Chris Willman Music WriterDespite having written hit songs for country classicists such as Conway Twitty or duet partners Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, no one would have ever confused the Bee Gees with being country artists or authors themselves.
Dramatic post-Merseybeat sounds such as those heard on “New York Mining Disaster 1941”? Check. Folksy pop a la “I Started a Joke”?
The heavy breathing baroque of “Words”? The blue-eyed soul of “Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)” that morphed into the grand rhythm & disco of the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack?
Check, check, check. Country, not so much.That changes with this week’s release of “Greenfields — The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook Vol.
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