Pianist and country music supremo Floyd Cramer returns with two albums on one SACD: Class of ’73 and Class of ’74-’75. Produced by Chet Atkins and recorded at the famous “Nashville Sound” Studios, it’s certainly an ear-opening experience hearing Cramer’s inimitable piano in wide, expansive four-channel audio. And you’ll marvel at just how alive and vibrant his country interpretations of popular hits are when given the quadraphonic treatment.

Floyd Cramer's known as a studio genius who's especially great in an intimate setting – but here are two albums that feature the legendary pianist in very different modes! First up is "Floyd Cramer With The Music City Pops" – a set that has Floyd's piano in front of the Nashville orchestra – who soar and glide along in these ways that are maybe even more upbeat than some of Cramer's usual material – even though the lineup features lots of strings and woodwinds. Second is "Floyd Cramer In Concert" - a compelling live album – with Floyd playing in front of an audience, but still recorded in all the best up-close modes of his other records.

Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the Nashville sound. He was known for his "slip note" piano style, in which an out-of-key note slides into the correct note. In 2003 Cramer was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only The Big Ones is a album of 1966 hit songs covered by Floyd and Nashville A List session men. What's New Pussycat, Hang On Sloopy, Yesterday, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, A Walk In The Black Forest and more get superb recordings made.

A distinctive pianist whose unique, slip-note playing style came to typify the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the late '50s and early '60s, session and solo musician Floyd Cramer was born October 27, 1933, in Louisiana.