Old Enough To Know Better Music Cd

Wade Hayes - Old Enough To Know Better

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Old Enough to Know Better      Artist : Wade Hayes      List Price : $5.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-01-03      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (6 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Old Enough To Know Better      Terribly underrated      Rating:      This guy is one of the best. It is a shame that he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He sings with meaning and purpose, and his style is pure country. If you read his bio, he talks about being a perfectionist with his music. I guess so, because everything seems to flow so effortlessly and so smooth.     Customer Reviews for Old Enough To Know Better Cd      Right up there in talent with Elvis      Rating:      I am not into country as I listen to more rock than anything but I do know excellant talent and Wade Hayes has IT! He also knows where credit is due!! This CD is one of his best but check out his other CD's as well he just cannot do a bad song on any of them. Just listen to the song on his CD HIghway & Heartaches "When The Wrong One Loves You Right" and will hear of how Wade Hayes is in the same league as Elvis. I just wish I was as lucky as others to have met him to thank him for such touching music not to mention very upbeat get you going catchy written songs. He sounds like such a nice person. Warm wishes, Jolene Flemming Editorial Reviews for Old Enough To Know Better Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Baby-cheeked Wade Hayes may only be 25 years old, but he's been a professional musician for a dozen years and he has already developed that understated baritone drawl that served his heroes George Jones and Merle Haggard so well. Perhaps that's why Oklahoma's Hayes sounds like a seasoned honky-tonker on his debut album, Old Enough to Know Better, while so many of his fellow "baby hat acts" sound like hotel-lounge singers still trying to get used to the sound of a fiddle. Don Cook, who leaned in a country-rock direction as producer for the Mavericks and Brooks & Dunn, tilts toward old-fashioned honky-tonk as Hayes's producer. Cook also contributes four of his own songs (including "Kentucky Bluebird," which he wrote for Keith Whitley), and Nashville legend Harlan Howard adds two more. Three of the best tunes, though, come from Hayes and his cowriter Chick Rains. As a result, Old Enough to Know Better boasts far better material than the usual hackwork given to young crooners in cowboy hats. Hayes digs into the songs with his deep, resonant baritone and ponders the conflicts that complicate a man's life. On Cook's ballad, "What I Meant to Say," Hayes holds out certain notes as if to suggest all the feelings he still can't find words for. On his own ballad, "I'm Still Dancin' with You," the reluctance in his voice describes his breakup with a recent lover even better than the lyrics. The title track, another Hayes-Rains composition, has a Brooks & Dunn-like dance rhythm, but Hayes's weary, guilt-ridden vocal undermines the words' carefree, partying attitude. --Geoffrey Himes