The Remingtons - Blue Frontier (1992)
This morning I was in the mood to listen to some older country music. While I was looking through my Don Williams options, I noticed an artist whose album I wore out 20 years ago, but haven’t listened to in who-knows-how-long: The Remingtons.
In 1992, The Remingtons released the album, Blue Frontier, which was choked-full with fabulous songs by a band whose vocal harmonies were tight, much like their softly-buffed country sound.
In the late-’80′s and early ’90′s, there were a number of other band who built their career on light rock-inspired vocals on top of country-pop sounds that were accented with box-tops, electric fiddles and electric, peddle steels. Bands like Restless Heart, Little Texas and Exile were either more well known or had bigger hits, but it was the Remingtons – with ex-Bread member Jimmy Griffin fronting the band – that produced the album that was the gem of the sub-genre.
The band only released two albums, with their debut Blue Frontier charting three songs, including the band’s only top-10 “A Long Time Ago”. Other album highlights include: “Eternally Blue,” “After Ours,” “Two-Timin’ Me,” and “When Love At First Sight Goes Blind”. (Complete album tracklisting below.)
I’m going to do something I normally do not do, and that is post a track that I didn’t get an okay for in advance. I’m doing so simply for those of you who are reading this – and have never heard of The Remingtons – can get an idea of what they sounded like.
The Remingtons – “Two-Timin’ Me” (Posted for educational purpuse only)
Although the CD is out of print, you can buy the album (or tracks) from iTunes via The Remingtons’ artist page.
I’m going to go ahead and enjoy this 10-song, time-period masterpiece a few more times. You have yourself a nice Sunday morning, and enjoy the album, if you decide to buy it.
Tracklisting
1. “Everything to Lose” (Jimmy Griffin, Richard Mainegra, Rick Yancey) – 2:30
2. “A Long Time Ago” (Mainegra) – 2:23
3. “Eternally Blue” (Griffin, Mainegra, Yancey) – 2:51
4. “I Could Love You (With My Eyes Closed)” (Mainegra, Yancey) – 2:45
5. “Two-Timin’ Me” (Griffin, Mainegra, Yancey) – 3:06
6. “After Ours” (Ronnie Caldwell, Mainegra, Yancey) – 3:21
7. “When Love at First Sight Goes Blind” (Mainegra, Yancey, Brandon Sinks) – 2:54
8. “Takin’ the Easy Way Out” (Griffin, Mainegra) – 2:58
9. “That’s Easy for Me to Say” (Griffin, Mainegra, Yancey) – 2:48
10. “Take a Little Love” (Mainegra, Yancey) – 2:50
