The Fairest Of Them All / My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner
Before Dolly the Pop Icon. Before Dolly the Cultural Phenomenon. There was Dolly the most sublime songwriter and performer of her generation. The evidence is right here. “The Fairest Of Them All” is the greatest Dolly Parton album you’ve never heard, recorded over 1968 and 1969 and never reissued in any form, it is a superb recording from start to finish. From the harrow...
What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen / Sings His Own
In the early 1970s Porter Wagoner was at an artistic peak and a personal trough. With hit recordings and a popular T.V show his career was in full bloom yet dark clouds were gathering over his relationship with Dolly Parton and his private life. Presented here for the very first time on CD are Porter’s two greatest LPs from this era, both full of stark autobiographical momen...
Rocks And Gravel
Welcome to the husky, devil-may-care world of Frankie Laine. A place where hammers strike rocks, bullets find vengeance and the sweat of the working man and the embrace of the great outdoors are lauded above all.
Born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, ‘Frankie’ inherited all the gusto and big-chested burl of his Italian antecedents and would go on to sell over 100 mill...
The Dark Side Of Fame
Conventional wisdom holds that in the era of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s Waylon Jennings was a tethered beast, shackled in the straightjacket of the Nashville Machine’s conformity. But we beg to differ. Indulge us for a moment and really listen to the brooding, blistering sides collected here. Witness the barely controlled menace of Don’t Play The Game, the sublime qu...
Troubled Troubadours
Lust, murder, alienation, war, depravity and credit cards.
Troubled times demand troubled troubadours. And here they are. 27 tales of misfortune, desperation, woe and just plain high weirdness, delivered by a stellar cast of country music luminaries. First up, Marty Robbins sits us in The Chair, the grizzly, bathetic final resting place of a man about to be elect...
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