Crimson Tie-Dye. Catalog Number: VMP1222LP Color: Red Format: LP UPC: 843563147429 Much of Montevallo was deceptive in its simplicity, hiding era-defining songwriting talent and a whole new mode of country crossover behind a seemingly easy-to-replicate formula of marrying traditional country instruments with programmed beats and slick, dynamic melodies. Its velvet revolution won Hunt years of radio dominance and anticipated a tidal wave of what's been termed "boyfriend country" -- legions of imitators who took the singer's gently flirtatious tack and R&B influences to their cloying extremes. Plenty in Nashville didn't see Montevallo as a changing of the guard, and even after he'd become a country megastar wrote him off as either a novelty, insufficiently capital-C Country, or both. When confronted with resistance about his own mode of widening country music's lens Hun...