{"id":18498,"date":"2019-09-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1811910"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:00:43","slug":"crystal-gayle-gathers-her-family-for-classics-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/crystal-gayle-gathers-her-family-for-classics-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Gayle Gathers Her Family for Classics Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:681782?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">1m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/crystal-gayle\">Crystal Gayle<\/a> entered the country music landscape as a teenager, and now she\u2019s honoring the legends who influenced her with a lovely new album, <em>You Don\u2019t Know Me<\/em>. In addition to co-producing the project with her son, Christos, Gayle made it a family affair by singing with her sisters, Peggy Sue and Loretta Lynn, and covering a song written and recorded by her late brother, Jay Lee Webb.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1970 and 1990, Gayle won countless awards and charted 52 singles for multiple labels, most notably with 1977\u2019s Grammy Award-winning \u201cDon\u2019t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.\u201d Yet it all started with \u201cI Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes\u201d on Decca Records, her first single on the Billboard country chart in 1970. An early demo of that song (written by Loretta Lynn) appears on <em>You Don\u2019t Know Me<\/em>, along with 14 classic country compositions ranging from Jack Greene\u2019s \u201cThere Goes My Everything\u201d to the evergreen title track.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzStBec0RNA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzStBec0RNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Chatting with CMT.com in her spacious office on Music Row, Gayle explains, \u201cI really started out the project with letting Chris see and hear what country music is really all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: When you are playing this new record for people, what\u2019s been the response?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CG: They\u2019ve loved it. I\u2019ve been sort of surprised, and maybe it\u2019s because I haven\u2019t had anything out in a while, when people say, \u201cI love this style.\u201d Other people have done this type of music and they call it the country classics, and I call mine classic country. I put one of my brother\u2019s songs on there that I love [\u201cYou Never Were Mine\u201d]. He had a great recording of it and he had written the song. These are songs that mean something to me. And they are country. They are what I love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soSD13CjU-E?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soSD13CjU-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What did you enjoy most about having Chris in the room with you for these sessions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I trusted him that if I did something he thought sounded weird, he\u2019s going to tell me. \u201cYou might\u2019ve been flat on that one.\u201d \u201cOK, let\u2019s redo it.\u201d And that\u2019s what you want. You want someone that\u2019s not going to just say, \u201cOh, that was great,\u201d and you go back and listen later and it\u2019s like, \u201cWell, I could\u2019ve done better\u2026.\u201d So it took a while, too, for him to want to tell me things, but hey, we all want to know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you develop a thick skin pretty early on in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I first came to Nashville, I believed everything everybody was telling me, and it didn\u2019t take long to know that that was not the truth. And that\u2019s what I tell people when they\u2019re starting out. Hey, don\u2019t be hurt when someone tells you they\u2019re going to do something and they don\u2019t, because that\u2019s just the business. You can say the music business is sort of like politics. They only tell you what you want to hear and then they do what they want.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s how I grew up with it, and I always say there\u2019s as much bull in Nashville as there is in Hollywood. So you have to be true to yourself. You have to know that you\u2019ve got to take those chances, but still don\u2019t let everybody step on you either. Put that fence around you that if they tell you one thing, don\u2019t be so hurt that you want to leave the next day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nY0H6O7ng-s?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nY0H6O7ng-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Right. You have to let some of that frustration go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When doing concerts early on, I read my reviews. People would bring them to me. And I\u2019d be panned on a day I thought, \u201cOh, I was great.\u201d Then the days I thought I did lousy, \u201cOh, it\u2019s just wonderful, over the moon!\u201d Then there were times in reviews where I had instruments on the stage I never heard of, or I wore something I never had. I don\u2019t know where they were getting that. I think they sent someone that didn\u2019t know what they were doing.<\/p>\n<p>So you get everything. So I said I\u2019m not going to read them anymore. I\u2019m not going to read those reviews because I don\u2019t need that in my life. I\u2019d rather just sing, have a good time, and meet and greet the people that come that love my music or they wouldn\u2019t be there. I call them friends, not fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJwY70SDyFo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJwY70SDyFo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Tell me how the bonus track of \u201cI Cried the Blue (Right Out of My Eyes)\u201d found its way into this recording.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bonus track is actually a demo that I did of the song before I recorded it. Surefire Music, which was The Wilburn Brothers\u2019 publishing company, would let me come down and do some demos and it was really, I think, to let me see what the studio was all about, and to learn to sing in front of the mic.<\/p>\n<p>This particular song was one of the songs they let me do the demo and, of course, Owen [Bradley at Decca] liked it and wanted to have me record it \u2014 but I\u2019m not sure who changed the melody in the beginning of it. It was either Teddy Wilburn or Owen, but what you hear on here is the original one. Just a little bit of difference in the beginning, but \u2026 what was I, 15? I was young in there. They didn\u2019t have the big reel-to-reel, it was just the two-track they found, and I said, \u201cYeah, put it on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s several more. Some of the tracks were a little wobbly, but there\u2019s some that I\u2019ll turn on to listen, and I\u2019m thinking, \u201cWas that Loretta?\u201d Because I was trying to sing just like her. That\u2019s why she said, \u201cQuit singing my songs. Don\u2019t sing anything I would.\u201d She said, \u201cYou\u2019ll only be compared\u201d and I would have been.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U18d8SJySoY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U18d8SJySoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong><strong>Speaking of Loretta, she\u2019s on here with Peggy Sue, and you\u2019re all singing \u201cPut It Off Until Tomorrow.\u201d What goes through your mind when you hear that song now, and those three voices at the same time?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of different emotions. I wish we could have done an album together, but also I wish we could have performed more shows together. We had actually been talking about doing a family show before her stroke. You know, we always have fun together. We have fun on stage and just rehearsing. We\u2019re sisters. She says blood is thicker than water. So, we can argue amongst each other, but someone else gets onto us, we\u2019re going to stick up for each other!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Me\u201d is like a movie in three minutes \u2014 somebody drifts by, you can\u2019t tell them you\u2019re in love with them, then they drift away again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Me.\u201d If you only knew\u2026. Cindy Walker was the writer on there with Eddy Arnold. Cindy had recorded it and I listened to her version and I chose the lyrics that she put in her version. Some people do the one that Eddy would sing but a couple of lines are different. I\u2019ve had a few people say, \u201cWell, that\u2019s not the line.\u201d I said, \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s Cindy wrote. I\u2019m singing it!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SkIThgUp3U?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SkIThgUp3U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to include \u201cThere Goes My Everything\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was on the road opening for Jack, my husband would be upset because I couldn\u2019t sing it then. [laughs] Because he loved the song. So, he said, \u201cYou have to put that on this album!\u201d Of course I would, because I love the song and it was an honor to open for Jack Greene. Incredible singer. I love it when I look back on all the people that I\u2019ve known and I\u2019ve seen, and it\u2019s just good memories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You knew them as people, more than just entertainers. That\u2019s the wonderful part of this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would be backstage when I was working with them and usually there weren\u2019t separate dressing rooms. So the women would go in the bathroom and change, and you\u2019d still be in the room where everybody was tuning their guitar or their banjo or their fiddle. It was fun!<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQgTjFCTlao?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQgTjFCTlao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Did it strike you then how incredible of an experience you were having at that moment? Or was it just, \u201cWell, this is my career\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was incredible to me to be around that type of musicians because I think I felt intimidated. I grew up singing folk music in school, and country, but I\u2019d just play a little guitar and sing. When I started recording, I put the guitar down as far as accompanying myself. I think one of the reasons was because Loretta had, because she used to play all the time. But it was seeing these people and what they could do \u2014 and they were all supportive of me. They had always the pat on the back of, \u201cI wish you best.\u201d And I love that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811910\/crystal-gayle-gathers-her-family-for-classics-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 1m ago Crystal Gayle entered the country music landscape as a teenager, and now she\u2019s honoring the legends who influenced her with a lovely new album, You Don\u2019t Know Me. 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