VA- Golden Moments of Country and Western Music

I know I paid half price for this double set from Capitol Record. Not sure what year. I paid $2 for this.

Really decent comp. Here is Jean Shepard with “Loose Talk” , Hank Thompson with “Shot Gun Boogie”, and Sonny James with ” For Rent”.

Loose Talk
Shot Gun Boogie
For Rent

VA- Country Spectacular!

We are winding down the blog this week and poor computer performance from either HP or Microsoft is keeping us from going out with a bang. Hey Bill Gates. Why don’t you take all that money you are giving away and make Windows better? That would benefit the whole world. Regardless, I bought this due to the songs and subjects for $3 during the Half off closing sale at the Rice Half Price Books.

1968, Mercury Records. Many stars, Here is Pete Drake with “Forever”, Anita Carter with “Ring of Fire”, and blog favorite Faron Young with” Unmitigated Gall”. That is a big word for a country song.

Forever
Ring of Fire
Unmitigated Gall

Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty- Feelin’s

This is the last week of this blog. I will try to provide a little more introspect later in the week but not on Monday. Here is a record from 1975/ MCA records. $1 made this a steal.

What can I say? Also, probably not goign to concern myself with correct spelling at this point. Here is “Dyn-O-Mite”.

Dyn-O-Mite

VA- Great Country Stars Singing Thier Biggest Hits

I bought this 4 record set from Tampa Records in 1973 in Amsterdam some time ago for about 3 euro. Since it was a four record set, I was pretty hesitant to post as it was an investment in listening.

Well, no holds barred for the end of the blog. Overall, good record as there is a lot to choose from on here. For samples, here is Wanda Jackson with ” D-I-V-O-R-C-E”, Freddie Hart with “My Hang Up Is You” , and Buddy Alan with ” Santo Domingo”.


D-I-V-O-R-C-E
My Hang Up Is You
Santo Domingo

VA- Greatest Country Hits of the 1980’s- 1984

Here is a country compilation from CBS in 1989 which appears to be part of a set. I paid $6 .

I imagine I bought this for the Willie Nelson cover of “The City of New Orleans” which oddly enough seems to speak of my life right now . However, I did not like this version much. He has one that is much better. Plus, well, you will see tomorrow. Here is Mickey Gilley with “You Really Got A Hold On Me”.

You Really Got A Hold On Me

Hank Snow- Old Doc Brown

Hank Snow has been a blog favorite of mine and I have had many if his albums on here. Luckily enough, I had this one from 1956 / RCA Victor, I paid $3 for this , which is mostly focused on spoken word/ narrative songs. This version is distributed by Longhorn/ Stetson in the UK. Borrowing the Maple Leaf Pub’s Wi-Fi to finish this month up. Finishing this month also effectively finishes this blog and I am somewhat surprised that during this 8 year run, I never changed the design of the site. for shame.

Good album. Two of the songs are in the Woody Guthrie talking blues style. I picked “That Pioneer Mother of Mine” because of all the songs, it had the most actual singing on it.

That Pioneer Mother Of Mine

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band- Will The Circle Be Unbroken

I bought this copy for $5 , unsure exactly what this was. Then I received a copy from the estate of the late Fred Turton. I ended up giving that copy to a friend of mine’s children, the parent being good friends of Fred, thus leaving me with the satisfactory feeling of letting Fred’s memory live on.

This 1971 record from United Artists, was the seventh album from country rock group Nitty Gritty Dirt band and takes a hard turn into Bluegrass. Many, many guests on here including Mother Maybelle Carter, Roy Acuff, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Earl and Randy Scruggs, and Vasser Clements among others. A three record set ( which pained me slight to listen to this month) with many, many inserts as seen above and below.

Decent enough record. For a sample, here is “Grand Ole Opry Song” as well as the instrumental ” Nashville Blues” with Earl Scruggs on lead banjo.

Grand Ole Opry Song
Nashville Blues

Patsy Cline- Her Legendary Recordings Album 2

Well, as I am back at the good old Maple Leaf Bar ( 17 years in business) stealing their internet, I am trying to blow thru what is the end of this blog. I paid $ 1 for this Suffolk Marketing as seen on TV record from 1986. Price and track list aided this purchase.

Pretty much a collection of hits. It is a two album set but I only recieve3d one record, Apparently record 1 has the bigger songs, but record 2 ( which I received) is no slouch. Here is “Crazy Arms”.

Crazy Arms

VA-Country Gold

Here is another double record country compilation. I paid $1 for this. Probably got it because it was cheap. Going to try to tackle this post and then start on the rest of the blog tomorrow. RCA Records and 1977.

Unlike yesterday’s record, this double set has songs more associated with the artists who sing them. But from Gary Stewart to the singing cowboy himself, Jimmie Rodgers, this set is a very good collection of various time periods of country. Lot of things on here that I like and a lot that have been on this blog from another record set or so. I am cutting the number of samples in half and only using 3 today. Here is Minnie Pearl with “How to Catch A Man”, The Browns with “Three Bells”, and since I read Dylan’s latest book, we have Bobby Bare with “Detroit City”.

How To Catch A Man
The Bells
Detroit City

VA- Tele House Inc Presents- Country Style Vol 1 & 2

So typically in March, we feature Irish and country records. Irish for ST Patrick’s Day and Country for my birthday. Well, as this is the last month of the show, although we deviate here and there, we are tying to keep true to our roots. Also, I had a ton of country compilations I wanted to listen to before I killed this. Kind of put a burden on me as there were a lot of multi-record albums I had to listen to this month. But ( in a sense of foreshadowing), Time is on my side and I was able to get this month done from a listening perspective. Writing this month is the last great barrier and I am slowly getting started on that. I am not sure if I realized this was a two record set when I bought it for $2. Looking at either album’s playlist, this was a steal.

From RCA Special Projects, and from what I am assuming was a Television promotion/ compilation. 1973 seems to be the year of this. Really , really good album with a lot of good stars/songs on here. I think the thing I really liked was a lot of the songs were ones not made famous by artist singing them on the album. How so? Well, here is the sample list for this. From Skeeter Davis, we have ” Both Sides Now”, Porter Wagoner with “Green, Green Grass of Home”, Jerry Reed with ” Last Train to Clarksville”, Norma Jean with “Let’s Go All The Way”, Connie Smith with “Seattle” and finally, Liz Anderson with ” Ode to Billie Joe”. I know it seems like I did a poor job of picking samples with 6 but these folks and songs are really favorites of the blog and have been on here quite a bit. I felt fitting to overload here in the last month.

Both Sides Now
Green Green Grass of Home
Last Train to Clarksville
Let’s Go All The Way
Seattle
Ode to Billie Joe