Wilf Carter - Montana Slim 1933-1941 (CD)

With a crystal clear voice, fine yodelling and good guitar picking it's no surprise that Wilf Carter was Canada's first country music star. This is a selection from the two hundred or more terrific sides he cut between 1933 and 1944. His loyal fan base probably accounted for his phenomenal recording career - which stretched from the 1930s to the 1980s. His live performances were ever popular and he appeared regularly on the Canadian rodeo circuit. Having written nearly five hundred original songs he was inducted in to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971 and was voted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1984 - for many fans he's the father of Canadian country music.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy
2. Yodelling Hillbilly
3. Rescue from Moose River Gold Mine
4. There'll Be No Blues Up Yonder
5. The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan
6. Answer to Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
7. The Cowboy's Airplane Ride
8. Keep Smiling Old Pal
9. There's a Love Knot in My Lariat
10. My Little Yoho Lady
11. Where Is My Boy Tonight
12. The Hindenburg Disaster
13. When the Sun Says Goodnight to the Prairie
14. Everybody's Been Some Mother's Darling
15. The Little Red Patch on the Seat of My Trousers
16. Down the Yodelling Trail at Twilight
17. Dusty Trails
18. By the Grave of Nobody's Darling
19. What a Friend We Have in Mother
20. It Makes No Difference Now
21. I'm Only a Dude in Cowboy's Clothes
22. My Honeymoon Bridge Broke Down
23. Golden Lariat
24. Yodelling Love Call
25. We'll Meet Again in Peaceful Valley
26. My Dream's Come True

Disc: 2

1. Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
2. The Capture of Albert Johnson
3. When I Say Hello to the Rockies
4. Golden Memories of Mother and Dad
5. My Old Canadian Home
6. Echoing Hills Yodel Back to Me
7. Let's Go Back to the Bible
8. Old Chuck Wagon Days
9. My Texas Sweetheart
10. If You Don't Really Care
11. My True and Earnest Prayer
12. Why Did We Ever Part
13. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
14. Just One More Ride
15. Yodelling My Babies to Sleep
16. Memories That Never Die
17. He Rode the Strawberry Roan
18. Take Me Back to Old Montana
19. My Little Grey Haired Mother in the West
20. A Little Log Shack I Can Always Call My Home
21. I Miss My Swiss
22. Sway Back Pinto Pete
23. The Life and Death John Dillinger
24. Awaiting the Chair
25. Calgary Round Up
26. Pete Knight King of the Cowboy

Disc: 3

1. The Cowboy's High-Toned Dance
2. I Bought a Rock for a Rocky Mountain Gal
3. Streamlined Yodel Song
4. By the Silv'ry Moonlight Trail
5. My Blues Have Turned to Sunshine
6. Sundown Blues
7. The Dying Mother's Prayer
8. Cowboy's Mother
9. Smoke Went Up the Chimney Just the Same
10. I'm Gonna Ride to Heaven on a Streamline Train
11. The Two Gun Cowboy
12. Cowboy Lullaby
13. Lonesome for My Baby Tonight
14. Hillbilly Valley
15. Round-Up Time in Heaven
16. Dreamy Prairie Moon
17. Answer to It Makes No Difference Now
18. Roll Along Kentucky Moon
19. It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry)
20. Rattlin' Cannonball
21. Why Should I Be Sorry for You Now
22. Beautiful Girl of the Prairie
23. What a Wonderful Mother of Mine
24. You Are My Sunshine
25. You Were with Me in the Waltz of My Dreams
26. When That Some Body Else Was You

Disc: 4

1. Waiting for a Train
2. I'm Hittin' the Trail
3. I'm Gonna Ride to Heaven on a Streamlined Train
4. Why Did We Ever Part
5. The Last Letter
6. The First Love of Mine
7. Dreaming of My Blue Eyes
8. No Letter Today
9. You'll Get Used to It
10. Put Me in Your Pocket
11. Old Shep
12. My Queen of the Prairies
13. I Ain't Gonna Be a Hobo No More
14. A Sinner's Prayer
15. My Blue Skies
16. Don't Be Mean, I Wasn't Mean to You
17. It's a Cowboy's Night to Howl
18. Red River Valley Blues
19. The Two Gun Cowboy
20. He Left the One Who Loved Him for Another
21. My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight for You
22. Call of the Range
23. It's Great to Be Back in the Saddle Again
24. We'll Meet Again in Peaceful Valley
25. Under the Light of the Texas Moon
26. I'm Still Waiting for You