Red Hot + Country Explained

Red Hot + Country
Type:	compilation
Artist:	various artists
Cover:	Various - Red Hot + Country.jpg
Released:	September 13, 1994
Genre:	Classic country classic rock
Length:	67:38
Label:	Mercury Nashville
Producer:	Jim Rooney Mark Wright
Chronology:	Red Hot Benefit series
Prev Title:	No Alternative
Prev Year:	1993
Next Year:	1994

Red Hot + Country (or RH+C) was the follow-up to No Alternative in the Red Hot Benefit series of compilation albums, a series produced to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV as well as other 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.

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 "The T.B. is Whipping Me", a duet with Syd Straw. The song would later appear on the band's 2014 rarities collection .

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.^[1] Although it was not released as a single, Sammy Kershaw's cover of "Fire and Rain" was made into a music video.

Track listing

1. "Teach Your Children" performed by Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss and Kathy Mattea with Crosby, Stills, and Nash
2. "Fire and Rain" performed by Sammy Kershaw
3. "Folsom Prison Blues" performed by Brooks & Dunn and Johnny Cash
4. "Rock Me on the Water" performed by Kathy Mattea and Jackson Browne
5. "Matchbox" performed by Carl Perkins, Duane Eddy, and The Mavericks
6. "Crazy" performed by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Willie Nelson
7. "Willie Short" performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter
8. "Forever Young" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Johnny Cash
9. "If These Old Walls Could Speak" performed by Nanci Griffith and Jimmy Webb
10. "Up Above My Head / Blind Bartimus" performed by Marty Stuart with Jerry Sullivan and Tammy Sullivan
11. "You Gotta Be My Baby" performed by Dolly Parton
12. "Close Up the Honky Tonks" performed by Radney Foster
13. "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me" performed by Mark Chesnutt
14. "Pictures Don’t Lie" performed by Billy Ray Cyrus
15. "When I Reach the Place I’m Going" performed by Patty Loveless
16. "The T.B. Is Whipping Me" performed by Wilco with Syd Straw
17. "Keep on the Sunny Side" performed by Randy Scruggs with Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson

Musicians

• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Byrd Burton – electric guitar
• John Catchings – cello
• Joey Click – bass guitar
• Jerry Douglas – dobro
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
• Greg Fletcher – drums
• Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar
• Radney Foster – acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Vince Gill – mandolin
• Emory Gordy Jr. – bass guitar
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Owen Hale – drums
• Brian Hanneman – electric guitar
• Tim Hensley – background vocals
• Corky Holbrook – bass guitar
• James Hooker – synthesizer
• Roy Huskey Jr. – upright bass
• Carl Jackson – background vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano
• Jana King – background vocals
• Ron "Q.B." LaVega – bass guitar, cello
• Mike McAdam – electric guitar
• Paul McInerney – percussion
• Jimmy Maddax – piano
• Larry Marrs – background vocals
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Joshua Motohashi – steel guitar
• Bob Mummert – drums
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Don Potter – acoustic guitar
• Carmella Ramsey – background vocals
• Brent Rowan – electric guitar
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• Earl Scruggs – banjo
• Randy Scruggs – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harp, mandolin
• Terry Shelton – electric guitar
• Ricky Skaggs – mandolin
• Barton Stevens – keyboards
• Marty Stuart – background vocals
• Stephanie Sullivan – background vocals
• Christian Teal – violin
• Cindy Richardson-Walker – background vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Doc Watson – acoustic guitar
• Jimmy Webb – piano, background vocals
• Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Bergen White – background vocals
• Kris Wilkinson – violin
• Bob Wray – bass guitar

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position´
Canadian RPM Country Albums	2
US Billboard Top Country Albums	30
US Billboard 200	183

Notes and References

1. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 342. 978-0-89820-177-2.