Amongst the genuine hits here are 'Fourteen Carat Mind', a country chart-topper from 1981 in which Watson's voice masterfully pierces the music with strong effect, ranging from redneck rawness to sensuous sensitivity.
There was a time, some twenty-odd years ago, when Gene was the lone torch carrier for solid traditional Texas honky-tonk music. Whilst everybody around him were drowning the music in lavish strings and getting all dressed up like Urban Cowboys, he was quietly going about his business of performing the real thing. He is still out there singing peerless country music. For no one, but no one, can sing a country song like the Watson man can
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the album Matters Of The Heart.
