The Essential Gary Stewart Gary Stewart Artist

Over the course of these 20 tracks, listeners get to encounter the rare and focused genius that was {|Gary Stewart|}. Covering his career from the late '60s through the 1970s while he was with {|RCA|}, these songs testify to a fine singer and interpr... Read more

Over the course of these 20 tracks, listeners get to encounter the rare and focused genius that was {|Gary Stewart|}. Covering his career from the late '60s through the 1970s while he was with {|RCA|}, these songs testify to a fine singer and interpreter, a great pianist and guitarist, and a singular songwriter. Among the many gems here -- there's nary an unnecessary cut in the bunch -- are his anthems {|Drinkin' Thing|} and {|Out of Hand|} as well as many of his stellar but underappreciated singles, including {|She Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles),|} his fine interpretations of {|Danny O'Keefe|}'s {|Quits|} and {|Michael Murphey|}'s {|Backsliders' Wine,|} and his rather raucous original {|Flat Natural Born Good-Timin' Man.|} {|Stewart|} was really a cross-genre artist who rocked as hard as he twanged and had more in common with {|Jerry Lee Lewis|} than he did with {|George Jones|}, and {|Essential|} testifies to this in spades. ~ Thom Jurek Less