Love Songs
by Thom Jurek
Every year during the Valentine's season, major labels comb their catalogs, issuing generic compilations of love songs. Usually, they are cobbled-together messes. Every once in a while you get a collection that holds up as an album, and this set of love songs by country music chameleon Vince Gill is one of them. He compiled this set himself, and his own subtle approach to making music informs this 14-song collection, spanning the years 1990-2006; its as tastefully sequenced as it is selected. It begins with the stellar One, from the 2000 album
Lets Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye
. Its driven by his acoustic guitar, sparse electric guitar fills, an insistent but minimal electric piano, and a muffled drum kit with painterly Rhodes piano fills. Its a song of commitment, solidarity, and the promise of a love that becomes as it develops over time. Its the frame for this album. There are a pair of hit singles in this mix ...
Every year during the Valentine's season, major labels comb their catalogs, issuing generic compilations of love songs. Usually, they are cobbled-together messes. Every once in a while you get a collection that holds up as an album, and this set of love songs by country music chameleon Vince Gill is one of them. He compiled this set himself, and his own subtle approach to making music informs this 14-song collection, spanning the years 1990-2006; its as tastefully sequenced as it is selected. It begins with the stellar One, from the 2000 album
Lets Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye
. Its driven by his acoustic guitar, sparse electric guitar fills, an insistent but minimal electric piano, and a muffled drum kit with painterly Rhodes piano fills. Its a song of commitment, solidarity, and the promise of a love that becomes as it develops over time. Its the frame for this album. There are a pair of hit singles in this mix ...
