The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)

The Nashville Sessions
Studio album by Dean Martin
Released	June 15, 1983
Recorded	January 17–21, 1983
Studio	Masterfonics, Nashville[1]
Genre	Country
Length	28:30
Label	Warner Bros. - WB-1-23870-1
Producer	Jimmy Bowen
Dean Martin chronology
Once in a While (1978) The Nashville Sessions (1983)

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The Nashville Sessions is a 1983 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} This was Martin's last album.^[1]

The album consists of country standards, recorded in country pop arrangements.^[2]

Martin sang two of the songs in duet, "My First Country Song" with Conway Twitty, and "Everybody's Had the Blues" with Merle Haggard.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Old Bones" (John Hadley)
2. "Everybody's Had the Blues" (Merle Haggard)
3. "Don't Give Up on Me" (Ben Peters)
4. "In Love Up to My Heart" (Chester Lester)
5. "Shoulder to Shoulder" (Dallas Frazier)
6. "Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter)
7. "My First Country Song" (Conway Twitty)
8. "Drinking Champagne" (Bill Mack)
9. "Hangin' Around" (Chip Hardy, Rick & Janis Carnes)
10. "Love Put a Song in My Heart" (Ben Peters)

Personnel

• Dean Martin - vocals
• Reggie Young, Billy Joe Walker Jr. - guitar
• Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar
• John Hughey, Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• David Hungate - bass
• David Briggs, Alan Moore - keyboards
• Buddy Spicher - fiddle
• Kieran Kane - mandolin
• James Stroud - drums
• Denis Solee, Sam Levine - horns
• Carol Chase, Dennis Wilson, Diane Tidwell, Donna Sheridan, Doug Clements, Gary Janney, Karen Taylor, Lisa Silver, Lori Brooks, Louis Nunley, Philip Forrest, Sherilyn Huffman, Terry Dearmore, Tom Brannon - backing vocals
• Nashville String Machine - strings
• Al De Lory - string arrangements
• Carl Gorodetzky - concertmaster

References

1. Nick Tosches (13 April 1999). Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams. Random House Publishing Group. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-385-33429-7. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
2. The Nashville Sessions: Dean Martin, AllMusic
3. "The Nashville Sessions". Amazon. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
4. "The Nashville Sessions". mtv.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
5. "The Nashville Sessions". music.msn.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
6. "Dean Martin– The Nashville Sessions". discogs.com. 15 June 1983. Retrieved 1 December 2013.

External links

• The Nashville Sessions at Discogs (list of releases)