Album Notes

"Thank you, Marty Robbins." That is what is printed on the back of the insert, inside Eddie's new CD "Why I Love A Country Song." That is because Marty's hit song, "Devil Woman," was the first song Eddie remembers hearing and learning to sing. "I thought Marty Robbins had the clearest, most beautiful voice I had ever heard," Eddie says. For that reason alone you will find two of Marty's most popular songs as bonus tracks on Eddie's CD. "I sing many of Marty's songs on my shows by special request. I am only too happy to oblige," he says.

"'Country Music is a passion.' I heard Loretta Lynn say that and it has stuck with me ever since," says Eddie. Eddie grew up in the wilds of West Texas in a small ranching and oil community, Big Lake, Texas. "I was there, Eddie recalls, lying in the heat of a still summer night listening to the radio and hearing Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn and many others on an all night truckers show. We lived so far away from everything it was all we could pick up on the radio. We had to wait until night and the temperature cooled down so we could get better reception," reminisces Eddie. "I never heard anything more compelling than that music and the stories that went with it."

Eddie has some compelling stories of his own to tell. He sings about his love for country music and what it means to him in the CD's title track "Why I Love A Country Song." A song Eddie originally wrote as a contest entry for a Southwest Airlines commercial. He tells a story of mixed emotions, from a man's perspective, in the song "Even When I'm Right I'm Wrong." Eddie conveys a country attitude about everybody's county fair in the fiddle and steel driven country rocker "The County Fair." Already released to radio, "The County Fair," Eddie's new single is bound to be a summer hit and a toe tapper at county fairs everywhere. Eddie wrote and sings "Feel So Right." A tender song of love dedicated to his wife Jenny and set to the low desert area of eastern Washington State where they now live. He sings songs reflective of the time he spent singing in West Texas honky tonks and bars in "Mr. Lonely Me" and "It's Friday Night." Twelve songs all together, six songs written by Eddie, four songs pitched from Nashville and two, beautiful Marty cover tunes. Eddie runs the country music gamut in a most telling way on this new CD.

Indie World Country CEO, Wayne Hodge, says, "I've just reviewed one of the best country albums (Why I Love A Country Song) of my career. Every cut is a joy to listen and dance to. This CD has everything. Everything that is, if you like Texas country, and Nashville country. Don't look for any bubble gum pop on this album. This is country at its highest calling."