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Country stars align for Mandrell tribute
05/15/2006 2:39 PM, Reuters
Jonathan Cohen
Some of the biggest names in country
music have signed on for a tribute album to country legend
Barbara Mandrell, who stepped away from the business in 1997.
Dubbed "She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" after one
of the artist's best-known hits, the set will be released
October 10 via BNA.
Kenny Chesney and Reba McEntire perform "I Was Country When
Country Wasn't Cool," a No. 1 country hit in 1981, while Willie Nelson and Shelby Lynne team up for "This Time I Almost Made
It," which reached No. 12 in 1974.
The album will also feature Dierks Bentley on "Fast Lanes
and Country Roads," Alabama's Randy Owen on "Years," Sara Evans
on "Crackers," Brad Paisley on "In Times Like These," Terri Clark on "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and Lorrie Morgan on
"That's What Friends Are For."
"The loving kindness of these friends gave me such an
emotional high, and I'm still there," Mandrell says of the
project. "I don't know if I'll ever come down."
Reuters/Billboard
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