Statue of a Fool by Jack Greene (Cassette, Sep-1994, Michele)

Album Features
UPC:	027779011846
Artist:	Jack Greene
Format:	Cassette
Release Year:	1994
Record Label:	Michele
Genre:	Country

Track Listing
1. Ribbon of Darkness
2. You Gave Me a Mountain
3. Just Enough to Start Me Dreamin'
4. Hungry Eyes
5. Yesterday's Letters
6. There's More to Love
7. Bring Me Sunshine
8. Watching My World Walk Away
9. Montego Bay
10. I Don't Need Tomorrow
11. Statue of a Fool

Details
Distributor:	Select-O-Hits
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Country albums in the '60s sometimes seemed like singles with a lot of B-sides. Artists could release four albums a year, one for each hit single if they were lucky. Jack Greene's Statue of a Fool is like that: the title track was a number one hit, and the remaining 11 album tracks are a mixture of covers (Gordon Lightfoot's "Ribbon of Darkness," Merle Haggard's "Hungry Eyes") and songs by Nashville songwriters like Hank Cochran and Dallas Frazier. "Bring Me Sunshine," a hit the same year for Willie Nelson, adds jazzy guitar chords and a swinging beat that show how easily the smooth-mannered Greene could have encroached on Eddy Arnold's quasi-Vegas territory. "I Don't Need Tomorrow," on the other hand, is a country shuffler with plenty of steel guitar. Greene is a capable vocalist but his something-for-everyone approach yields a forgettable product here. ~ Greg Adams