Barry Gibb & Friends - Greenfields - The Gibb Brothers' Songbook Vol. 1
Flyctory.com Pros
Some amazing versions, e.g. with Keith Urban and Dolly
The original tracks are just musical history
Some songs give a real Bee Gees flavor
Flyctory.com Cons
Second half of the album is too weak
Writing about the album Greenfields makes me feel very wistful. Robin Gibb is one of my favorite artists – I feel gifted to have seen him live twice before he passed away. On 8th January 2021, his brother Barry Gibb releases the first volume of the accordingly named The Gibb Brothers Songbook , reminding with other artists of the songs of the world-famous Bee Gees. The good thing for a country music fan: he found the vast number of collaborations in / around Nashville .
Barry Gibb – About The Artist
Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (CBE), born on the 1st September 1956 in Douglas on the Isle of Man, is the only remaining member of the Bee Gees (even though he is the youngest of the three brothers). Apart from the British , he is also holding a US-American passport. The list of success with the Bee Gees is sheer endless, holding a total record of 22 studio album. Funnily, the Bee Gees’ debut album was called The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs (1965). As a solo artist, however, Barry Gibb just released two studio albums so far, the 1984 Now Voyager and the 2016 In The Now . The latter peaked second in the British album charts. His biggest chart success on the singles side was very likely the duet Guilty alongside Barbra Streisand, which has been certified with a golden record in the US (1980).
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Barry Gibb & Friends – Greenfields Vol. 1 – Track by Track
The twelve song album lasts 44 minutes.
1. I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You (feat. Keith Urban)
Ten seconds, tears in my eyes: I could have never imagined that a re-recording of a Bee Gees track could ever be that close to the original, that somethings reminds me that much of Robin. Still the whole album ahead of me – and already feel this could be a great one. Keith Urban is a great pick for this first track.
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2. Words Of A Fool (feat. Jason Isbell)
After the first song alongside Keith Urban was already so touching, this already sets such a standard for the following tracks. Words Of A Fool has a stronger country touch, not that much of a Bee Gees feeling, but a lovely interpretation.
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3. Run To Me (feat. Brandi Carlile)
Run To Me has so much of this early 1970’s touch. Again, Barry selected a perfectly fitting voice and artist for this Bee Gees classic. Brandi Carlile converts the song in a lovely duet, partially she is even just leading the track and turns it into her own one.
4. Too Much Heaven (feat. Alison Krauss)
Too Much Heaven – another track, in which originally the three high Gibb Brothers voices were the characteristic element. Similar to I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You , I asked myself before listening to the song, whether a transformation to a duet can work out. The answer is simple: yes.
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5. Lonely Days (feat. Little Big Town)
Barry Gibb featuring Little Big Town – I just feel I haven’t emphasized that much what an amazing list of collaborations this album is featuring. It is really like a Who is Who of Nashville – Dolly will also be in in the following tracks. Each artist or band is adding their touch to the song, but it still does not loose this Bee Gees touch. So does Lonely Days – the dramatic and speedy play with musical elements is just transported into the 21st century. And the Gibbs feel to wear boots now.
6. Words (feat. Dolly Parton)
Keith Urban touched me. Dolly killed me. Robin Gibb and his music means so much to me personally. The way Maurice and Robin are reminded of by the Queen of country music is simply unique, touching. Do I need to add that I love it? Words with steel guitars and violin sounds. Can we have that one live on stage soon, please?
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7. Jive Talkin’ (feat. Jay Buchanan & Miranda Lambert)
At this song latest, I have a dream: Bridgestone Arena , Nashville, some time in 2022. Bring Greenfields on stage. Do it five times, ten times, even more. It will be sold out any time. And I want to be there. The classic Bee Gees touch of Barry Gibb’s voice combined with some raspy, rocking feeling by Jay Buchanan and Miranda Lambert gives the song a new touch. The first time on the album, though, where I very strongly think of the original song rather than the new recording.
8. How Deep Is Your Love (feat. Little Big Town & Tommy Emmanuel)
How Deep Is Your Love – what a classic of the music history. I feel that Barry tried hard to do this song in a great way. Little Big Town and Tommy Emmanuel are a great selection, indeed. But similar to Jive Talkin’ , it becomes a different song, a very new interpretation. You cannot beat the original. In my view, this version does not even beat Take That. With Barry’s voice, it is too much Bee Gees. Of course, it would be unfair of the Nashville artists to expect to boost the Bee Gees touch.
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9. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (feat. Sheryl Crow)
My view on How Can You Mend A Broken Heart alongside Sheryl Crow is very similar. I feel that the new recording as such is a beauty. Also because the original is one. But finally, there are just a few voices available, which keep the Bee Gees touch and still add a great new flavor to it. Dolly did it. Keith did it. Sheryl and Barry “just” recorded a good song.
10. To Love Somebody (feat. Jay Buchanan)
There are successful Bee Gees songs (like How Can You Mend A Broken Heart ) and there these five, six global super-hits by the brothers. To Love Somebody is one of these hits everybody knows, everybody has in its heart, even if he/she has not been part of the Bee Gees era. These hits are just much harder to cover. At To Love Somebody, I felt it could work out in the very first moments. But unfortunately, the attempt to make it more rocking alongside Jay Buchanan finally failed in my point of view.
11. Rest Your Love On Me (feat. Olivia Newton-John)
After a couple of songs I struggled with, I definitely enjoyed that strong-country-touch collaboration of the two music legends Barry Gibb and Olivia Newton-John. It’s just a lovely melody, a lovely duet and ballad. And higher, clear voices are likely simply fitting better to the Bee Gees sound, I feel.
12. Butterfly (feat. David Rawlings & Gillian Welch)
Again, Butterly as such feels to be a quite nice interpretation of the song to me. It is definitely a nice and soft finisher of the album – but it just does not connect to the great new versions at the beginning of the album.
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Barry Gibb & Friends – Greenfields Vol. 1 – My View
I might not be neutral in this review. As said, I highly honor Robin Gibb and by that, I also found (quite late in my life) a appreciation of the Bee Gees. On the other hands, it also means I was very picky when I reviewed the album. Doing such a tribute can easily fail. But finally it is a Gibb production – and Barry does it in an respectful way. The only reason why the album is not even higher in my rankings is that – naturally – you just cannot beat the originals. Some tracks are just a bit too far away from them as well. Bad luck – after the first few songs I felt this could already be the Album of the Year 2021 – but the second period of this match is just too weak.
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Black & Blue Heart by Jimmy Weber is another country music album release I just ran into while I scanned ...
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Just a week before Petric released their album Flashbacks on 15th January 2021, I ran into their single Kids and really ...
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Aaron Watson feels like the protagonist of a tobacco advertising campaign, like a dressman for American cowboy fashion - or ...
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Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...
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The number of new releases, especially in regards of EPs and albums, is definitely decreasing in December. There are still ...
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With his debut album Yours and the corresponding single, Russell Dickerson won the hearts of country music fans worldwide. The more, ...
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Here we go again - after Granger Smith released the first part of his Country Things album in September 2020, the ...
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Ward Davis is a great name in the Nashville songwriting scene. Since five years, he is regularly publishing solo music ...
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Kameron Marlowe indeed made best use of the publicity he gained by participating in The Voice: his debut single, Giving You Up ...
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It is hard to believe that Chris Stapleton's 13th November 2020 release Starting Over is indeed his fourth studio album ...
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I like the way Mira Goto describes her business on her Facebook page: I write songs, and then I sing them ...
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If you had your first number one hit 23 years ago and are still regularly producing, you definitely proofed to ...
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Running into Money on You, the debut EP by Jason Nix, was the story which happens about every Friday to me: ...
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It's Christmas time... and while the classic Do They Know it's Christmas? continues with and there's no need to be ...
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Don't you feel the urge as well to talk about trees, angels, presents and Santa Clause? While I had four ...
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Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...
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Hardy is quite well-known in the country music scene as a songwriter. Florida Georgia Line, Chris Lane or Morgan Wallen ...
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Already the second EP of the year - while Lauren Alaina gave us her Getting Good in March 2020, she is ...
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Tennesse Jet is a quite amazing act in the country music scene. He is producing very rocking, powerful, but also ...
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Josh Turner is very successful on the country music side as well as an artist for Christian music. Country State ...
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Lindsay Ell is definitely one of the finest Canadian artists in the country music scene. After releasing some of the ...
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Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...
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I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
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Scanning the list of new country music releases, I ran into Hey Girl by Jonny Houlihan. In fact, the EP has ...
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Eric Paslay is one of the biggest secret stars of the country music genre to me. A fantastic songwriter, who ...
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When you ask for promising new country acts, you very often run into the name of Kyle Nix. However, Nix ...
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Gabby Barrett made it well in American Idol and even better with I Hope. The fans were waiting for her debut album, ...
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Kip Moore released quite a series of songs during the last months. This was a strong indicator for... a new ...
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Drug abuse, being jailed for robbery - Jaime Wyatt already had quite some negative experience arriving in Nashville as a ...
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5 cans, obviously of different kinds of beer (and the six song titles on it), are on the cover of ...
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Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
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Despite having some big songs with multi-million streams already, Beer's Better Cold is really of Travis Denning. The Georgia-origin artist released the ...
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While I ran into similar issues the last weekends already, Friday 8th May 2020 was even special in regards of ...
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While quite some major country music artists moved their release dates to (hopefully) better times in the future, Kenny Chesney ...
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If you already know five out of ten tracks of an album and just feel to deeply miss the other ...
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Though he regularly released some songs, the last major recording by Tim Dugger has already been already five years ago ...
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There are various reasons why I select music for review. I did not have Drake White's EP Stars on my list, ...
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The Canadian West Coast trio The Washboard Union is quite established in the country music scene of their home country. Though ...
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Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...
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I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...
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Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...
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Rhett Akins once said about Sykamore "I read her name, I was curious...I saw her face, I was intrigued...I heard ...
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Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...
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Reading the list of songs written by Brett James is like a Who is Who of the country music business ...
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After Delta Rae has been quite successful in the beginning of the 2010's, the band has not been too present ...
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Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...
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On 13th March 2020, there was some sort of national holiday for the British country music community: not only that ...
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Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...
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Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...
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In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...
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The Cadillac Three are quite popular in Europe as well as in the USA. Not too surprising, the Nashville trio ...
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It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...
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Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...
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I typically do not present reviews of albums, which have been released more than two weeks ago. I just had ...
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I got quite a lot into the international - and especially the US - country music scene the last years, ...
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When it comes to the best country music vocalists, Little Big Town is always a hot candidate for the title ...
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Two and a half year after Current Mood and the amazing single Seein' Red, Dustin Lynch tried to boost himself back into ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...
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Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
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Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...
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Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...
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Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...
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While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...
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The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...
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Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...
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Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...
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If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...
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Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...
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While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...
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Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...
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June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...
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While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...
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