NEWSLETTER #147
BRITISH ARCHIVE OF COUNTRY MUSIC
Goldie Hill ->
Eddie Kirk
| GOLDIE HILL |
B.A.C.M. 107 |
The Golden Hillbilly - I let The Stars Get
In My Eyes |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks recorded between 1952 and '54 by this fine female
honky tonk singer including her #1 hit I Let The Stars Get In My Eyes
- the anser song to Slim Willet's Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes.
Goldie, who was the sister of songwriter and musician Tommy Hill, married
Carl Smith in 1957 and virtually retired from recording touring. This set
includes four duets with Ernest Tubb's son Justin including the hit
Looking Back To See. Other songs include Liquor & Women/ Fickle
Heart/ I Miss You So/ My Love Is Aflame/ I'm Yvonne Of The Bayou (an
answer song to Hank Williams' Jambalaya)/ Young At Heart/ Why
Don't You let Me Go and others.
GOLDIE HILL: Ain't Gonna Wash My Face For A Month/ Am I
Still Your Baby/ Call Off The Wedding/ Cry, Cry, Darling/ Don't Send No More
Roses/ Fickle Heart/ I Let The Stars Get In My Eyes/ I Miss You So/ I'm The
Loneliest Gal In Town/ I'm Yesterday's Girl/ I'm Yvonne Of The Bayou/ Let Me
Be The One/ Liquor & Women/ Looking Back To See/ Make Love To Me/ My Love Is
Aflame/ Please Don't Betray Me/ Say Big Boy/ Sure Fire Kisses/ Treat Me
Kind/ Waiting For A Letter/ Why Don't You Let Me Go/ Why Talk To My Heart/
Young At Heart
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| THE HILL BILLIES |
B.A.C.M. 004 |
Trail Of The Lonesome Pine |
● CD $13.98 |
English quartet formed in the early 30s performing "cowboy"
songs with guitar, fiddle, harmonica, jaw harp, banjo and accordion. Vocals
are not particularly convincing but instrumental work is fine and the music
is certainly charming.
THE HILL BILLIES: Blazin' The Trail/ Covered Wagon Home/
Cowboy/ Empty Saddles In The Old Corral/ In Ole Oklahoma/ Little Mountain
Cabin/ Memories Of An Old Cowhand/ Moonlight On The Prairie/ Night Falls On
The Prairie/ Paradise Trail/ Ragtime Cowboy Joe/ Ride Tenderfoot, Ride/
Ridin' Home/ Riding The Range In The Sky/ Sing, You Cowboy/ The Range Beyond
The Sky/ The Sunset Trail/ The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine/ Twilight On The
Trail/ Underneath A Western Sky
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| THE HILL BILLIES |
B.A.C.M. 113 |
Volume 2 - It's Heaven To Me |
● CD $13.98 |
The second volume from this popular British quartet who
performed western flavored songs in the 30s with vocals, guitar, fiddle,
harmonica, banjo and accordion. In addition to American favorites this set
includes some originals plus Waltzing Matilda. Other tracks include
Headin' Home/ Big Rock Candy Mountain/ Pop Eyed Pete/ Sundown In Peaceful
Valley/ Take Ma Boots Off When Ah Die/ I'm Spending Christmas With the Old
Folks/ There's A Hole In The Oaken Bucket, etc.
THE HILL BILLIES: Big Rock Candy Mountains/ Dying Cowboy's
Prayer/ Goodbye Bronco Bill, Goodbye/ Headin' Home/ Hobo's Spring Song/ I'm
Spending Christmas With The Old Folks/ It Makes No Difference Now/ It's
Heaven To Me/ Old Shep/ Pants My Pappy Gave To Me/ Pop Eyed Pete/ Prairie
Schooner, Ramble On/ Red River Valley/ Roll Along Covered Wagon/ Rollin'
Down The Hilly Billy Trail/ She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain/ Sundown In
Peaceful Valley/ Take Ma Boots Off When Ah Die/ There's A Hole In The Old
Oaken Bucket/ There's Gold In Them Thar Hills/ Under The Old Pine Tree/
Waltzing Matilda/ When The Moon Hangs High/ You're The Only Star In My Blue
Heaven
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| THE HILL BILLIES |
B.A.C.M. 114 |
Volume 3 - Ole Faithful |
● CD $13.98 |
The third volume includes the title song which was their
most popular number selling over 80,000 copies plus Daddy' Old Guitar/
With A Banjo On My Knee/ When You Bury Me Six Feet Deep/ I'm Gonna Yodel My
Way To Heaven/ Wheel Of The Wagon Is Broken/ Hillbilly Love Song, etc.
THE HILL BILLIES: Carry Me Back To Old Virginny/ Covered
Wagon Lullaby/ Cross Eyed Sue/ Daddy's Old Guitar/ Down In Old Santa Fe/
Give Me A Ride On Your Horse, Buddy/ Granny's Old Arm Chair/ Hillbilly Love
Song/ I'm Gonna Yodel My Way To Heaven/ Lay Me Down/ Memories Of The Old
Homestead Pt. 1/ Memories Of The Old Homestead Pt. 2/ Nobody's Darling But
Mine/ Ole Faithful/ Roll Along Prairie Moon/ That Silver Haired Daddy Of
Mine/ Twilight Yodeling Song/ Wheel Of The Wagon Is Broken/ When Mother
Nature Sings Her Lullaby/ When That Harvest Moon Is Shining/ When You Bury
Me Six Feet Deep/ With A Banjo On My Knee/ Yip Neddy/ Yodeling Cowboy
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| THE HILL BILLIES |
B.A.C.M. 223 |
Volume 4 - Hilly Billy Band |
● CD $13.98 |
The fourth volume from this popular British quartet who
performed western flavored songs in the 30s with vocals, guitar, fiddle,
harmonica, banjo and accordion. Charming renditions of American Western
favorites along with several originals. 24 tracks including Strawberry
Roan/ Yodeling Hobo/ A Shanty In A One Horse Town/ Hilly Billy Wedding At
The Old Town Hall/ Hilly Billy Band/ Me And The Old Folks At Home/ The Last
Of The Texas Rangers/ The Prairie Is A Lonely Place At Night/ Lil Lucy Lane,
etc.
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| FAIRLEY HOLDEN |
B.A.C.M. 146 |
I've Got Blues To Spare |
● CD $13.98 |
Fine collection of 25 sides by obscure honky tonk singer
from Georgia recorded between 1946 and 1948. Although Farley was very fond
of novelty songs there's some fine singing here along with excellent
instrumental accompaniment which is thought to include, at times, Moon
Mullican, Homer & Jethro, Tommy Covington, Chet Atkins and others.
FAIRLEY HOLDEN: Coo-se-coo/ Don‘t Monkey ’round My Widder/
From Lexington To Louisville/ Graveyard Light/ Heartbroken, Lonesome And
Blue/ I Know You Don‘t Love Me Like You Used To/ Intoxicated Rat/ It‘ll Make
A Change In Business All Around/ I‘m A Married Man/ I‘ve Got Blues To Spare/
Keep Them Cold Icey Fingers Off Of Me/ Keep Them Cold Icey Fingers Off Of
Me/ Keep Them Cold Icey Fingers Offa Me/ Little Maggie/ Long Long Dresses/
Move It On Over/ Oh That Naggin‘ Wife Of Mine/ Papa‘s Getting Old/ Port To
Portal Pay/ Put Some Meat On Them Bones/ She‘s Some Daisy For 19 Years Old/
That‘s Why I‘m Crying In My Sleep/ The Lady And The Soldier/ There‘s More
Than One Way To Skin A Cat/ You‘ve Been A Bad, Bad, Bad Little Girl
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| HOMER & JETHRO |
B.A.C.M. 043 |
Ground Hog |
● CD $13.98 |
25 tracks, 71 tracks, highly recommended
Great collection featuring all but one of the tracks recorded by this fine
comedic duo for King in 1947. Featuring vocal and guitar from Henry "Homer"
Haynes and vocal and stunning mandolin playing from Kenneth "Jethro" Burns
they perform traditional songs (Boll Weevil/ Poor Little Liza Poor Girl/
Ground Hog, etc), twisted version of Tin Pan Alley Songs (Margie/
Five Minutes More/ Night And Day/ I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now/ Glow Worm,
etc) and a few originals (I Brusied Her Somewhat/ Goodbye Old Booze/ All
Night Long, etc. Sound is generally excellent and there are brief notes
by Brian Golbey. (FS)
HOMER & JETHRO: All Night Long/ Always/ Bill Bailey Won‘t
You Please Come Home/ Blue Tailed Fly/ Boll Weevil/ Cielito Lindo/ Donkey
Serenade/ Don‘t Let Your Sweet Love Die/ Don‘t Telephone, Don‘t Telegraph/
Five Minutes More/ Fly Birdie Fly/ Glow Worm/ Goodbye Old Booze/ Ground Hog/
I Feel Old Age Creeping On/ I Wonder Who‘s Kissing Her Now/ It Bruised Her
Somewhat/ I‘ll Close My Eyes/ I‘m Glad I Waited For You/ Margie/ Night And
Day/ Poor Little Liza Poor Girl/ Rye Whiskey/ Sympathy-symphony/ When It‘s
Long Handle Time In Tennessee
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| HOMER & JETHRO |
B.A.C.M. 061 |
Unhappy Day |
● CD $13.98 |
The second volume on BACM by this popular duo features 24
tracks from the late 40s and early 50s and is almost exclusively devoted to
their parodies of popular and country favorites of the day along with a
couple of original novelty songs. Includes Baby It's Cold Outside/ Pore
Ol' Koo Liger/ Tennessee Border #2/ Unhappy Day/ You Tell her, I Stutter/
I'm Movin' On #2/ I'm Gettin' Older Every Day/ A Screwball's Love Song/ Oh
Babe/ Disc Jockey's Nightmare. Some of it is clever and some just dumb
but if you like this sort of thing then you might enjoy it. I find that a
little goes a long way.
HOMER & JETHRO: A Screwball‘s Love Song/ Alabama Jubilee/
Baby It‘s Cold Outside/ Disc Jockey‘s Nightmare/ Does Your Spearmint Lose
Its Flavour/ Gambler‘s Git Box/ I‘m Gettin‘ Older Every Day/ I‘m Moving On
No. 2/ I‘m Walking Behind You-all/ Little Ole Kiss Of Fire/ Mexican Joe/ Oh
Babe/ Pizen Pete/ Pore Ol‘ Koo Liger/ Put That Knife Away Nellie/ Settin‘
The Woods On Fire No. 2/ Slow Poke No. 2/ So Long It‘s Been Good To Know You
No. 2/ Sound Off No. 2 (duckworth Chant)/ Tennessee Border No. 2/ Too Young/
Unhappy Day/ When It‘s Tooth Pickin‘ Time In False Teeth Valley/ You Tell
Her, I Stutter
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| HOOSIER HOT SHOTS |
B.A.C.M. 011 |
Rural Jazz |
● CD $13.98 |
Delightful collection of 20 tracks from the 30s and 40s by
this popular novelty group performing country, popular and jazz songs and
tunes with a line up that includes clarinet, kazoo, banjo, slide whistle,
guitar, washboard and more.
THE HOOSIER HOT SHOTS: Barn Dance Polka/ Bye Bye Blues/
Dark Town Strutters Ball/ Divorce Me C.O.D./ Don't Change Horses (In The
Middle Of A Stream)/ Down By The Ohio/ Farewell Blues/ Hold ‘Er Eb'ner/ I
Like Mountain Music/ Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider/ Is It True What They Say
About Dixie?/ Margie/ No More/ Nobody's Sweetheart Now/ She Broke My Heart
In Three Places/ She Was A Washout In The Blackout/ Them Hillbillies Are
Mountain Williams Now/ Wah Hoo/ Where You Going, Honey/ You Two Timed Me
Once Too Often
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| DOC HOPKINS
& HIS COUNTRY BOYS |
B.A.C.M. 088 |
Volume 1 |
● CD $13.98 |
30 tracks, recommended
An eastern Kentucky native who made his name in Louisville and Chicago
radio, Doc Hopkins sang in an appealing tenor that was warmer and richer
than his better-known contemporary, Bradley Kincaid. Like many Midwestern
radio pros, Hopkins was under-recorded during his prime years. Despite
scattered sessions for Paramount, ARC and Decca, his musical legacy
primarily rests upon the 16" transcriptions he made around 1944 for
Chicago-based music publisher M.M. Cole. Backed by an unidentified string
band, Hopkins joyfully tackled traditional and parlor favorites that were
Cole song folio staples. Sound quality is generally excellent, outside of a
few hissy transfers pulled from inferior tape sources. Brian Golbey's
thumbnail bio repeats some previously printed inaccuracies about Hopkins's
radio career, but why quibble? This is a welcome, pleasant release by a
beloved radio pioneer who helped seed Chicago's folk music revival. (DS)
DOC HOPKINS AND HIS COUNTRY BOYS: Asleep at the Switch/
Asleep in the Briney Deep/ Barbara Allen/ Born to the Saddle/ Bring Back to
Me My Wandering Boy/ Bury Me Out on the Prairie/ Can I Sleep in Your Barn
Tonight, Mister?/ Church in the Wildwood/ Code of the Mountains/ Days of the
Blue and Grey/ Dying Cowboy/ Get On Board, Little Children/ Get Out of Here,
Joe/ Give My Love to Nell/ Golden Slippers/ Great Speckled Bird/ Hushabye
Baby, Don't Cry/ I Believe in the Good Old Bible/ I Was Born 4,000 Years
Ago/ I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen/ Letter Edged in Black/ Little Girl
Dressed in Blue/ Polly Wolly Doodle/ Ship That Never Returned/ Spanish
Cavalier/ The Old Chain Gang/ They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Around/ When
the Curtains of Night/ Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight/ You're a Flower
Blooming in the Wildwood
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| DOC HOPKINS
& HIS COUNTRY BOYS |
B.A.C.M. 091 |
Volume 2 |
● CD $13.98 |
30 more radio transcriptions from 1944
DOC HOPKINS & HIS COUNTRY BOYS: Bring Back My Blue Eyed
Boy To Me/ Froggie Went A ’courtin‘/ Get Along Down To Town/ Going To Little
Creek/ Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye/ Gotta A Lot Of Things To Do Before I Die/
Grandfather‘s Clock/ He‘s The Lily Of The Valley/ Hold Fast To The Right/
Home On The Range/ Honeysuckle Time/ I‘ll Give To You A Paper Of Pins/
Johnson Boys/ Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane/ Little Red Caboose Behind
The Train/ Massa‘s In The Cold, Cold Ground/ Moose Meat/ My Old Kentucky
Home/ Put My Little Shoes Away/ Sally Get Your Hoe Cakes Done/ The Last
Great Roundup/ The Old Folks At Home/ The Vacant Chair/ There‘ll Come A
Time/ This Train/ We‘ll Have A Little Dance Tonight/ When You And I Were
Young Maggie/ Where Has My Little Dog Gone/ Whispering Hope/ ’tis Sweet To
Be Remembered
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| JOHNNY HORTON |
B.A.C.M. 087 |
I Won't Forget |
● CD $13.98 |
25 of Johnny's earliest sides recorded in the early 50s for
Abbott and Mercury long before he hit it big at Columbia
JOHNNY HORTON: All For The Love Of A Girl/ Barefoot Boy
Blues/ Bawlin‘ Baby/ Broken Hearted Gypsy/ Child‘s Side Of Life/ Coal Smoke,
Valve Oil And Steam/ Devilish Love Light/ Done Rovin‘/ First Train Headin‘
South/ I Won‘t Forget/ In My Home In Shelby County/ It‘s A Long Rocky Road/
Mean Mean Son Of A Gun/ Move Down The Line/ On The Banks Of The Beautiful
Nile/ Plaid & Calico/ Rhythm In My Baby‘s Walk/ Shadows On The Old Bayou/
Someone‘s Rockin, My Broken Heart/ Ss Lureline/ Talk Gobbler, Talk/
Tennessee Jive/ The Mansion You Stole/ Two Red Lips & Warm Red Wine/ Words
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| SKEETER
HUBBERT & HIS COWBOYS |
B.A.C.M. 218 |
Give Me A Horse And A Saddle |
● CD $13.98 |
Pleasing, if not particularly distinguished, collection of
western songs draw from radio transcriptions made around 1941/42 by singer/
guitarist Skeeter Hubbert with his group which included singer/ bass player
Ezra Paulette, who took most of the lead vocals and singer/ guitarist
Charlie Quirk along with a fiddler and accordion player who are thought to
be Billy Hill and Johnny Kiddo respectively. Hubbert is an obscure figure
who never recorded under his own name and worked in the late 30s in Stuart
Hamblen's band. Nothing is know about him after 1942. Songs include Give
Me A Horse And Saddle/ Corinna/ Open Country/ I'll Follow The Trail That I
Love/ Over The Garden Wall/ Singe Me A Cowboy Song/ Golden Portals/ I'm
Ridin' Saddle For A Dollar A Day/ Let Me Ride The Range and more.
Includes notes by Kevin Coffey. (FS)
SKEETER HUBBERT & HIS COWBOYS: Arizona Home/ Buffalo Days/
Come On My Pony/ Corinna/ Give Me A Horse And A Saddle/ Golden Portals/ How
I Love Those Saddle Songs/ I'll Follow The Trail That I Love/ I'm Ridin'
Saddle For A Dollar A Day/ In The Year Of Jubilo/ Is It True/ Let Me Ride On
The Range/ Nancy Till/ Oh For The Life Of A Cowboy/ Open Country/ Over The
Garden Wall/ Rhythm Of The Range/ Sing Me A Cowboy Song/ Sing Me A Song Of
The Saddle/ Song Of The Moving Herd/ Stars Of The Western Sky/ Susan Jane/
The Strawberry Roan/ Uncle Noah's Ark/ Wagon Train
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| LEON HUFF |
B.A.C.M. 126 |
The Texas Song Bird - The Early Years, Vol.
1 |
● CD $13.98 |
25 tracks, 70 mins, recommended
First of two volumes featuring recordings with the outstanding country
vocalist Leon HUff. Although he never recorded under his own name he was
vocalist with several great Western Swing Bands including W.Lee O'Daniel's
Light Crust Doughboys & Hillbilly Boys, Bob Wills & His Texas PLayboys,
Johnny Lee Wills & His Boys and others. Huff's earliest sides from 1933 with
the Light Crust Doughboys are available on Origin Jazz 1003 ("Western Swing
Chronicles - W. Lee O'Daniel" - $15.98) and this CD opens with one track
with The Doughboys and continues with six tracks from 1935 through 1937 with
O'Daniel's Hillbilly Boys. There are 13 tracks from 1939 radio
transcriptions by essentially the same group led by W. Lee's son Pat - these
tracks find Leon as a pop crooner with quite a few of the songs being pop
standards (And The Angels Sing/ Chapel In The Moonlight/ Red Sails In The
Sunset, etc) with fairly lethargic accompanied. There are three fine
sides from 1940 radio transcriptions featuring Leon with Jerry Sadler's
Cowboy Stringsters with Cliff Bruner/ fiddle, Kermit Whalen/ steel guitar
and floyd Tillman/ bass. From 1941 is some more crooning on Little Star
Of Heaven with Charlie Mitchell & His Orchestra and the set ends with
the fine Ten Years from 1942 with Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys.
Sound quality is generally decent tough the radio transcriptions have too
much digital noise reduction. Excellent notes by Kevin Coffey. (FS)
PAT O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Ain‘t She Sweet/ And
The Angels Sing/ Baby Your Mother/ Chapel In The Moonlight/ Clouds/ Cry Baby
Cry/ Music Maestro Please/ My Buddy/ Old Gray Mare/ Red Sails In The Sunset/
Roll On Mississippi Roll On/ Stardust/ The Moon Got In My Eyes/ We‘ll Make
Hay While The Sun Shines/ W. LEE O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: A Jug Of
Wine And You/ Everyone‘s Out So Let‘s Stay In Tonight/ Goodnight My Love/
Long, Long Ago/ W. LEE O'DANIEL & HIS LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS: Prairie
Lullaby/ W. LEE O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Someday Sweetheart/ There‘s
Evil In Ye Children/ JERRY SADLER'S COWBOY STRINGSTERS: Does Jesus Care/ Get
Along Home Cindy/ Little Star Of Heaven/ Vote For Jerry Sadler/the Singing
Hills/ BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS: Ten Years
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| LEON HUFF |
B.A.C.M. 127 |
The Texas Song Bird - The Early Years, Vol.
2 |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks, 65 mins, recommended
24 more fine sides with most of the same groups except instead of Bob Wills
the set ends with a 1947 track with Johnnie Lee Wills and the Boys. Again
there are rather too many bland pop style offerings with Pat O'd Daniel's
group - these are not bad, just somewhat dull though the uptempo numbers
like There'll Be Some Changes Made are hot. There are another couple
of splendid sides with Jerry Sadler's Cowboy Stringsters. I think they could
have condensed two albums into one by leaving out many of the Pat O'Daniel
sides and the rest would have been a killer. (FS).
PAT O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Annie Laurie/ Carry Me
Back To The Lone Prairie/ Dear Old Western Skies/ God Bless America/
Jealous/ Margie/ Nobody‘s Sweetheart/ That Old Fashioned Way/ The Sheik Of
Araby/ There‘ll Be Some Changes Made/ Tumbling Tumbleweeds/ Yellow Rose Of
Texas/ W. LEE O'DANIEL & HIS LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS: El Rancho Grande/ W. LEE
O'DANIEL & HIS HILLBILLY BOYS: Everything Is Lovely In Dixieland/ I Can‘t
Give You Anything But Love/ I Don‘t Mind/ My Cotton Pickin‘ Darlin‘/ One
Sweet Letter From You/ Song Of Hawaii/ We‘ll Rest At The End Of The Trail/
What Will I Tell My Heart/ JERRY SADLER'S COWBOY STRINGSTERS: Leaning On The
Old Top Rail/ Li‘l Liza Jane/ JOHNNIE LEE WILLS & HIS BOYS: How Soon
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| FERLIN HUSKY |
B.A.C.M. 121 |
Early Capitol Recordings, 1953-1955 |
● CD $13.98 |
23 tracks recorded between February, 1953 and January, 1955
before Ferlin started to hit it big. Includes Hank's Song/ I'll Always
Speal Well Of Yu/ You'll Die A Thousand Deaths/ Let's Kiss And Try Again
(a duet with Jean Shephard)/ Eli The Camel/ A Hillbilly's Deck Of Cards/
I Saw Her Today, etc. Includes a couple of tracks under his alter-ego of
Simon Crum.
FERLIN HUSKY: A Hillbilly’s Deck Of Cards/ Dear Mr. Brown/
Eli The Camel/ Get Me Off The Fence/ Hank’s Song/ How Much Are You Mine/ I
Lost My Heart Today/ I Saw Her Today/ I’ll Always Speak Well Of You/ I’ll
Baby Sit With You/ I’ll Never Have You/ King Of A Lonely Castle/ Let’s Kiss
And Try Again/ Little Tom/ Minnie Ha Cha/ My Gallina/ Peter Weather Bird/
She’s Always There When I Come Home/ Slow Down Brother/ Somebody Lied/ Very
Seldom Frequently Ever/ Walkin’ And Hummin’/ You’ll Die A Thousand Deaths
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| FERLIN HUSKY AS
TERRY PRESTON |
B.A.C.M. 045 |
Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks, 62 mins, recommended
A fine collection of some of Ferlin's earliest recordings from the early 50s
before he achieved pop-country fame and is straight honky tonk country with
few of the vocal mannerisms that would mar some of his later recordings.
Ferlin is accompanied by a fine band including Speedy West on guitar. This
set includes his first recording from 1952 of Smokey Rogers' fine song
Gone which went nowhere at the time but became a number one country hit
when he re-recorded it in 1957. Other songs include I've Got A Woman's
Love/ Now And Then/ Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost/ Counting My Hearaches/ Watch
the Company You Keep/ Cotton Pickin' Heart, etc. (FS)
FERLIN HUSKY: Cotton Pickin' Heart/ Counting My
Heartaches/ Cross Eyed Gal From The Ozarks/ Crying Heart Blues/ Deadly
Weapon/ Echoes In My Heart/ Flowers Speak Louder Than Words/ Gone/ Hard
Hearted/ Heart Of Stone/ I Love You/ I Want You So/ I Wished A Thousand
Times/ I've Got A Woman's Love/ Jezebel/ Lose Your Blues/ Now And Then/ Put
Me In Your Pocket/ Road To Heaven/ Say When/ Tennessee Hillbilly Ghost/ The
Letter You Promised To Write/ Time/ Watch The Company You Keep
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| JOHNNIE & JACK |
B.A.C.M. 183 |
& The Tennessee Mountain Boys |
● CD $13.98 |
28 tracks by this great country duo recorded between 1947
and 1956 and including some of their great but lesser known titles. There
are a number of forgettable novelty songs though their Sing Tom Kitty
complete with Donald Duck impersonations is so outrageous as to be
irresistibable.
JOHNNIE & JACK: A Pleasure Not A Habit/ Banana Boat Song/
But I Love You Just The Same/ Called From Potter's Field/ Carry On/ Cheated
Out Of Love/ Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes/ Eastern Gate/ From The
Manger To The Cross/ God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds/ How Can I Believe In
You/ Just For Tonight/ Just What The Doctor Ordered/ Live And Let Live/ Look
Out/ Love Trap/ Mr. Clock/ Pig Latin Serenade/ Pray Together And We'll Stay
Together/ Private Property/ Sing Tom Kitty/ The Humming Bird/ Tom Cat's
Kitten/ Too Many Blues/ Weary Moments/ When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold
Again/ When You Want A Little Lovin'/ You're My Downfall
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| BUDDY JONES |
B.A.C.M. 014 |
Police Officer & Honky Tonk Singer |
● CD $13.98 |
20 tracks, 57 mins, highly recommended
If you don't buy this you'll be arrested! A terrific collection of bluesy
western swing by this fine singer, guitarist and songwriter accompanied by a
hot band. Band members are not identified but usually included the likes of
Buster Jones (Buddy's brother), Bob Dunn, Moon Mullican and others. One cut
features a duet with his good friend Jimmie Davis and one track, the
raunchy, Butcher Man Blues is a fine example of talking blues. No
duplication with Cattle 206. (FS)
BUDDY JONES: Actions Speak Louder Than Words/ Butcher Man
Blues/ Carry The Good Work On/ Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea/ Don't Ever
Leave Me Alone/ Ease My Troubled Mind/ Every Day Blues/ Gonna Change My
Business All Around/ I Wish I'd Never Met You/ I'll Get Mine Bye And Bye No.
2/ I'm Gonna Get Me A Honky Tonk Baby/ Mean Hangover Blues/ Mean Old Sixty
Five Blues/ Ragged But Right/ Red River Blues/ She's A Hum Dum Dinger/ She's
Selling What She Used To Give Away/ Shreveport County Jail Blues/ What Is
Life Lived Alone/ You've Got Just What It Takes
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| GRANDPA JONES |
B.A.C.M. 206 |
You're Never Too Old For Love |
● CD $13.98 |
29 tracks, highly recommended
ine collection of 29 sides recorded between 1952 and 1955 by this excellent
and distinctive performer from Kentucky with a voice that sounded 20 year
older than his real age and a frailing banjo style that owed a lot to his
influence Uncle Dave Macon. Accompaniments range from old timey to
mainstream country with mandolin, steel guitar, electric guitar, fiddle,
etc. Includes his cover of LuluBelle & Scotty's topical I'm No Communist
plus Retreat Cries My Heart/ TV Blues/ Sassafras/ Dear Old Sunny South By
The Sea (with some fine yodeling)/ You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet/ That
New Vitamine/ Some More Mountain Dew/ Standing In The Depot/ Old Dan Tucker/
In The Future, etc. None of these songs were hits but Grandpa had a
loyal following and his music is consistently entertaining. (FS)
GRANDPA JONES: Bread And Gravy/ Closer To The Bone/ Dear
Old Sunny South By The Sea/ Gooseberry Pie/ Herd Of Turtles/ High Silk Hat
And A Gold Top Walking Cane/ I'm No Communist/ In The Future/ Keep On The
Sunny Side/ Looking Back To See/ Mountain Laurel/ My Heart Is Like A Train/
Old Blue/ Old Dan Tucker/ Old Rattler's Son/ Pap's Corn Likker Still/
Retreat Cries My Heart/ Sassafras/ Some More Mountain Dew/ Standing In The
Depot/ Stop That Ticklin' Me/ TV Blues/ That New Vitamine/ The Champion/ The
Trader/ What Has She Got/ Y'All Come/ You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet/ You're
Never Too Old For Love
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| KARL & HARTY |
B.A.C.M. 168 |
Old Time Harmony Singing |
● CD $13.98 |
21 tracks, 62 minutes, recommended Major figures on radio
and record through the thirties, Karl Davis & Harty Taylor have rarely been
tapped for reissues. Their singing style - recalling the 19th-Century parlor
balladry of their idols Lester McFarland and Robert Gardner (Mac & Bob) - is
admittedly a generation removed from the crooning and/or high-energy
"brother" duets that followed in their wake. However, many close-harmony
duet singers cited Karl & Harty as an influence, and their most popular
songs still endure. Natives of Renfro Valley, Kentucky, Karl & Harty moved
to Chicago in 1931 to become a featured act within WLS's popular string
band, The Cumberland Ridge Runners. After making their first recordings for
Paramount, the duo hit their stride in 1934 after signing with ARC. Such
Davis-penned or collaborative songs as Kentucky, I'm Just Here to Get My
Baby Out of Jail and A Prisoner's Dream became country harmony
standards. By the 1940s Karl & Harty were continually at odds with their
record companies, which demanded racier, upbeat jukebox novelties. Though
Davis penned suitable numbers, the duo's performances were perfunctory. In
1951 the men dissolved their act rather than further compromising their
ideals. This collection sidesteps Karl & Harty's best-known songs from the
mid-'30s in favor of traditional material and lesser-known originals. Two
songs are from Paramount and fourteen are from ARC/Columbia, including We
Buried Her Beneath the Willow, a tribute to the Ridge Runners' recently
deceased vocalist Linda Parker. Five Capitol and Gold Seal sides capture the
waning days of their recording career. The sound quality is adequate, though
lacking high end. Brian Chalker's notes distill the duo's fascinating and
ultimately heartbreaking story. A welcome release, if not the definitive
anthology Karl & Harty really deserve. (DS)
Cattle CCD 245 Memories of the WLS National Barn Dance $18.98 Twenty-six
Karl & Harty tracks, no duplications with the above B.A.C.M. Songs include
I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail, The Prisoner's Dream and
Don't Monkey 'Round My Widder
Twenty-One Years/I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home/I
Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You/We Buried Her Beneath the Willow/No Place
to Pillow My Head/Tennessee River Farewell/Answer to the Prisoner's
Dream/Two-Faced Preacher/Don't Be Blue Little Pal/I'll Always Love You/I
Hide My Face and Cry/You Let Me Down/Truck Driver's Sweetheart/What's Wrong
with the Women Today/Ain't You Ashamed/She's Got the Cutest Eyes/Single Man
Blues/Down in the Valley/You Cooked Your Goose with Me/Don't Mix Whiskey
with Women/I'm Coming Home This Evening
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| BUELL KAZEE |
B.A.C.M. 027 |
Legendary Kentucky Ballad Singer |
● CD $13.98 |
22 tracks, 65 mins, highly recommended
A number of Buell Kazee tracks have appeared on
various compilations but this is the first CD reissue exclusively devoted to
this his fine and important ballad singer. Kazee, who was a trained singer,
accompanied himself on banjo and recorded seminal versions of songs like
Butchers Boy/ East Virginia/ Lady Gay/ Wagoner's Lad/ The Moonshiner and
others. This set also features tracks with guitar and violin accompaniment,
some duets with Carson Robison and some gospel songs with Frank & James
McCravy as The Blue Ridge Gospel Singers. Wonderful stuff. (FS)
BUELL KAZEE: Don't Forget Me Little Darling/ East
Virginia/ Faded Coat Of Blue/ I'm Alone In This World/ If You Love Your
Mother/ Lady Gay/ Little Mohee/ Old Whisker Bill, The Moonshiner/ Poor
Orphan Boy/ Redwing/ Roving Cowboy/ Snow Deer/ The Blind Man/ The Butcher
Boy/ The Cowboy Trail/ The Cowboy's Farewell/ The Dying Soldier/ The Orphan
Girl/ The Ship That's Sailing High/ The Wagoner's Lad/ Toll The Bells/ Why
Not Tonight
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| BUELL KAZEE |
B.A.C.M. 214 |
Legendary Kentucky Ballad Singer, Vol. 2 |
● CD $13.98 |
21 tracks, highly recommended
Complementing BACM 027 is another great selection of sides recorded between
1927 and 1929 by this fine and important mountain baladeer and banjo player.
Kazee was the first to record a number of songs that have become old time
and bluegrass standards and this disc includes the original recordings of
songs like Rock Island/ Darling Cora/ Little Bessie and others. It
also includes a superb unreleased version of Short Life Of Trouble
originally recorded by Burnett & Rutherford. There are also several
sentimental songs on which Buell accompanies himself on guitar, three fine
sides with Buell and his banjo accompanied by guitar and steel guitar and
two fascinating two part semi spoken word titles A Mountain Boy Makes His
First Record with charming dialogue between Buell and Jack Kapp and
Election Day In Kentucky. Excellent sound and brief notes by Brian
Golbey. (FS)
BUELL KAZEE: A Mountain Boy Makes His First Record Pt. 1/
A Mountain Boy Makes His First Record Pt. 2/ A Short Life Of Trouble/
Darling Cora/ Election Day In Kentucky Pt. 1/ Election Day In Kentucky Pt.
2/ Gambling Blues/ I'm Rolling Along/ In The Shadow Of The Pines/ John
Hardy/ Little Bessie/ My Mother/ Poor Boy Long Ways From Home/ Rock Island/
Roll On John/ Steel A Goin' Down/ The Hobo's Last Ride/ The Old Maid/ The
Sporting Bachelors/ You Are False But I'll Forgive You/ You Taught Me How To
Love You
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| HANK KEENE |
B.A.C.M. 203 |
And His Gang |
● CD $13.98 |
43 tracks, recommended
Entertaining collection of 43 (!) songs and tunes by Louisiana born multi
instrumentalist and vocalist Hank Keene and his group. The group includes
guitar, fiddle, banjo, clarinet, string bass, washboard, cowbell, Jews harp
and more presented in various combinations. The group performs a wide
variety of material with an emphasis on novelty numbers though also
including waltzes, western songs, blues, gospel and some hot jazzy
instrumentals. Most of the vocals are by Keene who is an appealing vocalist.
Several numbers feature vocals and yodelling from Georgia Mae and there are
several duets between Keene and Mae. S)
HANK KEENE: Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home/ Bully
Song/ Change Your Sadness To A Smile/ Don't Ever Leave Me/ Down In Possum
Hollow/ Durang's Hornpipe/ Easy Rider Come Back To Me/ Hillbilly Boogie/
Hold Me In Your Arms And Say You Love Me/ I Love Him/ I Love The Land Where
The Pines Touch The Sky/ I Love To Yodel In The Mountains/ I Want Somebody
To Love Me/ I Want To Ride The Trail/ I'll Meet You Way Up Yonder/ I'm So
Happy When The Sun Is Shining/ Knock Kneed Lizzie Brown/ Let Me Sing In My
Saddle/ Life Will Be Sad Without Home Sweet Home/ Love Flew Out The Window
When My Mother In Law Flew In/ Lover's Farewell/ Money Musk/ My Darling
Cora/ My Own Little Summer Tune/ Ned Kendall's Hornpipe/ Never Sock Your
Father With A Hammer/ On The Party Line/ Place Your Hand Upon My Brow Dear/
Rickett's Hornpipe/ Ridin' And Bidin' My Time/ Shake My Mother's Hand For
Me/ Take Me Back To My Shack In The Mountains/ Then On That Great Judgement
Day/ There's A Little White Chuch On A Little Green Hill/ There's An Old
Wishing Well/ Waltz Of The Hills/ When I Throw My Lariat Around My Sweet
Harriet/ When It's Harvest Time In Old New Hampshire/ When Our Hillbilly
Band Gets On The Air/ When Willie The Hillbilly Goes To Town/ Where's My
Other Foot/ Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone/ Your Lonesome Daddy Loved You
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| PEE WEE KING |
B.A.C.M. 143 |
Kentucky Waltz |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks, 61 mins, highly recommended
Excellent collection of sides recorded between 1946 and 1953 by this fine
singer and bandleader. The emphasis is on the groups uptempo swingin' titles
with some instrumentals along with the occasional novelty number and
ballads. Instrumental work is fine often featuring Bobby Koefer on steel
guitar and Shorty Boyd on fiddle. Sound quality is adequate though lacking
presence. There are no hits here but lots of fine performances like
Southland Polka/ Bull Fiddle Boogie/ Busybody/ Seven Come Eleven/
Woodchopper's Ball, etc. (FS)
PEE WEE KING: Bimbo/ Bull Fiddle Boogie/ Busybody/ Chew
Tobacco Rag/ Crazy Waltz/ Farewell Blues/ Ghost & Honest Joe/ Here Lies My
Heart/ I Don't Mind/ Indian Giver/ Jim, Johnny & Jonas/ Keep Your Eye On My
Darling/ Kentucky Waltz/ Oh Mis'rable Love/ Out Of My Mind/ Railroad Boogie/
Ricochet/ Seven Come Eleven/ Southland Polka/ Spanish Two Step/ Texas Toni
Lee/ Tippin' In/ Tweedle Dee/ Woodchopper‘s Ball
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| FRED KIRBY |
B.A.C.M. 179 |
That Good Old Utah Trail |
● CD $13.98 |
25 tracks, 72 minutes, excellent
Complementing Cattle's earlier Fred Kirby collection, this B.A.C.M anthology
focuses on the North Carolina singer's earliest recordings. The six tracks
from Kirby's first February 1936 session reveals a pleasant, if
undistinguished Jimmie Rodgers clone. Four duets recorded with Bob Phillips
the following day are more interesting; Roll On, Roll On could have
inspired Woody Guthrie's enduring Columbia River song. A June 1936 yielded
more Rodgersesque solos plus duets with Don White and Cliff Carlisle.
Another session four months later shows that Kirby evolved into a pleasant,
if undistinguished western crooner, backed by the requisite cowboy string
band. The disc's most engaging interesting track is a 1937 duet with Cliff
Carlisle, Cowboy's Dying Dream. By 1938 Kirby was recording hillbilly
fare for Decca, which was pleasant, if . okay, you get the picture. The
sound is generally good; Brian Chalker offers brief notes. (DS) ALSO
AVAILABLE: Cattle CCD 252 The Original 'Atomic Power' CD $18.98
The best all-around survey of Fred Kirby's records, mixing his better prewar
sides with postwar ballads and country boogies. This 26-track set includes
Kirby's beloved Cold War classics Atomic Power and When the Hell
Bomb Falls. No duplication with the B.A.C.M. set above.
FRED KIRBY: Cathedral In The Pines/ Cottage By The
Wayside/ Cowboy's Dying Dream/ Everyday Is Mother's Day To Me/ Find My
Precious Home/ I Got A Red Hot Mama/ I'm A Gold Diggin' Papa/ I'm Lonesome
Sad And Blue/ I'm The Roughest And Toughest/ In The Shade Of The Old Pine
Tree/ Life's Railway To Heaven/ Lonesome Lullaby/ My Carolina Sweetheart/ My
Darling Nell/ My Heavenly Sweetheart/ My Man/ My Old Fashioned Sweetheart/
My Old Saddle Horse Is Missing/ My Sweet Little Mother Of The Range/ Roll
On, Roll On/ Round Up Time In Heaven/ Song Of The Golden West/ That Good Old
Utah Trail/ Underneath The Texas Moonlight/ Wagon Train Keep Rolling Along
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| EDDIE KIRK |
B.A.C.M. 029 |
Blue Bonnet Blues |
● CD $13.98 |
20 tracks recorded for Capitol in the mid/late 40s by this
fine California singer. Unfortunately most of these tracks are duplicated on
Cattle 270. Includes An Arm Full Of Heartaches/ A Petal From A Faded
Rose/ Blue Bonnet Blues/ Philosophy/ No Tears Tomorrow/ The Gods Were Angry
With Me/ Save The Next Waltz For Me, etc.
EDDIE KIRK: A Petal From A Faded Rose/ An Arm Full Of
Heartaches/ Blue Bonnet Blues/ Blues Stay Away From Me/ Born To Lose/ Candy
Kisses/ How Do You Mend A Broken Heart/ I'd Rather Hear Most Anything/ I've
Lived A Lifetime With You/ Leetle Juan Pedro/ No Tears Tomorrow/ Philosophy/
Promise Me/ Save The Next Waltz For Me/ Sugar Baby/ The Gods Were Angry With
Me/ The Two Years We Were Married/ Unfaithful One/ When My Castles Came
Tumbling Down/ You, Sweet Little You
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