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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Shanachie | | Release Date: | August 25, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 2,698nd |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Speakin' of the Angel
- Track 2: Taste of the Truth
- Track 3: We've Got a Pulse
- Track 4: Til a Better Memory Comes Along
- Track 5: It's My Lie
- Track 6: Staying Together
- Track 7: Three Minutes at a Time
- Track 8: Wrong Way to Find Mr. Right
- Track 9: Use Me Again
- Track 10: Still They Call Me Love
- Track 11: I Know an Ending
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 3 reviews)
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Watson Does It Again! by P. Dudenhefer (Williford, AR USA)  5 Stars
October 08, 2009
"Taste of the Truth" imressed me first with the instrumental support. It was crisp and clear--almost as if I were in a superior concert venue at a Gene Watson performance. What impressed me second was that Gene Watson sounded as good today as he sounded in the 80's when I first heard him sing. The CD has two duets, one with Rhonda Vincent and one with Trace Adkins. The other cuts feature Watson alone and his very unique voice. The songs are all country and beautifully done. The lyrics present a fresh look at traditional country themes of love sought, found, and lost, as well as guilt and regret over love lost. But Watson gives life to these themes. You won't be disappointed.
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Great! Great! Great! by Mabel D. Smith (Virginia) 5 Stars
October 06, 2009
I love this CD. I've always been a Gene Watson fan and I think this is one of his best CD's.
There are several beer drinking, tear jerking songs on this album that only Gene could
do them the way they should be done. His voice is wonderful! The duet with Gene and
Rhonda Vincent is awesome. Their voices are great together. I truly love this album.
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A Delicious Taste Watson's True Country by T. Yap (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 5 Stars
August 25, 2009
Prime Cuts: Speaking of an Angel, Staying Together, Use Me Again
When Watson sings "Three minutes at a time I get lost in each song," he is also tacitly voicing what pundits of traditional country will say after hearing these 11 tracks. Offering delicious wallops of tortured stone-cold country ballads, sizzling honky tonk barn burners, and tasty treats of slow romantic waltzes, "Taste of the Truth" will have many salivate for more and more such servings. Under the auspices of helmsman Dirk Johnson, Watson is able to secure 7 new songs coming from Nashville's most prolific scribal community such as Billy Yates, Tim Mensy, Harley Allen, and Rebecca Lynn Howard plus four covers. Avoiding the trite and tried route of tackling often recycled classics, Watson has chosen to cover more obscure tracks such as Merle Haggard's "I Know An Ending," Shelby Lynne and Mark Chesnutt's "Til A Better Memory Comes Along," Tim Mensy's "Wrong Way to Find Mr. Right," and Shawn Camp's "Speaking of an Angel." The latter two are virtually unknown save for the two singer-songwriters' avid fans.
Most anticipated is Watson's duet with current hit maker Trace Adkins "I Got a Pulse." Complimenting Watson's high tenor, Adkins' contrasting base is the perfect blend on the propulsive "I Got a Pulse" in voicing the viability and vitality of traditionalism in the backdrop of today's rock-oriented country market. With a touch of wry humor, Shawn Camp's infectious "Speaking of an Angel" details the mercurial nature of love that bears all of the songwriter's unique phrasings that Watson can't help but imitate from Camp's original. Tim Mensy, one of Watson's favourite writers, gets to pen four cuts here. Best among the quartet of songs is the two-stepper "Three Minutes at a Time," an irresistible ditty that best captures why country music is so addictive in a little over three minutes.
Living up to the album's title, there are some truth-telling paeans that only a courageous veteran like Watson has the guts to handle. Rebecca Lynn Howard's title cut "A Taste of the Truth" is a tortured heartbreaker. While "Staying Together," a duet with Rhonda Vincent, tells the sad story of a couple who no longer love each other, yet they stayed together for their children's sake. Similarly devastating is "Use Me Again," a pensive heart breaking ballad about the victimization of a person to love's entanglements is made even more morose with Alison Krauss' plaintive harmonies. "Til A Better Memory Comes Along," an album track that was both found on Shelby Lynne's and Mark Chesnutt's albums from the 90s, deserves to be dusted and revive again. A slow waltz that features some heart tingling lyrics of hope as well as pain, "Til A Better Memory" would have been a hit in let's say George Strait's hands.
Venerated as one of country music's greatest crooners by Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack and Joe Nichols, Watson again shows with this CD that such encomium is not mere palaver. When it comes to raw emotions and honest-to-life lyrics, "A Taste of the Truth" has spades of them. In short, "A Taste of Truth" is a delicious foretaste even when the truth sometimes means heart break at its bleakest moments.
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