Description
DESCRIPTION
Husband and wife duo Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, who performed and recorded through most of their career with their group The Clinch Mountain Clan, had their roots in the gospel, folk and hillbilly musical traditions of the Appalachian mountain country of their native West Virginia. They stayed true to their unalloyed country style, making few concessions to the commercial honky-tonk and New Nashville developments during the 1950s, but as stalwarts on West Virginia's rival to the Grand Ole Opry "The WWVA Jamboree, still managed to achieve a run of hits in the late 1950s and into the early '60s, defying the trends in the wider pop music market. This great-value 58-track 2-CD set comprises at least one side from most of their releases on the Rich-R-Tone and Columbia labels, along with most of their A & B sides from their singles for the Hickory label from this era. It features all their career chart entries, including the Top 10 country hits "Come Walk With Me", "Big Midnight Special", "There's A Big Wheel" and "Wreck On The Highway", plus their Top 20 country hits with country/pop crossover songs like "Johnny My Love" and "This Ole House". They were a highly distinctive act, occupying a particular niche on the country scene, and this selection of their recordings is a worthy showcase for their style.
Tracks
- Disc 1 -
1 Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
2 What Good Will It Do
3 The Little Rosewood Casket
4 Two Little Orphans
5 This World Can't Stand Long
6 Willie Roy (The Crippled Boy)
7 Moonlight on West Virginia
8 What's the Matter with This World
9 I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
10 The White Rose
11 Golden Rocket
12 Sunny Side of the Mountain
13 You Tried to Ruin My Name
14 I'm Taking My Audition (To Sing Up in the Sky)
15 Walking My Lord Up Calvary Hill
16 My Lord's Gonna Shake My Hand
17 Have Mercy on Me
18 Clinch Mountain Waltz
19 You Belong to Somebody Else
20 You Can't Take It with You
21 Bamboozled
22 A Brand New Baby
23 How It Hurts to Cry Alone
24 Just for a While
25 Please Help Me to Be Wrong
26 Each Season Changes You
27 I Want to Be Loved
28 Cheated Too
- Disc 2 -
1 This Crazy Crazy World
2 The Tramp on the Street
3 Loving You
4 This Thing Called Man
5 Diamond Joe
6 I Tell My Heart
7 He Taught Them How
8 I'm Not the Girl
9 It's Just As Well
10 Come Walk with Me
11 Is It Right
12 Big Midnight Special
13 X Marks the Spot
14 Rachel's Guitar
15 There's a Big Wheel
16 Johnny My Love (Grandma's Diary)
17 More Love
18 Heartbreak Street
19 This Ole House
20 I Gotta Laugh (To Keep from Crying)
21 Train, You Took My Baby
22 Night After Night
23 Wreck on the Highway
24 The Mighty Battle Cry
25 Heartaches Don't Lie
26 Have Faith in Me
27 Philadelphia Lawyer
28 Trouble Ahead
29 Doing My Time
30 Singing Waterfall
