Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Death at the Bar
2. Love or Hate
3. Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet
4. Don't Wait the Last Minute to Pray
5. How Far Is Heaven
6. My Mother
7. Make up Your Mind
8. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
9. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
10. I Don't Want Your Money, I Want Your Time
11. Searching for a Soldier's Grave
12. I'm Too Lonely to Smile
13. Things I Might Have Been
14. I Heard the Jukebox Playing
15. Wedding Ring Ago
16. Divided by Two
17. Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
18. Paying for That Back Street Affair
19. Icicles Hanging from Your Heart
20. I Don't Claim to Be an Angel
21. Honky Tonk Waltz
22. Life They Live in Songs
23. You Said You Could Do Without Me
24. Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On
25. Hey Joe!
26. My Cold, Cold Heart Is Melted Now
27. I'll Love You Till the Day I Die
28. I've Kissed You My Last Time
29. I'm a Stranger in My Home

Disc 2:

1. I Gave My Wedding Dress Away
2. Cheatin's a Sin
3. You're Not Easy to Forget
4. Satisfied, So Satisfied
5. One by One
6. Release Me
7. After Dark
8. (Don't Hang Around) He's Married to Me
9. Thou Shalt Not Steal
10. Lonely Side of Town
11. I Hope My Divorce Is Never Granted
12. I'm in Love With You
13. Make Believe ('Til We Can Make It Come True)
14. You and Me
15. As Long as I Live
16. No One But You
17. Making Believe
18. I'd Rather Stay at Home
19. I Was Wrong
20. There's Poison in Your Heart
21. Goodbye Mr. Brown
22. Mother Hold Me Tight
23. Searching (For Someone Like You)
24. How Far Is Heaven
25. Dust on the Bible
26. Beside You
27. I'm Counting on You
28. They Can't Take Your Love
29. I'm Tired of Pretending

Disc 3:

1. Oh So Many Years
2. One Week Later
3. When I'm With You
4. Can You Find It in Your Heart
5. Repenting
6. I Guess I'll Go on Dreaming
7. Each Day
8. Pace That Kills
9. Change of Heart
10. Stubborn Heart
11. Standing Room Only
12. Mansion on the Hill
13. Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down
14. Right or Wrong
15. Winner of Your Heart
16. Dancing with a Stranger
17. Three Ways (To Love You)
18. She's No Angel
19. Broken Marriage Vows
20. What About You?
21. Sweeter Than the Flowers
22. You Can't Conceal a Broken Heart
23. Just When I Needed You
24. Lonely Street
25. That's Me Without You
26. Cheated Out of Love
27. Waltz of the Angels

Disc 4:

1. What About You?
2. May You Never Be Alone
3. If Teardrops Were Pennies
4. Touch and Go Heart
5. My Used to Be Darling
6. (I'll Always Be Your) Fraulein
7. Love Me to Pieces
8. What I Believe Dear (Is All up to You)
9. I Can't Stop Loving You
10. Slowly Dying
11. I Can't Help Wondering
12. He's Lost His Love for Me
13. Jealousy
14. Mommy for a Day
15. Hands You're Holding Now
16. Let Me Help You Forget
17. All the Time
18. Dust on the Bible
19. (I've Got My) One Way Ticket to the Sky
20. I Heard My Saviour Call
21. I Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You
22. Great Speckled Bird
23. Matthew 24
24. I Need the Prayers
25. My Loved Ones Are Waiting for Me
26. Lord, I'm Coming Home
27. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
28. Lonesome Valley
29. We Buried Her Beneath the Willows

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40522 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-28
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

It's hard to believe how many perfect songs are on this box set
I love Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and I intend to listen to them for the rest of my life, but there is no female country singer I love more than Kitty Wells. In fact, with the possible exception of Hank Williams there is no country singer male or female who I like as much. There are so many perfect songs here, so many great musicians backing her, so much heartfelt emotion that I know I haven't even begun to digest everything these CDs have to offer. This is country music unpolluted (it seems) by a desire to appeal to the pop music audience. I am a middle class man in my late twenties who grew up in Seattle and I have never even traveled to the south, but for some reason when I listen to her music I feel like I'm getting inside the songs. Everything just comes together so perfectly - the beautiful simplicity of the the songs themselves, the musicians backing her with minimalist grace, and then Kitty Wells herself who, like Billie Holiday or Robert Johnson, just sounds like she believes so strongly in what she's saying.

I just have one complaint to air that does not concern the contents of this CD. I wonder why there are so few Kitty Wells CDs available? There are a handful of budget CDs all with more or less the same songs on them and then there is maybe one or two decent 17 song collections with a few additional tracks. So basically if you are getting into Kitty Wells you've got to jump from one of these CDs to this 100+ track box set. I suppose one can take comfort in the fact that there's enough quality material here to make it very worth it. Sure, the best songs are in the first 10 years of her career, but there's hardly a bad song on any of these CDs.

the true queen of country music
This box set contains the literal birth of country music for female artists. These selections are songs that earned Kitty the title of the queen of country music. Any true fan of country music must have this collection. the material is classic and as it is heard, a chapter in American history and the evolution of country music is revealed. Long live the Queen

Kitty Wells is still the Queen of Country Music.
Kitty Wells' recordings are difficult to find in this area, which I feel is sad. Here is a great artist, who has brought pleasure to millions, and continues to do so, but is not appreciated the way she deserves. I recently attended one of her preformances in Brown County, Indiana, and was delighted to view the crowd that came to honor Kitty. I did not have time to wait to purchase her recordings and have been to every local distributor to try to obtain the material that I am seeking, only to be told that it will have to be ordered. It is a shame to find that it is so difficult to purchase good traditional musical materials.