Johnny Horton - 1956-1960, BCD 15470 - 4 CD+

CD Details:

• Format: CD
• Genre: Pop / Rock
• Label: Bear Family
• Originally Released in: 1994
• Number of Discs: 4
• Release Date: June 27, 1994

Product Description:

Includes 125-page booklet with photos, biography and discography.

This Bear Family box documents the last four years of Johnny Horton's life as a recording and performing artist. It is the second box set issue in their extensive -- in fact, complete -- Johnny Horton oeuvre. The first documented the Cormac, Abbott, and Mercury recordings as well as two albums' worth of demos and overdubs released while he was alive. This four-CD collection contains Horton's complete issued recordings, unreleased demos, and outtakes as well as overdubbed recordings issued between 1964 and 1969 (during the decade after his death) and working demos. Horton's final period at Columbia is what people (most people) remember. These were the years of "Sink the Bismarck," "Battle of New Orleans," "Honky Tonk Man," "Rock Island Line," "Ole Slewfoot," "The Same Ole Tale the Crow Told Me," his devastating recording of "Lost Highway," as well as his final monster singles recorded in August of 1960 (a mere three months before he was killed in an auto accident), "Go North" and "North to Alaska" (for a soundtrack). Unlike his peers during the later years -- Johnny Cash, Webb Pierce, Faron Young, and others -- Horton exhibited not only an easy amiability but a combination of confidence and vulnerability. It was as if he knew that making music came naturally to him but couldn't understand why anybody would make a big deal out of it. Here are the songs that ran the gamut of rockabilly, hard honky tonk, hillbilly boogie, blues, patriotic songs of the South, cowboy tunes, and even a recording of "Empty Bed Blues," which Bessie Smith had recorded 30 years before. While most Bear Family boxes -- because of their elaborate packaging, liner notes that resemble full critical biographies, and import prices -- are not for everyone, this set is an exception. Rock & roll fans interested in the early music, hardcore honky tonk fans, and of course Horton nuts will have to have this. The earlier set would have even more limited appeal, but the sheer quality of the music issued here transcends its genre, time, and place and is eternal in postwar musical history. Highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek

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Tracks of Disc 1:
1. I'm a One Woman Man
2. Honky Tonk Man
3. I'm Ready if You're Willing
4. I Got a Hole in My Pirogue
5. Take Me Like I Am
6. Sugar-Coated Baby
7. I Don't Like I Did
8. Hooray for That Little Difference
9. I'm Coming Home
10. Over Loving You
11. She Knows Why
12. Honky Tonk Mind (The Woman I Need)
13. Tell My Baby I Love Her
14. Goodbye Lonesome, Hello Baby Doll
15. I'll Do It Everytime
16. You're My Baby
17. Let's Take the Long Way Home
18. Lover's Rock
19. Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor
20. The Wild One
21. Everytime I'm Kissing You
22. Hot in the Sugarcane Field
23. Lonesome and Heartbroken
24. Seven Comes Eleven
25. I Can't Forget You
26. Wise to the Ways of a Woman
27. Out in New Mexico
28. Tetched in the Head
29. Just Walk a Little Closer
30. Don't Use My Heart for a Stepping Stone
31. I Love You Baby
32. Wise to the Ways of a Woman

Tracks of Disc 2:
1. Counterfeit Love
2. All Grown Up
3. Got the Bull by the Horns
4. When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
5. Whispering Pines
6. The Battle of New Orleans
7. All for the Love of a Girl
8. Lost Highway
9. Sam Magee
10. Cherokee Boogie
11. The Golden Rocket
12. The Battle of New Orleans
13. Joe's Been A-Gittin' There
14. The First Train Headin' South
15. Got the Bull by the Horns
16. Sal's Got a Sugarlip
17. Words
18. Johnny Reb
19. Sal's Got a Sugarlip
20. Ole Slew Foot
21. I'm Ready if You're Willing
22. Take Me Like I Am
23. They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose
24. The Electrified Donkey
25. The Same Old Tale the Crow Told Me
26. Sink the Bismarck
27. Sink the Bismarck
28. The Same Old Tale the Crow Told Me
29. All Grown Up
30. Got the Bull by the Horns
31. Mister Moonlight

Tracks of Disc 3: 
 1. Ole Slew Foot
2. Miss Marcy
3. Sleepy Eyed John
4. The Mansion You Stole
5. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
6. The Sinking of the Reuben James
7. Jim Bridger
8. The Battle of Bull Run
9. Snow-Shoe Thompson
10. John Paul Jones
11. Comanche (The Brave Horse)
12. Young Abe Lincoln (Make a Tall, Tall Man)
13. O'Leary's Cow
14. Johnny Freedom
15. Go North!
16. North to Alaska
17. North to Alaska
18. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
19. Rock Island Line
20. Hank and Joe and Me
21. The Golden Rocket
22. A-Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed
23. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
24. Old Blind Barnabas
25. Evil Hearted Me
26. Hot in the Sugarcane Field
27. You Don't Move Me Baby Anymore
28. The Gosh-Darn Wheel
29. Broken Hearted Gypsy
30. The Church by the Side of the Road

Tracks of Disc 4:
1. The Vanishing Race
2. Broken Hearted Gypsy
3. That Boy Got the Habit
4. Hot in the Sugarcane Field
5. You Don't Move Me Baby Anymore
6. The Church by the Side of the Road
7. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
8. Take It Like a Man
9. Hank and Joe and Me
10. The Golden Rocket
11. Old Blind Barnabas
12. Empty Bed Blues
13. Rock Island Line
14. Shake, Rattle and Roll
15. A-Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed
16. Old Dan Tucker
17. The Gosh Darn Wheel
18. From Memphis to Mobile
19. Back Up Train
20. Schottische in Texas
21. Take It Like a Man
22. That Boy Got the Habit
23. My Heart Stopped, Trembled and Died
24. Alley Girl Ways
25. How You Gonna Make It
26. Witch Walking Baby
27. Down That River Road
28. Big Wheels Rollin'
29. I Got a Slow Leak in My Heart
30. You Don't Move Me Baby Anymore
31. What Will I Do Without You
32. Janey
33. Streets of Dodge
34. Give Me Back My Picture and You Can Keep the Frame

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