AVID Country continues with its Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release featuring country legend Hank Thompson, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.
“Songs Of The Brazos Valley”; “Dance Ranch”; “Songs For Rounders” “Most Of All” and “An Old Love Affair”.
Maybe the reason Hank Thompson isn’t thought of in the same breath as that other famous country music Hank, Hank Williams, is that possibly he continued playing into his eighties long after his musical heyday in the fifties and sixties. He didn’t die young? He was, however, a huge country music star inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997. His band, The Brazos Valley Boys were the top country ‘n’ western band on Billboard for 14 years straight! Developing his style on a lighter version of Bob Wills’ western swing with more emphasis on melody and arrangements, Hank had a ton of hits in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous being “Wild Side Of Life” which spent three months at Number 1 in the charts and gave rise to a response record from Kitty Wells called “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” which sold a million records and made her the first million selling female country artist. Check her albums out on AMSC1328. Our five fine selections include two acknowledged country masterpieces in “Dance Ranch” and “Songs For Rounders” where Hank puts together well thought out albums with proper themes rather than just a collection of hit singles.
Check out:- Jim Reeves (AMSC1294); Johnny Cash (AMSC1252); Marty Robbins (AMSC1281); Patsy Cline (AMSC1313); Hank Williams (AMSC1267); Kitty Wells (AMSC1328); Chet Atkins (AMSC1335); Slim Whitman (AMSC1346); Jean Shepard (AMSC1355); Jimmie Rodgers (AMSC1362).
CD1
1-12: ‘Songs Of The Brazos Valley’
1. The Wild Side Of Life
2. Rub-A-Dub-Dub
3. Yesterday's Girl
4. When You're Lovin', You're Livin'
5. John Henry
6. I Saw My Mother's Name
7. The New Green Light
8. Simple Simon
9. The Letter Edged In Black
10. Mother, Queen Of My Heart
11. You Don't Have The Nerve
12. At The Rainbow's End
13-24: ‘Dance Ranch’
13. Beaumont Rag
14. Headin' Down The Wrong Highway
15. After All The Things I've Done
16. Woodchoppers' Ball
17. Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
18. Klishama Klingo
19. Bartenders' Polka
20. Bubbles In My Beer
21. Make Room In Your Heart
22. Summit Ridge Drive
23. I Wouldn't Miss It For The World
24. Lawdy, What A Gal
25-30: ‘Songs For Rounders’
25. Three Times Seven
26. I'll Be A Bachelor Till I Die
27. Drunkards' Blues
28. Teach 'Em How To Swim
29. Dry Bread
30. Cocaine Blues
CD2
1-6: ‘Songs For Rounders’
1. Deep Elm
2. Bummin' Around
3. Little Blossom
4. Rovin' Gambler
5. Left My Gal In The Mountains
6. May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister?
7-18: ‘Most of All’
7. Most Of All
8. The Blackboard Of My Heart
9. Tears Are Only Rain
10. Wake Up, Irene
11. Breakin' The Rules
12. Squaws Along The Yukon
13. The Green Light
14. We've Gone Too Far
15. I Was The First One
16. A Girl In The Night
17. Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart
18. Rockin' In The Congo
19-30: ‘An Old Love Affair’
19. I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair
20. It's My Fault
21. Just An Old Faded Photograph
22. Sing Me Something Sentimental
23. I'll Be Around
24. I've Convinced Everybody But Myself
25. Paying Off The Interest With My Tears
26. I'd Like To Tell You
27. I Keep Meeting Girls Like You
28. Just A Little While
29. I Gotta Have My Baby Back
30. My Old Flame
