Ronnie Milsap

(Okay, maybe not 50 percent...maybe 33 1/3. But he actually mentions Miller once, and I'm pretty sure I've never heard anybody else do that.)

well it's basically a miller tribute album right? at least, that was my impression.

i think leon russell has namechecked miller once or twice.

I've bought the 16 Biggest Hits since I last posted. A third of it IS pap (Christgau actually banished Milsap to his "Meltdown" list in the eighties Consumer Guide), but the other two-thirds is expert mainstream pop. "I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World" and "Stranger in My House" do lust and cuckolded rage, respectively, very well. No "She Drives My Car," unfortunately; and the "Suburbia" tune sounds interesting.

*She Loves My Car

xp Well, Miller's definitely not mentioned anywhere on the LP cover. And Hag does "I Ain't Got Nobody," "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)," and "Lovesick Blues" (the latter of which everybody thinks of as Hank anyway), but that's only three songs out of 13. So I wouldn't call it quite a tribute. But maybe people (even Hag maybe?) have described it as one; I wouldn't argue if somebody did.

the full title of that LP is so unwieldy: "I Love Dixie Blues...So I Recorded Live in New Orleans." ok, thanks merle.

anyway, ronnie milsap. you folks know about this song, right? with the lines:

Hey, this ain't country-western!
It's just soft-rock feminist crap!
And I thought they'd struck bottom back back in the days of Ronnie Milsap

honestly i'd rather listen to ronnie milsap than robbie fulks, though.

Christgau actually banished Milsap to his "Meltdown" list

He also refers to "the anodyne likes of Alabama and Ronnie Milsap" in his new Brad Paisley essay, just published this week:

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Paisley-s-Progress/ba-p/1695

yeah, I doubt Milsap will return as a hot critical touchstone. It's a pity that he's something of a critical punching bag, though.

Reviving this to note this pretty cool story about Mike Reid, who wrote a LOT of Milsap's eighties hits -- as you can see here.

"Stranger in My House" is a great song; had no idea he wrote "I Can't Make You Love Me."

just found out the other day that my friend zach is related to ronnie on his mom's side of the family! carry on with the milsap love...

I heard "Smokey Mountain Rain" in the bookstore this morning, forcing me to sing like a fool.

these precious hours, we know can't survive

do we have a thread for most awkwardly falsely casual "oh hi, didn't see ya there, I just happened to be standing here like this" poses album covers?

https://i.imgur.com/ONGfNcO.jpg

he literally didn't see ya there

hahahaha

there's a stranger in my house, somebody here that i can't see

gotta love ronnie

been having so many night dreams about day things in the middle of the early part of the morning lately

help me get the scope amendment cost modification memo off my mind, Ronnie