David Ball - Heartaches By The Number

David Ball on Heartaches By The Number has chosen some of country's saddest songs, and applied his evocative style, and tight, emotional vocals to come up with a fine album of standards.

Ball tackles a wide range of styles, from Patsy Cline's Sweet Dreams, through to Bob Wills' Faded Love. David Ball's own original material sounds completely traditional, so this set sounds perfectly comfortable in his hands.

As a powerful balladeer, in the seventies the songs here would have been drowned in the Nashville sound of strings, but on Heartaches By The Number we get the sound filled out with steel guitar, honky-tonk piano and fiddle ... back to basics, and all the better for it.

• Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
• Stop The World And Let Me Off
• Heartaches By The Number
• Sweet Dreams
• Please Feed The Jukebox
• There Stands The Glass
• Faded Love
• What's Going On In Your World
• Half As Much
• Please Help Me I'm Falling
• I'm Walking The Dog