Mimi & Richard Farina - Celebrations For A Grey Day

Mimi & Richard Farina - Celebrations For A Grey Day

Country Aces - Last Letter / Going Out

Single sided acetate with 2 songs on the one side. ==== A side is a slow haunt - Side B is a swinging' bopper. === Year unknown. === Country Aces - Last Letter / Going Out

Roger Rainy - Haunted House

Country tune on Studio City Records out of Minneapolis Minnesota by Roger Rainy. Not the typical halloween themed haunted house tune. Year unknown....

Roger Rainy - Haunted House

Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys - Cheyenne

Pretty killer country instrumental that's very reminiscent of Hank Williams Kaw-Liga.

Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys - Cheyenne

Lee Bonds - I'm Looking For Some Lovin'

Today we have some more country with lee Bonds Doing Looking For Some Lovin' from 1954. Sorta weird to hear that dixie land jazz horn thrown in there...

Lee Bonds - Looking For Some Lovin'

Red Sovine And web Pierce - Why Baby Why

Red Sovine & Web Pierce doing the George Jones penned Why Baby Why from 1955. I hated country music as a kid. I wanted Fire and Blood w/ my rock and roll but as i get older this stuff appeals to me so much more then Venom or Slayer. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and a place for that nonsense i just find it less frequent...

Red Sovine And Web Pierce - Why Baby Why

Betty Ashman - Look Me In The Eye

Picked this up the local thrift recently. The A side is a pretty standard 70's sounding up tempo country tune, sorta meh. But this B side i really like in some weird way. I think it's the sort of out of tune doubling of the vocals. Kinda gives it a soulful 60's girl group sound. It's a little off kilter and odd.... I like it.

Betty Ashman - Look Me In The Eye

Troy Shondell - Head Man

Fuzzy & funky slow cookin' country fried sleazy rocker from one time 50's / 60's rockabilly teen idle Troy Shondell. Whew....!

Troy's Wiki:

Troy Shondell (born Gary Shelton,[1] May 14, 1940,[2] Fort Wayne, Indiana[1]) is an American vocalist, who achieved a modicum of fame and recognition in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK.[3][4] The song, "This Time" (or sometimes billed as "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)" sold over one million records, earning gold disc status.[5] In a single year, sales were over three million copies.[1]

Biography[edit]
Shondell was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and educated at Valparaiso and Indiana universities. He wrote his first song at age 14, which was recorded by Little Anthony & The Imperials. Shondell also learned to play five musical instruments.[5] His professional music career started as a teenager. Mercury Records released his first single, "My Hero", from The Chocolate Soldier, which he recorded in 1958 under his real name, Gary Shelton.[1]

He followed the next year with "Kissin' at the Drive-In", a rockabilly song that went on to become a drive-in theater standard. Shondell was on his way, at least in the Midwest. Chicago's Brass Rail, a major nightclub that usually hosted jazz and blues acts, brought him in for its first foray into rock and roll. The successful gig stretched to 16 weeks.[1] In 1959, Mark Records released "The Trance" and "Goodbye Little Darlin'". These sold well in the Midwest and a few other areas, but neither made it into the Top 40 of the national Billboard record chart. The singer cited his father as a major influence, among others. A song Shondell wrote about his father's death in 1960 from a heart attack, "Still Loving You", became a country hit when it was recorded by Bob Luman. Shondell's father's demise caused his career to falter, and he briefly returned to help run the family business.[1]

In April 1961, he recorded "This Time". The record was released during the last week in June on the tiny Gaye label and picked up by the small Los Angeles Goldcrest label, selling ten thousand copies during the first week. Six weeks after being released and played in Chicago, Shondell flew to Los Angeles and signed with Liberty Records. It finally hit the Billboard charts the first week of September, and landed in the Top 10 four weeks later, peaking at number six and staying in the charts for a total of sixteen weeks.[1][3] The track reached no. 22 in the UK Singles Chart at the end of that year.[4]

"Tears From An Angel" was his follow-up recording, released in March 1962. No further chart action was forthcoming, and Shondell quietly slipped away from the music industry the following year, despite his third single "Na-Ne-No", being produced by Phil Spector. However, in 1963, Tommy Jackson changed the name of his high school band from "Tom and the Tornados" to "The Shondells" in honor of Shondell (one of his musical idols).[1] Jackson became "Tommy James" and international fame followed for the act. Chicago band The Ides of March originally named themselves The Shon-dells, also in tribute to Troy. Shortly before their debut single, "You Wouldn't Listen" was released, the label found out that James had been using the name first, so they were forced to change it. In 1968, Shondell became a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music in Nashville, Tennessee, and the first recording artist for TRX Records, a branch of Hickory Records, for whom Shondell recorded some gramophone record discs until 1969, when he went into the music publishing field. In October 1969, Shondell was appointed as Assistant Regional Director for ASCAP's Southern Regional Office in Nashville.[5]

In 2001, Shondell still performed at shows and other events. Along with Jimmy Clanton, Ronnie Dove, and Ray Peterson, Shondell was a member of the Masters of Rock 'n' Roll.[1] On October 2, 2007, Shondell traveled to Collins, Mississippi, to deliver a musical tribute to his fallen rock and roll colleague Dale Houston, who, with musical partner Grace Broussard, had reached no. 1 in 1963 with "I'm Leaving It Up to You" as the musical duo Dale & Grace.


Troy Shondell - Head Man

Phil Corso And The Singing Strings - Country Riff

Country Riff....
Phil Corso And The Singing Strings - Country Riff

"Fuzzy" Owen - Arkie's Got Her Shoes On - Beware Of A Stranger

can't keep 'em barefoot and pregnant forever...

"Fuzzy" Owen - Arkie's Got Her Shoes On


edit: added the flip even though it plays pretty beat because a drunken hobo asked for it. sorry about the noise.




"Fuzzy" Owen - Beware Of A Stranger

Arkey Blue - Bandera's Mr. Blue

Here i go again taking too many pills.

Living on credit in these Texas hills.

Daddy's sick again from drinking scarlet water.

Seems things don't go right.

I got mad at her this morning while staring at her picture and toninight i poured whiskey in her eyes.....

Arkey Blue - Bandera's Mr. Blue

Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers - Back Street Affair

Some more early country music w/ Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers doing Back Street Affair on the Crest record label. Scant info on this, so again, i have no idea what year but has to be the 50's? Any help DrunkenHobo? This one kind of slinks along with some creepy fiddle and steel guitar and a kooky vocal delivery from Mr. Martin which creates a pretty somber tone. Nice.

edit: Bob The Scared Data Miner said 1953. Thanks Bob!

Cliff Martin And His Cliff Dwellers - Back Street Affair

Johnny Seymour - What Can I Say, What Can I Do?

Another country tale of woe, this time by Jonny Seymour on the Alto Record label. Who is Johnny Swymour and what year is this from? You got me....

edit: DrunkenHobo says 1961. Thanks!

Johnny Seymour - What Can I Say, What Can I Do?

The Wilt Bros. - She's A Friend Of Mine

I've been in this scenario a few times.... No fun. Great country tune on Clark records out of Tenn. I have no idea who The Wilt Bros. are or what year this 45 came out? My guess is late 60's early 70's? Either way this is good stuff. Enjoy.

The Wilt Bros. - She's A Friend Of Mine

Gary Walker - Runaway Heart

A kookly little country rocker/rockabilly tune from 1958 on the MGM label by Gary Walker. I'm hungover today so that is all you get....

Gary Walker - Runaway Heart

Cousin Roy - Seven Beers With The Wrong Woman

And this is why i always prefer 14 beers by myself...


And FUCK divshare.... i'm trying Mediafire from here out. Divshare is shit.


Cousin Roy - Seven Beers With The Wrong Woman

Tex Williams - Smoke, Smoke, Somke - '68

Tex Williams with a 1968 take of his famous tune Smoke, Smoke, Smoke.... On the Boone records label. I've been trying to get my wife to quit for years. I hate it.

Tex Williams - Smoke, Smoke, Somke - '68

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

Sticking w/ the weirder side of things today w/ The Category Stomp from Mr. John Hartford. I'm not familiar w/ and don't know much about John Hartford but this song is pretty damn weird and awesome. It's some hillbilly bluegrass psychedelic hybrid complete w/ backwards guitar solo. Seems Mr. Hartford was taking the piss out of the whole "psych" thing in the year 1968....? Intentional or not, it rules. Seems from what i've heard most of Mr. Hartford's other material is a bit more on the "standard" bluegrass side.

Here is a bit of info from wiki:

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. He also invented his own shuffle tap dance move, and clogged on an amplified piece of plywood while he played and sang.

read the rest >HERE;

John Hartford - The Category Stomp

Chuck Murphy - Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)

I hate when this happens... Not much has changed since 1952.

Here is what Billboard had to say about it Jul 19, 1952: Pleasant ditty is given good pace by a spirited western featuring a honky tonk piano. Murphy half-talks half-sings the lyrics with proper dolefulness while the boys in teh band add a gang vocal in spots. Should do okay in tavern jukes.



Chuck Murphy - Who Drank My Beer (While I Was In The Rear)

The Stanley Brothers - Whiskey

A cautionary tale from The Stanley Brothers.

The Stanley Brothers - Whiskey