Rockin' Country [BMG] (1997)

About this title: Most of the songs on BMG Special Products' Rockin' Country don't really rock, even in a country-rock sense, nor are they honky tonk. Instead, they're country artists covering pop-rock songs -- stylistically, the music is often a hybrid of pop-rock and country, which means they fall between outlaw country and mainstream country. In either case, it's a pretty entertaining collection, boasting such fine cuts as Charley Pride's "Mountain of Love," Waylon Jennings' "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," Juice Newton's "Hurt," Chet Atkins' "Let It Be Me," Ronnie Milsap's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," ... read more

Tracks:

1. The Wanderer [Maresca]
2. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay [Cropper/Redding]
3. Mountain of Love [Dorman]
4. Save the Last Dance for Me [Shuman/Pomus]
5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man [Berry]
6. Hurt [Crane/Jacobs]
7. Let It Be Me [Becaud/Curtis/Delan]
8. I Heard It Through the Grapevine [Strong/Whitfield]
9. Fire and Rain [Taylor]
10. Down on the Corner [Fogerty]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.