Sheb Wooley - White Lightnin (CD)

He starred alongside Gary Cooper in 'High Noon,' alongside James Dean in 'Giant,' and alongside Clint Eastwood in 'Rawhide!'He wrote the theme tune of the long-running TV show 'Hee-Haw!'He was a country singer... and a cousin of Roger Miller, but his biggest hits, like Purple People Eater, were pop!He sang hit pop and country parodies as Ben Colder! q And he was the king of the country boogie!It was a long, eventful career for Sheb Wooley. Alongside his other achievements, he made the first-ever indie label recordings in Nashville (one of them, Oklahoma Honky Tonk Girl is here) and was on MGM Records from the year after it's inception until the year it finished. Along the way, he scored hits in the 1940s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. This collection focuses heavily on his romping, stomping up-tempo songs... mostly recorded in the 1940s and '50s. Using the cream of west coast session musicians like Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Wooley laid down some shack shakin' country boogies. These were songs you would have found on country jukeboxes in taverns across the west in the years before rock 'n' roll.After the session that launched the record business in Nashville, Wooley didn't return until 1962 when he recorded the rollicking That's My Pa. Incredibly, it was his first-ever charted country hit... and a #1 country hit at that! BEAR FAMILY's 'Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight' just gets better as it goes along, and this long-overdue retrospective of Sheb Wooley's up-tempo sides is the perfect antidote to economic austerity. Good music for bad times!

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Two Sides to Every Story (Live)
2. Hoot Owl Boogie
3. Oklahoma Honky Tonk Girl
4. Peepin Through the Keyhole (Watching Jole Blon)
5. Your Papa Ain't Steppin' Anymore
6. Mule Boogie
7. I Can't Live Without You
8. Lazy Mazy
9. Texas Rose
10. Wha' Hoppen to Me, Baby
11. That Mean Feeling
12. You're the Cats Meow
13. Freight Train Cinders in My Eyes
14. Country Kisses
15. Down in the Toolies
16. What'cha Gonna Do
17. White Lightnin'
18. I Flipped
19. Rover Scoot Over
20. Goodbye Texas, Hello Tennessee
21. Love Is Just Another Merry-Go-Round
22. Tom, the Boogie Woogie Tom Cat
23. I Go Outa My Mind
24. 38-24-35
25. You Never Can Tell
26. Backroom Boogie
27. Don't Stop Kissing Me Goodnight
28. Hill Billy Mambo
29. Humdinger
30. Roughneck
31. That's My Pa