The Nashville Sessions (Dean Martin album)
The Nashville Sessions is a 1983 studio album by Dean Martin, produced by Jimmy Bowen. This was Martin's last album.
The album consists of country standards, recorded in country pop arrangements.
Martin sang two of the songs in duet, "My First Country Song" with Conway Twitty, and "Everybody's Had the Blues" with Merle Haggard.Track listing
- "Old Bones"
- "Everybody's Had the Blues"
- "Don't Give Up on Me"
- "In Love Up to My Heart"
- "Shoulder to Shoulder"
- "Since I Met You Baby"
- "My First Country Song"
- "Drinking Champagne"
- "Hangin' Around"
- "Love Put a Song in My Heart"
Personnel
- Reggie Young, Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - guitar
- Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar
- John Hughey, Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
- David Hungate - bass
- David Briggs, Alan Moore - keyboards
- Buddy Spicher - fiddle
- Kieran Kane - mandolin
- James Stroud - drums
- Denis Solee, Sam Levine - horns
- Carol Chase, Dennis Wilson, Diane Tidwell, Donna Sheridan, Doug Clements, Gary Janney, Karen Taylor, Lisa Silver, Lori Brooks, Louis Nunley, Philip Forrest, Sherilyn Huffman, Terry Dearmore, Tom Brannon - backing vocals
- Nashville String Machine - strings
- Al De Lory - string arrangements
- Carl Gorodetzky - concertmaster