Sideshow | Bee Gee is a little bit country

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, December, 2006 | by Tirdad Derakhshani

Disco dude Barry Gibb wants to go country, and he couldn't have picked a better place to channel that ol' hardscrabble rural passion. The onetime Bee Gee is rehabbing the lakefront home of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in Tennessee. He bought the house earlier this year. "I would like to come here and write songs," Gibb says, according to the Associated Press.

"I am planning on making a country album. That is really who I am." The man in black died in September 2003, and his wife died four months earlier. Not enough inspiration from those two legends? Toss in Roy Orbison, who owned the property next door. Orbison died in '88. "Do you realize how many hit songs have been written in that 4- or 5-acre area, including Roy Orbison next door," Gibb marveled. Gibb has a sense...