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Jeannie C. Riley - On The Honky Tonk Highway With: Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil (CD) - CD

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Availability:In StockArtist:Jeannie C. Riley
Distributor/Studio:Bear FamilyPublisher:MUSIC VIDEO DIST.UPC:5397102176364Weight:0.23Product ID:SCR9AKFTJP

Details: The first in Bear Family Records'® new series of hard-hitting country music from artists who travelled the Honky Tonk Highway in the 1960s and '70s. This CD displays the full range of the astonishing recordings Jeannie C. Riley made for Plantation Records between 1968 and 1971, a time when her songs told the truth and shamed the devil. Jeannie had 24 country hits and 6 pop hits, including her international smash Harper Valley P.T. A. - the only song by a female country singer to top both the country and pop charts until Dolly Parton went pop 13 years later. She also had 9 charted albums. Jeannie was an excellent singer, the real deal, whose authentic Texas honky tonk twang came together with an ability to put across a song to wider audience. Standout songs from the finest country writers include Tell The Truth, The Girl Most Likely, The Back Side Of Dallas, Oh Singer, Country Girl, Roses And Thorns, The Street Singer, In A Moment Of Weakness, and... Harper Valley P.T.A. The accompanying booklet by Martin Hawkins tells the fascinating story of young Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson complete with original interviews and rare photographs. Jeannie C. Riley was born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson in 1945 in Stamford, Texas. Her childhood was lonely but competitive, and focused on singing - at first into her hairbrush, then on the local Jones County Jamboree. She moved to Nashville in 1966 with her husband and a six month old daughter, Kim. She was turned down by Monument and Capitol and messed around by undelivered promises from other labels. Her 1981 autobiography called out the casting couch processes in Nashville years before "Me Too" came along. Johnny Cash wrote the introduction: "She was a diamond in the rough... Her story is a textbook example of what many girls have come through in order to 'make it' in the Nashville music community." 1-CD (Digipak) with 48-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 75 min.. - Jeannie had 24 country hits and 6 pop hits.

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01
Harper Valley P. T. A.
02
Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil
03
The Girl Most Likely
04
The Little Town Square
05
The Back Side Of Dallas
06
Things Go Better With Love
07
Country Girl
08
Duty Not Desire
09
Good Enough To Be Your Wife
10
Oh Singer
11
Darling Days
12
Roses And Thorns
13
I Almost Called Your Name
14
Satan Place
15
Light Your Light (And Let It Shine)
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Am I That Easy To Forget
17
In A Moment Of Weakness
18
The Tree Of Joy
19
Teardrops On Page 43
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The Cotton Patch
21
Shed Me No Tears
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Before The Next Teardrop Falls
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One Toke Over The Line
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The Street Singer
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I'll Take What's Left Of You
26
No Brass Band
27
That's A No No
28
We Were Raised On Love
29
Yesterday All Day Long Today
Distributor/Studio:Bear FamilyPublisher:MUSIC VIDEO DIST.UPC:5397102176364Weight:0.23Product ID:SCR9AKFTJP
Publisher: MUSIC VIDEO DIST.

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