albumreview
It would be remiss of me not to mention the Linedance Fever albums put together by one of my predecessors Steve Crosby. These were a blessing to every instructor and DJ back in the day with a plethora of dance tracks for everyone. Scooter Lee produced some great albums for Line dancers, and there were also efforts from UK based artists who tended to revamp old pop songs rather than write or release new material.
I have selected a few albums that everyone who started Line dancing in the mid to late nineties will immediately remember dancing to, no matter which class or social event they attended, and they are probably still doing many of the dances off them today.
Tim Ruzgar.
Undoubtedly Shania Twain’s music had a massive impact on Line dancing and her biggest hit album ‘The Woman In Me’ was released just before the big boom in Line dancing in the mid nineties. Who can forget Any Man Of Mine (76bpm) with its dance Easy Come Easy Go which is still danced today? Other notable tracks were Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under (132bpm) for the dance Loose Boots, (If You’re Not In It For Love) I’m Outta Here (120bpm) for Scott Blevin’s Outta Line, and No One Needs To Know (134bpm) to which I remember doing a dance with an unusual name, Bad Frog, No Princess.
The couple of hundred or so dances on the Linedancer magazine website’s Dance Scripts to tracks from this album reinforces why this has to be on the classic Line dance albums list. In my humble opinion Shania didn’t deliver another album as good this although she went on to become an international
superstar by crossing over to the mainstream music charts.
Alan Jackson is another artist whose music has been a great friend to Line dancing over the years and it all started with “A Lot About Livin’ (And A Little ‘bout Love)” his breakthrough album from the late nineties. Undoubtedly anyone who was Line dancing back then will remember dancing the dance Chattahoochee to Chattahoochee (90bpm) a feel good song and dance. Mercury Blues (86bpm) had several dances doing the rounds and I remember doing the “Elvis Legs” to one of them. Tropical Depression (106bpm) introduced many to the Cha Cha style of Line dancing whilst, Up To My Ears In Tears (108/216bpm) was a super little two stepper and (Who Says) You Can’t Have It All (92bpm) started many off dancing in three four time with waltzes.
One artist you could not leave off any classic Line dance album’s list is Garth Brooks. No Fences was his second album released back in 1990 and it is his most successful ever selling in excess of 17 million copies.
One of the biggest hit dances Sleazy Slide was to Friends In Low Places (110bpm) a fun dance that some even made a little provocative! This song became a huge anthem at Garth’s live shows. Mr. Blue (126bpm) was used for several dances including Black Coffee. New Way To Fly (122bpm) is a lovely waltz and Daniel Whittaker wrote First Kiss Waltz to it. Other superb tracks include The Thunder Rolls (82pm), Two Of A Kind Workin’ On A Full House (128bpm), This Ain’t Tennessee (76bpm), and the haunting Unanswered Prayers ( 68bpm).
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