Another one of the gems on the Krazy Kat reissue label, this disc is drawn from the catalog of Star-Talent Records, a teeny-tiny Dallas, Texas label that floated around the peripheries of the vibrant Big D Jamboree radio show in the late '40s and early '50s. The material is priceless, capturing the rough-hewn, jovial mood of the early 'Fifties honkytonk crowd. As implied by the title, there's a bluesy streak throughout this disc, as well as a strong (but effective) penchant for novelty tunes. Most of the artists are real nonentities (which makes discovering them even more enjoyable) but the Talent label also had a few hits, notably by Riley Crabtree and Hoyle Nix. What marks this disc, though, is the sheer goofy fun of the songs -- it's well-programmed and very listenable. Recommended! (Amazon)trax:
1. We've Lived A Lie - Buddy Walker 2. Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday - Boots & Buddies 3. I'm All Alone - Hoyle Nix 4. It Won't Do Baby - Tex Melton 5. Television Boogie - Aline McManus & Jack Padgett 6. Boogie Woogie Gal - Jack Padgett 7. Polk County Two Step Seven - Rowe Brothers 8. Everything's Gonna Be Changed - Cowboy Dixon 9. Playboy Boogie - Buster Doss 10. Tell Me Why - Johnny Mathis 11. Hang-Over Blues - Johnnie Bee 12. Graveyard Boogie - Buster Doss 13. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide - Snuffy Smith 14. You're Throwing You Life Away - Hoyle Nix 15. If My Tears Were Gold - Riley Crabtree 16. Mistreated Blues - Wayne Singleton 17. Mississippi Blues - Ray Rodgers 18. Red Barn Boogie - Hank Harral 19. A Smile Won't Hide A Broken Heart - Hank Harral 20. Two Piano Boogie - Freddie Burns 21. Juke Box Boogie - Freddie Burns 22. May You Never Break A Heart Like You Broke Mine - Hoyle Nix 23. I Can Sleep Again At Night - The Burns Brothers 24. I'm A Tool Pusher From Synder - Slim Willet 25. I'm Going Strong - Slim Willet 26. Who's Kiddin' Who - Wayne Walker 27. Agreed To Disagree - Sunny Burns 28. Dream Band Boogie - Hank Harral
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Good collection. Good cover scan. m4a. a nice plus. Graveyard Boogie is a hauntingly good tune. Thank you!
Jem - Thanks for the comments and feedback. Why do you prefer m4a files? I use a mac and itunes, so I love them. But what do you like? Is the sound better? Why do some people not like them? I always assume that 99% of the folks use itunes - and why wouldn't you?
I appreciate the feedback, thanks.
Hi!
I agree with Jem re the quality of this compilation - thank you very much.
But I respectfully disagree re .m4a files - I have to convert 'em all to get appropriate tag information, which is a pain & sometimes seems to lead to some loss of sound quality.
Also, I'm one of your mediafire fans as I'm not a premium rapidshare member - rs makes me wait 15 minutes between dls and is often unavailable and/or slow. Multiupload may be a good compromise?
Anyway - YOU are doing all the hard work and your generosity is MUCH appreciated - I am grateful for anything you post, in _any_ format to _any_ file sharing service!!!
Many thanks again -
Holly :-)
Gyro1966,
Yep, I'm also using a Mac and run iTunes. I switched over about seven years ago and never looked back. The m4a. files, played through iTunes, have, to my ears, an improved sound quality.
I conducted a small non-scientific experiment. I had two identical files with the same bit rate. One was a regular mp3 and one was an m4a. file. In a blind sound test I consistently picked the m4a. file as the one with the sound I preferred.
This is, admittedly, not extensive research on my part and I have heard a sound difference in mp3's of the same album but coming from different download sources. So I think the way in which the source material is recorded and transfered to mp3 or m4a. may have something to do with the sound quality as well. In any case, the records in m4a. format I have downloaded have all been consistently very good to excellent. Thus my delight when I find the file I have just downloaded is in the m4a. format. I hope that answers the why I like m4a. format for you. As to why some people dislike it, I can't say. I have never had any problem with them, quite the contrary. I can only refer you to Holly's comment above, as why some find difficulty with the m4a. format. Maybe it's a PC thing.
Oh, yeah, I'm a premium Rapidshare account holder, so thanks for continuing to use rapidshare.
Thanks again for the all the astonishingly good music you have shared over the last few years. I can not even begin to tell you how much I appreciate it.
From the mind boggling breadth and scope of the USA Garage Greats series, to the constant (and seemingly inexhaustible) flow and diversity of the R&B, Blues, Country, and Rock collections and single artist records you share on a daily basis, you have added immeasurably to my knowledge and enjoyment of these various forms of music. Thank you!
JEM
What JEM said ... not about encoding, or even Rapidshare (though I'm grateful there for sure) -- but about your efforts overall. In the hurly burly of blog-following and track-snatching it's all too easy to forget to leave any but the most ephemeral thanks (if that) ... but I have to stop here and now and thank you for the generous,supremely tasteful, and awesomely knowledgable posts you put together. The Bo Diddley and Mambo sets alone are masterpieces ... and then there's all this other stuff to boot, in a seemingly ceaseless flow. It is beyond awesome.
More simply than my predecessors here, I say thanks.
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