Try a Little Kindness, released in 2006 on Rounder (11661 0552 2), is Bobby Osborne's first solo album as a Rounder bandleader, recorded after younger brother Sonny's 2005 retirement ended the Osborne Brothers' half-century run. At seventy-five, Osborne effectively restarted his career under his own name, leading the Rocky Top X-Press through a traditional-leaning program with his piercing high tenor up front and three-part chorus harmonies in classic Osborne Brothers fashion. The repertoire is unusually eclectic — Hazel Dickens, Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Simon, and the Glen Campbell title cut — and signals Osborne's intent to keep working the road and the studio rather than retire alongside Sonny.
Tracklist
- 1 The Hard Times 3:12
- 2 The Fields Have Turned Brown alt version 2:48
- 3 It's Gonna Be Rainin' Til I Die 3:13
- 4 West Virginia My Home alt version 3:12
- 5 Sunday Morning Coming Down 4:25
- 6 Mansions for Me alt version 3:39
- 7 Try A Little Kindness 2:25
- 8 Rocky Top X-Press 3:49
- 9 Long Black Train 3:05
- 10 Certain 2:47
- 11 We're Living In The Last Days Now 2:53
- 12 Father And Daughter 3:37
