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LATEST NEWS...
Freddie was recently a guest on the Marty Stuart TV Show on RFD-TV. This is a great network for folks who like older country music and artist; as well as those in the farming and AG Industry. RFD-TV just gets better every year. If you want to find out more about "The Marty Stuart Show" and see some video clips then check out www.martystuart.net.CD News
MARCH 2012Freddie has been back in the studios and is working on a brand new Gospel CD which will include 12 songs, ten written by Freddie himself, plus two additional great songs. We'll keep you up to date on this web site when the CDs are available. In the meantime, be sure to click the "STORE" tab and take a look at his current CDs on the market.
Freddie's last CD "I Wouldn't Trade America For The World" is doing well all over the world, and the reviews have been phenominal! Jon Philibert of the U.K.'s Country Music People Magazine rates the album 4˝ out of 5 stars; Freddie's effort even edged out several of his modern day contemporaries in country music. Mr. Philibert's review is reprinted here courtesy of the author:
"Well this is something to gladden the heart (no pun intended), a new album from one of country's most distinctive and well respected artists, Freddie Hart."
"Hart's...vocal performance on I Wouldn't Trade America for the World is still rock solid. If you've never heard Freddie Heart - and some younger readers of country neophyte fans might not have - then you have not encountered his unique style. It's vibrato rich, fluttery, sometimes anguished sounding, always warm performance that is unlike any other country singer. True, there are echos of Bill Anderson's light timbre and at other times one hears a Slim Whitman like yodel, but Hart is, and always has been, his own man."
"The album's title, it's cover art and it's opening salvo I Wouldn't Trade America For The World might lead one to imagine that this is a collection of patriotic songs but only this and the following track Purple Heart are in any way patriotically themed. The former is a leisurely paced, keyboard-led item with one of those globe trotting lyrics name checking famous places around the world but with Hart always returning to his beloved America. Purple Heart is a live version of a song Hart first cut on the 1998 album Purple Heart: These Colors Won't Run, a various artists veterans tribute."
"The song reveals the story of a returned soldier who is now wheelchair bound yet his stand-by-your-man wife stands four square behind him and the song has the pay off "he's got a purple heart, she's got a heart of gold."
"There are quite a few revisits from Hart's illustrious past with reprise versions of the lilting Why Should I Cry Over You, the part narrated Hank Williams Guitar, the bluesy and emotional ballad Born a Fool, penned by the great Alex Zanetis, the touching tribute to love in all it's manifestations, Togetherness, and his take on Eddy Arnold's I'll Hold You In My Heart and the Platter's Only You - each and every one a chart record from the 60's. Interestingly the melancholy Brother Bluebird shows up too; this was the flip of Hart's monster uber-smash Easy Lovin' from 1971 (a #17 pop hit too) which is a very good track in it's own right, although is absent from this collection."
"The brief liner notes ends..."radio would have never been the same without Freddie Hart" and I say amen to that, and this release brought back happy memories of the days when artists of Hart's calibre ruled the radio roost. If you don't know Freddie Hart's work, this is not a bad place to start. If you do, you might want to check this album out."
Jon Philibert, Country Music People Magazine
Thanks in part to phenominal reviews such as Mr. Philibert's, radio stations here in the U.S. continue to request the C.D. “I Wouldn’t Trade America for the World” is available under the store button on this web site.
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