I will not even think about comparisons - the right way to look at this release is to understand the time when the sessions took place. I look forward to hearing this. Knowing what his music was like at that time, it might be a difficult ride to go through, but it was his final days with Columbia (The Baron was an album that only went to #201 in the Mainstream charts with the label possibly looking for an excuse to dump him) and it was a time when it was getting difficult for classic legendary Country artists to fit in with the Urban Cowboy times of the day, although I'm sure that there's still a bit of what makes his music unique in there.
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