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Country Fever
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 17, 1967
GenreCountry
Length28:53
LabelDecca Records
ProducerCharles "Bud" Dant
Ricky Nelson chronology
On the Flip Side
(1966)
Country Fever
(1967)
Another Side of Rick
(1967)

Country Fever is the fifthteenth studio album by American singer Ricky Nelson, and his ninth for Decca Records, released on April 17, 1967, on Decca Records. which Feature Nelson's composed of Alone" & a Cover of Bob Dylan "Walkin' Down The Line", Nelson's earliest Dylan Cover, The Sessions also produced a couple of numbers taken from old Sun Records by Elvis Presley. "Mystery Train, "which was included on the the album.[1] Nelson sampled the classic country catolog, including "You Win Again," "Funny How Time Slips Away," and "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Blow." "Aline" was a self-penned tune while "Walkin' Down the Line was the first Bob Dylan song that Nelson recorded.[2] these songs fromed a kind of semiauto-biograpgical trilogy, as Rick sketched himself as a desolate but determined loner.[3] Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it, this was the last of fifthteenth, consecutive Nelson studio LPs produced by Charles "Bud" Dant

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Take a City Bride"Gib Guilbeau1:57
2."Funny How Time Slips Away"Willie Nelson2:56
3."The Bridge Washed Out"Mel Melshee, Jimmy Louis, Sandra Smith, Slim Williamson1:47
4."Alone"Ricky Nelson2:38
5."Big Chief Buffalo Nickel (Desert Blues)"Jimmie Rodgers2:01
6."Mystery Train"Junior Parker2:26

Side two

References

  1. ^ Selvin, Joel (1990). Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation. Chicago: Contemporary Books. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8092-4187-3.
  2. ^ Homer, Sheree (2012). Rick Nelson, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-7864-6060-1.
  3. ^ Selvin, Joel. Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation. Chicago: Contemporary Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-8092-4187-3.
  4. ^ ""Country Fever" - Album Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-10-08.