6-CD box (LP-size) with 80-page hardcover book, 175 tracks. Playing time approx. 458 mns

'I am maybe the world's biggest Floyd Tillman fan.'' - Willie Nelson.

Floyd Tillman was one of country music's great stylists and alltime greatest songwriters. His music embraced WesternSwing, Honky Tonk, and Jazz, and several of his songs became Pop classics. Although born in Oklahoma, he was aTexas music pioneer, embodying all that was different and truly great about the music of the Lone Star state. Floyd Tillman was apioneering electric guitarist?among the first to bring the instrument to country music, and perhaps the mostidiosyncratic vocalist ever to sing a country song. His influence on other stylists, such as Willie Nelson, is inestimable. ''You could tell, right away, that his music wasn't the typical country music of the time,'' Willie Nelson said. ''He had some ofthose Django Reinhardt rhythms in his guitar playing, and he was singing about subjects that just weren't being sungabout at the time. ''Floyd Tillman wrote several country music standards, including It Makes No Difference Now, They Took The Stars OutOf Heaven, Each Night At Nine, Slippin' Around, I'll Keep On Loving You, and I Love You So Much It Hurts.

Altogether,his songs have appeared on 50 million records, and have been recorded by artists as diverse as Gene Autry, Tex Ritter,Perry Como, Bing Crosby, the Supremes, and Ray Charles. His music is also studded with wryly observed non-hits andminor classics like This Cold War With You, Driving Nails In My Coffin and I Gotta Have My Baby Back, all of themtransformed into standards. This boxed set starts with Floyd Tillman's debut recordings as a guitarist and occasional singer for the Blue Ridge Playboys in 1936,and includes all the recordings from his five year stint with Decca (1939-1944) and nine classic years with Columbia(1946-1955)...Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/

Track Listing

• THE BLUE RIDGE PLAYBOYS:
• Anything
• Blue Monday
• Rhythm In The Air
• Swing Baby Swing
• Gimme My Dime Back
• That Old Fashioned Way
• Can't Nobody Truck Like Me
• Take Me Back To West Texas
• You're As Pretty As A Picture
• Georgia Pines
• Ain't You Kind Of Sorry Now
• LEON SELPH AND HIS BLUE RIDGE PLAYBOYS:
• Whose Honey Are You
• What Difference Does It Make
• Two More Years (And I'll Be Free)
• A Precious Memory
• Why Do I Love You
• Some Day
• If You Should Go Away I'd Cry
• FLOYD TILLMAN:
• I Didn't Know
• There Must Be Someone For Me
• I'm Always Dreaming Of You
• Don't Be Blue
• I Never Felt This Way Before
• Maybe I'll Get By Without You
• I'd Settle Down For You
• It Had To Be That Way
• THE VILLAGE BOYS:
• I'll Come Back To You
• Nothing Matters To Me

• Daisy Mae
• Anything That's Part Of You
• I'm Gonna Change All My Ways
• Gee! But I Feel Blue
• The Mountains Will See Her Face No More
• Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts
• It's Been A Long, Long Time
• All Because Of You
• I've Learned My Lesson Now
• They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven
• Rio Grande
• Why Do You Treat Me This Way
• There's No Use To Try It Anymore
• Each Night At Nine
• G. I. Blues
• Dreams Won't Let Me Forget You
• Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
• Go Out And Find Somebody New
• Some Other World
• Sign On The Dotted Line
• I'm Leaving This Old World Someday
• The Same Old Blues
• It's A Cruel, Cruel World For Me
• The Stars Fell Out Of Heaven
• Gotta Have Somethin'
• Sweetheart Darlin'(MARGE TILLMAN & H. SMITH)
• You Made Me Live, Love And Die

• You're Not Worth The Teardrops
• Sentenced To A Life (Without You)
• I'm Checkin' Out On You
• There's Blood On The Moon Tonight
• It's Got Me Down
• Please Don't Pass Me By
• Cold, Cold Woman
• I'll Take What I Can Get
• I Love You So Much It Hurts
• Drinking And Thinking
• Gals Are Funny That Way
• Houston Waltz
• Westphalia Waltz
• Slipping Around
• This Cold War With You
• I'll Never Slip Around Again
• Darling Don't Go (MARGE TILLMAN)
• Mama, What'll I Do (MARGE TILLMAN)
• I Gotta Have My Baby Back
• I Almost Lost My Mind
• Precious Memory
• I Gotta Stop (MARGE TILLMAN)
• The Little Miracle (MARGE TILLMAN)
• The Last Straw
• Just As Long As I Have You
• The Grandest Prize
• I've Got The Craziest Feeling

• Rose Of Old Monterey
• I Don't Care Anymore
• Why Are You Blue (BIFF & MARGE COLLIE)
• I Don't Care Who Knows (BIFF & MARGE COLLIE)
• I'm Falling For You
• You're That To Me
• I Love You Just As You Are
• Guess I'll Be Playing The Field From Now On
• Don't Say You Love Me, Just Show It
• Why Do I Drink
• I'll Still Be Loving You
• If I Loved A Liar (MARGE COLLIE)
• Each Little Thing Reminds Me Of You (COLLIE)
• I Got A Feller (MARGE COLLIE)
• Who Cares (MARGE COLLIE)
• Good Bye Tomorrows (Hello Yesterday)
• Take My Love With You Too
• I Finally Saw The Light
• It's Over, All Over
• The Worm Has Turned
• A Small Little Town
• More Than Anything
• Just One More Time
• I'll Never Be The Same Without You
• Call On Me (And I'll Be There)
• One More Day, Wasted Away
• Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow

• She's Long Gone
• Let's Make Memories Tonight
• Magnolia Garden Waltz
• Grasshopper (LINK DAVIS)
• Save A Little For Me
• Baby, I Just Want You
• Big Houston (LINK DAVIS)
• Cockroach
• Heartaches For Gold
• Running Away
• Floyd's Song
• Cold Cold Beer
• The Record Goes Round And Round
• My Heart Won't Forget
• On You My Life Depends
• I'm Free From The Love I Had For You
• It Makes No Difference Now
• I'll Keep On Loving You

• Lonesome Without The Blues
• Life Is Just A School
• It Just Tears Me Up
• The Song Of Music
• Stickin' My Neck Out
• Whatever You Do
• Two Stubborn People
• I'm Still In Love With Every Girl
• When Your Woman Turns Bad
• Mr. Bottle
• Empty Glass
• I Love You So Much It Hurts (& MICKEY GILLEY)
• One Way Love (& ERNEST TUBB)
• Memories Are All That's Real
• I Gotta Have My Baby Back(& HAGGARD & NELSON)
• I Am Music
• Slipping Around (& WILLIE NELSON)
• Half A House (& MERLE HAGGARD)
• My Mistake (& JOHNNY LEE)
• My Life Was Just A Game
• The Last Sad Song

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 458 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127164155