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Bobby Karl Works The Don Henley Listening Party

June 12, 2015/0 Comments/in Featured /by Bobby Karl

don-henley-event-invitationThe hottest ticket of the day was an invitation to the Don Henley listening party at the Ruby event space on Wedgewood Avenue late in the day (6/11). I mean, it’s Don friggin’ HENLEY, people.

That’s why a who’s-who was there. Pete Fisher, Peter Cooper, Suzanne Gordon, Susan Stewart, Sarah Skates, John McBride, John Huie, Holly Gleason, Molly Felder of Swan Dive, Rod Essig, Phyllis Stark, Jed Hilly, Michael Rhodes, Bill Mayne, Brian Mansfield, and Kyle Young were listening in bliss.

Alicia Warwick, Tom Roland, Karen Leipzinger, Butch Spyridon, Deborah Evans Price, Gordon Kennedy, Jeff Balding, Regina Stuve, Vernell Hackett, Todd Cassety, Teresa George, Chuck Dauphin and Henley co-writer Stan Lynch also made the guest list.

“We wanted to give everybody a reason to get out of downtown,” said droll host John Grady. “What an honor it is for me to present this music to you….I can’t stop listening to this record.”

He first played the Tift Merritt song “Bramble Rose,” a mandolin waltz featuring Henely, Mick Jagger and Miranda Lambert. The breathtaking, steel-soaked ballad “The Cost of Living” co-stars Henley with Merle Haggard. “Take a Picture of This” has the throb and lush melody of a classic Henley solo outing. The Martina McBride duet “That Old Flame” rocks like a No. 1 stone smash. Trisha Yearwood is the harmony singer on the power ballad “Words Can Break Your Heart.”

The Louvin Brothers chestnut “When I Stop Dreaming” drew loud applause for its arrangement as a duet with Dolly Parton. The shambling, stately, steady “Praying for Rain” has a chorus choir featuring Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Ashley Monroe and Yearwood. “Train in the Distance” is a rootsy, autbiographical outing with a background vocal by Lucinda Williams.

Beverly Keel did a nice one-on-one with Henley about the project, which is his first solo album in 15 years. “I enjoyed making this record more than any record I’ve made in my career,” he said. “Most of it was done in Nashville.” For more of Henley’s comments, see this afternoon’s article.

The album is called Cass County. It will be released by Capitol on the West Coast, and Grady’s I.R.S. imprint in Nashville will handle its country singles.

It would have been lovely to stay and bask in that atmosphere, but duty called.

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