“’Loving You ‘is a reflection on the life and music of Bobbie Nelson,” says Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Shires.

Shires’ mission in making ‘Loving You ‘is to pay respect to the only woman she saw working in a band and pursuing a career as a sideman. “I first saw Bobbie playing when I was 16 at some festival in Texas where I grew up,” she explains. “Much of my path seemed possible because I saw a woman working and making a career of music at a young age, and that woman was Bobbie Nelson.”

Amanda and Bobbie got together in 2021 to record at Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas – a facility co-owned and operated by Nelson’s son, Freddy Fletcher. The album ‘Loving You’ (out now via ATO Records) features songs Nelson and Shires played and treasured their entire lives – a few of Nelson’s favorites along with her own elegant solo piano title cut. The album would eventually trace Nelson’s musical story – and personal journey.

1. Waltz Across Texas
2. Always On My Mind
3. Old Fashioned Love
4. Summertime
5. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
6. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
7. Tempted And Tried
8. La Paloma
9. Loving You
10. Over The Rainbow

Opening on the ambitiously evoked Waltz Across Texas and the an absolutely breathtaking, veritably crystalline Always On My Mind, and they are followed by the upbeat and joyous Old Fashioned Love, a sumptuously reworked Summertime and then we get my own personal favorite song from the film Honeysuckle Rose, Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground.

A lovingly heartwarming Dream A Little Dream Of Me is along next is is itself backed seamlessly by the sterner fare of Tempted And Tried, the simply gorgeously free flowing hipsway within La Paloma, the album rounding out on some shimmering piano work within Loving You, closing on the orchestral-hued Over The Rainbow.

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