NEWSLETTER #147
Country, Bluegrass & Old Timey
George Jones ->
White Top Mountain Band
| GEORGE JONES |
Bear Family BCD 16818 |
She Thinks I Still Care - Complete United
Artists Recordings |
● CD $145.98 |
At last a box set devoted to one of the greatest honky
tonk singers of the 20th century - hopefully the first of several since
George has a length and incredibly productive career. This 5 CD box set
features all his recordings made for the United Artists between 1962 and
1964 - 150 tracks - six of them previously unissued. His first United
Artists release was a #1 country hit and he continued racking u hit after
hit for the label - Open Pit Mine/ A Girl I used To Kno/ Not What I Had
In Mind/ You Combed Her Hair/ The race Is On and many more - all
included here. The set also includes all his duets with Melba Montgomery -
many of them big hits in their own right. Comes with a 48 page booklet
with extensive notes by Rich Kienzle, rare photos and full discographical
information.
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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 balladeer 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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| SNEAKY PETE KLEINOW |
Sundazed 11179 |
The Shiloh Records Anthology |
● CD $15.98 |
18 tracks recorded in the late 70s and early 80s for the
Shiloh label by legendary steel guitarist Sleepy Pete Kleinow, who
recently passed away. Kleinow appeared on the 1969 debut album of The
Flying Burrito Brothers and since then with artists as diverse as The
Rolling Stones, Booker T. & The MGs, Doug Sahm, Linda Ronstadt, Little
Ricahrd and many more. Includes Beat The Heat/ Oklahoma Stomp/
Silverbird/ Louisiana/ Fly The Bright Sea and more. Includes one track
(Faded Love) with The Flying Burrito Brothers.
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| GRADY
MARTIN & HIS SLEW FOOT FIVE |
B.A.C.M. 222 |
Cornstalk Hop |
● CD $13.98 |
A nice companion to the recent Rev-Ola release with 25
tracks featuring this great guitarist - this time, mostly instrumentals
issued under his own name with his group The Slewfoot
Five or as his Winging strings. Includes a handful of vocals from Red
Foley, Buddy Hall and Dick Todd
GRADY MARTIN & HIS SLEWFOOT FIVE: A Pretty Girl Is Like
A Melody/ Allegheny Moon/ Anniversary Song/ Beer Barrel Polka/ Bimbo/
Bully Of The Town/ Chicago/ Columbus Stockade Blues/ Cornstalk Hop/ Don't
Take Your Love From Me/ Hot Lips/ Just Because/ Mexicali Rose/ My Window
Faces The South/ Night And Day/ Oklahoma Hayseed/ Pork Chop Stomp/
Remember This/ September Song/ Singing The Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home/
Sioux City Sue/ Slip In And Slip Out/ Somebody Stole My Gal/ Star Dust/
Sweethearts Or Strangers/ The Velvet Glove/ When My Dreamboat Comes Home/
Wooly Boogie
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| FRANKIE MILLER |
Bear Family 16566 |
Blackland Farmer - The Complete Starday
Records & More |
● CD $67.98 |
Three CD set with 96 tracks by this outstanding Texas
honky tonk singer best known for his big 1959 hit Blackland Farmer
which was reissued in 1961 and became a hit again! It features all his
recordings made for Starday between 1959 and 1964 including all his issued
songs along with unissued songs, alternate takes and vocal/ guitar demos.
In addition it includes live performances from the Big D. Jamboree,
pre-Starday sides for the Cowtown Hoedown label as well as well as all his
recordings - both issued and unissued for the United Artists and Stop
labels. In addition there is a conversation between Frankie and one of the
compilers of this set Hank Davis. Set is packaged in a triple digipac and
includes a 100 page booklet with loads of vintage photographs and
clippings, a newly researched biography and
complete discography.
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| EDDIE
MILLER & HIS OKLAHOMANS |
B.A.C.M. 219 |
Release Me |
● CD $13.98 |
27 tracks, highly recommended
Fine collection of sides by this fairly obscure but important artist from
Oklahoma. Miller was co-composer of several songs that have become country
standards like Release Me/ There She Goes/ Thanks A Lot and others.
he was also an important figure on the Nashville scene having founded the
Acadamy Of Country Music and co-founded the Nashville Songwriters
Association International. The material here, recorded here between 1947
and 1956 is a mix of western swing and honky tonk with engaging vocals
from Miller plus occasional vocal contributions from Tiny Colbert, Bob
Gene and Jimmy McGraw and fine instrumental work from a varied assortment
of musicians. It includes his original 1949 recording of Release Me
along with its slightly risque flip Motel Time plus I Love You
Honey/ Nothin' To Lose But the Blues/ Cab DRiver's Blues/Knowin' You Don't
Care/ Those Tantalising Blues/ I Like What You've Got/ Married Man's Lies/
Patty Cake Man/Ghost Town, etc. The last four sides from 1956 are
pretty much straight rock 'n' roll. Excellent sound and fine notes from
Kevin Coffey. (FS)
EDDIE MILLER & HIS OKLAHOMANS: Annie, The She Buckaroo/
Baby Boy's Prayer/ Behind Closed Doors/ Bus Station Stomp (instr.)/ Cab
Driver's Blues/ Don't Break My Heart Anymore/ Ghost Town/ Hidin' Out/
Honey Baby (I Was Wrong)/ I Like What You've Got/ I Love You Honey/ Knowin'
You Don't Care/ Lo And Behold/ Married Man's Lies/ Motel Time/ No Stars In
My Heaven/ Nothin' (instr.)/ Nothin' To Lose But The Blues/ Nothing But
Troubles/ Patty Cake Man/ Please Don't Laugh/ Pull Down The Night Shades/
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)/ Slow Down Baby/ Those Tantalising
Blues/ Unwanted/ You Walked Away
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| PATSY MONTANA |
Cattle 333 |
Rose Of Oklahoma |
● CD $18.98 |
22 tracks recorded between 1933 and 1948 with backing from
The Light Crust Doughboys, Sons Of The Pioneers & others
PATSY MONTANA: A Cowboy's Honeymoon/ Big Moon/ Blanket
Me With Western Skies/ Echoes From The Hills/ Gold Coast Express/ Homesick
For My Old Cabin/ I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded/ I'll Be Waitin' For
You Darlin'/ I'll Keep On Wishin' For You/ I'll Wait For You/ I'm A Ridin'
Up The Old Kentucky Mountain/ I'm A-goin' West To Texas/ I'm Gonna Have A
Cowboy Weddin'/ If I Could Only Learn To Yodel/ Mama Never Said A Word
About Love/ Need You/ Rose Of Oklahoma/ Shine On Rocky Mountain Moonlight/
Sunny San Antone/ That's Where The West Begins/ The Home Corral/ You're
The Only Star In My Blue Heaven
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| PATSY MONTANA |
Cattle 334 |
Blazin The Trail |
● CD $18.98 |
22 tracks recorded between 1935 and 1954 including
commercial recordings and radio transcriptions. Includes sides with The
Prairie Ramblers, Jack Wayne's Bar 10 Boys, etc.
PATSY MONTANA: Are You Kissin' Someone Else (& Dave
Denney)/ Blazin' The Trail/ Deep In The Heart Of Texas/ Dream On Little
Cowboy/ Fuel On The Flame/ Give Me A Home In Montana/ Goodbye Little
Pinto/ I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart No. 2 ((i've Found My Cowboy
Sweetheart)/ Little Old Rag Doll/ Old Black Mountain Trail/ Slap 'er Down
Agin, Paw/ Sweetheart Of The Saddle/ Those Two Little Kids Of Mine/ Water
Witch Waltz/ What Does It Matter (if I Can't Share It With You)/ When I
Found You In Montana/ When I Gets To Where I'm Goin'/ Yellow Moon Keep
Shinin'/ Yodeling Ghost/ You Look Just Like Someone I Loved In Texas/
You're Only In My Arms (to Cry On My Shoulder)/ Your Own Sweet Darling
Wife
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| THE MORRIS BROTHERS |
B.A.C.M. 220 |
Salty Dog Blues |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks, recommended
24 tracks recorded between 1938 and 1945 by this fine brother duo (Zeke &
Wiley Morris) from North Carolina. Unlike other brothers there was not a
whole lot of close harmony - the emphasis was mostly on the solemn lead
vocals of younger brother Wiley who also played guitar - Zeke provided
occasional harmony vocal plus guitar and mandolin accompaniment and three
tracks feature added fiddle. One track features lead vocal by "Little
Eunice" - presumably a young child and is pretty terrible. Their material
is a mix of ballads, sentimental songs, old time songs and blues and
includes two version of their most popular song Salty Dog Blues.
(FS)
THE MORRIS BROTHERS: Answer To Blue Eyes/ Blessed Jesus
Hold My Hand/ Darling Think Of What You Have Done/ Does Jesus Care/ Don't
Say Goodbye If You Love Me/ Farewell Kentucky/ Gabriel's Trumpet/ Great
Speckled Bird/ He'll Set Your Fields On Fire/ I Love The Silver In Your
Hair/ I Will Meet My Precious Mother/ If You Love Your Mother/ It's Blues/
Just How Pretty You Smile/ Let Me Be Your Salty Dog/ Little Nellie/ Old
Covered Bridge/ Riding To See The Sun Go Down/ Salty Dog Blues/ Somebody
Loves You Darlin'/ Telephone To Glory/ The Story Of Charlie Lawson/ The
Tragic Romance/ Wabash Cannon Ball
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| THE PERRY
COUNTY MUSIC MAKERS |
Spring Fed 33009 |
Sunset Memories |
● CD $15.98 |
A delightful collection of old time singing and playing by
trio of performers from Tennessee featuring the unique and distinctive
sound of Nonnie Presson on zither.
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| WEBB PIERCE |
Bear Family BCD 16790 |
Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - High
Geared Daddy |
● CD $21.98 |
32 more fine up tempo country sides - this time from the
great Webb Pierce. It includes rare recordings made for Four Star and
Webb's own Pacemaker label as well as classic Decca favorites. Includes
High Geared Daddy/ Georgia Rag/ Have You Ever Had That Feeling/ I'm Gonna
See My Baby/ In The Jailhouse Now/ Why Baby Why/ I'm Tired/ Who Wouldn't
LOve You/ The New Raunchy/ Tupelo County Jail and more.
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| THE PINE RIDGE BOYS |
B.A.C.M. 216 |
Mississippi River Blues |
● CD $13.98 |
The Pine Ridge Boys (Doug Spivey & Marvin Taylor) were one
of the many male country vocal duets to arise in the 30s. Taylor was from
Georgia and Spivey from Tennessee. They recorded three sessions for Victor
between 1939 and 1941 accompanying themselves on guitar and mostly
recorded covers of other artists' songs. Unlike some of their
contemporaries they were a pretty drab duo but do have the distinction of
being the first to record one of the most popular country of all time
You Are My Sunshine (includes here). Other songs include Farther
Along/ Just Tell Me That You LOve Me Yet/ When Mother Prayed For Me/ Old
Shep/ This Means Our Last Goodbye/ Crooning Bachelor/ Put Your Arms Around
Me Honey/ Little Darling I'll Be Yours, etc.
THE PINE RIDGE BOYS: Answer To You Are My Sunshine/
Crooning Bachelor/ Farther Along/ I Won't Care/ Just Tell Me That You Love
Me Yet/ Little Darling I'll Be Yours/ Lonesome For You Annabelle/
Mississippi River Blues/ No Matter What Happens/ Old Shep/ Put Your Arms
Around Me Honey/ Railroad Boomer/ The Clouds Will Soon Roll By/ The
Convict And The Rose/ There's A Mother Always Waiting You At Home/ This
Means Our Last Goodbye/ When Mother Prayed For Me/ When You Have No One To
Love You/ Where The Old Red River Flows/ Whitehouse Blues/ Wind/ You Are
My Sunshine/ You'll Be Sorry Dear You'll Pay
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| TEXAS JIM ROBERTSON |
B.A.C.M. 213 |
Vol. 2 - Put Your Arms Around Me |
● CD $13.98 |
Second collection of songs by this Texas born but New York
based western singer with a style reminiscent of Tex Ritter. 17 tracks are
from commercial recordings with a small group including You'll Never Be
Blue In A Blue Uniform/ Gotta Git A Gittar/ Low In The Lehigh Valley/ I'll
Walk This Weary Road Alone/ One Kind Word/ Why Don't You Marry The Girl,
etc. The remaining 8 tracks are from radio transcriptions featuring Jim
with his own guitar accompaniment only and includes Yellow Rose Of
Texas/ Night Herding Song/ Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse Tonight/ Hobo Bill's
Last Ride, etc.
TEXAS JIM ROBERTSON: Answer To A Rainbow At Midnight/
Bite Your Tongue And Say You're Sorry/ Climbin' Up The Golden Stairs/
Daddy When Is Mommy Coming Home/ Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse Tonight/ Gotta
Git A Gittar/ Hobo Bill's Last Ride/ I Want No More Of Army Life/ I'll
Walk This Weary Road Alone/ I'm Back To Where I Started/ It Hurts To See
You With Somebody Else/ Life Gits Tee-Jus, Don't It/ Low In The Lehigh
Valley/ Night Herding Song/ One Kind Word/ Put Your Arms Around Me/ Sam
Bass/ Saving Up Coupons (To Get One Of Those)/ Taffy/ The Zebra Dunn/ Why
Don't You Marry The Girl/ Yellow Rose Of Texas/ Yesterday's Kisses/ You'll
Never Be Blue In A Blue Uniform/ Your Sweetheart Waits For You Jack
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| FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH |
B.A.C.M. 215 |
Give Me Old Time Music |
● CD $13.98 |
24 tracks, highly recommended
Terrific collection of sides by this superb and extremely influential
fiddler and singer whose style and repertoire have have been much covered.
The first 17 tracks are from commercial recordings made between 1935 and
1940 and find him in the company of musicians like The Delmore Brothers,
Howdy Forrester, Billy Byrd, Clyde Moody and others on a selection of
songs and tunes including Spring Street Waltz/ There's More Pretty
Girls Than One (and it's answer song)// Beautiful Memories/ Give Me
Old Time Music (a secular reworking of Give Me That Old Time
Religion)/ Smith's Waltz/ Hen Pecked Husband Blues/ That's The Love
I Have For You and others. The remaining seven sides are from 1946
MacGregor radio transcriptions featuring Arthur accompanied by Jimmy
Wakely and his band (he appeared frequently on Wakeley's shows and
performed in many of Wakely's western movies) and includes Orange
Blossom Special/ It's Hard To Please Your Mind/ Beautiful Brown Eyes,
etc. For more by this great and important performer be sure to check out
County 3526 ("Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners" - $15.98)
(FS)
FIDDLIN' ARTHUR SMITH: Across The Blue Ridge Mountains/
Answer To There's More Pretty Girls Than One/ Beautiful Memories/
Beautiful, Beautiful Brown Eyes/ Farmer's Daughter/ Give Me Old Time
Music/ Hen Pecked Husband Blues/ Her Little Brown Hand/ I Miss You Since
You've Been Gone/ I Wish I'd Never Learned To Love You/ I'm Lonesome I
Guess/ It's A Weary World/ It's Hard To Please Your Mind/ Love Letters/
Orange Blossom Special/ Smith's Breakdown/ Smith's Waltz/ Spring Street
Waltz/ Sweet Heaven/ That's The Love I Have For You/ The Crazy Blues/
There's More Pretty Girls Than One/ Walking In My Sleep/ Why Should I
Wonder
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| HANK SNOW |
Bear Family BCD 16813 |
Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - The
Goldrush Is Over |
● CD $21.98 |
Another volume in Bear Family's great "Gonna Shake This
Shack Tonight" features 30 up-tempo tracks recorded between 1945 and 1962
by one of RCA's most prolific performers.
HANK SNOW: (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I/ Ben
Dewberry's Final Run/ Blue Ranger/ Can't Have You Blues/ Confused With The
Blues/ Conscience I'm Guilty/ Dog Bone/ Don't Hang Around Me Anymore/
Golden Rocket/ Goldrush Is Over/ Honeymoon On A Rocketship/ Hula Rock/ I
Don't Hurt Anymore/ I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail/ I'm Movin' On/
I've Been Everywhere/ Lady's Man/ Loose Talk/ Miller's Cave/ Music Makin'
Mama From Memphis/ New Blue Velvet Band/ On A Tennessee Saturday Night/
One More Ride/ Reindeer Boogie/ Rhumba Boogie/ Southern Cannonball/ Squid
Jiggin' Ground/ Tangled Mind/ Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart/ Wreck Of The
Old 97
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| HANK SNOW |
Jasmine 3556 |
Plays Guitar |
● CD $11.98 |
Deleted a few years and now reissued by popular demand. A
26 track collection focusing on Hank's fine acoustic guitar picking. 12 of
the tracks are all instrumental while the rest are vocals with prominent
guitar breaks. Includes Hilo March/ Birth Of The Blues/ Over The Waves/
I Was Sorta Wonderin'/ Caribbean/ Among My Souvenirs/ Golden River/
Tangled Mind/ Texas Plains, etc.
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| RALPH STANLEY |
Rebel 7517 |
Mountain Preacher's Child |
● CD $9.98 |
14 tracks, highly recommended
A budget priced collection featuring 14 gospel bluegrass tracks drawn from
albums recorded for Rebel by Ralph & The Clinch Mountain Boys between 1975
and 1985. Ralph and his group recorded some of the finest ever bluegrass
gospel as this superb collection shows. The earliest cut here Looking
For The Stone from 1975 features him with Keith Whitley on lead vocals
while the remainder feature leads by Charlie Sizemore who also provides
rhythm guitar along with Junior Blankenship/ guitar, Curly Ray Cline/
fiddle and Jack Cooke/ bass. Four tracks feature spine chilling acapella
vocals including the title song. If you don't have any of Ralph's great
bluegrass gospel recordings, this is as good a place as any to start. (FS)
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| HANK THOMPSON |
Bear Family BCD 16803 |
Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - A Six
Pack To Go |
● CD $21.98 |
33 of Hank's hottest honky tonkers from Capitol, including
Rockin' In The Congo! Seven songs from his greatest LP, "Songs For
Rounders!" Sidemen include hot shot country guitar country legends like
Merle Travis and Joe Maphis. Hank's hits created the honky-tonk/western
swing hybrid George Strait later rode to fame. Tracks include: How Cold
Hearted Can You Get/ John Henry/ No Help Wanted/ If Lovin' You Is Wrong/
This Train/ The New Green Light/ Red Skin Girl/ Don't Flirt With Me/ Whoa
Sailor/ The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder and lots more.
HANK THOMPSON: A Fooler, A Faker/ A Six Pack To Go/
Cryin' In The Deep Blue Sea/ Deep Elem/ Don't Flirt With Me/ Drivin' Nails
In My Coffin/ Drunkard's Blues (Bonus Track)/ Dry Bread/ How Cold Hearted
Can You Get/ How Many Teardrops Will It Take/ I Cast A Lonesome Shadow/ I
Left My Gal In The Mountains/ I Wasn't Even In The Running/ I'll Be A
Bachelor Till I Die/ If I'm Not Too Late/ If Lovin' You Is Wrong/ It's Got
To Be A Habit/ John Henry/ Klishama Klingo/ Lost John/ Nine Pound Hammer/
No Help Wanted/ Red Skin Girl/ Rockin' In The Congo/ Rovin' Gambler/
Shot-Gun Boogie/ The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder/ The New Green Light/
This Train/ Three Times Seven/ Too In Love/ Whoa Sailor/ You Nearly Lose
Your Mind
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Acrobat 3027 |
The Greatest Country Hits Of 1956 |
● CD $13.98 |
2 CDs, 51 tracks, 128 mins, highly recommended
1956 would prove to be a big break-out year for Elvis Presley on all the
charts and Johnny Cash and George Jones on the Country charts. Fittingly,
all three are represented here with multiple tracks, as are Country
mainstays Webb Pierce, Jim Reeves, Ray Price and Faron Young who also make
multiple appearances. Looking at this compilation, you are led to think
that only about a dozen artists monopolized the Country charts in 56.
Among the fine selections on this by less dominate forces that year are
The Louvin Brothers doing Hoping That Youre Hoping, Poor Mans
Riches by Benny Barnes, Don Gibson's version of Sweet Dreams
and the surprisingly rockin Hank Snow trying to keep up with the
youngsters with Hula Rock. So essentially you are getting the
contents of a country diners jukebox circa 1956 in these two little CDs,
fantastic. (JM)
BENNY BARNES: Poor Man's Riches/ THE BROWNS: I Take the
Chance/ JOHNNY CASH: Folsom Prison Blues/ Get Rhythm/ I Walk the Line/ So
Doggone Lonesome/ DON GIBSON: Sweet Dreams/ JOHNNY HORTON: I'm a One Woman
Man/ GEORGE JONES: Gonna Come Get You/ Just One More/ What Am I Worth/ You
Gotta Be My Baby/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Hoping That You're Hoping/ CARL
PERKINS: Blue Suede Shoes/ Boppin the Blues/ WEBB PIERCE: Any Old Time/
Cause I Love You/ Little Rosa/ Why Baby Why/ Yes I Know Why/ ELVIS
PRESLEY: Any Way You Want Me That's How I'll Be/ Don't Be Cruel/
Heartbreak Hotel/ Hound Dog/ I Want You I Need You I Love You/ I Was the
One/ Love Me Tender/ My Baby Left Me/ RAY PRICE: Crazy Arms/ I've Got a
New Heartache/ Run Boy/ Wasted Words/ You Done Me Wrong/ JIM REEVES:
According To My Heart/ My Lips Are Sealed/ MARTY ROBBINS: I Can't Quit
(I've Gone Too Far)/ Singing the Blues/ CARL SMITH: Doorstep To Heaven/
You Are the One/ HANK SNOW: Conscience I'm Guilty/ Hula Rock/ Stolen
Moments/ These Hands/ HANK THOMPSON: The Blackboard Of My Heart/ PORTER
WAGONER: What Would You Do (If Jesus Came To Your House)/ KITTY WELLS:
Repenting/ Searching (For Someone Like You)/ You And Me/ FARON YOUNG: I've
Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night/ Sweet Dreams/ You're Still Mine
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
B.A.C.M. 221 |
South Of The Border |
● CD $13.98 |
25 country songs from the late 30s to mid 50s with a
Mexican flavor including El Rancho Del Rio
by Jim Reeves, Border Town Fiesta by Buddy Walker, Panamama
by hank Snow, I Want To Go To Mexico by Bob Wills & His Texas
Playboys, Celito Lindo Huasteco by Los Rancheros, Son Of Mexico
Joe by mary Joe Chelette, Goodbye To Old Mexico by Dwight
Butcher & His Prairie Ramblers, La Paloma by Roy Smeck & The Island
Quartet, Mexico Skies by Zeke Clements and more.
REX ALLEN: Ridin' Down To Mexico/ PANCHO BAIRD: Lady Of
Spain/ JOHNNY BOND: Sunset Trail From Mexico/ CAROLYN BRADSHAW: Marriage
Of Mexican Joe/ RUSS BROWN: We Met In Old Mexico/ LARRY BRYANT: Drinking
Tequila & Mexican Beer/ DWIGHT BUTCHER: Goodbye To Old Mexico/ MARY JO
CHELETTE: Son Of Mexican Joe/ ZEKE CLEMENTS: Mexico Skies/ THE COPPER
KINGS: At The Fiesta/ T. TOMMY CUTRER: Mexico Gal/ WADE HOLMES: Rose Of
Mexico/ EDDY HOWARD: In My Adobe Hacienda/ JOE MAIZE: El Rancho Grande/ ED
MCNEELY: Mexican Joe/ MIGUEL ACEVES MEJIA: Penas Del Alma/ LOS RANCHEROS:
Cielito Lindo Huasteco/ JIM REEVES: El Rancho Del Rio/ THE SHELTON
BROTHERS: Aye Aye On Mexico's Beautiful Shores/ SHORTY, SUE & SALLY: A Gay
Ranchero/ ROY SMECK: La Paloma/ HANK SNOW: Panamama/ HARRY TORRANI:
Mexican Yodel/ BUDDY WALKER: Border Town Fiesta/ BOB WILLS: I Want To Go
To Mexico
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Cattle 332 |
The Golden Age Of Country Music, 1939-1956 |
● CD $18.98 |
25 track collection including 12 by the distinctive singer
and guitarist Johnny Barfield plus Pappy "Gube" Beaver, Texas Ruby and
Eddy Akridge.
EDDY AKRIDGE: Consolation Prize/ Handcuff Our Hearts/
The Higher You Fly The Harder You Fall/ What Can I Do/ JOHNNY BARFIELD:
Ain't I Right/ Berry Pickin' Time/ Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby/ I
Can't Help It, I Still Love You/ It Ain't No Good/ It's All Over Now, I'm
Glad We're Through/ Long Tongue Woman/ My Poodle Doodle Dog/ Numbers
Blues/ Please Pull Down Your Curtain/ Pretty Little Naponee/ That Little
Shirt My Mother Made For Me/ PAPPY "GUBE" BEAVER: As Long As I Live/
Automobile Of Life/ Cruel Hearted Girl/ I'm Dying A Sinner's Death/
Somebody Said/ The Great Judgment Day/ The Straight And Narrow Way/ You
Can Be A Millionaire With Me/ TEXAS RUBY: Have I Waited Too Long To Regret
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 2879 |
Boogie Woogie Tennessee - Nashville Volume
1 |
● CD $16.98 |
First of two volumes devoted to hillbilly boogie and
boppin' country recorded in Tennessee in the late 40s and early/mid 50s -
most of it making its first appearance on CD. This disc has 31 tracks -
Dick Stratton & The Nite Owls, Andy Wilson, Buddy Allen & The Nite Owls,
The Vaughn Brothers, Smiley Wilson With Band and others. Superb
sound and 16 page booklet has extensive notes, artists photos and label
shots.
BUDDY ALLEN & THE NITE OWLS: Shine, Shave, Shower/
LITTLE JOE ARWOOD(BOB WOODS): Greasy Corner Boogie/ Wooden Leg Boogie/ LEE
BOND WITH BAND: How About A Date/ Okee-Fen-O-Kee/ HELEN CARTER WITH BAND:
There’s A Right Way, A Wrong Way/ ALLEN FLATT & HIS BAND: Cheat Cheat
Cheatin’/ I’m Moving On/ BILLY HARDISON & TENNESSEE RAMBLERS: Boogie Beat
Rag/ BOB HARMON: Bob’s Boogie/ Boogie Woogie Jubilee/ Bye Bye Blues
Boogie/ RANDY HUGHES & HIS BAND: It’ll Feel So Good/ Tattoed Lady/ BIG
JEFF & HIS RADIO PLAYBOYS: I’m In Love/ Move On Baby/ RICKY RIDDLE & HIS
BAND: Boogie Woogie Tennessee/ Cold Icy Feet/ I’m So Lonesome/ DICK
STRATTON & THE NITE OWLS: I Wouldn’t Have You On A Christmas Tree/ If You
Want My Lovin’/ Love Love Love/ Poison Love/ Somebody Robbed My Beehive/
GEORGE TOON & TENNESSEE RAMBLERS: Mean Old Boogie/ GABE TUCKER & HIS
MUSICAL RAMBLERS: You’d Better Do Better Baby/ THE VAUGHN BROTHERS: Was It
Worth It In The End/ BOB WILLIAMS & BAND: Hot Rod Race/ ANDY WILSON:
Hillbilly Boogie/ Lonesome For My baby/ SMILEY WILSON WITH BAND: Barnyard
Blues
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 2880 |
Mason Dixie Boogie - Nashville Volume 1 |
● CD $16.98 |
Another 31 fine sides.
BIG JEFF & THE RADIO PLAYBOYS: After We Are Through/ LEE
BOND WITH BAND: For Sale,One Broken Heart/ You’ve Been Cryin’,Sweetheart/
CUZZIN(DAN MCNEW)CLEM & WILLIAM MOORE: Love Or Indigestion/ DON DAVIS &
THE NITE OWLS: If You Did Half As Much Flirtin’/ BOB EATON & HIS LONE STAR
BOYS: My Dreamboat Struck A Snag/ DINK EMBRY & THE KENTUCKY LADS: Mason
Dixon Boogie/ ROY HALL WITH RHYTHM: Back Up And Push/ John Henry/ RANDY
HUGHES: If I Loved A Liar,I’d Hug Your Neck/ I’d Rather Be A Rooster/
Sweetly,Neatly And So Completely/ When Elephants Start To Roost In Trees/
Roll On Freight Train/ JAM-UP & HONEY: Holdin’ The Sack/ BOB JENNINGS: My
Little Blue Eyes/ CHICKIE KING & HER HARVESTERS: Love-You,Love-You,Love-You/
REECE SHIPLEY: Middle Age Spread/ JIMMY SIMPSON: Sittin’On The Doorstep/
LONNIE SMITH: Gal’s Below The Mason Dixon Line/ You’re My Honky Tonk
Angel/ ROY SNEED & WILLIAM MOORE: Chattanooga Stomp/ DICK STRATTON & THE
NITE OWLS: I Ain’t Cryin Over You/ Sugar Coated Love/ GABE TUCKER & HIS
MUSICAL RAMBLERS: Cracker Barrell Farmer/ It’d Surprise You/ THE VAUGHN
BROTHERS: I’ve Gone And Done It Again/ BOB WILLIAMS & HIS BAND: Our Last
Goodby/ BOB WILLIAMS & THE NITE OWLS: So Don’t You Weep/ ANDY WILSON: How
Can I Ever Lose Something/ DEL WOOD WITH RHYTHM PLEASE: Don’t Talk About
Me
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Collector 4518 |
Rockin' With A Boppin' Feel |
● CD $16.98 |
30 tracks, highly recommended
Although this is in Collector's 4500 series this is actually a collection
of uptempo country from the 50s and early 60s - most of it new to CD. Not
country boogie but fine raw down home country from some extremely obscure
but very good artists. Includes Johnny Shack & Polly Polson, Johnny Price
(vocally like Johnny Cash but with a fine acoustic/ bluegrass flavor), Arv
Jenkins,The Country Four, The Walder Brothers
(their Hard Working Dairy Farmer is a real gem), Artie Davis, Sam
Barrett & The Sooner State Playboys and more. Excellent sound and booklet
full of label shots. (FS)
DALE ALLEN & THE REBEL ROUSERS: On The Spot/ L.C. ANGEL
& COYE FARMER & THE BLUE MOUNTAIN: Walking Out/ SAM BARRETT & THE SOONER
STATE PLAYBOYS: This Same Old Heart/ DONALD BEAL & CAROLINA WRANGLERS:
That’s What’s Making You Cry/ LEE BELL: Beatin’out The Boogie/ THE COUNTRY
FOUR: Guitar Jump/ ARTIE DAVIS: Hawaiian Boogie/ JOHNNY DECHAINE & CARA
SISTERS & THE WONDERS: Come On Home/ ERNIE ELLIOTT: Lonesome Over You/
MELVIN EPPERSON: The Blue-Eyed Baby Of Mine/ GENE & ROBBIN: The Angels Are
Crying/ J.D. JARVIS: I Know My Lord/ ARV JENKINS: Runnin’ Wild/ KOONIE
KERRY & THE KUT UPS: Listen To The Gossip/ LEE KYLE: Jealous Woman/ CURTIS
LAMAR: Mean Eye Cat/ BILL MUNDY: Whirlwind/ BILLY NIX: My Baby’s Coming
Home/ JOHNNY PRICE: Delta Queen/ GIL RICHMOND & EARL KING: Doing Things/
JIMMY ROBB & THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Gotta Shake A Leg/ TOMMY SCOTT:
Everybody ‘s Going To The Medicine Show/ JOHNNY SHACK & POLLY POLSON: When
He Comes Home From Alaska/ LOUIS & AUDREY STAMEY: War Dance/ JIMMY STEVENS
& THE HIGHLIGHTS COMBO: Alone With You/ THE STRINGMATES: When The Sun Goes
Down/ JACK TOOMBS: Pin Ball Fever/ RALPH VIAR: When The Money Runs Out/
THE WALDEN BROTHERS WITH FRANK-CHARLIE-JACK: Hard Working Dairy Farmer/
BILLY WILSON & THE COUNTRY BOYS: Thou Shalt Not
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Jasmine 3586 |
Old Faithful: Songs From The Saddle |
● CD $11.98 |
27 track collection featuring songs about cowboys and
their horses featuring artists from the USA, Canada and Australia. It
includes the famous rodeo trilogy Aristocrat/ Rocky Ned and
Mandrake by real life rodeo man from Australia Tex Morton. Also
includes sides by Wilf Carter, Buddy Williams, Roy Rogers, Hank
Snow, Gene Autry,The Tumbleweeds,Rex Allen Sr. and others.
REX ALLEN SR: Albino, Pink Eyed Stallion/ Old Faithful/
BOB ATCHER: Strawberry Roan/ GENE AUTRY: Take Me Back To My Boots And
Saddle/ OMAR BLONDAHL (SAGEBRUSH SAM): Concerning Charlie Horse/
Concerning The Return Of Charlie Horse/ ELTON BRITT: Give Me A Pinto Pal/
WILF CARTER (MONTANA SLIM): Fate Of Old Strawberry Roan/ It’s Great To Be
Back In The Saddle/ SMOKY DAWSON (THE COWBOY FOLK SINGER): Smoky That Wild
Stallion/ THE HILLBILLIES: Yip Neddy/ JUNE HOLMS (THE YODELLING COWGIRL):
My Pinto Pony & I/ TIM MCNAMARA (THE COWBOY TROUBADOUR): Snowy River
Riders/ TEX MORTON (THE YODELLING BOUNDARY RIDER): Aristocrat/ Mandrake/
Old Boko And Me/ Rocky Ned (The Outlaw)/ TEXAS JIM ROBERTSON: My Pony’s
Hair Turned Grey/ CARSON ROBISON: There’s A Bridle Hanging On The Wall/
ROY ROGERS: A Cowboy Needs A Horse/ Rock Me To Sleep In My Saddle/ HANK
SNOW (AS HANK, THE SINGING RANGER): Ridin’ Along Singing A Song/ THE SONS
OF THE PIONEERS: Riders In The Sky/ THE TUMBLEWEEDS: The Bushman’s Rodeo/
BUDDY WILLIAMS (THE YODELLING JACKAROO): I’d Rather Have A Pony Than A
Girl/ Music In My Pony’s Feet/ LES WILSON: Old Faithful And I
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Jin 9082 |
Swamp Gold Country, Volume 1 |
● CD $15.98 |
20 tracks, highly recommended
Terrific collection of Louisiana country music - mostly recorded for Floyd
Soileau's Jin and Swallow labels between 1959 and 2002. This is not slick,
over-arranged Nashville country but funky, stripped down music, sometimes
with a strong Cajun flavor. Among the highlights are two wonderful tracks
by Swamp Pop giant Johnnie Allan sung in English and Cajun French
including his 1980 regional hit version of The Stanley Brothers Could
You Love Me One More Time. There are three tracks from 1980 by the
brilliant and underrated honky tonk singer Norman Wade including a tribute
to his biggest influence in the terrific Hank Williams Blues. Other
artists includes Johnny Webb, the great Cajun performer Adam Hebert, Tommy
Warren, Don Rich, Moe-D with Terry Beard (an out and out Merle Haggard
imitator), Vin Bruce, Jim Olivier and others. A few of the tracks are
bland but most of this is high qaulity soulful stuff. (FS)
JOHNNIE ALLAN: Could You Love Me One More Time/ Let’s Go
Get Drunk/ YOUNGER BAND: Our Last Dance/ ROD BERNARD: Teach Me to Forget/
DEWAYNE BOWMAN: We’re Drinking on Leroy/ VIN BRUCE: Secret Meeting Place/
ADAM HEBERT: Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone/ POPE HUVAL: Mansion on the Hill/
MOE-D: Bottom of the Glass/ Daddy I Still Love You/ I Dreamed of Momma/
JIM OLIVIER: I Love My Saturday Night/ DON RICH: Back in His Arms Again/
AL TERRY: Roughneck Blues/ NORMAN WADE: Baby Sister/ Close Every Honky
Tonk in Town/ Hank Williams Blues/ TOMMY WARREN: Offshore Blues/ JOHNNY
WEBB: Cry, Cry, Cry/ Hopeless Love Affair
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Time Life 19493 |
Classic Bluegrass Collection |
● CD $39.98 |
3 CDs, 60 tracks, 2 hours 55 min., recommended
A nice overview of the development of bluegrass, beginning,
unsurprisingly, with Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys' 1948 recording
of It's Mighty Dark To Travel for Columbia Records and ending
(chronologically at least) with cuts recorded in 2001 by Rhonda Vincent,
Ricky Skaggs, and Patty Loveless. The music is drawn from the Columbia,
King, RCA, Starday, Capitol, Epic, United Artists, Elektra, Decca,
Mercury, MGM, Dot, Warner Bros., Rebel, Copper Creek, Rounder, Skaggs
Family, and Sugar Hill labels, and nearly a third of the tracks are from
the bluegrass golden age of the 1950s. Not to be missed classics include
the Osborne Brothers' high lonesome Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man
(1956), Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys' landmark Blue Moon Of
Kentucky (1954), Lester Flat & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys'
oft imitated Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (1951), and much more. In
general, this collection concentrates on the big named musicians (Louvin
Brothers, Ricky Skaggs, Stanley Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Del McCoury, Alison
Krauss, Vince Gill, The Country Gentleman, Jimmy Martin, Reno & Smiley,
and such). So while there's plenty of incredible bluegrass here with
admirable sound quality, there's not much in the obscure-but-wonderful
category. Probably not a legitimate complaint, although the short running
time is (it could have easily been a 4-disc set or the 3 discs could have
together held another 30 to 40 minutes). The 24-page booklet is adequate
if uninspired. A great introduction to the musical form or a good way to
gather some of the music's finer moments. (JC)
RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Little Birdie/ THE
BLUEGRASS ALBUM BAND: Blue Ridge Cabin Home/ THE BLUEGRASS CARDINALS: Girl
At the Crossroads Bar/ BUZZ BUSBY & THE BAYOU BOYS: Me And the Juke Box/
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN: Fox On the Run/ The Legend Of the Rebel Soldier/
J.D. CROWE AND THE NEW SOUTH: Old Home Place/ THE DILLARDS: Dooley/ JERRY
DOUGLAS: I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby/ JIM EANES & THE SHENANDOAH
VALLEY BOYS: I Wouldn't Change You If I Could/ LESTER FLATT: Cabin On the
Hill/ Foggy Mountain Breakdown/ Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms/ The Ballad
Of Jed Clampett/ VINCE GILL: High Lonesome Sound/ EMMYLOU HARRIS:
Wayfaring Stranger/ JIM & JESSE & THE VIRGINIA BOYS: Better Times
A-Coming/ Nine Pound Hammer/ THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Duncan And Brady
(He's Been On the Job Too Long)/ THE KENTUCKY COLONELS: I Am a Pilgrim/
ALISON KRAUSS: I'll Fly Away/ Two Highways/ DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER:
The Little Mountain Church/ THE LONESOME PINE FIDDLERS: Windy Mountain/
THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Kentucky/ PATTY LOVELESS: The Boys Are Back In Town/
JIMMY MARTIN & THE SUNNY MOUNTAIN BOYS: Sunny Side Of the Mountain/ You
Don't Know My Mind/ DEL MCCOURY: Rain And Snow/ High On a Mountain/ BILL
MONROE & HIS BLUE-GRASS BOYS: Blue Moon Of Kentucky/ BILL MONROE & HIS
BLUE GRASS BOYS: It's Mighty Dark To Travel/ Molly & Teabrooks/ BILL
MONROE & HIS BLUE-GRASS BOYS: New Muleskinner Blues/ MOORE AND NAPIER:
Barbara Allen/ JIMMY MURPHY: Electricity/ NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: Will the
Circle Be Unbroken/ THE OSBORNE BROTHERS: Rocky Top/ Ruby, Are You Mad/
RENO: Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die/ Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy/ THE SELDOM
SCENE: (I Know You) Rider/ RICKY SKAGGS: Uncle Pen/ Shady Grove/ THE SOGGY
BOTTOM BOYS: I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow/ LARRY SPARKS & THE LONESOME
RAMBLERS: John Deere Tractor/ RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS:
Little Maggie/ O Death/ THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN B:
Angel Band/ THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE GLINCH MOUNTAIN B: How Mountain
Girls Can Love/ THE STANLEY BROTHERS & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN B: Rank
Stranger/ THE STONEMANS: Cripple Creek/ Orange Blossom Special/ CARL STORY
& HIS RAMBLIN' MOUNTAINEERS: I've Found a Hiding Place/ DON STOVER: Long
Journey Home/ JOE VAL & THE NEW ENGLAND BLUEGRASS BOYS: Sparkling Brown
Eyes/ RHONDA VINCENT: Bluegrass Express/ ERIC WEISSBERG: Dueling Banjos/
MAC WISEMAN & THE COUNTRY BOYS: 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered/ I Wonder How
the Old Folks Are At Home
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| THE WHITETOP
MOUNTAIN BAND |
Arhoolie 522 |
Bull Plus 10% |
● CD $12.98 |
19 tracks, 60 min., highly recommended
Among Virginia's Appalachian mountain peaks, Whitetop is the second
highest. The musical community living around there carries on a
traditional string band sound that goes back at least to the 1920s and
arguably a whole lot farther. The old-timey Whitetop Mountain Band
consists of leader Thornton Spencer on fiddle, his wife Emily on banjo,
their multi-instrumentalist daughter Martha, string bassist Michelle Lyle,
and guitarist Spencer Pennington. This album was recorded live at the Blue
Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, presumably in 2006. Among the high
points of this mix of traditional selections and original compositions is
the sassy Emily Spencer co-penned You Can't Tame Me and an equally
entertaining version of Walking In My Sleep. This is vital,
energetic music to dance by, to be sure, but it isn't bad for just sitting
and listening either, if you can manage to sit still, that is. (JC)
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