It Was Almost Like A Song/Only One Love In My Life

Two CDs containing a quartet of albums by the country music great. The four albums contained in this collection were released consecutively during the period 1977-1980, the productions broadened the boundaries of country music with their musicianship and song content, creating a framework in which Milsap's vocals fitted perfectly. One of the finest voices to emerge in country music during the mid-1970s belonged to a blind singer from North Carolina, a vocalist who would fuse several different musical threads, chalk up a succession of major chart hits, attract capacity concert crowds, collect a mass of awards, and earn himself the music's highest honor in 2014 with induction into Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. That person was Ronnie Milsap. A native of Robbinsville, NC, and blind since birth, he began his music passage by listening to hillbilly music on the radio Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Hank Thompson were among his favorites, with the Grand Ole Opry an essential Saturday evening requisite and gospel music in church. Possessing multi-instrumental skills, he learnt to play the violin by the time he turned seven, piano a year later and guitar at twelve.