Name: Feelin' Good Train
Brand: Mercury
SKU: 860731
Price: 15.03 USD
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Performer Notes

Personnel: Sammy Kershaw, George Jones (vocals), Danny Parks (acoustic guitar), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar), Brent Mason, Reggie Young (electric guitar), Rob Hajacos (fiddle), Joey Miskulin, Jo-El Sonnier (accordion), David Briggs (piano), Mike Lawler (keyboards), Mike Chapman (bass), Paul Leim, Lonnie Wilson (drums), Dennis Wilson, Curtis Young, Cindy Richardson Walker, Gary Burr, Mac McAnally, Russell Smith (background vocals), Nashville String Machine.
Engineers: Billy Sherrill, Jim Cotton, Joe Scaife.
Recorded at Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
From the backwoods swamps of Louisiana comes Sammy Kershaw, one of country music's most distinctive vocalists. Coming off the critical and popular acclaim of HAUNTED HEART, Kershaw had a lot to prove with his new release. Well, the proof is in his latest, his best album to date, FEELIN' GOOD TRAIN.
Kershaw infuses all the songs with his Cajun-spiced personality, crisp delivery and emotion-packed vocals. A perfect example is his remake of the Amazing Rhythm Aces' "Third Rate Romance." He makes it his own, and his fans repaid him by making the song #1.
The anthemic "National Working Woman's Holiday" extols the virtues of hard-working women, a refreshing turnaround from the usual macho fare of country music. It's a song that not only makes a political statement, but you can dance to it! The Mac MacAnally-penned "Southbound" is a moving narrative about roots, and in it you can tell that while Kershaw studied the masters like George Jones, he must also have checked out artists like James Taylor. Speaking of George Jones, Sammy and "The Possum" share the fun duet "Never Bit A Bullet Like This," trading off similar vocal licks.
FEELIN' GOOD TRAIN is a roaring locomotive, engined by a country dynamo, foot-stompin' romps, sorrowful ballads and full-tilt country rockers.
Personnel: Sammy Kershaw (vocals); George Jones (vocals); Danny Parks (guitar); Reggie Young , Brent Mason (electric guitar); Mike Chapman , Sonny Garrish (steel guitar); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); Jo-El Sonnier, Joey Miskulin (accordion); David Briggs (piano); Mike Lawler (keyboards); Lonnie Wilson, Paul Leim (drums); Cindy Richardson Walker, Curtis Young, Gary Burr, Mac McAnally, Russell Smith, Dennis Wilson (background vocals).
Recording information: Eleven Eleven Sound, Nashville, TN; Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.
"National Working Woman's Holiday" was a perfect example of Sammy Kershaw's strengths and weaknesses: few people, if any, had sung about the psychological toll the economic reality of the two-income family took on Southern men whose mothers had probably stayed at home to raise them. He still sounds too much like George Jones to be a great singer (just try to tell the two apart on the duet "Never Bit a Bullet Like This" -- just try), but he gets in a couple of strong ballads with "If You Every Come This Way Again" and "Southbound." Feelin' Good Train also contains a cover of the Amazing Rhythm Aces' 1975 hit "Third Rate Romance." ~ Brian Mansfield

Album: Feelin' Good Train
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Feelin' Good Train
2)	Third Rate Romance
3)	If You Ever Come This Way Again
4)	National Working Woman's Holiday
5)	Southbound
6)	Better Call a Preacher
7)	Paradise from Nine to One
8)	Too Far Gone to Leave
9)	If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl
10)	Heart That Time Forgot, The
11)	Never Bit a Bullet Like This

Album: Feelin' Good Train
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Feelin' Good Train
2)	Third Rate Romance
3)	If You Ever Come This Way Again
4)	National Working Woman's Holiday
5)	Southbound
6)	Better Call a Preacher
7)	Paradise from Nine to One
8)	Too Far Gone to Leave
9)	If You're Gonna Walk, I'm Gonna Crawl
10)	Heart That Time Forgot, The
11)	Never Bit a Bullet Like This