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COUNTRY, BLUEGRASS & OLD-TIMEY
James Intveld -> Earl Johnson
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JAMES INTVELD JERRY IRBY BUD ISAACS ALAN JACKSON STONEWALL JACKSON WANDA JACKSON |
SONNY JAMES TOMMY JARRELL SNUFFY JENKINS WAYLON JENNINGS JIM & JESSE JIMMY & JOHNNY JOHNNY & JACK EARL JOHNSON |
| JAMES INTVELD | Bear Family BCD 15900 | James Intveld | ● CD $21.98 |
| 10 tracks, 39 minutes, Very Good Intveld's been a fixture on
the L.A. roots-music circuit since the 80s, probably best known as the
lead guitarist of The Blasters. on this CD Jim does it all, including
producing, writing & playing all the instruments. Jim mines a similar
vein as Chris Isaak, with a big influence by Roy O (see Samantha),
& late 50s ballad Elvis, but with a less melodramatic & more
rockin' country approach. Includes a cover of Don Gibson's Blue Blue
Day, a Huey Meux-penned I'm To Blame, + Cryin' Over You/
Barely Hangin' On, etc. (GM) |
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| JERRY IRBY | Collector CLCD 2851 | Boppin' Hillbilly Series | ● CD $16.98 |
| 26 tracks, 70 minutes, recommended. Dapper Texan Jerry Irby
has appeared on many a rockabilly compilation and now there's a whole
whoppin' 26 track CD devoted to the man. He started out in the great Texas
western swing scene of the 30's and has played with many of the greats.
He's best known for writting and singing the C&W standard Nails In
My Coffin (one of the all-time classic drinkin' songs) but as you'll
hear, he had a lot of good ones. These were mostly taken from rare 78 rpm
records (and a few demos) cut for little labels like Gulf, Globe, Cireco,
Hummingbird, etc. and are performed in a boppin' hillbilly style (with
some hillbilly boogie and western swing mixed in). Clickety Clack/
Nails In My Coffin/ 49 Women/ Texas Gal Polka/ Hillbilly Boogie/ I've Got
The Blues For Texas, etc. |
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| BUD ISAACS | Bronco Buster 9051 | The Swingin' Steel Guitar Of Bud Isaacs | ● CD $18.98 |
| The rest of the 1955 transcriptions. BUD ISAACS: Beautiful Kawana./ Bud's Bounce/ Georgia Steel Guitar/ Hawaiian Sunset/ Hawaiian War Chant/ I Can't Go On This Way/ Kentucky Waltz/ Melody Of Love/ Over The Waves/ Rose Room/ Silver Moon On The Golden Gate/ Steel Guitar Chimes/ Steel Guitar Rag |
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| BUD ISAACS | Bronco Buster 9052 | The Master Of The Steel Guitar | ● CD $18.98 |
| First of two sets featuring all the transcriptions cut by
Bud in Hollywood in 1955 with Bobby Moore, Grady Martin, Tommy Jackson
& Jimmie Selph BUD ISAACS: Blue Bonnet Rag/ Blue Steel Blues/ Bud's Boogie/ Cocoabut Grove/ Go Ask Your Mama/ Hometown Stomp/ Hot Mockin' Bird/ Panhandle Rag/ Red Sails In The Sunset/ Roadside Rag/ Song Of The Islands/ Spanish Fandango/ Steel Guitar Jubilee/ Steel Guitar Rag |
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| ALAN JACKSON | Arista 8623 | Here In The Real World | ● CD $15.98 |
| A honky-tonk singer/songwriter with a style similar to that
of Ricky Van Shelton, producers Keith Stegall and Scott Hendricks
have even copied the sleek, yet traditional sound of Shelton's records.
All that aside, Jackson is a gifted and expressive vocalist on these ten
songs he wrote or co-wrote. He's particularly strong on the title track,
his first major hit, as well as Wanted, the autobiographical Home
and I'd Love You All Over Again, all impressive ballads. His
acerbic, Lefty Frizzell flavored wit shines on She Don't Get The Blues.
At a time Nashville record companies are promoting wimpy contemporary
folksingers as "traditional" country because they don't know
traditional country from hulas, it's heartening to find yet another real
traditional talent. (RK) |
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| ALAN JACKSON | Arista 8681 | Don't Rock The Jukebox | ● CD $15.98 |
| "Don't rock the jukebox/ I wanna hear some (George)
Jones/ My heart ain't ready/ For the Rolling Stones" says it all. No
way will Jackson be marketed to '60s rock fans as a Nashville version of
James Taylor. Fact is, this second album is as strong as his debut.
Producer Keith Stegall is in full form, and helped Jackson write the witty
Dallas, which utilizes locations to chronicle a broken marriage.
The mysterious, dark-hued imagery of Midnight in Montgomery is
imbued with the ghosts of Hank, Sr. an awesome performance that gives the
entire album a different dimension. There's even a ballad called From A
Distance, but not that crappy bag of pretense recorded by Bette Midler
and Kathy Mattea recorded but a simple ballad Jackson co-wrote with Randy
Travis. Every bit as good as his first. (RK) |
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| STONEWALL JACKSON | Columbia CK 45070 | American Originals | ● CD $9.98 |
| Stonewall was, and is, one of country music's greatest
singers and Dwight Yoakam reminded us of that when he recorded his Smoke
Along The Track. The rest here is all gems, including Waterloo,
both from 1958, his 1958 hit version of George Jones's Life To Go,
1962's A Wound Time Can't Erase and Leona, 1966's Blues
Plus Booze (Means I Lose)/ Life Of A Poor Boy from 1960, 1964's Don't
Be Angry and from 1970, Me And You And A Dog Named Boo.
Strangely, Mary Don't You Weep and Life Of A Poor Boy, great
songs but lesser hits, are here and I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
and Why I'm Walkin', both Top Ten hits, aren't. (RK) |
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| WANDA JACKSON | Bear Family BCD 15582 | Santo Domingo - Ihre Deutschen Aufnahmen | ● CD $21.98 |
| 18 German cuts, recorded for the European audiences who
formed Wanda's biggest fan base in the second half of the 60's, and into
the 70's. With her continental hits Santo Domingo/ Morgen, Ja Morgen,
the somewhat more familiar Oh Lonesome Me/ Louisiana Moon, and
more. Great booklet, with Wanda's Okie-centric anecdotes on Europe, and
many color pics (dig that vintage bouffant!). (MB) |
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| WANDA JACKSON | Bear Family BCD 16114 | Tears Will Be The Chaser .. | ● CD $195.98 |
| 8 Cd box set with book featuring all of Wanda's Capitol
recordings from 1963 to 1973 including nine top 30 country tunes and ten
previously unissued cuts. |
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| WANDA JACKSON | Capitol 36185 | Vintage Collection | ● CD $11.98 |
| 20 tracks recommended.
This one starts with her first country hit, I Gotta Know from 1956.
Her rockabilly classics get ample attention, including Hot Dog, That
Made Him Mad, Cool Love, Fujiyama Mama, Mean, Mean
Man, and Rock Your Baby. Making Believe
reflects the types of
country material Capitol usually put on the other side of her rock
singles. She dipped into Elvis's repertoire for Hard Headed Woman
and Let's
Have A Party (Elvis talked her into recording rock). Though by 1961 she
and producer Ken Nelson refocused on country, even at the session where
she recorded her first big country hit Right or Wrong, she recorded the
Robins' Riot in Cell Block # 9. Her vocal intensity was outstanding on In
the Middle of A Heartache and her cover of Stonewall Jackson's Why I'm
Walkin' Also here is Let's Stop Kickin' Our Hearts Around, a song she
wrote for Buck Owens. (AK) |
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| WANDA JACKSON | Curb 77398 | Greatest Hits | ● CD $10.98 |
| 11 sides from the 50s through the 70s plus a recent
recording of I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know with Jann Browne +
Let's Have A Party/ In The Middle Of A Heartache/ Fancy Satin Pillows/
A Woman Lives For Love/ I Gotta Know/ Back Then, etc |
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| SONNY JAMES | Disky 860532 | The Best Of Sonny James/ Only The Lonely | ● CD $10.98 |
| Two LPs from 1966 and '69 on one CD. Includes pop-country
hits from the early/mid 60s like The Only World I Know/ The MInute
You've Gone/ Only the Lonely/ Room In Your Heart and others. It also
includes his number one pop hit from 1956 Young Love |
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| SONNY JAMES | Razor & Tie 2150 | Young Love : The Classic Hits Of Sonny James | ● CD $15.98 |
| 20 track collection of this popular country-pop crossover
artists' Capitol sides including 15 No. 1 hits - That's Me Without You/
Young Love/ First Date, First Kiss, First Love/ You're The Only World I
Know/ Take Good Care Of Her/ A World Of Our Own, etc |
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| TOMMY JARRELL | County 2724 | The Legacy Of Tommy Jarrell, Vol. 1 : Sail Away Ladies | ● CD $13.98 |
| 15 tracks, 42 minutes, highly recommended. This is the first
in a series of 4 volumes of recordings by old time musician Tommy Jarrell
on the County label. Jarrell, who died in 1985, was one of the true
masters of Appalachian fiddle music and is associated with the Galax style
of playing from the North Carolina/Virginia border region. These superb
performances are as non commercial and traditional as you can get! Jarrell
learned most of these songs from his father and other older fiddlers and
plays in a style that predates the rise in popularity of “old timey”
music from the 20's. Fiddle and voice are the only instruments heard.
Jarrell, who was clearly a master musician, plays with deliberate tempo
changes and a complex bowing style and the sound is both stark and
intensely moving. Each track is prefaced by a brief spoken introduction in
which Jarrell gives tuning information and says something of the origins
of each song, which include Soldier's Joy/ Cotton Eyed Joe/ Devil in
the Strawstack/ Cluck Old Hen, and Step Back Cindy. (DP) |
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| TOMMY JARRELL | County 2725 | The Legacy Of Tommy Jarrell, Vol. 2 : Rainbow Sign | ● CD $15.98 |
| CD issue of County 791. A Welcome album of fiddle tunes from
the late North Carolina fiddler, none of which he'd ever played on record
before, including rousing versions of Little Sadie/ Fire On The
Mountain/ Granny Will Your Dog Bite/ Lola Red/ Little Maggie/ Poor Ellen
Smith and an old timey version of Sugar Foot Rag. He is backed
by Verlen Clifton (mand), Alice Gerrard (g) & Andy Cahan (bj). (RP) |
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| TOMMY JARRELL | County 2726 | The Legacy Of Tommy Jarrell, Vol. 3:Come And Go With Me | ● CD $15.98 |
| On this collection Tommy shows that he was as adept as a banjo
player as he was as a fiddler on a collection of 16 banjo solos. |
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| TOMMY JARRELL | County 2727 | Vol. 4 - Pickin' On Tommy's Porch | ● CD $15.98 |
| CD issue of County 778. Tommy, who was over 80 at the time
of these recordings, played fiddle and sings with a skill & fire
rarely heard in musicians half his age. He is given effective and
tasteful accompaniment by two much younger musicians Chester McMillan/
guitar and Andy Cahan/ banjo. The material includes familiar old favorites
along with lesser known items Tommy learned from his family and friends. |
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| SNUFFY JENKINS | Arhoolie 9027 | Pioneer Of The Bluegrass Group | ● CD $9.98 |
| 1962 recordings of North Carolina group performing
bluegrass, old timey and blues led by banjoist Snuffy Jenkins whose
fingerpicking style was an early influence on Earl Scruggs. A wide variety
of songs and tunes are featured including Watermelon Hangin' On A Vine/
Possum Up A Gum Stump/ Long Journey Home/ Dixie, There's No Place Like
Home/ Big-Eared Mule/ Boggy Road To Texas and others including a
delightful put-down of the one-eyed monster Television ("it's
the devil's doin'!") (FS) |
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| WAYLON JENNINGS | Bear Family BCD 16320 | Journey - The Destiny's Child | ● CD $179.98 |
| WAYLON JENNINGS | Bear Family BCD 16370 | Journey - Six Strings Away | ● CD $179.98 |
| WAYLON JENNINGS | Bear Family BCD 16385 | The Restless Kid Live At JD's | ● CD $21.98 |
| 27 tracks, 80 mins, good. These previously unissued sides
were recorded live at JD's club in Phoenix, AZ in 1965 which was Waylon's
home base for much of the 60s. They feature Waylon performing a wide
variety of songs - country and rock 'n' roll favorites, folk songs and a
few originals - Just To , etc. Most tracks have a pretty sparse sound
featuring only Waylon on vocals and guitar with second guitarist Jerry
Gropp (who also does a few vocals) and electric bassist Paul Foster. A few
cuts also feature a drummer which really helps fatten up the sound. The
performances are not particularly inspired and the audience don't sound
particularly enthusistic.This will have the most appeal to diehard Waylon
fans. (FS) |
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| WAYLON JENNINGS | RCA 66857 | The Essential Waylon Jennings | ● CD $15.98 |
| 20 songs including Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line/ The
Taker/ You Asked Me To/ Rainy Day Woman/ Are You Sure Hank Done It This
Way?/ The Wurlitzer Prize/ Storms Never Last/ Lucille/ America/ Drinkin'
& Dreamin, etc. |
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| WAYLON JENNINGS | Zu Zazz 2021 | Clovis To Phoenix - The Early Years | ● CD $22.98 |
| 23 tracks, recommended Bear Family needs to chronicle
Waylon's entire career someday, to build on that great series of LP's they
released of the early Waylon RCA material a decade ago. This set goes back
to 1958 when Jennings, a Lubbock Texas deejay and aspiring singer, made
his first records in 1958 in Clovis, New Mexico. The producer was his pal
Buddy Holly (Waylon played bass on Holly's final 1959 tour). Waylon went
on to record two singles in Phoenix's legendary Audio Recorders studio.
Both sides of Waylon's first, Holly-produced rock single for Brunswick
show little of his later vocal punch, even with sax overdubbed by King
Curtis. He had similar problems when he recorded for Phoenix-based Trend
Records, finally getting his own bearings when he recorded for A & M
Records (not included on this set). The 1964 material here consists of the
famous rare LP Waylon Jennings at JD's, recorded to reflect his
onstage show (including covers of Ray Price's Burning Memories ,
and Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right) reflecting a
voice closer to the Waylon everyone knows. My World was recorded
earlier, but he overdubbed his vocal in 1965, after he'd been signed to
RCA. (RK) |
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| JIM & JESSE | Bear Family BCD 15635 | 1952 - 1955 | ● CD $21.98 |
| These are the first major label (Capitol) recordings of this
popular and influential bluegrass brother duo, and until recently they
were difficult to find. Although they had yet to achieve the great success
that awaited them on Epic Records, Jim and Jesse's mature bluegrass style
was pretty much in place. There is some great music here, featuring such
fine musicians as Curly Seckler, Hoke Jenkins, Tommy Jackson, Tommy Vaden,
and Sonny James (who was a great bluegrass fiddler in the years before his
countrypolitan |
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| JIM & JESSE | Bear Family BCD 15716 | Bluegrass And More | ● CD $129.98 |
| 5 CDs, 136 tracks, 5 hrs 42 min.; recommended. Virginia-born
brothers Jim and Jesse McReynolds represent the last flowering of the
close-harmony duet singing style prevalent in pre-Nashville dountry music.
At the same time they were also leaders of one of the finest, most
innovative bluegrass bands in that music's history, Jim & Jesse and
The Virginia Boys. Their influential close harmony vocal style owes much
to the traditional brother duets such as The Blue Sky Boys, early Delmore
Brothers, and especially the Louvin Brothers. It is smoother, more
melodic, and less impassioned than that of more traditional bluegrass
groups such as the Stanleys. Mandolinist Jesse McReynolds also influenced
bluegrass mandolin styles through his revolutional techniques of
crosspicking and split-string picking. Always interested in selling
records as well as aesthetic purity, Jim & Jesse at times initiated
projects like their album of Chuck Berry material rendered bluegrass
style, entitled Berry Pickin' In The Country, their album of truck
driving songs done with electric instruments, and an album of
instrumentals featuring electric guitar, steel guitar, and the like. Their
Columbia/Epic recordings 1960-1969 are their most influential and popular,
and they are all included in this exemplary 5 CD box, along with an
exhaustive discography of the period and a history of the brothers' career
in a handsome 32-page booklet by Dale Vinicur. The wide-ranging character
of Jim & Jesse's repertoire is well represented here: All the tracks
from their Louvin Brothers tribute album are included, as well as their
finest gospel albums, their more Nashville sounding material, and their
traditional renderings of bluegrass and traditional country standards. Jim
& Jesse have always featured great musicians in their bands and on
their recordings. Fiddlers Vassar Clements, Jim Brock, and Jimmy Buchanan
are featured here, as well as the fantastic banjo and dobro player Bobby
Thompson and the equally talented and innovative banjoist, longtime
Virginia Boy Allen Shelton, along with Nashville's finest on the more
mainstream country material. All in all, a compelling document of Jim
& Jesse's career during their most important period. (RP) |
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| JIM & JESSE | King Special KSCD 1453 | Border Ride - The Best Of Jim & Jesse | ● CD $8.98 |
| 10 cuts, 23 min;recommended Great stuff, presumably from
late 50s recordings that Jim & Jesse did for Starday, although there
is no session information, personnel, or any other info. Suffice it to say
that the brothers are in top form vocally, and the instrumental work is
quite impressive, with lots of Jesse's patented mandolin crosspicking
style ; we know that the Jim & Jesse band during this period included
two of the finest instrumentalists in the history of bluegrass in addition
to Jesse in banjo player Bobby Thompson and fiddler Vassar Clements, and
somebody on these recordings is playing hot jazzy fiddle breaks and
beautifully melodic banjo. Songs and tunes include Border Ride/ Have
You Lost Your Love For Me/ Hard Hearted/ Love Me (with Carl Story)/ Let
Me Whisper/ Dixie Hoedown, and more. (RP) |
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| JIM & JESSE | Rounder 0234 | In the Tradition | ● CD $15.98 |
| JIMMY & JOHNNY | Bear Family BCD 15771 | If You Don't, Somebody Else Will | ● CD $21.98 |
| JOHNNY & JACK WITH KITTY WELLS | Bear Family BCD 15808 | At KWKH | ● CD $21.98 |
| 19 tracks, recommended This unique set of transcriptions
capture Johnnie and Jack and Kitty during their days at KWKH in Shreveport
in the late 40's. The group generally did their 15 minute shows live. They
also played live shows throughout the station's listening area, and
because of the shows, they had to stay relatively close to Shreveport to
be back for the shows. The transcriptions gave them greater latitude to
tour further from the Shreveport area. Wright never got rid of the discs,
hence their appearance on this set. The high points from several shows
were mixed together, featuring Kitty, Johnny and Jack singing White
Dove, Sweeping Through the Gate, Johnny and Jack singing Hank
William's version of My Bucket's Got A Hole In It and Hank's I
Saw The Light sung by the entire band. Kitty sings several solo
numbers, including Singing Waterfall and the utterly depressing The
Death of Little Kathy Fiscus. Fiddler Paul Warren plays such
instrumental favorites as Orange Blossome Special, Mississippi
Sawyer and Cotton Eyed Joe. Without Kitty, Johnny and Jack recreated He
Will Set Your Fields on Fire, which they'd recorded with singer Clyde
Moody under the name King's Sacred Quartet. The energy and drive is an
excellent example of the group's radio days when Kitty in her pre-stardom
days, was simply part of the act. An excellent companion to the Johnnie
and Jack box (BCD 15553). (RK) |
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| JOHNNY & JACK | King KCD 6108 | Greatest Hits | ● CD $9.98 |
| 10 tracks - great songs though some seem to have additional
overdubbed instrumentation - Poison Love/ Three Ways Of Knowin'/ When
My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again/ Goodnight Sweetheart It's Time To Go/
Stop The World (And Let Me Off), etc. |
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| EARL JOHNSON | Document DOCD 8005 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 - 1927 | ● CD $15.98 |
| EARL JOHNSON | Document DOCD 8006 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 - 1927-1931 | ● CD $15.98 |
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