And man, does he sing the hell out of them. And, of course, it has to be mentioned that the infamous "I" trilogy is on this album: In a row, Twitty laces "I'll Get Over Losing You," "I Just Can't Get Over You (Getting Over Me)," and "I'm Getting Tired of Losing You." Twitty wrote the first and last part of this unholy trinity of barroom weepers.
His version of the Flatt & Scruggs standard "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms" is done not as a bluegrass tune but as a honky tonk song for the first half and then as an electric bluegrass rocker! There's also Twitty's read of Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me" that reinvents the original by turning it into a prayer rather than an accusation.
But that didn't keep him from throwing a few surprises onto each album and this one is no exception.
#Linda on my mind full
And while it's true that Twitty was making albums full of these songs in the 1970s, it was because he could always do it convincingly. The title track is an example where the honky tonk beer-weeper is transformed into a real-life drama complete with visuals and a backing chorus to underline the song's most poignant moments and a pedal steel ringing above it all to pierce the air. Twitty was such a badass as a persona and as a vocalist - not too mention as a songwriter, as through the '70s he wrote virtually all of his singles - he was bigger than life. For a man who could sing the contents on a soup can and make it emotionally compelling, that is saying something. Linda on My Mind is one of Conway Twitty's finest moments on wax.
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