Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Till We Two Are One
2. Your Mother, Your Darling, Your Friend
3. Baby Your Mother (Like She Babied You)
4. Jealous Loving Heart
5. Two Glasses, Joe
6. Woman's Touch
7. Journey's End
8. Kansas City Blues
9. Lonely Christmas Eve
10. I'll Be Walking the Floor This Christmas
11. Have You Seen My Boogie Woogie Baby
12. It's a Lonely World
13. I Got the Blues for Mammy
14. I'm Gonna Make My Home (A Million Miles from Here)
15. Yellow Rose of Texas
16. Answer the Phone
17. Honeymoon Is Over
18. Thirty Days
19. Doorstep to Heaven
20. Will You Be Satisfied That Way
21. Steppin' Out
22. If I Never Have Anything Else
23. So Doggone Lonesome
24. Old Love Letters (Bring Memories of You)
25. Women Make a Fool Out of Me (Jimmy Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel)
26. Travelin' Blues
27. You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)
28. I've Got the Blues for Mammy
29. I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair
30. (I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way
31. Mississippi Gal

Disc 2:

1. There's No Fool Like a Young Fool
2. I Knew the Moment I Lost You
3. You're Breaking My Heart
4. When a Soldier Knocks and Finds Nobody Home
5. This Troubled Mind of Mine
6. My Hillbilly Baby
7. Daisy Mae
8. Loving You Is My Weakness
9. Treat Her Right
10. I Want You to Know I Love You
11. Don't Forbid Me
12. God's Eyes
13. My Treasure
14. Leave Me - Ernest Tubb, The Wilburn Brothers
15. Mister Love
16. I Always Went Through
17. Go Home
18. Hey, Mr. Bluebird - Ernest Tubb, The Wilburn Brothers
19. How Do We Know - Ernest Tubb, The Wilburn Brothers
20. House of Glass
21. Heaven Help Me
22. Tangled Mind
23. Home of the Blues
24. I Found My Girl in the U.S.A.
25. Geisha Girl
26. I Wonder Why I Worry Over You
27. Deep Purple Blues
28. Please Keep Me in Mind
29. Deep Purple Blues
30. Please Keep Me in Mind
31. I Wonder Why I Worry Over You

Disc 3:

1. I'm Long Gone Daddy
2. Your Cheatin' Heart
3. Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart (For a Honky Tonk Queen)
4. It Makes No Difference Now
5. San Antonio Rose
6. I Always Went Through
7. I Want You to Know I Love You
8. That, My Darlin', Is Me
9. I'll Get Along Somehow
10. Educated Mama
11. I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In
12. Half a Mind
13. Next Time
14. Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Blues
15. It's the Age That Makes the Difference
16. What Am I Living For?
17. Next Voice You Hear
18. All Those Yesterdays
19. Walking the Floor Over You
20. When the World Has Turned You Down
21. I'll Always Be Glad to Take You Back
22. It's Been So Long, Darling
23. Careless Darlin'
24. Though the Days Were Only Seven
25. Last Night I Dreamed
26. Slipping Around
27. I Love You Because
28. There's Nothing More to Say
29. There's a Little Bit of Everything in Texas
30. You Nearly Lose Your Mind

Disc 4:

1. Blue Christmas
2. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
3. What I Know About Her
4. I Cried a Tear
5. Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello
6. Driftwood on the River
7. I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye
8. Tomorrow Never Comes
9. Filipino Baby
10. I'd Rather Be
11. Letters Have No Arms
12. Rainbow at Midnight
13. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
14. I Will Miss You When You Go
15. I'd Rather Be
16. Live It Up
17. (I've Lost You) So Why Should I Care
18. Accidentally on Purpose
19. Do It Now
20. He'll Have to Go
21. Mr. Blues
22. Kind of Love She Gave to Me
23. Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
24. This Ain't the Blues [Instrumental]
25. You Win Again
26. I Believe I'm Entitled to You
27. Guy Named Joe
28. Who Will Buy the Wine?
29. Why I'm Walkin'

Disc 5:

1. White Silver Sands
2. Am I That Easy to Forget?
3. Ev'rybody's Somebody's Fool
4. Let the Little Girl Dance
5. Candy Kisses
6. It Happened When I Really Needed You
7. Wondering
8. Cold, Cold Heart
9. Four Walls
10. Bouquet of Roses
11. Crazy Arms
12. I Love You So Much It Hurts
13. I Walk the Line
14. Little Ole Band of Gold
15. Wabash Cannonball
16. I'm Movin' On
17. Tennessee Saturday Night
18. Signed, Sealed and Delivered
19. Thoughts of a Fool
20. Girl from Abilene
21. Same Thing as Me
22. Christmas Is Just Another Day
23. I Hate to See You Go
24. I'm Sorry Now
25. What Will You Tell Them
26. It Is No Secret
27. Don't Just Stand There
28. Big Blue Diamonds
29. I'll Just Have Another Cup of Coffee

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466572 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-28
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Man! How could anyone put such a superb box set down!
Ernest had some of the greatest recordings ever in the 50's and this set has them all from 1954-1960. His remakes of his old hits from 1958/59 are truly outstanding! One thing I love about artists like Ernest Tubb is the way they update their older sound to a newer stereo sound and there are 24 celections starting on disc 3. You even get to hear some backings by the Jordanaires and the Anita Kerr singers which is most unusual for Ernest Tubb since he usually never used backings on his songs. They are excellent remakes I'll tell you! This set is highly recommended!

Everything from 1954-1960
Bear Family Records has put together some excellent cd packages over the years. This set features Ernest Tubbs' career during the years when rock-n-roll was causing a stir and taken away many from the country audience. Ernest held his own experimenting with rock and pop influences to a certain degree but never straying away from his trademark honky tonk sound. Billy Byrd picks it out on most of the cuts and Leon Rhodes takes it from there in 1960 (and of course Buddy Emmons on steel). So set up two glasses and listen to the Texas Troubadour

This is the real thing
If you're looking to buy an Ernest Tubb collection at this Amazon site, this Yellow Rose of Texas set is the only one you should consider; this is the only one of all the collections offered here (at least among those that offer song previews) that features the original recordings. Compare these recordings of Walkin' the Floor, Driftwood on the River and Filipino Baby with those on the other collections on this site and you'll see these are the original recordings featuring Billy Byrd and the original Texas Troubadors. The others are just lame remakes that don't even come close to doing justice to the original recordings.