Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Drifting Texas Sand
2. If Crying Would Make You Care
3. California Blues [Blue Yodel No. 4]
4. You Scared the Love Right Out of Me
5. New Silver Bells
6. Wondering
7. You Know I'm Still in Love With You
8. I'm Gonna See My Baby Tonight
9. That Heart Belongs to Me
10. I Just Can't Be True
11. So Used to Loving You
12. I Haven't Got the Heart
13. Slowly
14. Last Waltz
15. Bow Thy Head
16. Country Church
17. I Haven't Got the Heart
18. I'll Always Take Care of You
19. Back Street Affair
20. I'm Only Wishin'
21. I'll Go on Alone
22. That's Me Without You
23. Broken Engagement
24. We'll Find a Way
25. It's Been So Long
26. Don't Throw Your Life Away
27. Too Late to Worry Now
28. There Stands the Glass

Disc 2:

1. There's a Better Home
2. Mother Call My Name in Prayer
3. I'm Walking the Dog
4. You Just Can't Be True
5. Slowly
6. Broken Engagement
7. Slowly
8. Even Tho'
9. Sparkling Brown Eyes - Webb Pierce, The Wilburn Brothers
10. Bugle Call from Heaven
11. Thank You, Dear Lord
12. Kneel at the Cross
13. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
14. You're Not Mine Anymore
15. I'm Gonna Fall Out of Love With You
16. Your Good for Nothing Heart
17. Just Imagination
18. I Love You Dear
19. More and More
20. I Found Someone That's True (I'm Really Glad You Hurt Me)
21. Waltz You Saved for Me - Webb Pierce,
22. One Day Later - Webb Pierce,
23. In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce, Jim Reeves
24. Sneakin' All Around
25. I Don't Care
26. Just How Long
27. Yes, I Know Why (I Want to Cry)
28. Little Rosa - Webb Pierce, Red Sovine

Disc 3:

1. Call Me Your Sweetheart
2. If You Were Me (And I Were You)
3. Love, Love, Love
4. Why Baby Why - Webb Pierce, Red Sovine
5. Yes, I Know Why (I Want to Cry)
6. I Found a True Love
7. 'Cause I Love You
8. Little Rosa - Webb Pierce, Red Sovine
9. Let Forgiveness In
10. Any Old Time
11. You Make Love to Everyone
12. We'll Find a Way
13. Teenage Boogie
14. I'm Really Glad You Hurt Me (I Found Someone That's True)
15. Teenage Boogie
16. Oh, So Many Years - Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells
17. One Week Later - Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells
18. When I'm With You - Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells
19. Can You Find It in Your Heart - Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells
20. Cryin' over You
21. I'm Tired
22. It's My Way - Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells
23. Someday
24. Honky Tonk Song
25. I Care No More
26. Don't Be the One
27. Bye Bye Love
28. Missing You
29. Let Forgiveness In
30. Who Wouldn't Love You?

Disc 4:

1. New Panhandle Rag
2. I Know It Was You
3. Don't Do It Darlin'
4. Holiday for Love
5. How Long
6. New Raunchy
7. I'll Get by Somehow
8. English Sweetheart
9. Down Panama Way
10. Foreign Love
11. You'll Come Back
12. New Love Affair
13. Falling Back to You
14. Sittin' Alone
15. I'm Letting You Go
16. Tupelo County Jail
17. Waiting a Lifetime
18. True Love Never Dies
19. I Think of You
20. I Won't Be Crying Anymore
21. I Owe It to My Heart
22. Violet and the Rose
23. After the Boy Gets the Girl
24. You Make Me Live Again
25. Crazy Arms
26. Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
27. Life to Go
28. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413144 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-27
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

The Way It Used To Be
If you want to hear country music like it used to be, in the great era of the 1950's and 1960's, this is the set for you. Disc 4 is particularly outstanding with classic but little known songs like "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" and the great prison song "Life To Go." It doesn't get much better than this, both as to songs and Pierce's unique style. A clear illustration as to how the style of country music has drastically changed over the past 40 years - for the worse, I would say! If you want total immersion in classic country music, buy this boxed set.

An great collection of early hits from a honky tonk legend
A big, fat, honkin' four-CD box set representing the holy grail of Webb's work that's actually in print. The LP-sized package includes 113 tracks and a lavish booklet with great liner notes by Webb-ologist Otto Kitsinger, as well as a complete discography of Webb's Decca sessions, giving info on side musicians, writers, producers, etc. Plus, there's over an album's worth of this material which had never been released before! ... So why do I so seldom actually listen to these discs? Well, slowly I find myself coming to the conclusion that Bear Family might do better off if they made single CD "economy" versions of some of their fabuloso box sets... The multi-disc boxes are great fetish items, but somewhat pricey and a bit daunting to delve into once you actually shell out the cash and drag one home. Don't get me wrong, though -- this collection is ace bunny killer. Not a bad track on it. Worth every pfennig. And the second that Bear Family puts out a follow-up collection of stuff from the late-'50s and early-'60s, I'll be standing in line to pick up my copy.

real country
Thus is a great boxed set, which reveals Webb as being the closest country artist to Hank Williams stylistically. A few songs have some odd percussion-almost sounding like coconut shells being banged against a table. A few other songs-although good-suffer from the intrusive piano found on numerous Nashville songs of the time. But, all in all, this is a great collection from a man who belongs in the Country music hall of fame and like most Bear Family boxed sets-a little expensive but worth the cost.