Whenever country music aficionados discuss the genre's best traditional male vocalists, Gene Watson's name is among those that surface, along with the likes of George Jones, Vern Gosdin and Merle Haggard. One of the most consistent hitmakers of the 1970s and 1980s.
There are people who sings songs... and then there are the singers' singers. Gene Watson is in that elite class. He not only possesses a potent set of pipes, but an unerring song sense.
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.
