A Proper Introduction to Webb Pierce: Groovie Boogie Woogie Boy

Product Description
Import exclusive compilation features comprehensive liner notes, photographs, & discographies. Proper. 2004.

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Average customer rating: Another disappointment

A Proper Introduction to Webb Pierce: Groovie Boogie Woogie Boy Webb Pierce Manufacturer: Proper Introduction ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Proper Introduction to Ike Turner with Jackie Brenston A Proper Introduction to Cowboy Copas: Signed, Sealed and Delivered ASIN: B0002Z9Y78 Release Date: 2004-09-20

Tracks:

1. Groovie Boogie Woogie Boy
2. High Geared Daddy
3. New Panhandle Rag
4. Heebie Jeebie Blues
5. Sweetheart You Know I Love You So
6. Million Years from Now -
7. I Heard Her Call My Name -
8. I'm Happy You Hurt Me
9. English Sweetheart
10. I've Loved You Forever It Seems
11. Hawaiian Echoes
12. Georgia Rag
13. Lucy Lee
14. Jilted Love
15. Driftin' Texas Sand - Tillman Franks & His Rainbow Boys
16. I Need You Like a Hole in the Head
17. I'm Sittin' on Top of the World - Buddy Attaway
18. Freight Train Blues
19. California Blues - Tillman Franks & His Rainbow Boys
20. Hayride Boogie - Tillman Franks
21. I Got Religion on Saturday Night
22. Have You Ever Had the Feeling
23. In the Jailhouse - Shot Jackson, Webb Pierce,
24. Last Waltz - Shot Jackson, Webb Pierce,
25. Wondering
26. Back Street Affair
27. It's Been So Long
28. There Stands the Glass

Album Description

Import exclusive compilation features comprehensive liner notes, photographs, & discographies. Proper. 2004.

Album Details

Webb Pierce was One of the Most Popular Honky Tonk Vocalists of the '50s, Racking Up More Number One Hits Than Similar Artists Like Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell, and Ernest Tubb. For Most of the General Public, Pierce, with his Lavish, Flamboyant Nudie Suits Became the Most Recognizable Face of Country Music, as Well as all of Its Excesses; After All, He Boasted About his Pair of Convertibles Lined with Silver Dollars and his Guitar-shaped Swimming Pool. Comes with a Fully Illustrated Booklet featuring Comprehensive Liner Notes, Photographs and Discographies.

Customer Reviews:

Another disappointment.......2004-11-04

At first glimpse, this looks like a collector's dream: an economically priced collection of Webb Pierce's 4-Star, Pacemaker and early Decca sides. The 4-Star material has long been burdened with after-the-fact overdubs of additional instrumentation and vocal choruses, and one would hope that Proper would present it in its original unfettered monophonic glory. Sadly, eight of these tracks are still encumbered with the incongruous ersatz accompaniment that has made them unlistenable since the LP era: High Geared Daddy, New Panhandle Rag, Heebie Jeebie Blues, Sweetheart You Know I Love You So, I'm Happy You Hurt Me, English Sweetheart, Lucy Lee and Jilted Love.

The good news is that the other 20 tracks appear in their original form with good sound. And it's cheap, so one can justifiably buy it and just skip over the offending tracks. But the question remains: Will the original, undubbed versions of Webb Pierce's 4-Star recordings ever be reissued? It's time!

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