There are singers you hear, and then there are singers you feel . For my generation, growing up in the shuffle of rock ‘n’ roll, doo-wop, and the first rumblings of the British Invasion, country music was often dismissed as “hillbilly” or “twangy.” It was your granddad’s music. But then, there was Jim Reeves.
The Velvet Voice That Stopped Time
Just weeks after his death, “I Guess I’m Getting Over You” was released. Then “Blue Side of Lonesome.” His posthumous hits kept coming, almost as if the man himself refused to believe the calendar. For those of us who were young then, it was a strange, beautiful grief—mourning a man whose new music was still arriving from the other side. jim reeves a legend in my time