Live! An Evening With Crystal Gayle is a recording of a 2005 concert by Crystal Gayle at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, Tennessee. Originally released in a package containing a DVD and an edited CD, it was Gayle's first official live album and includes some of her biggest hits of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as several otherwise unreleased songs. It also includes Gayle singing some songs by her sister, Country music singer Loretta Lynn, like "Coal Miner's Daughter" (performed with her sister Peggy Sue). The DVD has various extra features, including an interview with Gayle and a photo gallery.
Crystal Gayle is an American country music artist. Gayle began her career in the 1960s performing in the background of her sibling's bands, most notably Loretta Lynn. It was Lynn who helped her sister sign a recording contract with Decca Records in 1970 where she enjoyed minor success. Encouraged by Lynn to develop her own musical identity, Gayle signed a new recording contract with United Artists Records in 1974. A collaboration with producer Allen Reynolds brought forth major success by shifting her music towards a country pop style. In 1975, "Wrong Road Again" became Gayle's first major hit. However, it was in 1977 when Gayle achieved her biggest success with the single "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". The song topped the Billboard country chart, crossed over to the top five of the Billboard Hot 100, and became a major international hit.
Dickson is a city in Dickson County, Tennessee, United States. It is part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population at the 2010 census was 14,538, with an estimate of 14,993 in 2014.
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums in a career spanning almost 60 years. She is famous for hits such as "You Ain't Woman Enough ", "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' ", "One's on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal Miner's Daughter" along with the 1980 biographical film of the same name.
Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label founded in 1992 by entrepreneur and music fan Brian Perera. It has since grown into a family of labels, including Hypnotic Records, Purple Pyramid Records, Deadline Music Records; and X-Ray Records, encompassing a variety of genres with emphasis on unique and experimental artists.
The DVD has since been reissued by numerous different labels and though featuring identical content, has confusingly been given different titles, e.g. Live in Tennessee, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Crystal Gayle Live and Crystal Gayle: Live in Concert (not to be confused with Crystal Gayle in Concert).
Crystal Gayle in Concert is an hour long live recording of Crystal Gayle's 1982 HBO TV special, filmed at Canada's Hamilton Place Theatre. Released numerous times on VHS video, White Star Records also issued it on DVD in 2005. Gayle was most famous in the 1970s and 1980s, for her string of Country-Pop crossover songs like "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" and "Half the Way". In this concert she sings live versions of some of her biggest hits, as well as some otherwise unreleased songs.
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