Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tied Down
2. What Will I Do
3. Is It Love or Is It Lies
4. Lonesome Joe
5. Sweep Around Your Own Back Door
6. Don't Say Goodbye
7. Swamp Lily
8. Sixteen Chickens and a Tambourine
9. Rushing Around
10. Whoa Mule
11. Sunshine Special
12. I Closed My Heart's Door
13. I'm Planting a Rose
14. River of Crystal
15. Please Daddy Forgive
16. Streamline Heartbreaker
17. I Closed My Heart's Door
18. Six More Days
19. Thief Upon the Tree
20. Don't Judge Your Neighbor
21. Night Spots (Of the Town)
22. Great Speckled Bird
23. Lonely Mound of Clay
24. Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
25. Wabash Cannonball
26. Great Judgement Morning
27. Wreck on the Highway
28. Precious Jewel
29. Night Train to Memphis

Disc 2:

1. That's What Makes the Juke Box Play
2. Little Moses
3. What Do You Think About Me
4. Oh Those Thumbs
5. Come Back Little Pal
6. Fireball Mail
7. I'm Building a Home (In the Sky)
8. Great Titanic
9. Goodbye Mr. Brown
10. Mother Hold Me Tight
11. Crazy Worried Mind
12. Along the China Coast
13. It's Hard to Love
14. Plant Some Flowers by My Grave
15. I Wanta Be Loved
16. I Like Mountain Music
17. Jesus Died for Me
18. Thank God
19. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
20. How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
21. Uncloudy Day
22. Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
23. Lord Build Me a Cabin
24. Where the Soul Never Dies
25. Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
26. Take My Hand, Precious Lord
27. This World Is Not My Home
28. Where Could I Go But to the Lord

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #358889 in Music
• Released on: 1993-03-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .43 pounds

Customer Reviews

The fifties recordings
When I bought this many years ago, Roy Acuff was very poorly represented on CD, especially his original hits on from the thirties and forties. Roy is much better represented now but this set is still worth a listen providing you don't mind re-recordings. With the improved recording technology available in the fifties, Roy and his musicians were able to make recordings that were crisper and cleaner than the originals. Of course, some people will never accept anything but the originals and if you are such a person, don't buy this.

Many of Roy's old classics are here in re-recorded form, though Blue eyes crying in the rain (later revived by Willie \Nelson) is among those missing but those present include The great speckled bird, Pins and needles, Wabash Cannonball, Wreck on the highway, Precious jewel, Night train to Memphis and Fireball mail.

Roy recorded new material in the fifties as well as his old hits but none of his new songs captured the public imagination. Nevertheless, Roy recorded two duets with Kitty Wells (Goodbye Mr Brown, Mother hold me tight) while with Decca and he also recorded a gospel album for MGM. These may be the best of his new material during this period.

Now that Roy's original material is available on CD in various combinations from single CD's to boxed sets, this collection is likely to be mainly of interest to committed Roy Acuff fans who want the original songs here. If you enjoy Roy's earlier music, you will probably enjoy this too providing you can tolerate those re-recordings.