Music Review

Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1

EW's GRADE
D

Details Lead Performance: The Beach Boys; Genre: Country

On the first of two CDs, the venerable '60s group supplies background vocals to a dozen country stars (e.g., Doug Supernaw, Toby Keith) performing the Beach Boys' timeless songs. Unfortunately, the vibrations aren't so good. It isn't that the two camps don't phrase alike, they don't even speak the same musical language. The most successful tracks on Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1 come from singers like Lorrie Morgan and Willie Nelson, whose styles bridge the country-pop divide. D

Originally posted Aug 23, 1996 Published in issue #341-342 Aug 23, 1996 Order article reprints

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