As part of Columbia's excellent Country Classics series, Honky Tonk Heroes spotlights country music's transition from the bluegrass-heavy golden age of Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe to the honky tonk style that featured the more urbane, shuffle-beat sound forged by Lefty Frizzell and Ray Price in the '40s and '50s. A shift in lyric matter occurred too, as depression-era tales of rural strife were supplanted by woeful stories of tavern life. While Floyd Tillman's overwrought vocals and cloying violin passages on "This Cold War With You" are planted in the past, Little Jimmy Dickens' mixture of country bumpkin singing and hard-driving, guitar-heavy accompaniment on "A Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed" rides the line between the golden and honky tonk age. The transition is made complete on Lefty Frizzell's classic "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time," with its swinging 4/4 beat and tale of bar hopping. Ray Price would take the honky tonk sound to full flower, compliments of his famous shuffle-beat sound on huge hits like "Crazy" and "Heartaches by the Number." Johnny Horton would even add a little rockabilly flavor to the mix with "Honky Tonk Man." With even more great songs by Charlie Walker, Marty Robbins, and Stonewall Jackson, Honky Tonk Heroes is the perfect introduction to the honky tonk sound and a must for any country music collection. (Allmusic)
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1. Brain Cloudy Blues - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys 2. Slippin' Around - Floyd Tillman 3. This Cold War With You - Floyd Tillman 4. (Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You - Stuart Hamblen 5. I Love You So Much It Hurts - Floyd Tillman 6. Room Full Of Roses - Mickey Gilley 7. I Overlooked An Orchid (While Searching For A Rose) - Carl Smith 8. Country Boy - "Little" Jimmy Dickens 9. Take An Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait) - "Little" Jimmy Dickens 10. Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way - Carl Smith 11. A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed - "Little" Jimmy Dickens 12. If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time - Lefty Frizzell 13. I Love You A Thousand Ways - Lefty Frizzell 14. I Couldn't Keep From Crying - Marty Robbins 15. Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell 16. Hey Joe! - Carl Smith 17. Honky Tonk Man - Johnny Horton 18. Crazy Arms - Ray Price 19. Knee Deep In The Blues - Marty Robbins 20. Invitation To The Blues - Ray Price 21. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down - Charlie Walker 22. Heartaches By The Number - Ray Price 23. Why I'm Walkin' - Stonewall Jackson 24. Who Will Buy The Wine - Charlie Walker 25. Honky Tonkitis - Carl Butler 26. Heart Over Mind - Ray Price 27. Don't Let Me Cross Over - Carl Butler
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Columbia Country Classics Vol. 2 - "Honky Tonk Heroes"
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BONUS-
TWIN ENGINE (1971)
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These 12 songs were recorded by Twin Engine in 1971 with the intention of getting an album together for release on United Artists, but they weren't issued until more than 30 years later. The music has very much of a 1970 aura, mightily influenced at different points by the Let It Be-era Beatles (particularly in the guitar sound of "Give My Love a Chance," "The Time Is Now," and "Mistress of the Morning"), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (a riff in "The Time Is Now" seems airlifted directly from Neil Young's "Cowgirl in the Sand"), American Beauty-era Grateful Dead, and the country-rock being laid down by the Flying Burrito Brothers/Byrds axis in Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (That last influence may not have been entirely due to chance, as Byrds and/or Burritos members Chris Hillman, Clarence White, and Sneaky Pete Kleinow are all referred to in the packaging as having played on the sessions, though it's not specified who played on what track). It's very accomplished, and Twin Engine's duo harmonies are quite cheerful and invigorating. What it lacks is a sound of its own, and it's easy to see that a label of the time might have passed on it due to its similarity to some other bands of the era, or at least encouraged the pair to keep working up material until something more distinctive evolved. Now that competing in the marketplace isn't a concern, it's actually a pretty pleasant listen -- derivative, yes, but considerably stronger and more polished than most albums that are heavily derivative of their surrounding times and styles. There are the makings of a solid country-rock band here, albeit one more pop-influenced than most, like a less-slick Eagles. While it's too bad they didn't get any further, this relic of their abortive flight isn't at all bad. (by Richie UnterbergeR, ALLMUSIC)
My heroes have always been of the honky tonk kind. Thanks!
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