1-CD with 16-page booklet, 25 tracks. Playing time approx. 67 mns

In 1959, RCA Nashville producer-guitarist Chet Atkins brought Jimmie Driftwood's 'Tennessee Stud' to Eddy Arnold and gave 'The Tennessee Plowboy' his first major hit in three years. That success, scored in the wake of the Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley, prompted the Atkins-Arnold team to prepare an album of folk-based saga songs, ''Thereby Hangs A Tale''. In 1963, a second 'folk' album, this with an exclusively Western theme, reprised Arnold's 1955 hit, ''Cattle Call''.

This 25-song collection brings together all the 1959-1963 'folk & Western' recordings of country's Crosby, souvenirs of a time when saga songs became hit records.

Track Listing

• The Streets Of Laredo
• Cool Water
• Cattle Call
• Leanin' On The Old Top Rail
• Ole Faithful
• A Cowboy's Dream
• The Wayward Wind
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds
• Cowpoke
• Where The Mountains Meet The Sky
• Sierra Sue
• Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie
• Jim I Wore A Tie Today
• Tom Dooley
• Nellie Sits A-Waitin'
• Tennessee Stud
• The Battle Of Little Big Horn
• The Wreck Of Old '97
• The Red Headed Stranger
• Johnny Reb, That's Me
• Riders In The Sky
• Boot Hill
• The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
• Partners
• Jesse James

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 67 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127154415