And here we are with the second volume of our hit comp series Country Goes Rock n Roll! So you thought Country Rock started with Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and Safe At Home maybe? Well, you were wrong! Number one, you never hear of ROCKABILLY? Or Country Boogie? But even that is the tip of the iceberg, by the early 1950s country boogie and rockin' jazzing stuff of all types simmered in the hills....and here the NEW BREED of 1950s country/hillbilly artistes take it all into the modern day...Stars like Wanda Jackson, Johnny Burnette, and good gosh almighty ELVIS hisself explode along with a raft of wild-youth country contenders and cult figures some of the earliest outings of the legendary Ray Campi join hit sides a go go as once more country goes Rock n Roll!

Frank "Andy" Starr - Rockin' And Reelin' Country Style / Hayden Thompson - Act Like You Love Me / Davis Sisters - Fiddle Diddle Boogie / Bobby Lord - No More, No More, No More / Billy Strange - Let Me In There Baby / Jimmy Collett - Four Alarm Boogie / Jimmy Lee - Go Ahead And Go / Johnny Horton - Tennessee Jive / The Five Strings - I Like It / Ray Campi - I Didn't Mean To Be Mean / Eddie & Chuck - Boogie The Blues / Rudy Gray - You'd Better Believe It / Buck Griffin - It Don't Make No Never Mind / Glenn Barber - Ice Water / Gene Henslee - Rockin' Baby / Lew Williams - I've Been Doin' Some Slippin' Too / Gayle Griffith - Rockin' And A-Knockin' / Goldie Hill - Say Big Boy / Wanda Jackson & Billy Gray - If You Don't Somebody Else Will / Ray Campi - Scrumptious Baby / Frank "Andy" Starr - Dig Them Squeaky Shoes / The Five Strings - Put Something In The Pot Boy / Red Smith - You Upset Me Baby / Davis Sisters - Christmas Boogie / Darrell Glenn - Don't Let Me Down / Lucky Joe Almond - Gonna Roll And Rock / Jimmy Myers - Drunk Man's Wiggle / Jimmy Ballard - She's Got Something / Ernie Chaffin - Get Me On Your Mind / Elvis Presley - You're A Heartbreaker / Carl Perkins - Honky Tonk Babe / Johnny Burnette - You're Undecided

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Long before Rock'n'Roll broke to a grateful world, things were brewing, the kind of sound that the likes of Sam Phillips and Bill Haley hankered after wasn't a fantasy, there was a continuation of their beloved Western Swing and Boogie forms right through the 1940's and 1950's. Diffuse, yes, waiting for a focus, yes, it was known as either Hillbilly Boogie or Cat Music. It was real alright, and did it rock? You better believe it!

What better way to start our series of Pre-Elvis country/R&B hybrids than with the old guard, crazy cats who had been at it for years, gleefully confusing both racial boundaries and radio programmers and influencing everything that was to become Rockabilly!

Everyone from Bill Haley to Elvis to Marc Bolan (who outrageously nicked Hayride Boogie lock stock and barrel for his ‘I Love To Boogie!’) have their roots in these songs. The true sound of White America in the 1940's and early 1950's. The rise of The Hillbilly Cat Supreme, Elvis, has overshadowed the role of these pioneers of ROCK ACTION in history - but here in spectacular sound, and beautiful packaging, it's absolute Boogie heaven!

The Carlisles - Doggie Joe / Merle Travis - I'll Have Myself a Ball / Carl Smith - Go Boy Go / Jack Rhodes & his Lone Star Buddies – Eternity / Moon Mullican - Rocket to the Moon / Tennessee Ernie - Catfish Boogie / Tennessee Drifters - Boogie Woogie Baby / Marty Robbins - That's All Right / Maddox Brothers & Rose - You Won't Believe This / Grady Martin - Long John Boogie / Eddy Arnold - Hep Cat Baby / Little Jimmy Dickens - Salty Boogie / Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys - Cadillac in Model "A" / Hawkshaw Hawkins - Waitin' For My Baby (Rock Rock / Jimmy Atkins & his Pinetoppers - Juke Joint Johnny / Tillman Franks & his Rainbow Boys - Hayride Boogie / Faron Young - If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin' / Red Foley - Pin Ball Boogie / Tex Zario - Go Man Go, Get Gone / Tommy Scott - Cat Music / Jim Gatlin - Would It Matter At All? / Wade Ray - Idaho Red / Skeets McDonald - Look Who's Cryin' Now / Malcolm Yelvington - Drinkin' Wine Spodee-O-Dee / Cliffie Stone Orchestra – Barracuda / Hardrock Gunter - Gonna Dance All Night / Harmonica Frank - Rockin' Chair Daddy / Johnny Hicks - Pick Up Blues / Jack Cardwell - Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice / Shorty Long - Who Said I Said That? / The Carlisles - Rattlesnake Daddy / Grady Martin - Pork Chop Stomp

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Here it is third volume of our mighty and acclaimed rockin' series, which will no doubt be blasting out of a radio near you soon! Yep, this time we have gone for the most rockin' sides by the cream of country music, the veritable royalty! Some of them going so wild that they had to use pseudonyms! Songs covered again and again by the country rockers of the 1970s onward. The originals by the giants of country, honkytonk, and hillbilly boogie, this album is like a dream come true.

Eddy Arnold & Jaye P Morgan - Do You Love Me? / Thumper Jones (George Jones) - Rock It / Webb Pierce - Teenage Boogie / Corky Jones (Buck Owens) - Rhythm And Booze / Marty Robbins - Pretty Mama / Ernest Tubb - Thirty Days (To Come Back Home) / Don Gibson - I Ain't A-Studyin' You, Baby / Hank Thompson - Rockin' In The Congo / David Houston - Sugar Sweet / Billy Walker - I've Got Leavin' On My Mind / Ferlin Husky - Slow Down, Brother / Freddie Hart - Snatch It And Grab It / Jerry Reed - When I Found You / Bob Wills - So Let's Rock / George Hamilton Iv - If You Don't Know / Tennessee Ernie Ford - Rock, Roll, Boogie / Brenda Lee - Bigelow 6200 / Claude King - Run Baby Run / Wanda Jackson - I Gotta Know / Patsy Cline - Stop, Look And Listen / Johnny Horton - I Don't Like I Did / Little Jimmy Dickens & The Country Boys - Country Boy Bounce (Instrumental) / Johnny & Jack - Carry On / Pee Wee King - Catty Town / Bobby Helms - Tennessee Rock 'N' Roll / Rose Maddox - Hey Little Dreamboat / Glenn Barber - Feelin' No Pain/ The Louvin Brothers - Cash On The Barrel Head / Bill Carlisle & The Carlisles - I'm Rough Stuff (Mercury 71035) / Johnny Bond - The Little Rock Roll / Moon Mullican - Honolulu Rock-A Roll-A / Jimmie Skinner - Just Ramblin' On / Hawkshaw Hawkins - It Would Be A Doggone Lie

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