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Great budget compilation of Beatles covers,
January 16, 2010 Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Yesterday: a Country Music Tribute to the Beatles (Audio CD)
This album has a particularly striking cover, which is obviously inspired by Abbey Road and its pedestrian crossing. Here, the road is a country lane and the crossing is a section of railroad track. All very clever, but it's the music that counts. While there are only twelve tracks, they are of a high quality and two were major hits on the American country charts. The songs include one George Harrison composition (Something), with the remainder being credited to Lennon and McCartney.
The set opens with Lorrie Morgan's very distinctive bluegrass version of Eight days a week, which comes from the CD version of her 1989 breakthrough album. It is among my favorite Beatles covers. My absolute favorite Beatles cover is not here and has never been released on CD, but is available as an MP3 download - Strawberry fields forever by Terri Hollowell.
Next comes Willie Nelson's cover of Something, a song that ideally suits his style and which was originally released on one of...Read more
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