Ernest Tubb -- Texas Troubador 2003 [4 CD] (WMA)
label : Proper Box
tracker : demonoid
Size: 266.28 MB
WMA
Music : Country
The Texas Troubadour is an extremely competitively priced four-CD set covering the highlights of the first 16 years of Ernest Tubb's career, from "The Last Thoughts on Jimmie Rodgers" in 1936 up through his September 1952 holiday recording "Merry Texas Christmas You All!" -- it's no substitute for Bear Family Records' Walking the Floor Over You or Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello, which cover his complete output in chronological order from this period, but if you can't afford Bear Family's releases and don't mind the fact that nobody involved with the recordings, including the artist or his family, is getting paid, then this is an alternative. The sides are all cleanly mastered, at a very healthy volume level, and are assembled to showcase different aspects of his talent and history -- disc one ("Walking the Floor Over You"
and disc two ("Slippin' Around: The Hits, Vol. 2"
get the chart history out of the way in a unified manner, covering 1941 through 1949 and 1949 through 1952, respectively, from "Walking the Floor Over You" through "Too Old to Cut the Mustard." Disc three ("Blue Eyed Elaine: Tubb the Songwriter"
is the jewel of this box, pulling together all of Tubb's original sides from the same period -- taken on its own, that disc is a five-star compilation, worth the cost of the set by itself, with some of Tubb's best non-hit performances, his most alluring vocals, and a downright soulful, spellbinding undertone throughout; it's such a good idea that MCA should have thought of it. Finally, disc four ("Time After Time: Writers Galore"
ties up the loose ends, covering Tubb's best non-charting sides by other songwriters, filling in the holes between the hits and his own songs.
Walking the Floor over You (The Hits, Vol. 1)
1. Walking The Floor Over You
2. Try Me One More Time
3. Soldiers Last Letter
4. Yesterdays Tears
5. Keep My Memry In Your Heart
6. Tomorrow Never Comes
7. Careless Darlin
8. Its Been So Long Darling
9. Rainbow At Midnight
10. Filipino Baby
11. Drivin Nails In My Coffin
12. Dont Look Now (But Your Broken Heart Is Showing)
13. So Round So Firm So Fully Packed
14. Ill Step Aside
15. Seamans Blues
16. You Nearly Lose Your Mind
17. Forever Is Ending Today
18. That Wild And Wickedlook In Your Eye
19. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
20. Lets Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello
21. Till The End Of The World
22. Im Biting My Fingernails And Thinking Of You
23. Dont Rob Another Mans Castle
24. Daddy When Is Mommy Coming Home
25. Mean Mama Blues
CD2 Slippin' Around (The Hits, Vol. 2)
26. Slippin Around
27. My Tennessee Baby
28. My Filipino Rose
29. Warm Red Wine
30. Blue Christmas
31. White Christmas
32. Tennessee Border No 2
33. Letters Have No Arms
34. Dont Be Ashamed Of Your Age
35. Ill Take A Back Seat For You
36. I Love You Because
37. Unfaithful One
38. Throw Your Love My Way
39. Give Me A Little Old Fashioned Love
40. Hillbilly Fever No 2
41. (Remember Me) Im The One Who Loves You
42. Goodnight Irene
43. Dont Stay Too Long
44. Hey La La
45. Driftwood On The River
46. The Strange Little Girl
47. Missing In Action
48. Somebodys Stolen My Honey
49. Fortunes In Memories
50. Too Old To Cut The Mustard
Blue Eyed Elaine (Tubb the Songwriter Vol.3)
51. Blue Eyed Elaine
52. Ill Get Along Somehow
53. Swell San Angelo
54. Ill Never Cry Over You
55. My Baby And My Wife
56. Please Remember Me
57. Our Babys Book
58. First Year Blues
59. Wasting My Life Away
60. When The World Has Turned You Down
61. Ill Always Be Glad To Take You Back
62. I Aint Goin Honky Tonkin Anymore
63. Ive Really Learned A Lot
64. Im Wondering How
65. I Know What It Means To Be Lonely
66. Are You Waiting Just For Me
67. Answer To Walking The Floor Over You
68. Theres A Little Bit Of Everything In Texas
69. Should I Come Back Home To You
70. Youll Want Me Back (But I Wont Care)
71. Theres Gonna Be Some Changes Made Around Here
72. Im Free At Last
73. Wondering If Youre Wondering Too
74. Theres Nothing On My Mind
75. Dont Brush Them On Me
Texas Troubadour [Box Set] Disc 4
76. The Last Thoughts Of Jimmie Rodgers
77. Im Missing You
78. Time After Time
79. Fort Worth Jail
80. You Were Only Teasing Me
81. A Lonely Heart Knows
82. You Hit The Nail Right On The Head
83. Headin Down The Wrong Highway
84. Waiting For A Train
85. When I Take My Vacation In The Sky
86. Stand By Me
87. The Old Rugged Cross
88. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
89. The Wonderful City
90. Farther Along
91. Texas Vs Kentucky
92. G I R L Spells Trouble
93. Im Free From The Chain Gang Now
94. The Lovebug Itch
95. Kentucky Waltz
96. Im With The Crowd But So Alone
97. My Mother Must Have Been A Girl Like You
98. Somebody Loves You
99. Dont Trifle On Your Sweetheart
