Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles 1953-62 (CD)

Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles 1953-62 - Rose Maddox was a country singer, songwriter and fiddle player from Alabama, whose family migrated to California in the 1930s, where she started singing on radio and formed a band with her brothers, who performed and recorded for a decade after WWII as the Maddox Brothers & Rose. When the group broke up in 1957, she started a solo career and enjoyed a string of chart entries over the next few years as she built a reputation as an extrovert, dynamic performer, blending hillbilly, rockabilly and gospel in a highly distinctive musical mix. This 58-track 2-CD collection comprises most of the A&B sides of her singles on Columbia and Capitol during these years, plus bonus tracks from her Capitol album "One Rose". It features her No. 3 country hit "Sing A Little Song Of Heartache" and her other solo country hits from this era "Gambler's Love", "Kissing My Pillow", "I Want To Live Again" and "Conscience I'm Guilty", plus her Top 10 duet hits with Buck Owens "Mental Cruelty" and "Loose Talk". She was an artist who had an impact far beyond the degree of her success, with Emmylou Harris saying she has not has the attention she deserves and Dolly Parton citing her as an early influence. This collection offers a substantial overview of a key era of her solo career and is an entertaining showcase for her particular style of country.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The Nightingale Song
2. I'd Rather Die Young
3. I'm a Little Red Caboose (On the Choo-Choo Train of Love)
4. Wasted Years
5. Kiss Me Like Crazy
6. Just One More Time
7. Birthday Card Song (The Card That You Sent on My Birthday)
8. Breathless Love
9. Marry Me Again
10. Poor Little Heartbroken Rose
11. Waltz of the Pines
12. Life That You've Led
13. I Wonder If I Can Lose the Blues This Way
14. There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong
15. Wild, Wild Young Men
16. Second Choice
17. Humming Bird
18. Words Are So Easy to Say
19. Wild Wind
20. Was There a Teardrop
21. Hasty Baby
22. When the Sun Goes Down
23. Tall Men
24. Hey Little Dreamboat
25. Burrito Jo
26. False Hearted
27. Looky There Over There
28. Your Sweet Mean Heart

Disc: 2

1. Take a Gamble on Me
2. 1-2-3-4 Anyplace Road (Somewhere USA)
3. I'll Go Steppin' Too
4. Let Those Brown Eyes Smile at Me
5. Gambler's Love
6. What Makes Me Hang Around
7. Custer's Last Stand
8. My Little Baby
9. Lost Today
10. I'm Happy Every Day I Live
11. Please Help Me I'm Falling
12. Down, Down, Down
13. Shining Silver Gleaming Gold
14. Billy Cline
15. I Want to Live Again
16. Kissing My Pillow
17. Mental Cruelty
18. Loose Talk
19. Conscience I'm Guilty
20. Lonely Street
21. There Ain't No Love
22. Your Kind of Lovin' Won't Do
23. Here We Go Again
24. Fool Me Again
25. Let's Pretend We're Strangers
26. Take Me Back Again
27. Sing a Little Song of Heartache
28. Tie a Ribbon in the Apple Tree
29. Honky-Tonkin'
30. Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me