Kay Adams

Little Pink Mack

(Sundazed Music)

One has only to steer the stylus to appreciate yesteryear's mono Bakersfield sound and realize how distant country has wandered from once-fertile soil. 

Compiled here are comely Kay's live-in-studio 1960s efforts with Buck Owens and his cobalt spangle-suited Buckaroos, as witnessed by viewers of Buck's (pre- Hee Haw) Ranch Show. Affaires D'Amour in aspects both exultant and despondent predominate and stir intimately. Petite girl-next-door Kay renders them with winsome, aching embrace. Few were the raven-tressed songstresses' peers.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I pronounce the songs twanged gems of that beloved era. Vintage recordings offer especial reward. Sundazed has performed a tremendous service by retrieving these tracks from forgotten shelves.

Buck always surrounded himself with stellar musicians. Lowdown bass-string amblings and pinched treble picking, plus masterfully veering steel and reliably snapped snare beat, make sprightly bed for Kay's back-country drawls and womanly sonorousness. 

Today's pop-country sickens.

Recommended: "Little Pink Mack," "Roll Out the Red Carpet," "Let the Good Times Roll," "Silver Threads and Golden Needles," "Anymore," "Rocks In My Head," "I Let a Stranger Buy the Wine," "Bottle Baby," "Get Out Of My Heart," "Big Mack," "A Devil Like Me (Needs An Angel Like Me)" (Kay and Dick Curless duet), "Number One Heel," "Old Heart Get Ready," "Six Days A'Waiting," "Down, Down, Down," "Loose Talk," "You Don't Have Very Far To Go," "Honky Tonk Heartache," "Be Nice To Everybody," "She Didn't Color Daddy," "Walk the Floor," "Toy Heart"

Video: "Little Pink Mack"

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