Ricky Nelson Garden Party Album Cover

Rudy the fifth 1971 garden party 1972 windfall 1974 singles from garden party garden party released.

Ricky nelson garden party album cover. Dwight yoakam has also performed it live in concert. Country singer johnny lee recorded a cover version of the song in the late 1970s entitled country party with slightly altered lyrics. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Another hit for ricky nelson.

Garden party is a big moment in the show as it marked a turning point in rick nelson s career. Also included were covers of then recent hits and. Rick nelson and the stone canyon band chronology. He loved music and he gave his life for it.

The album contained ricky nelson s first composition don t leave me this way and a track written by his lead guitarist james burton along with bass player james kirkland called there goes my baby. Rick and his stone canyon band found new success with first the garden party single then the album of the same name. Say what you will about rick nelson the album jacket for garden party is nothing short of stunning with rick looking more handsome than ever before in an embroidered velvet jacket holding the neck of his rather heavy les paul gibson in both hands. Video from concert in august of 1985.

When we spoke with matthew in 2016 he said. Rick nelson s garden party rocks a lot harder than the title track would lead one to believe and is also as much of a showcase for the stone canyon band as it is for nelson. With garden party getting. In the 00s the nelson twins put together a show called ricky nelson remembered where they play many of their dad s songs.

Allen kemp s lead guitar crunches and grinds its notes on the opening track the edgy let it bring you along before we hear the familiar laid back country rock strains of garden party. Garden party a song of redemption and peace wasn t the first self reflective number nelson ever recorded there was the equally haunting. Studio album by. The reinvention of rick nelson.