Bright_Lights_and_Country_Music_(Rick_Nelson_album)

<i>Bright Lights and Country Music</i> (Rick Nelson album)

Bright Lights and Country Music (Rick Nelson album)

1966 studio album by Rick Nelson

Bright Lights and Country Music was a studio album by American singer Rick Nelson. Released on May 30, 1966, it was his seventh for Decca Records and fourteenth overall.[citation needed] It was considered a significant change in direction for Nelson from the rock and roll of previous albums.

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The song "You Just Can't Quit" was the first song he wrote himself and released since "Don't Leave Me This Way" on his second album.[1] He covered country classics such as "Hello Walls", "Night Train to Memphis" and "Welcome to My Word", "Doug Kershaw Louisiana Man"[2]

"You Just Can't Quit" "bubbled under" Billboard's Hot 100, reaching number 108,[3] number 76 on the Cashbox singles chart,[4] and number 24 in Canada.[citation needed]

Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it.

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Suggesting that Nelson "cannily captured the idiomatic feel of contemporary country," biographer and music critic Joel Selvin wrote, "Artistically, Bright Lights served as a stunning reversal of field. It did not come out of a vacuum for Rick [...] But the idea of Rick Nelson as a country singer certainly came a surprise to the general public."[1]

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic said that "Although Nelson's move into straight country music didn't result in notable commercial gains, it made sense given that his prior few rock albums hadn't done much, and that most rockabilly performers had long since gone into the country market.[5]

Track listing

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References

  1. [1]
    Selvin, Joel (1990). Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation. Chicago: Contemporary Books. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-0-8092-4187-3.
  2. [2]
    Homer, Sheree (2012). Rick Nelson, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-7864-6060-1.
  3. [3]
    Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981. Menomonee Falls, Wis: Record Research. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8982-0047-8.
  4. [4]
    "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 16, 1966".
  5. [5]
    "Rick Nelson – Bright Lights & Country Music: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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