Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book

(Bear Family Records) 105 tracks - Box set contains 60 page book - Contains all of the Columbia recordings from first session in 1949 until January 1957. Er ist ein Dauerbrenner der Nashville Music seit 1949 gewesen aber er ist einer der am wenigsten anerkannten Künstler in dieser Stadt. Heute ist er einer der wenigen echten Country Künstler, die in den Hügeln aufwuchsen und damit begannen, reine Mountain Music zu singen. Als Jimmy nach Nashville kam, unterschireb er bei Columbia, dieser Set sammelt seine ganzen Aufnahmen für Columbia von 1949 bis 1957. Jimmy nahm nicht nur erstklassige flotte Novelty Songs auf wie Take And Old Cold Tater And Wait, Country Boy, I‘ve Got A Rocket In My Pocket, Hillbilly Fever, A-Sleepin‘ At The Foot Of Your Bed und Out Behind The Barn, er war auch einer der besten Balladen-Sängr unserer Zeit, der solche großartigen und herzergreifenden Balladen sang wie My Heart‘s Bouquet oder die Original-Versionen von Country Standards wie Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go, Life Turned Her That Way, We Could und Another Bridge To Burn. Jimmy verpflichtete auch erstklassige Musiker wie Jabbo Arrington, Spider Wilson, Grady Martin und Thumbs Carlille. Die 105 Aufnahmen dieser Collection beginnen, das Können des Little Jimmy Dickens ins rechte Licht zu rücken.He has been a mainstay of the Nashville music scene since 1949, but he‘s one of the least-appreciated artists in the city. Now he‘s one of the last real country artists who grew up back in the hills and started off singing pure mountain music. When Jimmy came to Nashville, he signed with Columbia, and this set gathers his complete Columbia recordings from 1949 to early 1957. Jimmy not only recorded superb uptempo novelties like Take An Old Cold Tater And Wait, Country Boy, I‘ve Got A Rocket In My Pocket, Hillbilly Fever, A-Sleepin‘ At The Foot Of The Bed and Out Behind The Barn, but he was also one of the great ballad singers of our time, recording enduring and heartfelt ballads like My Heart‘s Bouquet and the original version of such country standards as Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go, Life Turned Her That Way, We Could and Another Bridge To Burn. Jimmy also hired some great pickers including Jabbo Arrington, Spider Wilson, Grady Martin, and Thumbs Carlille. The 105 tracks on this collection begin to set the record straight on Little Jimmy Dickens!