Saturday, May 13, 2023

 Assorted Hillbilly & Country Recordings Vol 70

01. Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & The Dixieliners - Cumberland Waltz 
02. The Girls Of The Golden West - Home Sweet Home In Texas 
03. The Stanley Brothers - Are You Tired of Me My Darling 
04. Hank Williams - Rootie Tootie 
05. Hank Williams - Baby, We're Really In Love 
06. Johnny Cash - Old Apache Squaw 
07. Paul Howard - Drinkin' All My Troubles Away 
08. Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus 
09. Alfred G. Karnes - Called To The Foreign Field 
10. The Louvin Brothers - Dying From Home, And Lost 
11. Cowboy Copas - Blue Kimono 
12. Three Stripped Gears - Alabama Blues 
13. Eddie Noack - Squaws Along The Yukon 
14. Ramona Jones & Grandpa Jones - Sandy Land 
15. Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces 
16. Anita Carter - I Never Will Marry 
17. Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry 
18. Bobbie Gentry - Reunion 
19. Cherokee Chief - Mean And Evil Blues 
20. Red Foley - Freight Train Boogie 

9 comments:

  1. These two part vocal harmonies by the Louvin Brothers are always such a pleasure to listen to. Of course, nowadays anyone can replicate this in the studio with autotune, but great to hear the genuine article.

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    1. Seems to me there were much higher levels of musical abilities and skills back in the past. You notice it too when you see some outstanding jazz or R&B or blues album and you read it was recorded, for example, on May 9, 1958. One day. The musicians went into the studio, set up their instruments, knew what they were going to play because they had rehearsed, they played and recorded, maybe did a couple of takes if required, packed up and went home.

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  2. the crazy part about their harmony: Ira sang the High and Charlie the Low... and then like magic in the middle of a song they switched parts. Even the Experts couldn't tell who was High and who was Low. The argues and split up in '63 and Ira died in '65 hit by a drunk driver. Charlie does a nice tribute to his brother wirh the song, "Ira."

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    1. Thanks for this extra info moze, I'm a big fan of the Louvin Brothers and the Stanley Brothers but I don't know very much about their lives and history.

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    2. That's great. Thanks for that moze.

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  3. Thank you Bob, great stuff as usual.

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