Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas [Bear Family] [Box]

Artist:

Tubb, Ernest

UPC:

790051592929

See Also:

Wills, Bob

Description:

Personnel includes: Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn, The Texas Troubadors.
Recorded between 1961 and 1966.
Not to be confused with any other collection using the same title, Bear Family`s five-CD Waltz Across Texas continues the label`s comprehensive release of Ernest Tubb`s complete recordings. The highlights for most fans will be the dozen 1964-65 duets with Loretta Lynn, which are considered essential listening, but there`s a lot more here worth owning. Tubb`s vocal range had narrowed considerably in the ten years or so leading up to the 1960s, but he and producer Owen Bradley had worked out recordings that made his range sound greater than it was. For a lot of real fans, the highlights on Disc One will be the raw studio performances of cuts that were later mixed with applause for release as the fake "live" On Tour album, which might have been a cheat but did present Tubb and the band playing loose and freewheeling. Disc Three has a generally jauntier selection of material, including a dozen songs by the Texas Troubadors; its last two songs mark the beginning of the Ernest Tubb-Loretta Lynn collaborations. The quality of Tubb`s music held steady even coming up on his 30th year in the recording business, mostly by virtue of his continuing to find good songs and Owen Bradley`s way of recording him to the best advantage -- his voice on much of his mid-`60s output sounds like a finely aging instrument, and far more comfortable and pleasing than some of his late `50s material. Disc Five presents the balance of the early Lynn duets, as well as the title track, Tubb`s last major hit. The sound throughout is state-of-the-art, and the annotated booklet is worth owning by itself, for what it tells us about the man and the band. ~ Bruce Eder

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Go to Sleep Conscience (Don`t Hurt Me...)
2. Danny Boy
3. Through That Door
4. What Kind of God Do You Think You Are
5. Rose City Chimes
6. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
7. I Never Could Say No
8. In and Out (Of Every Heart in Town)
9. Steel Guitar Rag
10. Redskin Rag
11. Old Love, New Tears
12. Out of My Mind
13. Woman Make a Fool Out of Me, The
14. Drivin` Nails in My Coffin
15. Pick Me up on Your Way Down
16. Try Me One More Time
17. Lover`s Waltz
18. Show Her Lots of Gold
19. I`m Looking High and Low For My Baby
20. Go on Home
21. Try Me One More Time
22. Watching My Past Go By
23. Show Her Lots of Gold
24. Bandera Waltz
25. I Told You So
26. I Loved You Once
27. Old Faded Photograph, An
28. Last Letter, The
29. Out of My Mind

DISC 2:

1. Beyond the Last Mile
2. Just Call Me Lonesome
3. Just Pardners
4. If You Call That Gone, Goodbye
5. How Can I Be Sure
6. I`ll Never Tell You I Love You
7. I Think I`ll Give Up
8. I`m as Free as a Breeze
9. Just Call Me Lonesome
10. House of Sorrow
11. No Letter Today
12. Great Speckled Bird, The
13. Family Bible
14. He`ll Understand and Say Well Done
15. Mr. Juke Box
16. Mr. Juke Box
17. Walking the Floor Over You
18. That`s All She Wrote
19. Just One More
20. Wings of a Dove
21. I Saw the Light
22. Stand by Me
23. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
24. When It`s Prayer Meetin` Time in the Hollow
25. Precious Memories
26. If We Never Meet Again
27. Lonesome Valley
28. Follow Me
29. Your Side of the Story

DISC 3:

1. Be Better to Your Baby
2. Way That You`re Living, The (Is Breaking My Heart)
3. Your Side of the Story
4. Beyond the Last Mile
5. Thanks a Lot
6. Thanks a Lot
7. Lonesome 7-7203
8. San Antonio Rose
9. Six Days on the Road
10. Cain`s Corner
11. Rhodesbud Boogie
12. I`ll Have Another Cup of Coffee
13. Panhandle Rag
14. Texas Troubador Stomp
15. I Will Miss You When You Go
16. Last Letter, The
17. 12th Street Rag
18. Honey Love
19. Waltz You Saved For Me, The
20. Stop Me (If You`ve Heard This One Before)
21. Big Fool of the Year
22. Take a Letter, Miss Gray
23. Lonesome 7-7203
24. Think of Me, Thinking of You
25. Green Light, The
26. There She Goes
27. I Almost Lost My Mind
28. Steppin` Out
29. Love Was Right Here All Along
30. I`ll Just Call You Darlin`

DISC 4:

1. Two in the Cold
2. Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be
3. Pass the Booze
4. That`s All You`ll Ever Be to Me, (A Memory)
5. Turn Around Walk Away
6. Red Top
7. Hello World
8. Last Goodbye, The
9. That`s When It`s Coming Home to You
10. Oklahoma Hills
11. Just a Stone`s Throw Away
12. Another Bridge to Burn
13. Almost to Tulsa
14. Highway Man
15. Leon`s Guitar Boogie
16. Honky Tonk & You
17. Twilight Over Texas
18. Detour
19. C-Jam Blues
20. What About Me
21. Leon`s Guitar Boogie
22. Are You Mine
23. Just Between the Two of Us
24. Lots of Luck
25. Strangers, (My Friends Are Gonna Be)
26. Do What You Do Do Well
27. Throw Your Love My Way
28. Wild Side of Life, The
29. Leon`s Guitar Boogie - (alternate take)

DISC 5:

1. I`m With a Crowd But So Alone
2. Give Me a Little Old Fashioned Love
3. Precious Little Baby
4. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
5. I Reached For the Wine
6. My Past Brought Me to You
7. Dear John Letter, A
8. We`re Not Kids Anymore
9. Keep Those Cards and Letters
10. Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
11. Each Night at Nine
12. Big City
13. Before I`m Over You
14. Beggar to a King
15. When Two Worlds Collide
16. Fraulein
17. She Called Me Baby
18. Tell Her So
19. Don`t Be Angry
20. I`ve Got a Tiger by the Tail
21. Waltz Across Texas
22. Honeymoon With the Blues
23. Afraid to Care
24. Big Beaver
25. Coconut Grove
26. What Am I Bid?
27. Lost Highway
28. After the Boy Gets a Girl
29. I`m a Sad Lonely Man
30. I`ll Be There
31. Holdin` Hands

DISC 6:

1. With Tears in My Eyes
2. Blue Christmas Tree
3. Who`s Gonna Be Your Santa Claus This Year
4. What Am I Bid?
5. It`s For God, Country, And You, Mom
6. You`ll Still Be in My Heart
7. Forgive Me
8. Too Many Rivers
9. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
10. Till My Getup Has Got up and Gone
11. Release Me
12. Mom and Dad`s Waltz
13. Born to Lose
14. Hello Trouble (Come on in)
15. Just One More
16. Born to Lose
17. I`ll Keep on Loving You
18. Under Your Spell Again
19. They`ll Never Take Her Love From Me
20. Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)
21. Tennessee Waltz
22. Fireball Mail
23. I Hung My Head and Cried
24. Before I Met You
25. Memphis
26. I`m Gonna Tie One on Tonight
27. May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose
28. Waitin` in Your Welfare Line
29. No Matter What Happens My Darling

Album Information

Release Date:

02/11/1999

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Honkytonk

Label:

Bear Family Records (Germany)

Catalog Number:

15929

Original Release Year:

1999

# of Discs:

6

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

Guest Artist:

Loretta Lynn

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