Released September 13, 1994 Release date 13 September 1994 | Length 67:38 Producers Jim Rooney, Mark Wright | |
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Red Hot + Country
(1994) Stolen Moments Red Hot + Cool
(1994) Label Universal Music Group Nashville Genres Classic country, Classic rock Similar Down with Wilco, Red Hot + Bothered, Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip, Red Hot + Indigo, Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gers | ||
Red Hot + Country (or RH+C) was the follow-up to No Alternative in the Red Hot Series of compilation albums, a series produced to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues. This compilation featured music from the classic country and classic rock genres performed by an assortment of seasoned old and new country music artists.
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RH+C received two Grammy nominations following its release. A live show was held at the Ryman Auditorium — home to the Grand Ole Opry. A recording of the live show was eventually released on home video. Wilco, which had formed earlier in 1994, made their recorded debut on the compilation with their cover of Ernest Tubb's "T.B. is Whipping Me" which also featured Syd Straw.
The rendition of "Teach Your Children" from this album, credited to The Red Hots, charted at number 75 on Hot Country Songs in October 1994. Although it was not released as a single, Sammy Kershaw's cover of "Fire and Rain" was made into a music video.
Track listing
- "Teach Your Children" performed by Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss and Kathy Mattea with Crosby, Stills, and Nash
- "Fire and Rain" performed by Sammy Kershaw
- "Folsom Prison Blues" performed by Brooks & Dunn and Johnny Cash
- "Rock Me on the Water" performed by Kathy Mattea and Jackson Browne
- "Matchbox" Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy, and The Mavericks
- "Crazy" performed by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Willie Nelson
- "Willie Short" performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter
- "Forever Young" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Johnny Cash
- "If These Old Walls Could Speak" performed by Nanci Griffith and Jimmy Webb
- "Up Above My Head / Blind Bartimus" performed by Marty Stuart with Jerry Sullivan and Tammy Sullivan
- "You Gotta Be My Baby" performed by Dolly Parton
- "Close Up the Honky Tonks" performed by Radney Foster
- "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me" performed by Mark Chesnutt
- "Pictures Don’t Lie" performed by Billy Ray Cyrus
- "When I Reach the Place I’m Going" performed by Patty Loveless
- "The T.B. Is Whipping Me" performed by Wilco with Syd Straw
- "Keep on the Sunny Side" performed by Randy Scruggs with Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson
Songs
1Teach Your ChildrenAlison Krauss - Crosby - Stills & Nash - Kathy Mattea - 2:56
2Fire and RainSammy Kershaw4:48
3Folsom Prison BluesJohnny Cash - Brooks & Dunn4:02