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BARGAIN BASEMENT
COMPACT DISCS - Country, Bluegrass & Old Timey
Roy Acuff -> Allen Karl
| ROY ACUFF | Proper BOX 70 | King Of Country Music | ● CD |
| 4 CDS, 101 tracks, highly recommended Invaluable collection devoted to the early recordings of this great country pioneer featuring all of the important recordings he made between 1936 and 1950 including all his early hits and the many songs that have been covered by numerous other artists. Includes four from his first recording sessions in 1936 including the first recording of what was to become his trademark song - the Carter Family's Wabash Cannonball with vocals by the mysterious Sam "Dynamite" Hatcher who also played harmonica with the group - a later recording of this song from 1947 with Acuff doing the vocals is also included. Acuff's group was one that helped popularize the sound of the Dobro and these sides feature two of the best - Clell Sumney and Beecher "Pete" Kirby. Sumney (later known as Cousin Jody) appears on the earlier sessions (1936-1938) and turns in some impressive playing particularly on the instrumental Smokey Mountain Rag and the hot honky tonk numbers like Shout Oh Lulu/ Honky Tonk Mamas and Steel Guitar Blues and also contributes the chime like fills heard on the ballads. Kirby who appears on the sessions from 1939 on also turns in some fine work. Some of the later sessions feature Jimmy Riddle on accordion or harmonica and Tommy Magness takes over the fiddle chores from Acuff. Roy's material included traditional songs, Carter Family songs honky tonk, pop songs and gospel and includes many songs that have become country standards like Great Speckle Bird/ Freight Train Blues/ Beautiful Brown Eyes/ You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven/ Streamlined Cannonball/ Be Honest With Me/ Drifting Too Far From The Shore/ Will The Circle Be Unbroken/ Be Honest With Me/ Fireball Mail/ We Live In Two Different Worlds/ Prodigal Son/ Waltz Of The Wind and many others. Sound quality is decent though a little too much of the high end has been cut off and the set includes a 40 page illustrated booklet with biographical and discographical details. (FS) ROY ACUFF: A Sinner's Death (I'm Dying)/ A Vagabond's Prayer/ An Old Three Room Shack/ Answer To Sparkling Eyes/ Are You Thinking Of Me Darling/ Automobile Of Life/ Be Honest With Me/ Beautiful Brown Eyes/ Black Mountain Rag/ Blue Ridge Sweetheart/ Blues In My Mind/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Brother Take Warning/ Charming Betsy/ Come Back Little Pal/ Dance Around Molly/ Doin' It The Old Fashioned Way/ Drifting Too Far From Shore/ Easy Rockin' Chair/ Eyes Watching You/ Fireball Mail/ Fly Birdie Fly/ Freight Train Blues/ Freight Train Blues/ Golden Treasure/ Gone Gone Gone (But Not Forgotten)/ Gonna Have A Big Time Tonight/ Great Speckle Bird/ Heartaches And Flowers/ Honky Tonk Mamas/ I Called And Nobody Answered/ I Heard A Silver Trumpet/ I Know You're Saying Goodbye/ I Talk To Myself About You/ I Think I'll Go Home And Cry/ I'll Always Care/ I'll Forgive But I Can't Forget/ I'll Reap My Harvest In Heaven/ I'm Building A Home/ Ida Red/ It Won't Be Long (Til I'm Leaving)/ It's All Right Now/ It's Just About Time/ It's So Hard To Smile/ Jesus Died For Me/ Just To Ease My Worried Mind/ Let Me Be The First To Say I'm Sorry/ Living On The Mountain Baby Mine/ Lonesome Indian/ Low And Lonely/ Lying Woman Blues/ Mother's Prayers Guide Me/ Mule Skinner Blues/ My Mountain Home Sweet Home/ New Greenback Dollar/ Night Train To Memphis/ Not A Word From Home/ Old Age Pension Cheque/ One Old Shirt/ Our Own Jole Blon/ Pins And Needles (In My Heart)/ Po' Folks All The Time/ Polk County Breakdown/ Red Lips/ Sad Memories/ Shout Oh Lulu/ Smoky Mountain Rag/ Smoky Mountain Rag/ Steamboat Whistle Blues/ Steel Guitar Blues/ Stuck Up Blues/ Tennessee Central (No.9)/ Tennessee Waltz/ That Beautiful Picture/ The Broken Heart/ The Day They Laid Mary Away/ The Midnight Train/ The Precious Jewel/ The Prodigal Son/ The Streamlined Cannonball/ There's A Big Rock In The Road/ Wabash Cannonball/ Wabash Cannonball/ Wait For The Light To Shine/ Waiting For The Call To Glory/ Walkin' In My Sleep/ Waltz Of The Wind/ We Live In Two Different Worlds/ Weary River/ What Would You Do With Gabriel's Trumpet/ When I Lay My Burden Down/ When They Take The Last Look At You/ Will The Circle Be Unbroken/ Worried Mind/ Wreck On The Highway/ Write Me Sweetheart/ Yes Sir That's My Baby/ You Are My Love/ You'll Reap These Tears/ You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven/ You've Gotta See Mama Every Night |
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| NOLAN BRUCE ALLEN | Glad Music 7033 | Salutes The BOb Wills ERa | ● CD |
| New York's King Of Western Swing with a collection of 22
tracks with large group including Tom Morrell on steel guitar, Tommy
Allsup on rhythm guitar and others. |
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| RED ALLEN | Smithsonian Folkways 40127 | The Folkways Years, 1964-1983 | ● CD |
| A 28 tracks retrospective of this brilliant bluegrass
singer including his 1964 Folkways album "bluegrass" (Folkways 2408 with
Frank Wakefield, Bill Keith, etc), six previously unissued tracks from
the "bluegrass" sessions and ten tracks from later albums released
between 1979 and 1981 with Vassar Clements, Marty StuartBuddy Griffin &
others. |
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| CHET ATKINS | Country Stars 55494 | I've Been Working On The Guitar - The Legend Begins | ● CD |
| 24 of Chet's earliest sides - Guitar Blues/ The
Nashville Jump/ Telling My Troubles To My Old Guitar/ The Old Buck Dance,
etc. |
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| GENE AUTRY | Wanted 21 | Gene Autry | ● CD |
| 14 sides - Goodnight Irene/ Goodbye, Little Darling,
Goodbye/ Back In The Saddle Again/ The Last Mile, etc. |
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| BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS | Acrobat ACRCD 132 | Volume 1 : Saturday Night Rag, 1934-1936 (16 tracks) | ● CD |
| 16 early sides by this fine Western Swing band featuring
the vocals of Bill or his brother Jim with excellent instrumental work
from the likes of Art Davis, Jesse Ashlock or Cecil Brower/ fiddle,
Walter Kirkes/ banjo, "Lefty" Perkins/ steel and others. Excellent sound
and booklet has brief notes and full discographical info. About half a
dozen tracks duplicate BACM 49. BILL BOYD & HIS COWBOY RAMBLERS: Barn Dance Rag/ Draggin' It Around/ Going Back To My Texas Home/ Goofus/ I Can't Tame Wild Women/ I'm Gonna Hop Off That Train/ Mama Don't Like No Music/ Ramblers Rag/ River Blues/ Saturday Night Rag/ The Windswept Desert/ Under The Double Eagle/ Wah Hoo/ Way Out There/ You Shall Be Free Monah/ he Strawberry Roan |
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| BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS | Acrobat ACRCD 145 | Volume 2 : Lone Star Rag, 1937-1949 | ● CD |
| 15 tracks, 41 minutes, essential Thirty years ago western swing collectors considered Bill Boyd one of the genre's "Big Three," his stature equal to Milton Brown and Bob Wills. Because so little of his music has been available on compact disc, Boyd's reputation has suffered in recent decades. More of a Dallas radio and recording act than a dance ensemble, Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers delivered peppy novelties, cowboy numbers and instrumental specialties. Essentially stripping the sound of Brown's Musical Brownies down to its basics, the Ramblers provided the stylistic template that other hot string bands and small western swing ensembles would follow throughout the late thirties. For his Bluebird sessions, Boyd augmented his core quartet with hot musicians recruited from the Light Crust Doughboys and other bands, most notably fiddlers Cecil Brower, Carroll Hubbard and Kenneth Pitts, and pianist Knocky Parker. This set provides a cross-section of the Ramblers' 1937 to 1949 output. As with Acrobat's first Boyd release ("Saturday Night Rag: 1934-1936"; Acrobat 132 [$8.98]), the sound quality is superb, all tracks lifted directly from RCA's long-unavailable 2-LP Boyd anthology. The set includes a perfunctory bio and complete session details. (DS) BILL BOYD'S COWBOY RAMBLERS: Beaumont Rag/ Boyd's Tin Roof Blues/ Fan It/ Guess Who's in Town/ I've Got Those Oklahoma Blues/ I've Got the Blues for Mammy/ La Golondrina/ Lone Star Rag/ Mill Blues/ New Fort Worth Rag/ New Spanish Two Step/ New Steel Guitar Rag/ Singing and Swinging for Me/ Spanish Fandango/ What's the Use |
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| MARTY BROWN | Hightone 8075 | Here's To The Honky Tonks | ● CD |
| 11 tracks, 40 mins, highly recommended When Marty Brown's razor sharp honky tonk voice leaps out of your speakers with "Here's To The Honky Tonks" you know you're in for something very different from most of what passes for country music these days. Brown is a terrific singer and a fine songwriter (he co-wrote all the songs here) and is accompanied by a solid hard country band on some excellent songs. After the blistering opener we plunge into honky tonk gloom with the powerful You Can't Wrap Your Arms Around A Memory and then into the catchy Love Come's Easy which brings to mind The Everly Brothers. The disc is full of contrasts and even the sentimental song He Thinks Daddy Hung The Moon is given an intense treatment that prevents it from becoming maudlin. Crisp production by Brown himself and Hightone honcho Bruce Bromberg. Brown's early 90s MCA recordings didn't achieve the success they deserved - let's hope that Hightone has better luck - they and Brown deserve it. (FS) |
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| FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON | Document DOCD 8017 | Complete Recordings, Vol. 4 -March 1926 to October 1927 | ● CD |
| FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON | Document DOCD 8018 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 5 : 1927-29 | ● CD |
| FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON | Document DOCD 8019 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 6 : 1929-30 | ● CD |
| JOHNNY CASH | Eagle 20027 | A Concert: Behind Prison Walls | ● CD |
| 1976 show with guests Foster Brooks, Linda Ronstadt and
Roy Clark. |
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| JOHNNY CASH | Scena 70506 | Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride | ● CD |
| 16 tracks, recommended 16 tracks recorded live at the famed Louisiana Hayride between 1955 and 1963. On the earlier sides Johnny is accompanied by the Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins/ gtr & Marshall Grant/ bass) - later on they are joined by a drummer, usually W.S. Holland). Most of the songs were hits for Johnny on Sun and Columbia and the arrangements don't vary much from the stduo recordings though Johnny does some amusing ad-libs on Rock Island Line. Sound quality is a bit disappointing as many of the performances sound pretty muffled - these important performances deserve more of an effort at sound restoration. Booklet has notes by Paul Kingsbury and some great vintage photos. (FS) |
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| THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS/ KEITH ROONEY | Prestige 9920 | The Prestige/ Folklore Years, Vol. 6 | ● CD |
| 22 tracks, 64 mins, highly recommended When you think of Prestige Records you may not think of bluegrass, but the label did make several folk and bluegrass records during the early '60's. They included recordings of the Lilly Brothers, the Carolina String Band, and this compilation of bluegrass bands from the Boston area. Actually over half the cuts feature the Charles River Boys in 2 different incarnations; the later recordings include Joe Val on mandolin and Tex Hogan on fiddle. They prove to be a thoroughly professional and authentic sounding group who really get down on a mixture of classic tunes like The Auctioneer and Angel Band and originals like When you See Those Flying Saucers. The singing and playing here is consistently excellent. Joe Val also joins Bill Keith and Jim Rooney for a rousing collection of tunes including Livin' on the Mountain/ New Muleskinner's Blues/ Kentucky Moonshiner, and Log Cabin on the Lane. All in all a very satisfying bluegrass album produced by Paul Rothchild, who later worked with the Doors! (DP) |
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| THE CHARLES RIVER VALLEY BOYS | Prestige 24280 | Bluegrass And Old Time Music | ● CD |
| This 30 track CD features the two albums recorded in
1962 and 1963 by one of the finest of Northeast based revivalist
bluegrass bands. The first 16 tracks comprise "Bluegrass And Old Timey
Music" with the original band of Bob Siggins/ banjo, Ethan Signer/
mandolin & fiddle, John Cooker/ bass and washtub bass master Fritz
Richmond. They do Rocky Iasldn/ Front Porch Backstep/ Foggy Foggy
Dew/ The Auctioneer/ Baby-O/ Oh Me, Oh My and others. By their
second album Signer had left to be replaced by two veteran musicians -
mandolinist Joe Val and fiddler Tex Logan and this group is featured on
14 tracks including Beautiful Brown Eyes/ Sally Goodin/ Goodbye Old
Pal/ Cherokee Shuffle/ Before I emt You and more. |
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| COWBOY JACK CLEMENT | Dualtone 1187 | Guess Things Happen That Way | ● CD |
| 12 tracks, 32 min., highly recommended He hired on at Sun Records back in the glory days and produced tracks by Charlie Rich, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis (including Whole Lotta Shakin'). Since then he's produced Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Louis Armstrong, and U2 (on the "Rattle & Hum" CD), to name a diverse few. And his songwriting credits are at least as impressive. This album is his second solo release--his first came about 25 years ago. This one opens with the Rolling Stones' composition No Expectations, previously covered by Johnny Cash, whose influence is all over this disc. But mainly Clement sings from his own pen, including Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (a #14 charter for Cash, who lends his voice and guitar), and the titular track (a #11 hit for Cash who again lends vocal assistance). Credit his sense of humor for Drinking Carrot Juice ("it will clean your goozle out"), though Leavin' Is The Lovin' Thing To Do is more typical. And political country fans will appreciate Every Place I've Ever Been, co-written by Zell Miller! It may be a long wait for the next one. (JC) |
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| JIMMIE DAVIS | Acrobat ACMCD 4220 | Midnight Blues, 1929-1933 | ● CD |
| 26 tracks, 76 mins, highly recommended Old-timey country singer, steeped in the blues. You could say that he is part Jimmie Rodgers and part Jimmy Rogers, with comparisons to the "Singing Brakeman" being closer to the mark. Acrobat rounds up a few years worth of old Jimmie Davis in his prime when he was one of the most beloved and respected pre-WW2 Hillbilly singers. A religious man who would later run for--and win--local public office; nonetheless, his early tracks are bawdy and wild, full of double entendre. Davis would cement his name in music annuls with his 1940 composition You Are My Sunshine, certainly a great song, but not near as fun as much of the material herein. Shes a Hum Dum Dinger/ Bear Cat Mama From Horners Corner/ Midnight Blues/ Pea Pickin Papa/ Red Nightgown Blues/ Tom Cat and Pussy Blues and many, many more fine tracks to enjoy! (JM) |
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| THE DIXON BROTHERS | Acrobat 4022 | How Can A Broke Man Be Happy? | ● CD |
| 23 tracks, highly recommended Fine selection of sides from the early 30s by this superb brother duo who strongly modelled themselves on the great Darby & Tarlton (see Acrobat 4016) accompanying themselves on slide guitar (Howard Dixon) and regular guitar (Dorsey). Their material was a mix of traditional songs, gospel songs as well as some great originals penned by Dorsey - several reflecting their life as workers at the cotton mills as well as some whimsical ditties like the great Intoxicated Rat and Sales Tax On The Women. Also includes Weave Room Blues/ Grenback Dollar/ My Girl In Sunny Tennessee/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Easter Day/ Heaven's Life/ Little Bessie/ How Can A Brpke Man Be Happy/ Call Me Pal Of Mine/ The Girl I Left In Danville/ Down With Old Canoe (their song about the sinking of the Titanic) and more. Sound quality is generally good though some tracks are from somewhat noisy 78s. Brief interesting notes from Keith Briggs. (FS) THE DIXON BROTHERS: After The Ball/ Always Waiting For You/ Are You Sure?/ Beautiful Stars/ Beyond Black Smoke/ Bonnie Blue Eyes/ Call Me Pal Of Mine/ Dark Eyes/ Darling Do You Miss Me?/ Down With The Old Canoe/ Easter Day/ Fisherman's Luck/ Greenback Dollar/ How Can A Broke Man Be Happy?/ Intoxicated Rat/ Little Bessie/ My Girl In Sunny Tennessee/ Sales Tax On The Women/ Spinning Room Blues/ The Girl I Left In Danville/ Weave Room Blues/ What Can I Give In Exchange |
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| THE DIXON BROTHERS | Document 8048 | Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 - 1937-38 | ● CD |
| 22 more tracks from this superb North Carolina duo -
Satisfied At Last/ Back To My Wyoming Home/ Anywhere Is Home/ Hobo Jack
The Rambler/ Bootlegger's Story/ Faithless Husband, etc. |
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| THE DIXON BROTHERS | Document 8049 | Complete Recordings, Vol. 4 - 1938 | ● CD |
| This volume completes the reissue of the Dixon Brothers
and fills out the CD with the complete recordings of The Dixie Reelers
from 1936. |
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| JOE GOLDMARK | HMG 3014 | Strong Like Bull ... But Sensitive Like Squirrell! | ● CD |
| 2001 album from fine and idiosyncratic Bay Area steel
guitarist - mostly original tunes with accompaniments from The Axe
Murderers, The Heavenly Horns, The 10 Gallon cats and others - Joe's
Jump/ Butane/ Okra Dokey/ Going Up The River/ take Four/ Fog City/
Presence Of The Lord/ Sensiive Like Bull, etc. |
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| MERLE HAGGARD | Acrobat ACRCD 104 | Workin' Man Blues - Live! | ● CD |
| 20 tracks 64 minutes, highly recommended Fantastic live collection from the greatest living country singer, comprised mostly of Haggard originals with a couple of Bob wills gems thrown in as well as a rawkus version of the Ida Red. The set was recorded in front a lively crowd in the late 80's at the popular "Church Street Station" US TV show. As usual, Merle is in great voice backed by a stellar band, tight enough to bounce a quarter off of. (JM) MERLE HAGGARD: A Soldier's Last Letter/ Big City/ Faded Love/ Fightin' Side Of Me/ Folsom Prison Blues/ Ida Red/ If You Want To Be My Woman/ Mama Tried/ Medley - Blain Cloudy Blues / Milk Cow Blues/ Okie From Muskogee/ Ramblin Fever/ San Antonio Rose/ T.B. Blues/ Take Me Back To Tulsa/ That's The Way Love Goes/ The Bottle Let Me Down/ Today I Started Loving You Again/ Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star/ What Am I Gonna Do (With The Rest Of My Life)/ Workin' Man Blues |
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| MERLE HAGGARD | Time Life 19506 | The Original Outlaw | ● CD |
| Three CDs, 60 tracks, very highly recommended Career retrospective of one of the greatest country music performers of the 20th century. It opens with his first hit Sing A Sad Song recorded for the small Bakersfield label Tally in 1963 and ending chronologically in 2005 with his duet with Toby Keith on Some Of Us Fly recorded for his own Hag label. The bulk of the recordings are from the period 1963 through 1986 when Hag was at his best and having the most hits. With his incredibly soulful and expressive voice and accompanied by his fabulous band The Strangers there's one classic after another Swinging Doors/ Branded Man/ Mama Tried/ Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)/ It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)/ Everybody's Had The Blues/ Things Aren't Funny Anymore/ Ramblin' Fever/ I Think I'll Just Stay here And Drink/ Big City/ Yesterday's Wine (with George Jones)/ Pancho & Lefty (with Willie Nelson)/ Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)/ A Place To Fall Apart (with Janie Fricke) and lots more including a handful of non hits and album cuts to keep things interesting. As another measure of Hag's genius 41 of the 60 songs here were written or co-written by him - many of them becoming country standards and covered by numerous later performers. If you don't have much by Merle I can't think of a better place to start and if you wonder what all the fuss is about by the time you reach the end of this set you'll be a convert. Sound quality is stellar. Set is packaged in a an 1" x 5 1/2" book format with 36 pages of notes and black and white and color photos. (FS) MERLE HAGGARD: (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers/ A Place to Fall Apart/ Always Wanting You/ America First/ Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)/ Big City/ Branded Man/ Carolyn/ Cherokee Maiden/ Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)/ Everybody's Had the Blues/ Going Where the Lonely Go/ Grandma Harp/ Haggard (Like I've Never Been Before)/ Hungry Eyes/ I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am/ I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink/ I Threw Away the Rose/ I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me/ I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall/ If We Make It Through December/ If We're Not Back in Love by Monday/ It's All in the Movies/ It's Been a Great Afternoon/ It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)/ Kentucky Gambler/ Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room/ Lonesome Day/ Mama Tried/ Misery and Gin/ Movin' On/ My Favorite Memory/ Natural High/ Okie from Muskogee/ Old Man from the Mountain/ Out Among the Stars/ Pancho and Lefty/ Ramblin' Fever/ Sing Me Back Home/ Sing a Sad Song/ Some of Us Fly/ Someday We'll Look Back/ Someday When Things Are Good/ Swinging Doors/ That's the Way Love Goes/ The Bottle Let Me Down/ The Fightin' Side of Me/ The Fugitive/ The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde/ The Roots of My Raising/ The Way I Am/ Things Aren't Funny Anymore/ Today, I Started Loving You Again/ Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star/ What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)/ When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again/ Wishing All These Old Things Were New/ Workin' Man Blues/ Yesterday's Wine/ You Take Me for Granted |
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| HANK III | Curb 77949 | Risin' Outlaw | ● CD |
| 1999 album by Hank Williams' grandson - 13 tracks - I
Don't Know/ 87 Southbound/ On My own/ Cocaine Blues/ Blue Devil,
etc. |
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| ROY HARVEY | Document DOCD 8051 | Complete Recordings In Chronological Order, Vol. 2 | ● CD |
| 24 tracks recorded between February 1928 and October
1929. It includes ten more tracks with the North Carolina Ramblers
including a terrific version of the old ballad George Collins.
There are ten tracks with Earl Shirkey which are essentially solo
performances by Harvey with Shirkey adding yodelling and spoken comments
and doing two of the vocals. There are also four excellent guitar
instrumentals with Harvey joined by guitarist Leonard Copeland. |
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| THE HILLBILLIES/ AL HOPKINS & HIS BUCKLE BUSTERS | Document 8041 | Vol. 3 : 1926-27 | ● CD |
| THE HOOSIER HOT SHOTS | Proper BOX 63 | Everybody Stomp | ● CD |
| 4 discs,100 tracks, very highly recommended Are you ready Hezzie? This quartet spent decades combining dixieland jazz, stomp, country & pure hokum, mainly for the radio audience where they were huge, but they also managed to put out quite a lot of recordings which, though never huge sellers were very influential - Spike Jones's City Slickers started years later & included many tunes from the Hoosier's repertory. Started by brothers Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch on washboard & slide whistle, & Ken Triesch - guitar, joined by Gabe Ward on clarinet & Frank Kettering on bass. With weekly exposure on The National Barn Dance, the boys had no problems getting recording contracts - here we have tunes from Banner/Conqueror/Vocalion & later on Okeh & Decca, + a rare V-disc. Also a 36 page booklet. Meet Me By The Ice House Lizzie/ I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones/ The Girl Friend Of The Whirlin' Dervish/ FRom The Indies To The Andes In His Undies/ Connie's Got Connections In Connecticutt/ When There's A Tear In The Eyes Of A Potato as well as more "normal" fare like Down In The Valley/ You're Driving Me Crazy/ I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate/ Wabash Blues/ Swanee/ St. Louis Blues/Divorce Me C.O.D., etc. (GM) |
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| FERLIN HUSKEY | Acrobat 4320 | Echoes In Heart - The Early Years | ● CD |
| 30 of Ferlin's early recordings - 15 of his earliest
sides as by Terry Preston, 9 of his hits as Ferlin Huskey and six tracks
under his humorous alter-ego Simon Crum. |
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| GEORGE JONES | Scena 271900 | Live Recordings From The Louisiana Hayride | ● CD |
| 16 tracks, 41 mins, highly recommended Another fine selection of live recordings from the famed Louisiana Hayride which broadcast over KWKH in Shreveport for many years. This volume is devoted to one of the greatest of all honky tonk singers - the great George Jones recorded live at the Hayride between 1956 and 1969. George is in consistently great form featuring some of his most popular songs including You Gotta Be My Baby/ Nothing Can Stop My Lovin' You/ I'm Ragged But I'm Right/ Accidentally On Purpose/ Don't Stop The Music/ Things Have Gone To Pieces/ The Race Is On/ She Thinks I Still Care/ Walk Through This World With Me and more. Sound quality isn't perfect but George's heartbreaking voice comes through loud and clear. 12 page booklet has notes, photos and a reproduction of a poster for one of George's appearances on the Hayride - George is top billed with second billed artists being Elvis Presley, Johnny Horton, Jimmy Newman and others. (FS) |
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| ALLEN KARL | Century II 686 | No Place Like Home | ● CD |
| 16 country gospel songs. |
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