Back To The Basics: Chips Moman Songbook / Various Back To The Basics: Chips Moman Songbook / Various CD

UK collection. He's not perhaps the best known or most prolific of those who have featured in Ace's Songwriter series, but few fans of American popular music from the '60s to the '90s would dispute that Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman is one of the most important. Chips wore many professional hats during his almost 50-year career. Musician, label-owner, producer and studio owner are other areas at which he excelled. Here in Back To The Basics, there are many notable examples of him wearing several of those hats simultaneously. However, it's his songs that this compilation highlights. If Chips had only co-authored 'Dark End Of The Street', it would be enough to guarantee him songwriter immortality. But as you will hear in a collection that includes tracks by some of the most famous names in soul, pop and country music, it's far from being the only classic song in his catalogue. The CD comprises two-dozen choice cuts - many of them chart-topping and million-selling records and songs - by high-calibre talents ranging from William Bell and Carla Thomas, to Gram Parsons and Cher, to Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers and Johnny Cash. Truly an all-star aggregation to honor a genuine all-round talent.

1. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) - Waylon Jennings 2. Fool In Love - The Veltones 3. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man - Cher 4. For You - Gizzelle 5. This Time - Troy Shondell 6. LyinÆ Again - Kenny Rogers 7. (Hey WonÆt You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas 8. Dark End Of The Street - The Flying Burrito Bros 9. Promises - Carla Thomas 10. Every Little Bit Helps - Helen Henry 11. Sandcastles - Merrilee Rush ; The Turnabouts 12. Last Night - Georgie Fame ; The Blue Flames 13. Somebody Mentioned Your Name - William Bell 14. YouÆre Gonna See A Lot More (Of My Leaving) - Barbara Lynn 15. DonÆt Let It Be (This Time) - The Gentrys 16. IÆll Never Give Her Up (My Friend) - The Canes 17. If She Should Ever Break Your Heart û 18. Barbara Stephens 19. Okeechobee Purple - Gary Stewart 20. Staring Each Other Down - Brenda Lee 21. Here Come The Flowers - Dottie West 22. Easy Street - Johnny Cash 23. HeÆs Rolling Over And Over (In Someone ElseÆs Clover) - Tammy Wynette 24. So Much Like My Dad - George Strait 25. Old Fords And A Natural Stone - Willie Nelson