The Moon Was Blue [Audio CD] BARE,BOBBY

Product Description Bobby Bare's The Moon Was Blue in his first album of new material in over two decades and was produced by his son, indie rock and Bloodshot recording artist Bobby Bare, Jr. as well as Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Calexico). The album stays true to Bobby Bare's country roots with lazy waltzes and lap-steel but also incorporates distorted guitars, spacey atmospheres, strings, horns, and haunting background vocals. The result is a progressive country album that's rooted in 70's retro tradition. 11 tracks. Dualtone. 2005. Though he had quit recording in the 1980s, Bobby Bare's classic '60s singles "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home" reflected a folk-flavored iconoclasm that foretold the rise of Nashville's Outlaw movement. He continued into the 1970s with hits like "Marie Laveau" and 1973's "Daddy What If," which featured five-year-old Bobby Bare Jr. , today an alt.country luminary. On The Moon Was Blue, coproducers Bare Jr. and Lambchop producer Mark Nevers surround Bare Sr. with a quirky amalgam of choruses and strings, recalling the early-'60s Nashville Sound era in which he first made his mark. At 70, his wry humor and heart shine through on this clever, slightly bent, retro mix of vintage material. The 1909 singalong "Shine on Harvest Moon" coexists alongside country standards ("Am I That Easy to Forget," "Yesterday When I Was Young," and "Are You Sincere"), '60s pop ("Everybody's Talkin'"), and '50s ballads ("Love Letters in the Sand," "It's All in the Game," and "My Heart Cries For You"). Taken as a whole, the album reaffirms Bare's continuing vitality--and sly iconoclasm. --Rich Kienzle