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He's the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.' (Hank Williams)
Roy Acuff's recordings for Vocalion/ARC/Columbia Records, 1936-1951, complete for the first time! The records that revolutionized country music from the artist who took the Grand Ole Opry coast-to-coast, and played a major role in launching the Nashville music industry. Many songs that now form part of bedrock American music, including Great Speckle Bird, Wabash Cannon Ball, Freight Train Blues, The (House of the) Rising Sun, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Beneath That Lonely Mound Of Clay, The Precious Jewel, Wreck On The Highway, Fireball Mail, Night Train To Memphis, The Prodigal Son, Low And Lonely, Pins And Needles In My Heart, I Saw The Light, We Live In Two Diff'rent Worlds, and Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain. Nine CDs plus a DVD! 184-page book, including hundreds of photos, many previously unseen! These nine CDs comprise every surviving 'take' of every surviving recording he made for ARC/Columbia. A total of 228 performances. A bonus DVD includes the complete Grand Ole Opry movie from 1940. The recordings feature stellar work from Acuff»s Smoky Mountain Boys, including Clell »Cousin Jody» Summey, Tommy Magness, Tommy Jackson, Benny Martin, and of course Pete 'Bashful Brother Oswald' Kirby. The Smoky Mountain Boys' 1948 instrumental LP, 'Old Time Barn Dance,' is included complete as well.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Singing My Way to Glory
2 Charmin' Betsy
3 The Great Speckled Bird
4 My Mountain Home Sweet Home
5 Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight
6 Wabash Cannon Ball
7 Freight Train Blues
8 You've Gotta See Mama Every Night
9 Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight
10 Yes Sir, That's My Baby
11 You're the Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)
12 Please Don't Talk About Me, When I'm Gone
13 All Night Long
14 New Greenback Dollar
15 Steamboat Whistle Blues
16 She No Longer Belongs to Me
17 When Lulu's Gone
18 Doin' It the Old Fashioned Way
19 An Old Three Room Shack
20 Red Lips (Kiss My Blues Away)
21 Trouble Trouble (Take 1)
22 Trouble Trouble (Take 2)
23 Sailing Along
24 Steel Guitar Chimes
25 Lonesome Valley
- Disc 2 -
1 Sad Memories
2 Steel Guitar Blues
3 Old Fashioned Love
4 My Gal Sal
5 The Great Speckled Bird #2 (Take1)
6 Tell Mother I'll Be There
7 Down in Union Country
8 The Rising Sun
9 What Would You Do with Gabriel's Trumpet
10 Shout, Oh Lulu
11 Goodbye Brownie
12 Blue Ridge Sweetheart
13 One Old Shirt
14 Bonnie Blue Eyes
15 The Automobile of Life
16 Smoky Mountain Rag (Instrumental)
17 Wabash Blues (Instrumental)
18 That Beautiful Picture
19 The Great Shining Light
20 Honky Tonk Mammas
21 Haven of Dreams
22 Answer to 'Sparkling Blue Eyes'
23 Smoky Mountain Moon
24 Fly, Birdie, Fly
25 Ida Red
26 Beautiful Brown Eyes
27 Mother's Prayers Guide Me
28 Living on the Mountain, Baby Mine
29 A Vagabond's Dream
- Disc 3 -
1 Old Age Pension Check
2 Eyes Are Watching You
3 I'm Building a Home
4 Railroad Boomer (Take 1)
5 Railroad Boomer (Take 2)
6 Walkin' in My Sleep
7 Wonder Is All I Do
8 Drifting Too Far from the Shore
9 Come Back Little Pal
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
11 Coming from the Ball
12 When I Lay My Burden Down
13 Beneath That Lonely Wound of Clay
14 The Streamlined Cannonball
15 Weary River
16 Just to Ease My Worried Mind
17 Farther Along (Take 1)
18 Farther Along (Take 2)
19 Blue Eyed Darling (Take 1)
20 Blue Eyed Darling (Take 2)
21 The Precious Jewel (Take 1)
22 The Precious Jewel (Take 2)
23 The Broken Heart
24 Would You Care
25 Lonesome Old River Blues (Take 1)
26 Lonesome Old River Blues (Take 2)
27 What Good Will It Do
28 Mule Skinner Blues
- Disc 4 -
1 Be Honest with Me
2 Worried Mind
3 Things That Might Have Been
4 You're My Darling
5 It Won't Be Long (Till I'll Be Leaving)
6 Just Inside the Pearly Gates
7 I Know We're Saying Goodbye
8 Brother Take Warning
9 The Great Judgement Morning
10 Stuck Up Blues
11 Lying Woman Blues
12 You Are My Love
13 Branded Wherever I Go
14 No Letter in the Mail
15 Are You Thinking of Me Darling
16 I Called and Nobody Answered
17 Wreck on the Highway
18 Fire Ball Mail
19 I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven
20 Night Train to Memphis
21 The Prodigal Son
22 Low and Lonely
23 Write Me Sweetheart
24 I Didn' T Want You to Know
25 Roll on Buddy
26 Weary Lonesome Blues
27 Come Back Little Darling
28 They Can Only Fill One Grave
- Disc 5 -
1 Live and Let Live
2 Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good
3 The Heart That Was Broken for Me
4 Not a Word from Home
5 Do You Wonder Why
6 I'll Forgive You But I Can't Forget
7 Blues in My Mind
8 (I Heard a) Silver Trumpet
9 Easy Rockin' Chair
10 It's Too Late Now to Worry Anymore
11 Wait for the Light to Shine
12 Radio Station S - a
13 We Planted Roses on Our Darling's Grave
14 Money Won't Buy This Soul of Mine
15 No One Will Ever Know
16 I Think I'll Go Home and Cry
17 We Live in Two Different Worlds
18 Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
19 Golden Treasure
20 I Gambled and Lost - 1
21 I Gambled and Lost - 2
22 Let Me Be the First to Say I'm Sorry (Bd+Take 1)
23 Let Me Be the First to Say I'm Sorry (Take 2)
24 All the World Is Lonely Now (2 Breakdowns)
25 All the World Is Lonely Now (Take)
- Disc 6 -
1 That Glory Bound Train
2 Waiting for My Call to Glory
3 Gone, Gone, Gone (But Not Forgotten)
4 Tell Me Now or Tell Me Never - 1
5 Tell Me Now or Tell Me Neve R - 2
6 I Talk to Myself About You - 1
7 I Talk to Myself About You - 2
8 Freight Train Blues (Fs+Take)
9 (Our Own) Jole Blon (Fs+Bd+Take)
10 (Our Own) Jole Blon (2 Bd+Take)
11 Tennessee Central (Number Nine)
12 Wabash Cannon Ball (2 Bd+Take)
13 Wabash Cannon Ball (Fs+Take)
14 There's a Big Rock in the Road (Take 1)
15 There's a Big Rock in the Road (Take 2)
16 Po' Folks (All the Time) (Take 1)
17 Po' Folks (All the Time) (Take 2)
18 I Wish I Had Kissed You Goodbye (Bd+Take)
19 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (FS+BD)
20 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Bd+Take)
21 Don't Wait 'Til Judgement Day
22 The Devil's Train (Take 1)
23 The Devil's Train (Fs+Take)
24 Short Changed in Love (Bd+Fs+Take)
- Disc 7 -
1 When They Take That Last Look at Me (Take 1)
2 When They Take That Last Look at Me (Take 2)
3 This World Can't Stand Long (Take 1)
4 This World Can't Stand Long (Take 2)
5 I Saw the Light
6 Heartaches and Flowers
7 The Songbirds Are Singing in Heaven (BD)
8 The Songbirds Are Singing in Heaven (2 FS+BD)
9 The Songbirds Are Singing in Heaven (Take 1)
10 Unloved and Unclaimed (Fs+Take)
11 Unloved and Unclaimed (Take 2)
12 I Had a Dream
13 Thank God (Bd+Take)
14 You'll Reap These Tears
15 It's Just About Time
16 I'll Always Care
17 It's So Hard to Smile
18 The Waltz of the Wind
19 A Sinner's Death
20 The Midnight Train (Take 1)
21 The Midnight Train (Fs+Take 2)
22 The Midnight Train (Take 3)
- Disc 8 -
1 Where You There When They Crucified My Lord (TK 1)
2 Where You There When They Crucified My Lord (+Bd+Take)
3 Sweeter Than the Flowers
4 Tennessee Waltz (Bd+Take)
5 The Pale Horse and His Rider
6 Gray Eagle
7 Dance Around Molly
8 Black Mountain Rag
9 Pretty Little Widow (Bd+Take)
10 Smoky Mountain Rag
11 Lonesome Indian
12 Bully of the Town
13 Polk County Breakdown
14 Jesus Died for Me
15 If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again (Take 1)
16 If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again (Fs+Take)
17 The Day They Laid Mary Away (Take 1)
18 The Day They Laid Mary Away (Take 2)
19 It's All Right Now
- Disc 9 -
1 Baldknob Arkansas (Fs+Take)
2 Baldknob Arkansas (Take 2)
3 A Plastic Heart (Take 1)
4 A Plastic Heart (Take 2)
5 Advice to Joe (Take 1)
6 Advice to Joe (Take 2)
7 When My Money Run Out (I Lost All My Friends) (TK 1)
8 When My Money Run Out (I Lost All My Friends) (TK 2)
9 When My Money Run Out (I Lost All My Friends) (TK 3)
10 Your Address Unknown
11 The Southbound Train
12 Pliney Jane
13 Waltz of the Wind
14 Waltz of Broken Vows (Bd+Take)
15 Cheating
16 Don't Hang Your Dirty Linen Ony My Line (Take 1)
17 Don't Hang Your Dirty Linen Ony My Line (Take 2)
18 Don't Hang Your Dirty Linen Ony My Line (Take 3)
19 I'll Be Alone (Bd+Take)
20 Doug MacArthur
21 In the Shadow of the Smokies
22 She Isn't Guaranteed
23 Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
24 Ten Little Numbers
25 Just a Friend
26 My Tears Don't Show
