Chiseled in Stone (album)

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Chiseled in Stone
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Studio album by
Vern Gosdin
ReleasedJanuary 15, 1988 (January 15, 1988)
Recorded1987-1988
Genre Country
Length31:44
Label Columbia
Producer Bob Montgomery
Vern Gosdin chronology
Greatest Hits
(1986)		Chiseled in Stone
(1988)		 Alone
(1989)
Singles from Alone
  1. "Do You Believe Me Now"
    Released: November 7, 1987
  2. "Set 'Em Up Joe"
    Released: April 1988
  3. "Chiseled in Stone"
    Released: August 27, 1988
  4. "Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time"
    Released: January 7, 1989
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Chiseled in Stone is a studio album by American country music artist Vern Gosdin. It was released in 1988 via Columbia Records. The album peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [2]

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music and blues.

Vern Gosdin American country music singer

Vernon Gosdin was an American country music singer. Known as "The Voice" he had 19 top-10 solo hits on the country music charts from 1977 through 1990. Three of these hits went to Number One: "I Can Tell By the Way You Dance ", "Set 'Em Up Joe", and "I'm Still Crazy".

Columbia Records American record label; currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded in 1887, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1990, Columbia recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Do You Believe Me Now" (Max D. Barnes, Vern Gosdin) – 3:37
  2. "Tight as Twin Fiddles" (Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon) – 2:04
  3. "Is It Raining at Your House" (Cochran, Gosdin) – 3:00
  4. "Set 'Em Up Joe" (Buddy Cannon, Cochran, Dillon, Gosdin) – 2:26
  5. "There Ain't Nothing Wrong (Just Ain't Nothing Right)" (Cochran, Dillon, Gosdin) – 4:32
  6. "Chiseled in Stone" (Barnes, Gosdin) – 3:51
  7. "Who You Gonna Blame It On This Time" (Cochran, Gosdin) – 2:51
  8. "It's Not Over, Yet" (Cochran, Gosdin) – 3:59
  9. "Nobody Calls from Vegas Just to Say Hello" (Brenda Burch, Jimmy Burch, Cochran, Gosdin) – 2:28
  10. "I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Coming" (Cannon, Dillon, Gosdin) – 3:15

Personnel

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the guitar family, that simply projects the sounds of its vibrating strings acoustically through the air. Originally just called a guitar, the retronym 'acoustic guitar' came in use to distinguish it from an electric guitar, that relies on an electronic amplification system. The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the instrument's body, amplifying the sound. Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Steel guitar type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii by Joseph Kekuku in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel.

Hubert Dwane "Hoot" Hester was an American fiddle player, multi-instrumentalist, and country music and bluegrass artist. He was born on a small farm near Louisville, Kentucky, on August 13, 1951. Hester played with a number of well-known bands, and later became a session musician and a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry's staff band. Hester was also a featured performer at the NAMM Show during the time it was held in Nashville c. 1993 and 2004.

Chart performance

Chart (1988)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums7

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References

  1. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "Chiseled in Stone review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Chiseled in Stone Charts". Allmusic . Retrieved 2 March 2011.
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