James King - Bed By The Window (1998)

Tracklist

01. Wear A Red Rose
02. Big House On The Corner
03. Bed By The Window
04. Tall Pines
05. Sweeter Than The Flowers
06. I Don't Do Floors
07. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
08. Pack Up Your Sorrows
09. Love Me One More Time
10. Yesterday's Winner Is A Loser Today
11. Called From Potter's Field
12. The Lonely Years Belong To Me

This is another excellent effort from King, an outstanding traditional bluegrass vocalist who is heavily influenced by country singers like George Jones, Buck Owens and Stonewall Jackson. King is not a songwriter, but he usually manages to dig up a batch of strong but obscure songs. This time is no exception, as he revives Jackson's "Big House on the Corner," and Leon Payne's "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me," and songs written or made famous by Ernest Tubb, Johnnie and Jack, Moon Mullican, Bill Monroe, and the Country Gentlemen. Bed by the Window is the first of King's CDs to feature his road band. Kevin Prater (mandolin), Adam Poindexter (banjo) and Jason Moore (bass) play on all of the tracks. Most of the fiddle work was done by sessioneer Bobby Hicks, but fiddler Owen Saunders joined the band in time to play on two tracks, and subsequently joined the band on the road.

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