Billy Strange: Guitar For Hire 1952-1962 - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Guitar For Hire 1952-1962
Artist: Billy Strange
Label: Jasmine Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 604988089226
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2023-04-21
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

Although Billy Strange is perhaps best remembered as an integral member of The Wrecking Crew, his name synonymous with men like Phil Spector and Brian Wilson, there was more to him than his guitar-for-hire heroics of the 60s and 70s. An established recording artist in his own right, with a discography which stretched back to the early 1950s, he was also a highly regarded Country singer with a distinctive baritone voice and a bona-fidé Rockabilly legend, an inductee into the "Rockabilly Hall Of Fame". This compilation traces Billy's story from his early Hillbilly and Honky-Tonk recordings, through to his emergence in the early 60s in The Wrecking Crew. Disc One comprises virtually all his singles between 1952-62. Disc Two features a number of sessionman/sideman appearances, alongside a killer 45rpm issued under a pseudonym, and a pair of almost unfeasibly rare and collectable LPs, included herein in their entirety.

Tracks:
1.1 Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
1.2 Almanac Song
1.3 I Love You 24 Hours a Day
1.4 Hell Train
1.5 Kiss, Kiss, Kiss
1.6 Crazy Quilt Rag
1.7 New Carroll County Blues
1.8 Just Bummin' Around
1.9 Red
1.10 Half a Photograph
1.11 Let Me Be the One
1.12 I'm Still a Prisoner
1.13 Catsup and Honey
1.14 A Lonesome Lover's Lie
1.15 Am I Seeing Things
1.16 The Devil in Me
1.17 You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)
1.18 I Gotta Be Gittin' Home
1.19 Let Me in There, Baby
1.20 My Buddy's Girl
1.21 Say You're Mine, Porcupine
1.22 Big Man
1.23 It Wasn't Much of a Town
1.24 Sadness Done Come
1.25 Where Your Arms Used to Be
1.26 Long Steel Road
1.27 Soft Chains of Love
1.28 Life of Pretend
1.29 I'll Remember April
1.30 Mooncussers
1.31 Johnny Shiloh
1.32 Day By Day
2.1 Tennessee Ernie Ford ; Ella Mae Morse - I'm Hog-Tied Over You
2.2 Moon Mullican - Ooglie Ooglie Oogie (The Tokyo Boogie)
2.3 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - When Payday Rolls Around
2.4 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Ridin' Down the Canyon
2.5 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Pistol Packin' Mama
2.6 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Cool Water
2.7 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
2.8 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Deep in the Heart of Texas
2.9 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle
2.10 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Home on the Range
2.11 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Beside the Rio Grande
2.12 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - a Cowboy Has to Sing
2.13 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - Red River Valley
2.14 Jim Malloy ; His Range Riders - El Rancho Grande
2.15 Sweetpea Johnson - Crawdad Scene
2.16 Sweetpea Johnson - How Come My Dog Don't Growl at You
2.17 Jeanne ; Janie - Long Week-End
2.18 Barbara Dane - Mama Don't Allow No Twistin'
2.19 The Fencemen - Sunday Stranger
2.20 The Fencemen - Sour Grapes
2.21 The Avalanches - Avalanche
2.22 The Avalanches - Baby It's Cold Outside
2.23 Billy Strange - Walk Right in
2.24 Billy Strange - Blowin' in the Wind
2.25 Billy Strange - Wabash Cannonball
2.26 Billy Strange - 16 Tons
2.27 Billy Strange - Silver Threads and Golden Needles
2.28 Billy Strange - Battle of New Orleans
2.29 Billy Strange - Green Green
2.30 Billy Strange - Tom Dooley
2.31 Billy Strange - Wildwood Flower
2.32 Billy Strange - If I Had a Hammer
2.33 Billy Strange - Stranger in Your Town
2.34 Billy Strange - Cotton Fields