Roy Acuff - Best Of Roy Acuff (Curb)

Artist:

Acuff, Roy

UPC:

715187745421

See Also:

The Maddox Brothers & Rose

Description:

Includes liner notes by Don Ovens.
Personnel: Roy Acuff (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Don Ovens.
One of the best of the many Roy Acuff compilations available, Curb`s BEST OF ROY ACUFF features excellently remastered sound and a fantastic, well-sequenced selection that ranges from the shy, genial Tennessean`s first country hit, 1938`s "Wabash Cannonball," to sprightly versions of country standards like Hank Williams` "Jambalaya" and Bill Monroe`s bluegrass classic "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Roy Acuff was not known as The King of Country Music for nothing. Besides his mournful and extremely influential high lonesome singing voice and underappreciated skills as a fiddler, Acuff was a powerful man in Nashville`s music industry as owner of the enormous Acuff-Rose music publishing company. But it was for his music, not his business acumen, that Roy Acuff is cherished among fans of traditional country music. Country doesn`t get any better than this.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2. Waltz of the Wind
3. This World Can`t Stand Long
4. Wreck on the Highway
5. Turn Your Radio On
6. Old Time Sunshine Song
7. Write Me, Sweetheart
8. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
9. Life`s Railway to Heaven
10. Remember Me
11. Blue Moon of Kentucky
12. Jol? Blon

Album Information

Release Date:

12/27/1994

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Honkytonk

Label:

Curb

Catalog Number:

CD 77454

Original Release Year:

1991

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

30 : 57

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