Recommend 50's/60's Country Studio Albums

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:43 pm

billy g Wrote:

Finch Platte Wrote:

Billy, do you know about Oxford American magazine? This year we introduce our new SOUTHERN STATE SERIES OF CDs, kicking off with, naturally, the Natural State (aka Arkansas). This means that one of the two CDs you receive will focus on music from Arkansas. Says Editor Marc Smirnoff: “We are going to mess with people’s preconceptions about what Arkansas music means. It means the same thing that Southern music means: everything: the old, the new, the fresh, the forgotten, etc.” Sounds like something you'd like. If you want to hear them (the two discs), let me know.

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/ ... sic-issue/

Sounds interesting Finch. Thanks for the heads up. I've never read that mag but it looks like a more southern focused version of Stop Smiling and I really like Stop Smiling although I suspect they may have stopped publishing because I haven't seen a new issue in a long time.

Great magazine - their music issue usually some obscure shit you'd never see elsewhere.

bort · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:19 pm

Merle Travis - Songs of the Coal Mines

Travis recorded this concept album over a period of three days in March 1963, consisting of 12 originals dealing with the lives of coal miners, a subject that Travis knew well, as the only male member of his family to have escaped a livelihood earned underground. The material consists of folk and blues ("Pay Day Comes Too Slow" is one of the best pieces of white blues you'll ever hear, regardless of how many Eric Clapton albums you may own already), all very vivid in its textures and sensibilities, and it's a crying shame that the album never made the charts, as this was obviously a project very close to Travis' heart. The cover is also something of a classic, though it hardly emphasized this as a Travis album, consisting of drawings that might've come out of any miner's family album.

interestingly enough I can't find a pic of the cover.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:41 pm

bort Wrote:

Merle Travis - Songs of the Coal Mines

Travis recorded this concept album over a period of three days in March 1963, consisting of 12 originals dealing with the lives of coal miners, a subject that Travis knew well, as the only male member of his family to have escaped a livelihood earned underground. The material consists of folk and blues ("Pay Day Comes Too Slow" is one of the best pieces of white blues you'll ever hear, regardless of how many Eric Clapton albums you may own already), all very vivid in its textures and sensibilities, and it's a crying shame that the album never made the charts, as this was obviously a project very close to Travis' heart. The cover is also something of a classic, though it hardly emphasized this as a Travis album, consisting of drawings that might've come out of any miner's family album.

interestingly enough I can't find a pic of the cover.

Is it in print? I only know of Merle Travis comps in print.

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:29 pm

ANY Travis you can scare up is pure gold.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:52 pm

billy g Wrote:

Such a fucking fantastic cover.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:08 am

Yail Bloor Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

Such a fucking fantastic cover.

Not sure what is better - the cinder block house, the dude on the couch's hair part, or the look on Merle's face that tells you that the next frame would look like a scene out of Hannibal Lecter meets Peter North.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:28 am

"She saw my combover"
"Her hourglass body"

Kingfish · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:38 am

Doesn't fit the criteria of this thread but check out these comps from Bear Family Records:

Quote:

After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most luxuriously packaged single CDs we've ever done! The history of country music told year-by-year from 1945-1970. The first six volumes are complete, 1945-1950. The hits! The classic performances! The truly influential recordings! Painstakingly restored sound! The series is compiled an annotated by Grammy winning Colin Escott. The country series has been compiled with today's fans in mind. Yes, the big hits are there, but so are the classic performances that weren't necessarily big hits at the time, but became influential in the years ahead. Every volume has incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes stories, fabulously rare photos, and an ongoing history of country music set against the backdrop of the broader American music business. Definitive' You bet! --

Here's the tracklisting for 1948:
1. RED FOLEY - Tennessee Saturday Night Listen
2. LEON PAYNE - Lost Highway Listen
3. ROY ACUFF - Waltz Of The Wind Listen
4. THE MADDOX BROTHERS & ROSE - New Muleskinner Blues Listen
5. EDDIE HILL - Someday You'll Call My Name Listen
6. JOHNNY BOND - Bartender's Blues Listen
7. EDDY ARNOLD Anytime Listen
8. BILL MONROE - Little Cabin Home On The Hill Listen
9. COWBOY COPAS Breeze Listen
10. BILL CARLISLE - Wedding Bells Listen
11. HAWKSHAW HAWKINS - Dog House Boogie Listen
12. PEE WEE KING - Tennessee Waltz Listen
13. DOYE O'DELL - Dear Oakie Listen
14. MOON MULLICAN - Sweeter Than The Flowers Listen
15. WAYNE RANEY - Lost John Boogie Listen
16. JIMMIE SKINNER - Doin' My Time Listen
17. BILL MONROE - I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling Listen
18. STANLEY BROTHERS - Molly And Tenbrook Listen
19. HANK WILLIAMS - A Mansion On The Hill Listen
20. JIMMY WORK - Tennessee Border Listen
21. T. TEXAS TYLER - Deck Of Cards Listen
22. FLOYD TILLMAN - I Love You So Much It Hurts Listen
23. MERLE TRAVIS - Merle's Boogie Woogie Listen
24. JIMMY WAKELY - One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) Listen
25. CARSON ROBISON - Life Gits Tee-jus, Don't It? Listen
26. BOB WILLS - Bubbles In My Beer Listen
27. EDDY ARNOLD - Bouquet Of Roses Listen
28. LONZO & OSCAR - I'm My Own Grandpa Listen

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:56 am

Senator GAR in 2010! Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

billy g Wrote:

Such a fucking fantastic cover.

Not sure what is better - the cinder block house, the dude on the couch's hair part, or the look on Merle's face that tells you that the next frame would look like a scene out of Hannibal Lecter meets Peter North.

Safe to say, someone will be wearing that plastic covered lampshade here pretty quick.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

tentoze Wrote:

ANY Travis you can scare up is pure gold.

Yeah, I have this one, which is excellent, but didn't include it as it is before the time frame of the thread and (as the title suggests) more folk in nature:

bort · **Posted:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:43 am

At my local library they have Merle Travis's Walking The Strings which I like best of all, but it's technically a comp of some of his earlier songs. They have more at the library, I'll check it out soon.

Recommend 50's/60's Country Studio Albums

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