RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2018 .The four albums contained in this collection were released consecutively during the period 1977-1980, the productions broadened the boundaries of country music with their musicianship and song content, creating a framework in which Milsap’s vocals fitted perfectly.“It Was Almost Like A Song” (1977), was Ronnie Milsap’s eighth album for RCA and produced two No. 1 singles, the title track and ‘What A Difference You Made In My Life’. It won the CMA “Album of the Year” award.
Here we have the four albums that Tanya Tucker recorded for Columbia Records available for the first time in one package: “Delta Dawn” (1972), “What’s Your Mama’s Name” (1973), “Would You Lay With Me (In A Field Of Stone)” (1974) and “You Are So Beautiful” (1977).
Bobby Bare, and what was to become known as The Nashville Sound, go hand in hand. He was one of the most successful exponents of the sound and it opened up the doorway for his success in Nashville.
Features her two albums “The Sweetest Thing” (1976), “Tryin’ To Satisfy You” (1979) plus six bonus tracks. Includes 11 chart singles. Dottsy’s RCA recordings available for the first time on CD
Marty Robbins’ music diversity shows through in the four albums brought together for this collection, headed up with his much beloved western songs. “The Drifter” is the original 1966 release and includes ‘Mr. Shorty’, a lengthy story song that ranks among the finest of his gunfighter ballads.
So here we have Tammy’s first two solo albums from 1967 and 1968 containing two No. 1 singles ‘Take Me To Your World’ and Grammy winner ‘I Don’t Wanna Play House’. Other hit singles featured are ‘Apartment #9’ and ‘Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad’.
Includes cover versions of top country songs of the time ‘Ode To Billie Joe’, ‘There Goes My Everything’, ‘Walk Through This World With Me’, ‘Almost Persuaded’ and ‘Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind).
This collection of 40 tracks from four complete albums provides plenty of opportunity for listeners to agree that country music really doesn’t get any better than this. It contains 14 hit singles including 11 #1s and 2 #2s.
Phil’s, was the higher register voice of the legendary Everly Brothers.
These are the two solo albums that Phil Everly recorded in London for the UK’s PYE label in 1974 and 1975.
“There’s Nothing Too Good For My Baby” (Released in the US as “Phil’s Diner”) was co- produced by Phil and Terry Slater who also co- wrote nine of the eleven songs, with help on ‘It’s True’ from Warren Zevon who had worked in the backing band of the Everlys and was about to launch his own solo career.
Tammy Wynette, known as the “First Lady of Country Music”, was one of the music’s truly iconic figures. This much beloved entertainer who, during a twenty-seven year recording career saw the release of 42 studio albums and charted 73 singles.
“You And Me”, with its title track scoring a two week run at the top of the Billboard Country charts in October 1976, headed up an album featuring a diverse range of material. Willie Nelson’s ‘Little Things’ is a catch-up ‘phone conversation between a separated couple, ‘Jesus Send A Song’ equates religion with the Nashville music scene surroundings, and southern emotions live on with ‘Dixieland (You Will Never Die)’.
“Let’s Get Together” from 1977 was well- acclaimed, not least of all because several songs came close to her recordings of a few years earlier, her inimitable “sob-in-the-voice” letting the listener know about holding your man, losing your man and what to do afterwards. Among the songwriters who contributed to the collection are the Statler Brothers Don and Harold Reid (‘You Could Be Coming To Me’) and Rafe Van Hoy (‘Cheatin’ Is’) while Tammy shared credit with George Richey on ‘Loving You, I Do’.
Tom T. Hall has been dubbed The Storyteller, The Poet of Nashville and the Mark Twain of Country Music.
One thing’s for sure – Tom T. Hall is one of the all-time great songwriters, with the multi-million-selling ‘Harper Valley P.T.A.’ being his most well-known composition.
“Ol’ T’s In Town” was released in 1979 and produced three chart singles, ‘You Show Me Your Heart (And I’ll Show You Mine)’, ‘ The Old Side Of Town’ and ‘Jesus On The Radio (Daddy On The Phone)’.
“A Soldier Of Fortune” covers diverse ground with the title track, penned by Gary Sefton, finding the singer in bluegrass territory accompanied by the genre’s Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, while the only other non-original, Shel Silverstein’s wonderful ‘Me And Jimmie Rodgers’, recalls innocent days and childhood heroes. Otherwise it’s original material throughout, with the writer recounting more past times, (‘Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents A Gallon’) and characters (‘The World According To Raymond’), while ‘Texas Never Fell in Love With Me’ is a humorous contradiction of the cowboy lifestyle.
Tom T. Hall has been dubbed The Storyteller, The Poet of Nashville and the Mark Twain of Country Music.
One thing’s for sure – Tom T. Hall is one of the all-time great songwriters, with the multi-million-selling ‘Harper Valley P.T.A.’ being his most well-known composition.
“New Train – Same Rider” was released in 1978 and appears on CD for the first time. The album produced two chart singles, ‘May The Force Be With You Always’ and ‘I Wish I Loved Somebody Else’. Tom is accompanied by Bonnie and Maxine Brown of The Browns on four tracks.
“In Concert!” was recorded at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House in 1983. It features many of Tom T. Hall’s greatest hit songs, ‘Ballad of Forty Dollars’, ‘I Like Beer’ and the No. 1 hit singles ‘Country Is’, ‘I Love’, ‘The Year That Clayton Delaney Died’ and ‘Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine’.
“Saturday Morning Songs” released in 1979 is a wonderful children’s album which includes a Top 20 single ‘There Is A Miracle In You’.
George Hamilton IV was born July 19th 1937 and died September 17th 2014. His two most popular and best-selling albums coupled together for the first time on one CD.
This CD contains the two albums Ramblin' Jack recorded for Warner/Reprise in 1968 and 1970 and includes songs by Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Kris Kristofferson, Jagger and Richards, Johnny Cash and, of course, Woody Guthrie. Elliott
Two great albums from arguably the greatest honky tonk singer. With his distinctive vibrato voice no-one sang drinking and cheating songs better than Gary Stewart.
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