Description:
Teddy Thompsons self-produced Up Front & Down Low offers distinctive readings of beloved country classics: George Jones She Thinks I Still Care, Ernest Tubbs Walking the Floor Over You and Merle Haggards (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers. Equally impressive, however, are such lesser-known songs such as Boudleaux Bryants regretful Change of Heart, the yearning Touching Home, Dolly Partons bittersweet My Blue Tears, the tongue-in-cheek Bob Luman hit Lets Think About Living and the Elvis Presley chestnut Im Left, Youre Right, Shes Gone. The album also features a lone Thompson original, Down Low, whose heart-on-sleeve lyrics take on added resonance in this context. (Verve)
