Country Playlist

Since my weekly soundtrack posts only reflect full-length albums I've listened to, the amount of country music I've been listening to for the last few months has been invisible among all my stat keeping. The truth is I received from a friend the equivalent of three or four box sets worth of country music spanning, more or less, the 1920s–80s. I've thus been immersing myself in a country music education, though I've only scratched the surface of all those songs. Here are fifteen songs that have so far jumped out and grabbed me.

• Bob Willis & His Texas Playboys: Stay a Little Longer (1947)
• Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys: Slow Poke (1951)
• Jimmy Martin: 20/20 Vision (1954)
• Gene Pitney: (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance (1962)
• Jimmy Wakely:  One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) (1948)
• Marty Robbins: El Paso (1959)
• Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters: Pistol Packin' Mama (1943)
• The Blue Sky Boys: Down on the Banks of the Ohio (1936)
• The Carter Family: Worried Man Blues (1930)
• Floyd Tillman: I Love You So Much It Hurts (1948)
• Hank Snow: (Now and Then, There's) A Fool Such As I (1952)
• Leon Payne: I Love You Because (1949)
• Patsy Montana: I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart (1935)
• Webb Pierce: Slowly (1954)
• Chuck Wagon Gang: After the Sunrise (1940)

Comments

[Lynchie from Aberdeen]

Great to hear some C&W oldies. I knew of the Jimmy Wakely song via a great version by Jerry Lee Lewis, but the original is just as fine. Thanks.

[scott pgwp]

Glad you like it Lynchie!