All twelve tracks on the compilation are either a U.S. Craft's new collection rounds up 12 of the most popular and enduring songs from his classic period, including his three biggest crossover hits, 1977's "It Was Almost Like a Song" (No. By 1973, he was signed with RCA - a relationship which would last until 1991 and give Milsap 35 country chart-toppers. A run-in with Charley Pride convinced him to move to Nashville where his country career got started in earnest at Roger Miller's King of the Road Hotel. There, he became an in-demand session musician, even recording with Elvis as both a pianist and a singer.
After recording some solo sides himself including a moderate hit with Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson and Joshie Jo Armstead's "Never Had It So Good," he moved to Memphis. But the school did allow him the opportunity to study music which lead him on his path to stardom.Ī talented multi-instrumentalist who was intuitively drawn to the piano, Milsap fell in love with R&B at a young age. Tragically, he was the subject of physical abuse while there that left him completely blind.
He was taken in by his grandparents who enrolled in a school for the blind. Craft's parent company, Concord Music, acquired the rights to 16 of Milsap's RCA albums from between 1977-2006 last year, and this is the first physical product to come from the acquisition (an expanded digital version of this compilation featuring 25 songs was released last June by Craft and is available now).īorn in 1943 in North Carolina with a congenital condition that rendered him nearly blind, Milsap was abandoned by his mother at age one. Due out on May 29, The Best of Ronnie Milsap gathers up 12 of the artist's biggest hits from his first tenure at RCA. Craft Recordings has just announced a new collection celebrating country superstar Ronnie Milsap.
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