Johnny Horton - The Early Years, Vol.1-4 (HD Remastered) (2019)

Tracklist

The Early Years, Vol.1
01. Smokey Joe's Barbecue
02. Devilish Love Light
03. Shotgun Boogie
04. In My Home in Shelby County
05. Coal Smoke Valve Oil and Steam
06. Bob Sullivan Stomp [Piano Instrumental
07. Plaid and Calico
08. Done Rovin'
09. Candy Jones
10. Mean Mean Son of a Gun
11. Shadows on the Old Bayou
12. Talk Gobbler Talk (Old Gobbler the Hound Dog)
13. Go and Wash Your Dirty Feet (Barefoot Boy Blues)
14. Birds and Butterflies
15. Happy Millionaire
16. It's a Long Rocky Road
17. On the Banks of the Beautiful Nile
18. Stompin' at the KWKH [Piano Instrumental
19. Words
20. Rhythm in My Baby's Walk
21. Bawlin' Baby
22. Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart
23. Betty Lorraine (Betty Lou)
24. Devilish Love Light (2)

The Early Years, Vol.2
01. First Train Headin' South
02. The Rest of Your Life
03. (I Wished for an Angel) The Devil Sent Me You
04. This Won't Be the First Time
05. Child's Side of Life
06. I Won't Forget
07. S.S. Lureline
08. The Mansion You Stole
09. I Won't Get Dreamy Eyed
10. Tennessee Jive
11. Another Woman Wears My Wedding Ring
12. You You You (Caused This Heartache)
13. All for the Love of a Girl
14. Two Red Lips and Warm Red Wine
15. Back to My Back Street
16. Broken Hearted Gypsy
17. Move Down the Line
18. The Train With the Rhumba Beat
19. There'll Never Be Another Mary
20. No True Love
21. The Devil Made a Masterpiece
22. Ha Ha and Moonface
23. You Cry in the Door of Your Mansion
24. Where Are You
25. Meant So Little to You
26. Ridin' the Sunshine Special
27. Hey Sweet Thing
28. Journey With No End
29. Big Wheels Rollin'
30. You Don't Move Me Baby Anymore

The Early Years, Vol.3
01. Won't You Love Me Love Love Me
02. Why Did It Happen to Me
03. You You You (Caused This Heartache)
04. Broken Hearted Gypsy
05. All for the Love of a Girl
06. My Heart Stopped Trembled and Died
07. I'm a Fishin' Man
08. Where Do You Think You Would Stand
09. The Devil Made a Masterpiece
10. Because I'm a Jealous Man
11. I'm the One That Breaks in Two
12. The Train With the Rhumba Beat
13. 'Cause You're the One for Me
14. None of You But All of Me
15. Dark Haired Beauty from Cuba
16. Honky Tonk Jelly Roll Blues
17. Love and Tell
18. I Wish Heartaches Were Strangers
19. Confusion
20. Shadows on the Old Bayou
21. Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart
22. Talk Gobbler Talk (Old Gobbler the Hound Dog)
23. Two Eyed Sunday Pants
24. Down That River Road
25. Egg Money
26. Confusion (2)
27. First Train Headin' South
28. Somebody's Rockin' My Broken Heart (2)
29. Smokey Joe's Barbecue
30. Betty Lorraine
31. Honky Tonk Jelly Roll Blues (2)

The Early Years, Vol.4
01. Plaid and Calico
02. Coal Smoke Valve Oil and Steam
03. Devilish Love Light
04. Done Rovin'
05. Mean Mean Son of a Gun
06. Talk Gobbler Talk (Old Gobbler the Hound Dog)
07. Shadows on the Old Bayou
08. In My Home in Shelby County
09. Go and Wash Your Dirty Feet (Barefoot Boy Blues)
10. Smokey Joe's Barbecue
11. It's a Long Rocky Road
12. Words
13. Done Rovin' (2)
14. It's a Long Rocky Road (2)
15. Smokey Joe's Barbecue (2)
16. Mean Mean Son of a Gun (2)
17. Devilish Love Light (2)
18. Coal Smoke Valve Oil and Steam (2)
19. Words (2)
20. Shadows on the Old Bayou (2)
21. On the Banks of the Beautiful Nile
22. In My Home in Shelby County (2)
23. Go and Wash Your Dirty Feet (Barefoot Boy Blues) (2)
24. Talk Gobbler Talk (Old Gobbler the Hound Dog) (2)
25. Rudy Thacker: Ballad of Johnny Horton



The Early Years was the first extensive Johnny Horton collection that Bear Family assembled. Spanning seven LPs, the set includes all of Horton's recordings for the Cormac, Abbott, and Mercury labels, as well as two albums' worth of demos and two albums' worth of overdubbed Abbott recordings issued on the Briar and Dot labels. Though these early recordings aren't quite as accomplished as his later, better-known work for Columbia, there's a lot of exciting of material here - including proto-rockabilly and off-center honky tonk like "On the Banks of the Beautiful Nile," "I'm a Fishin' Man," and "The Train With the Rhumba Beat" - especially for dedicated fans. Of course, the sheer size of the set means that only dedicated fans will ever pick up the box, but it is worth the investment for those fans, since these obscurities are often more interesting than the more polished recordings that followed later in his career.

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