Wilf Carter - A Prairie Legend [Box]

Artist:

Carter, Wilf

UPC:

790051157548

See Also:

Foley, Red Young, Faron Sovine, Red Pierce, Webb Snow, Hank

Description:

Personnel includes: Wilf "Montana Slim" Carter.
Producers: Hugh Joseph, Steve Sholes, Charles R. Grean.
Reissue producer: Richard Weize.
Recorded between 1949 and 1959.
Four CDs containing more than 100 songs recorded by Wilf Carter aka Montana Slim between 1944 and 1952, and his self-produced sessions from 1959. Disc one features more than a dozen tracks with Carter accompanied primarily by his own acoustic guitar, and they`re pretty fair cowboy songs. Carter`s voice is a pleasing one, reminiscent at times of Gene Autry, but his repertory generally doesn`t intersect much with Autry`s -- the early electric-accompanied sides from 1947 are also very spare and have more of a raw quality than one would expect from this era. Disc two captures Carter at the beginning of his most commercial period for RCA, doing romantic ballads as well as his usual cowboy songs. Disc three covers the tail end of his RCA period, when Carter was trying for more of a pop sound, in keeping with the declining public response to cowboy songs -- the stuff is more sentimental, but Carter never strays too far from the playful mood of his best work. Disc four closes out the RCA years with numbers like the shockingly upbeat "Goodbye Maria (I`m Off to Korea)," probably the most cheerful song ever done about that war, and "Mockingbird Love," the song Carter believes helped cost him his RCA contract. The real highlight of this disc, however, is the stuff that Carter cut himself at the end of the 1950s, which mostly consists of really good cowboy material, all originals and all played in a spare, eloquent style with Carter`s voice showing tremendous vigor. With his spoken introduction to the first of these numbers, these could have been the basis for a radio show, if only the time had been right, and they capture the spirit of Carter`s earliest work in Alberta and on the CBC. ~ Bruce Eder

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Farewell, Sweetheart, Farewell
2. Old Shep
3. I`ve Hung up My Chaps and Saddle
4. You`ll Get Used to It
5. I Ain`t Gonna Hobo No More
6. Don`t Be Mean, I Wasn`t Mean to You
7. Sinner`s Prayer, A
8. Plant Some Flowers by My Graveside
9. There`s a Goldstar in Her Window
10. My Blue Skies
11. Put Me in Your Pocket
12. Smilin` Thru` Tears
13. Born to Lose
14. No Letter Today
15. Our Canadian Flag
16. So Hard to Start All Over Again
17. I`ll Never Die of a Broken Heart
18. Dreaming of My Blue Eyes
19. Memories Bring Heartaches to Me
20. My Queen of the Prairies
21. Rye Whiskey
22. One Golden Curl
23. Hang the Key on the Bunkhouse Door
24. I`m a Fool For Foolin` Around

DISC 2:

1. There`s a Loveknot in My Lariat
2. It`s Later Than You Think
3. Too Many Blues
4. Singing on Borrowed Time
5. Just an Old Forgotten Letter
6. She Lost Her Cowboy Pal
7. Ol` Lonely
8. If We Can`t Be Sweethearts Why Can`t We Be Friends
9. Don`t Cry Over Me
10. Sharing Your Love With Somebody New
11. Don`t Wait till Judgment Day (To Cast Your Sins Away)
12. Cowboy Days Ain`t Ramblin` Days No More
13. `Neath a Blanket of Stars
14. I Never Knew That I Could Be So Blue
15. It`s Just a Wild Rose I`m Sending
16. Where the Sleepy Rio`s Flowing
17. You`ll Be Sorry You Turned Me Down
18. Dreamy Lullaby Yodel
19. It`s Hard to Forget You
20. Tramp`s Mother, The
21. Take Away Those Blues Around My Heart
22. Midnight Train, The
23. I`m Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox
24. It Can`t Be Done
25. All I Need Is Some More Lovin`
26. Bluebird on Your Windowsill, (There`s A)
27. When the Iceworms Nest Again
28. Shackles and Chains

DISC 3:

1. No! No! Don`t Ring Those Bells
2. Give a Little, Take a Little
3. Unfaithful One
4. Little Shirt My Mother Made For Me, The
5. Guilty Conscience
6. Take It Easy Blues
7. My Heart`s Closed For Repairs
8. My Wife Is on a Diet
9. Let`s Go Back to the Bible
10. She`ll Be There (What a Friend We Have in Mother)
11. I Wish There Were Only Three Days in the Year
12. When That Love Bug Bites You (He`ll Keep Gnawin`, Gnawin`, Gnawin`)
13. Just a Woman`s Smile
14. Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
15. Apple, Cherry, Mince and Choc`late Cream
16. Jolly Old St. Nicholas
17. KP Blues, The
18. Blue Canadian Rockies, The
19. Dear Evalina
20. My Oklahoma Rose
21. What Cigarette Is Best
22. Sick, Sober and Sorry
23. Teardrops Don`t Always Mean a Broken Heart
24. Wha Hoppen?
25. Punkinhead (The Little Bear)
26. Night Before Christmas in Texas That Is, The

DISC 4:

1. Goodbye Maria (I`m Off to Korea)
2. Driftwood on the River
3. Manhunt
4. Mockingbird Love, (All You Gave Me Was)
5. Square-Dance Boogie
6. Sweet Little Lover
7. Huggin`, Squeezin`, Kissin`, Teasin`
8. Sleep Little One Sleep
9. Alabama Saturday Night
10. Hot Foot Boogie
11. I Remember the Rodeo
12. Pete Knight, The King of the Cowboys
13. When the Iceworms Nest Again
14. My Little Grey Haired Mother in the West
15. He Rode the Strawberry Roan
16. Rattlin` Cannonball
17. Calgary Roundup, The
18. That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
19. Smoke Went up the Chimney Just the Same, The
20. Capture of Albert Johnson, The
21. Beautiful Girl of the Prairie
22. Singing in My Last Roundup

Album Information

Release Date:

12/14/1993

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Cowboy

Label:

Bear Family Records (Germany)

Catalog Number:

15754

Original Release Year:

1996

# of Discs:

4

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

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