Various - Bakersfield Sound 1940-1974

Tracks

• CD 1
• 1: Lloyd stalcup - the cotton picker's song
• 2: Homer pierce - darlin' baby
• 3: Jack bryant - sunny cal
• 4: Mary sullivan - sunny california
• 5: Wayne 'gene' dinwiddle - home in the government camp
• 6: King family - get along down to town
• 7: Lloyd reading - home in san antone
• 8: Bob wills and his texas playboys - opening theme / seven com
• 9: Get along home cindy
• 10: Elwin cross and his arizona wranglers - back in dear old okl
• 11: The maddox brothers and rose - okie boogie
• 12: Bob manning (vocal - billy gray) - reading your letter with
• 13: Leon payne - lost highway
• 14: Tex marshall & bill woods - hittin' the trail
• 15: Leo 'tex' butler - when the leaves come tumbling down
• 16: Bill woods / cliff crofford - have i got a chance with you
• 17: The maddox brothers and rose - water baby blues (boogie)
• 18: Terry preston - (a pretty woman is a) deadly weapon i want y
• 19: Herb henson - funny book
• 20: Jimmy thomason - honey baby
• 21: Your love was like the weater
• 22: Hillbilly barton - you made me love you
• 23: Ebb pilling and his ozark squirrel shooters - ozark polka
• 24: Bill woods and his orange blossom playboys with hillbilly ba
• 25: Fuzzy & bonnie owens - a dear john letter
• 26: Bill woods & rita goodwin - dear john
• 27: Billy mize with bill woods and his orange blossom playboys -
• 28: Ferlin husky - hank's song
• 29: Joe maphis & rose lee - dim lights, thick smoke (and loud, l
• 30: Jean shepard & ferlin husky - a dear john letter
• CD 2
• 1: Tommy collins - you better not do that
• 2: Dallas frazier - ain't you had no bringin' up at all
• 3: Bud hobbs - louisiana swing
• 4: Forest lee & clete stewart - when i hold you
• 5: Buck owens - down on the corner of love
• 6: Dave stogner with al brumley - stepping stones
• 7: Herb henson & joyce yours - out of line
• 8: Semie moseley - when the saints go marching in
• 9: Jean shepard - take possession
• 10: The farmer boys - it pays to advertise
• 11: Wynn stewart - why do i love you so
• 12: Tommy duncan - crazy mixed up kid
• 13: Johnny taylor - sad sad saturday night
• 14: Wanda jackson - i gotta know
• 15: Billy mize - who will buy the wine
• 16: Al coker with the coker family - baby i like your style
• 17: Louise duncan - wherever you are
• 18: Sid silver - bumble rumble
• 19: Andy morris - i need her love
• 20: Dusty payne - i want you
• 21: Fuzzy owen - your every thing (i wish that she could be)
• 22: Bonnie blue bell - i never thought
• 23: Jan howard - what time tomorrow
• 24: George rich - drivin' away my blues
• 25: Bill woods - ask me no questions
• 26: Fuzzy owen - beware of a stranger
• 27: Skeets mcdonald - keep her off your mind
• 28: Dave stogner - yes sir
• 29: Harlan howard - fun on the freeway
• 30: Cliff crofford - a night for love
• 31: The farmer boys - someone to love
• 32: Buck owens - come back to me
• CD 3
• 1: Reuben chapman with coy baker & his band - i'm sorry too
• 2: Don thompson with coy baker & his band - empty days and lone
• 3: Phil brown - you're a luxury
• 4: Unknown - steady lovin'
• 5: Johnny bond - i like that kind
• 6: Henry sharp - crazy moon
• 7: Gene martin with the desert stars - pair of empty arms
• 8: Herb henson - you'al come
• 9: Lewis talley - letters have no arms
• 10: Buck owens - second fiddle
• 11: Billy and cliff - when
• 12: Billy mize - you can't take your love outta this boy
• 13: Billy kaundart - i removed your ring
• 14: Larry bryant - keep right on tryin'
• 15: Buck owens - tired of livin'
• 16: Joe hall - cold hearted woman
• 17: Owen charles - stage coach
• 18: Rip goodman and marcia - if i could only tell you
• 19: George latta - our hearts
• 20: Buck owens - til these dreams come true
• 21: Billy and cliff - living up to my name
• 22: Don markham & the marksmen - goose, pt. 1
• 23: Bonnie owens - just for the children's sake
• 24: Wally lewis - my baby walks all over me
• 25: Wynn stewart - playboy
• 26: Al brumley - someone's gonna get hurt
• 27: Jackie kelley - door of temptation
• 28: Jelly sanders - fiddlin' country style
• 29: Buck owens & rose maddox - loose talk
• 30: Jimmy patton - what will i do (with all these memories)
• 31: Tommy dee - loving you (on someone elses' time)
• 32: Custer bottoms & jack and jerry - why tell me
• CD 4
• 1: Buck owens - king of fools
• 2: The marksmen - scratch
• 3: Jerry cornelius and the golden eagles - it's my turn to cry
• 4: Wayne morris - i can't stop lovin'
• 5: Wayne morris - i pretend
• 6: Bill woods - truck drivin' man
• 7: Billy bledsoe - my last night in town
• 8: Leon hart - new home sweet home
• 9: Kenny hays - crossing my fingers
• 10: Kenny hays - foolish notions
• 11: Georgia lynn - on your wedding day
• 12: Tommy lewis - go where you wanta go
• 13: Vancie flowers - private party
• 14: Buck owens - there's gonna come a day
• 15: Anita cross - why should i cry again
• 16: Bonnie owens - waggin' tongues
• 17: Rollie weber - painting the town
• 18: Johnny barnett - second fiddle
• 19: Johnny barnett - too old to hurt
• 20: Merle haggard - skid row
• 21: Bill meyers - good-bye mr. blues
• 22: Buck owens - if you ain't lovin' you ain't livin'
• 23: Bill bledsoe - tell me why
• 24: Bob morris - put your arms around him
• 25: Roy nichols - silver bells
• 26: Buck owens - act naturally (live)
• 27: Merle haggard - life in prison
• 28: Bobby durham - my past is present
• 29: Bobby durham - queen of snob hill
• 30: Vancie and rita - tears in my beer
• 31: Rose stassi - out of my mind
• CD 5
• 1: Buck owens - close up the honky tonks
• 2: Merle haggard & bonnie owens - slowly but surely
• 3: Bob hortter - working overtime
• 4: Jim witlock - s.o.s.
• 5: Buck owens - fallin' for you
• 6: Merle haggard - if i had left it up to you
• 7: I'm gonna break every heart i can (tally)
• 8: I'm gonna break every heart i can (capitol)
• 9: Tommy duncan - i wish i hadn't called you
• 10: Jim ward - red wine
• 11: Lewis talley - more wine, more women, more song
• 12: Merle haggard & bonnie owens - i'll take a chance
• 13: Don rich & the buckaroos - i'm layin' it on the line
• 14: Buck owens - there never was a fool
• 15: Doyle holly & the buckaroos - after you leave me
• 16: Dee mize (aka buddy mize) - just leave my world alone
• 17: Billy mize - walking my fool
• 18: Liz anderson - (my friends are gonna be) strangers
• 19: Tommy collins - if you can't bite don't growl
• 20: Jeanie o'neal - alcohol and tears
• 21: Bobby durham - home is where i hang my head
• 22: Red simpson - jeannie with the light brown cadillac
• 23: Merle haggard - swinging doors (alternate take)
• 24: Kay adams - roll out the red carpet
• 25: Dick curless & kay adams - old standby
• 26: Buck owens - house of memories
• 27: Tiger by the tail (live at carnegie hall)
• 28: Vicki lester - fool me again
• 29: Ray salter - the bad guy gets the girl
• 30: Billy mize - pappy was a clever man
• CD 6
• 1: Bobby austin - apartment #9
• 2: Buck owens - open up your heart
• 3: Dick curless - a good job huntin' and fishin'
• 4: Gary paxton - goin' thru the motions
• 5: Red simpson - i'm actin' like my old self again
• 6: Kay adams - little pink mack
• 7: Doyle holly - the dumb thing
• 8: Merle haggard - someone told my story
• 9: Red simpson - diesel smoke, dangerous curves
• 10: Barbara mandrell - queen for a day
• 11: Ronnie sessions - i guess you're finally satisfied
• 12: Merle haggard - mixed up mess of a heart
• 13: Joe and rose lee maphis - a lifetime of love
• 14: Del and sue smart - i'm so mad at me
• 15: Merle haggard - drink up and be somebody
• 16: Wayne wilson & don rich with the buckaroos - you'll never mi
• 17: Faye hardin - only the strong can survive
• 18: Merle haggard - you don't have very far to go
• 19: Bobby austin - i'm not looking for an angel
• 20: The buckaroos - chicken pickin'
• 21: Doyle holly & the buckaroos - a foolish notion ? merle hagga
• 22: Oscar whittington - 50 year waltz
• 23: Del and sue smart - love that just won't stop
• 24: The gosdin brothers - hangin' on
• 25: Suzi arden - who do you go to
• 26: Ronnie sessions - there never was a fool
• 27: Merle haggard - where does the good times go
• 28: Joe maphis - pickin' and guitin'
• 29: Rose lee maphis - country girl courtship
• 30: Wayne wilson - i'd rather be hurt by you
• CD 7
• 1: Buck owens - the heartaches have just started
• 2: Gene moles - fingerlickin'
• 3: Al brumley - i'm goin' crazy
• 4: Bill handy with jelly sanders combo - don't leave me cryin'
• 5: Leo stephens - walking in my sleep crying over you
• 6: Tom rose - it's over
• 7: Buck owens and buddy alan - let the world keep on a turnin'
• 8: Merle haggard - too many bridges to cross over
• 9: Dean sanford - too young to grow old over you
• 10: Tommy wiggins - calling all lovers
• 11: Larry daniels & the buckshots - buckshot
• 12: Bonnie owens - lead me on
• 13: Leon copeland - i'm out of my mind
• 14: Clarence white - buckaroo
• 15: The sanland brothers - vaccination for the blues
• 16: Red simpson - you put my world back together
• 17: The strangers (merle haggrad) - hammin' it up
• 18: Bob ross - lucy clowers
• 19: Ronnie sessions - (i used to live) the life of riley
• 20: Barbara cheatwood - married man
• 21: Billy mize - make it rain
• 22: Cliff crofford - mention my name
• 23: Buck owens - sam's place (live in london)
• 24: Merle haggard - california cottonfields
• 25: Rodney lay - not going back to jackson
• 26: Glenda blackwell - i want to live in your house
• 27: Tom tall - pitty pitty patter
• 28: Judy hall - my old used to be
• 29: Ira allen - love is me
• 30: Faye hardin - mistakes i've made
• 31: Harold cox & the sooners - pumpkin center
• 32: Jerry dallas - tears of joy (are a-croppin' out on me)
• 33: Stan farlow - devil river
• CD 8
• 1: Merle haggard - mama tried (live in muskogee)
• 2: The strangers - stealin' corn
• 3: Truitt cunningham - forgive and forget
• 4: Buck owens & susan raye - cryin' time
• 5: Buck owens - bring back my peace of mind
• 6: The sanland brothers - cowboy convention
• 7: Don rich & the buckaroos - guitar pickin' man
• 8: Don rich - your heart turned left (and i was on the right)
• 9: Buddy alan (sohn von buck & bonnie owens) - a whole lot of s
• 10: Merle haggard - i'm a good loser
• 11: Bobby wayne - california on my mind
• 12: Buck owens - reno lament
• 13: The hagers - your tender loving care
• 14: Henry sharpe - there is no easy way
• 15: Lewis talley - because you can't be mine
• 16: Mike beagles - she don't care now
• 17: Dave price - night life is my weakness
• 18: Merle haggard - daddy frank (the guitar man)
• 19: Sharon haley - heartbreak mountain
• 20: Mayf nutter - never ending song of love
• 21: Tony booth - cinderella
• 22: Red simpson - i'm a truck
• 23: Johnny campbell - mr. conscience
• 24: Vancie flowers - how dark is my journey
• 25: Merle haggard - bring it on down to my house
• 26: Kenni huskey - number one heel
• 27: Sonny anglin - today's tomorrow's yesterday
• 28: Merle haggard - i'm tired of your understanding ways
• 29: Kenny vernon - i bought the shoes (that just walked out on m
• CD 9
• 1: Buck owens - arms full of empty
• 2: Susan raye - love sure feels good in my heart
• 3: Homer joy - streets of bakersfield
• 4: Merle haggard - i know an ending when it comes
• 5: Buck owens - something's wrong
• 6: Doyle singer & the buckaroos - young widow brown
• 7: Tide cartwright - cheater's ground
• 8: Blackjack duran - i laid back down
• 9: Arlo guthrie - this troubled mind of mine
• 10: Merle haggard - the emptiest arms in the world
• 11: Kenny johnson with the country mile - beer drinkers of ameri
• 12: Buck owens & susan raye - sweethearts in heaven
• 13: Laurel lee - mountain of fortune and fame
• 14: Red simpson - bill woods from bakersfield
• 15: Thad tillotson - good ole country sound
• 16: Freddie hart - if you can't feel it (it ain't there)
• 17: Carlyle graham - foolish man
• 18: Kay austin - the lord rested on sunday
• 19: Cliff crofford - every time i hear the fiddle play
• 20: Merle haggard - holding things together
• 21: David frizzell - i'm the bartender's best friend
• 22: Lawanda lindsey - i ain't hangin' round
• 23: Toby keeney - going back to oklahoma
• 24: Walt pascoe - that little glass of milk
• 25: Roger spanke - betty jane
• 26: Sandy thomas - antique in my closet
• 27: Dennis payne - do you believe in me
• 28: Debi hawkins - teach me how to love
• 29: Merle haggard - mirrors don't lie
• 30: Tony booth - a different kind of sad
• CD 10
• 1: Buck owens - y'all come / tall dark stranger (live at toys f
• 2: Tony booth - lonesome 7-7203 (live at toys for tots show)
• 3: Buddy alan - fishin' on the mississippi (live at toys for to
• 4: Susan raye - l.a. international airport (live at toys for to
• 5: Buck owens, the buckaoors and omac artists - johnny b. goode
• 6: Bonnie owens - number one heel (take 14)
• 7: Merle haggard - if i had left it up to you (take 4 with fals
• 8: Merle haggard - if i had left it up to you (false starts) if
• 9: Merle haggard - i'm not looking for an angel
• 10: Merle haggard & johnny barnett - second fiddle
• 11: Vancie & rita - strange ? tears in my beer
• 12: Billy mize - misery
• 13: Billy mize - the name of the game is heartaches
• 14: Billy mize - red simpson - i'd be a good time charlie
• 15: Billy mize - fit for a king
• 16: Johnny barnett - which one is to blame
• 17: Junior stonebarger with jelly sanders band - release me
• 18: Fuzzy owen, bill woods, red simpson & band - my ears should
• 19: Tommy collins - be serious ann
• 20: Joe & rose lee maphis - christmas time's a comin'
• 21: Lewis talley - blue christmas
• 22: Louise lovett - lonely christmas call
• 23: Merle haggard - i saw mommy kissing santa claus