Thursday, November 04, 2004
Country superstar (Con) Hunley returns to charts
From the City Paper (Nashville, TN)
Country music superstar Con Hunley has always insisted on musical integrity and independence. That refusal to make music by committee led Hunley to simply turn his back on the industry in the mid-'80s, though he never stopped performing. But one of the genre's genuinely soulful stars and great natural voices has thankfully returned to the scene.
Hunley's new release Sweet Memories (IMMI) has already generated widespread fan and radio response, thanks to his masterful reworking of Bill Anderson's 1963 smash "Still."
"I wouldn't have released the song if Bill had a problem with the way I did it," Hunley said. "It's been done a bit differently, but Bill heard it and said he loved it. He also said that I was introducing it to a whole new generation that never heard the original and that has proven the case."
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City Paper
Country music superstar Con Hunley has always insisted on musical integrity and independence. That refusal to make music by committee led Hunley to simply turn his back on the industry in the mid-'80s, though he never stopped performing. But one of the genre's genuinely soulful stars and great natural voices has thankfully returned to the scene.
Hunley's new release Sweet Memories (IMMI) has already generated widespread fan and radio response, thanks to his masterful reworking of Bill Anderson's 1963 smash "Still."
"I wouldn't have released the song if Bill had a problem with the way I did it," Hunley said. "It's been done a bit differently, but Bill heard it and said he loved it. He also said that I was introducing it to a whole new generation that never heard the original and that has proven the case."
Read the article
City Paper
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 8:32 PM 
