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Ahead of your new album Greenfields: Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1As of January 8, Barry Gibb has released another project track: a collaboration with Dolly Parton on “Words.” Originally released as a single by the Bee Gees in 1968, the song was written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.
Parton opens this particularly sweet version of “Words,” singing the first verse about hoping to start “a new story” on a pitiful piano. Gibb walks in shortly after, and he and Parton carry the song to the end, with a tearful steel guitar underscoring the emotion of the lyrics: “It’s just words, and words are all I have to take your heart away.” “Words” has been recorded or performed by various artists, including Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, Roy Orbison, and Rita Coolidge.
LP producer Dave Cobb said Rolling Stone Earlier this month, the recording of “Words” was the album’s first session. He admits he was nervous when Dolly Parton and Barry Gibb walked into RCA Studio A. “I remember walking over to where I was going to play the guitar and my legs started to shake. I just recorded the weight of these two, ”he says. “They are bigger than the legends, they are icons and they are there.”
Green fields it also includes performances of such Bee Gees classics as “Jive Talkin ‘” with Miranda Lambert, “Words of a Fool” with Jason Isbell and “Butterfly” with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
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