going to the store for a Garth Brooks CD wasn’t and shouldn’t have been too much of a burden.

Ray’s free download, “Concrete Sailor”, is not a ’stinker’ as you call it. Perhaps if one is only wanting to hear songs with the same instruments all the time then, of course, “Concrete Sailor” won’t be up a person’s alley. It has impeccable sound and a good lead-off for the trucker CD. I have the trucker CD and all of the songs are good. “Cooter Brown”, a song from the CD, is wonderful.

quote: “And as if you didn’t get tired of Ray re-doing his classics…”

The bonus tracks are not new re-recordings. Instead, they’re from 1992. That was the year he released his million selling home video, “Comedy Video Classics”. He re-recorded quite a few of his songs for those music video’s and it’s those 1992 recordings that are on the trucker CD as bonus tracks. Most people don’t really understand music rights and record label ownership. Ray recorded for quite a few labels in his 50+ career and because of legalities a lot of his songs aren’t available.

A lot of his songs were recorded for subsidiaries of major labels. Barnaby Records, for example…he recorded for that label during 1970-1975…but the distribution was handled by CBS at first and then by Janus Records. GRT Records, i think, handled distribution in Canada. Those recordings the last I saw were owned by a company called Celebrity and they haven’t really budged and won’t release Ray’s Barnaby recordings in any proper collection. Warner Brothers and RCA, the two labels he recorded for during 1976-1983 haven’t re-issued his material much at all…not even on MP3 in this internet age. Then we get to MCA Records…those songs and the ones he recorded for Curb in the 1990’s are available on-line.

So, it isn’t a case of a singer re-recording his hits because he doesn’t have anything new to sing which is the way it comes across in your commentary. It’s a little bit more complicated than that as to why Ray has re-recorded his hit songs in recent times.

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