HEARTACHES BY THE NUMBER - DAVID BELL
It’s no surprise that David Ball sounds so comfortable singing such ’50s classics as the Harlan Howard-penned Charlie Walker hit “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down,” the Johnnie & Jack top 10 “Stop the World (And Let Me Off)” and Bob Wills’ chart-topping “Faded Love” — he has been performing these songs in his shows for years. Indeed, before Ball struck gold, nay platinum, with “Thinkin’ Problem” in the early ’90s, he was known as “the Human Jukebox,” performing and taking requests for songs like these at a Music Row watering hole. Though the album mostly finds Ball covering hits from the ’50s and ’60s, he also contributes a mournful version of George Strait’s 1989 No. 1 “What’s Going On in Your World.” The lone new song, the Ball-penned “Please Feed the Jukebox,” fits right into this stellar collection. Billboard
