Ronnie Milsap "40 Number 1 Hits" (Virgin, 2000) Wish the liner notes were more specific about when these sessions took place. Though poorly engineered, these tracks are kind of fun, certainly not as stuffy as his later work, but also not as resonant.
Here he's in sort of a Charlie Rich kinda mode, singing whiteboy country-soul with a nod or two towards Ray Charles. Rough-edged, antediluvian country-soul and straight-up R&B recordings made by one of the future kings of overwrought countrypolitan pop. Ronnie Milsap "The Crazy Cajun Recordings" (Edsel, 1998) Although his music drifted pretty far away from country twang, it's hard not to enjoy classics like "Smoky Mountain Rain" and even "No Getting Over Me," his big pop hit from 1983. Born nearly blind from birth, Milsap struggled for years before breaking into the Top Forty, but when success came, it snowballed for over a decade, with Milsap eventually cracking into the Pop charts in the early '80s. Ronnie Milsap was one of the big countrypolitan/country crossover stars of the 1970s and '80s. Ronnie Milsap country music discography (DJ Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music)
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