Cat. No. CDCHD 818: VARIOUS ARTISTS ~ SHREVEPORT HIGH STEPPERS - RAM ROCKABILLY & HILLBILLY. ACE RECORDS CDCHD 818. (IMPORT).
VOLUME TWO IN THIS SERIES. ANOTHER OUTING OF ULTRA RARE ROCKABILLY AND HILLBILLY RECORDINGS FROM THE SHREVEPORT-BASED INDIE RAM RECORDS THAT INCLUDES MANY UNISSUED TRACKS AND ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS. CONTAINS A COUPLE OF TRACKS WHICH SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE REMAINED UNISSUED, HOWEVER, NICE TO HEAR THE LONESOME DRIFTER'S TRACKS IN TOP QUALITY. OVERALL QUITE ACCEPTABLE. GOOD ****
TRACK LISTING: The Lonesome Drifter – Eager Boy / Mack and Gwen & The Country Playboys – Baby I Want Another Date / Joe Osborne – Rovin’ (previously unissued) / Margaret Lewis – Shake A Leg / The Lonesome Drifter – Honey Do You Think Of Me / Teardrop Valley / James Wilson & The Jimmie Cats – Wilson’s Blues No.1 / You Won’t Know Me Why ‘Til I’m Gone / Leon Post – Dollie In The Dirt Boogie (previously unissued) / Linda Brannon – Just Another Lie / The Lonesome Drifter – Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues / No Loving No Rocking Blues / I’ll Take A Chance / Endom Spires – I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Charlotte Hunter – I’ll Be True (previously unissued) / Wherever You Are (previously unissued) / The Lonesome Drifter – I Wished It Wasn’t So / This Old World Don’t Seem The Same / I’m Gonna Quit Crying / I’ll Be Lonesome When You’re Gone / Toby Johnson – When I First Met My Girl (previously unissued) / Thinkin’ Of You / Margaret Lewis With Grace Tennessee – Goin’ To St Louie (previously unissued) / Roy Wayne – Any Way You Do / Honey Don’t You Listen / Larry Lincoln – My Baby Went Away / That’ll Hold You.
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