Jimmie Skinner - One Dead Man Ago: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)

2008 release, the first single-disc anthology showcasing this great down-home stylist from Country Music's golden age! This collection is packed with up tempo '50s Honky Tonk classics from Capitol, Decca and Mercury master tapes, plus vintage rarities from Radio Artists. Includes Skinner's biggest chart hit 'I Found My Girl in the U.S.A.' plus such enduring originals like 'Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler' and 'You Don't Know My Mind'. Jimmie Skinner drew the map that today's Alt-Country singer songwriters follow. Inspired by the bluesmen of his youth, Skinner wrote songs of melancholy, despair and anger, framing them with catchy, unforgettable melodies. The consummate Country Music outsider, Skinner stripped Country to it's raw essentials, much as Sun Records did with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and especially Johnny Cash and His Tennessee Two. 33 tracks. Bear Family.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The Rambler's Call
2. Jimmie Speaks (Hamilton, Ohio 1926)
3. Ramblin' Boy Blues
4. Lula Lee
5. Muddy Water Blues
6. There's Nothin' About You Special
7. Running Out of Time
8. It's All the Same to Me
9. Kentucky and You
10. Women Beware (Of the Ramblin' Kind)
11. I Ain't Got Time
12. By Degrees
13. Don't Give My Heart to a Rambler
14. My Broken Heart's Startin' to Show
15. Baby I Could Change My Way
16. Too Hot to Handle
17. (My Heart's) on a Budget
18. Dime a Dozen (That's What You Are)
19. How Low Can You Feel
20. I Need a Little Lovin'
21. Another Saturday Night
22. Just Ramblin' on
23. Where My Sweet Baby Goes
24. I Found My Girl in the U.S.A
25. Hafta Do Somethin' 'Bout That
26. You Don't Know My Mind
27. John Wesley Hardin
28. Riverboat Gambler
29. I'm a Lot More Lonesome Now
30. 100 Proof Heartaches
31. I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still)
32. One Dead Man Ago
33. Rambler's Call
34. Rambler's Call