O Mickey Where Art Thou
It's not what you're thinking: No Mickey squeaking outRalph Stanleysongs, no picking and grinning Goofy, no banjo-wielding Pluto woofing mountain music. Instead,O Mickeyassembles a first-rate cast of country players for a down-home roundup of Disney covers, fromCollin Raye's "Circle of Life" toRonnie Milsap's "When You Wish Upon a Star" toStonewall Jackson's warm "The Bare Necessities." It works, based not only on performances by the better-known artists (Charlie Louvinincluded), but also a couple of bona fide instrumental boot-stompers--"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" gets the dueling fiddles treatment, and "The Mickey Mouse Club March" medley lock-steps it to mandolin and Dobro. Directing bluebirds squarely to shoulders is Elizabeth Cook's breezy "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," but if there's a shortcoming here it's the blurring of country and bluegrass, a muddling of styles apt to get any self-respecting Soggy Bottom Boy's britches in a twist.--Tammy La Gorce