Featuring big hits and rare nuggets from some of Country music's greatest singers, musicians, and songwriters

In the mid-Fifties the traditional approach to recording Country music changed drastically, owing much to the production work of Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley. Up until that point fiddles and pedal steel guitar had featured heavily in the make-up of the Country recording process and the removal of these two key ingredients, and the introduction of big lush strings and heavenly backing vocals, completely altered Country. One man who stood firm and kept the Honky Tonk flame burning was Don Law and this release shines a light on his work during the era. The singers and songwriters that Don Law had such a big hand in helping to success, and who feature here, would go on to become massively influential to many artists and would help to establish the Outlaw Country movement that would wrestle Country music's soul back from the ear-candy music of the Nashville Sound artists produced by Don's rivals Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley.

Track Listing

• Stonewall Jackson - Can't Hang Up The Phone
• Carl & Pearl Butler - Honky Tonkitis
• Marty Robbins - Don't Worry
• Ray Price - My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
• Carl Smith - You Can't Hurt Me Anymore
• Lefty Frizzell & Johnny Bond - Sick, Sober, And Sorry
• Freddie Hart - The Key's In The Mailbox
• Little Jimmy Dickens - Honky Tonk Troubles
• Hawkshaw Hawkins - Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
• Skeets Mcdonald - Gotta Get You From That Crowd
• Billy Walker - Mr Heartache
• Charlie Walker - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
• Mel Tillis - Honky Tonk Song
• Lefty Frizzell & Johnny Bond - Lover By Appointment
• Carl Smith - It's All My Heartache
• Jimmy Dean - Smoke , Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette
• Charlie Walker - Facing The Wall
• Skeets Mcdonald - I Write You Letters
• Little Jimmy Dickens - Twenty Cigarettes
• Ray Price - Pride
• Stonewall Jackson - A Wound Time Can't Erase
• Carl & Pearl Butler - You Were The Orchid

Additional Details

Label: Cherry Red

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 60 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/10/15

UPC: 5013929670228