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Butcher Holler's
twelve sharply delivered performances - nearly all under three minutes
each - feature a handful of Lynn classic hits such as "Ain't Woman
Enough (to Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home Drinkin' (with Lovin' On
Your Mind)", songs that helped define Lynn as a pioneer in music that
praised strong-willed, confident women. Jewell also digs up lesser known
tracks from the extensive Lynn songbook, presenting them with her own
expressive vocals and backed by her fine longrunning band. The
production is crisp and spare, with up-right bass, pedal steel
and electric tremelo twang adding both timeless authenticity and
surprisingly rootsy contemporary edge. Recommended.
Jones notched 17 Top 10 hits during his tenure at Musicor and they're all collected here. Some of the most famous titles in that bunch are "Walk Through This World With Me," "A Good Year for the Roses," "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and "When the Grass Grows Over Me." Loretta Lynn earns a writing credit on "World of Forgotten People," while Tammy Wynette pulls double duty as composer and harmony vocalist on "Never Grow Cold." The liner notes by Colin Escott offer a keen perspective on this time in Jones' life, just before he married Wynette and recorded with producer Billy Sherrill at Epic Records.
Because of the spare production, the Musicor recordings don't feel dated. Instead, it's sort of like discovering a stash of sterling demo tapes. And the topics here are certainly timeless -- cheating, drinking, dying, lying and (occasionally) loving. Some of these songs became famous later, such as Emmylou Harris' soothing hit version of "Beneath Still Waters," Patty Loveless' emotional take on "If My Heart Had Windows" and George Strait's boisterous rendition of "Love Bug." But on these original versions, Jones proves himself as one of the most expressive vocalists that Nashville has ever known.
1. | Wine Me Up | |
2. | Lovesick Blues | |
3. | Love'S Gonna Live Here - (featuring Jim Lauderdale) | |
4. | Crazy Arms | |
5. | After the Fire is Gone - (featuring The Grascals) | |
6. | Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone - (featuring Flaco Jimenez) | |
7. | I Love You a Thousand Ways | |
8. | Big, Big Love - (featuring Jo-El Sonnier) | |
9. | Walk Through This World With Me | |
10. | Oh, Lonesome Me | |
11. | You Don'T Know Me - (featuring Rhonda Vincent) | |
12. | Ramblin' Fever |
1. | Wine Women And Song | ||
2. | When Lonely Hits Your Heart | ||
3. | Before I'm Over You | ||
4. | Blue Kentucky Girl | ||
5. | You Ain't Woman Enough | ||
6. | Success | ||
7. | Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) | ||
8. | What Kind Of Girl ( Do You Think I Am?) | ||
9. | Happy Birthday - (featuring Connie Smith) | ||
10. | Other Woman, The | ||
11. | If You're Not Gone Too Long | ||
12. | We're Not Kids Anymore - (featuring Ernest Tubb) | ||
13. | Darkest Day, The | ||
14. | Third Man, The |
By Christine Miller Ford
Special to The Winchester Star
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. With Patsy Clines popularity still strong nearly a half-century after her death in a Tennessee plane crash, its hardly a surprise that those closest to her find themselves in the spotlight, too.
Jim McCoy, the 78-year-old West Virginia-born singer, songwriter, and disc jockey who put Cline on the radio when she was just 14, is the subject of a new book by John Douglas, a free-lance writer and the editor of Berkeley Springs weekly newspaper .
"Joltin Jim: Jim McCoys Life In Country Music features anecdotes about McCoys long career, including his years of working with musical acts at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester and decades of interactions with country music stars not just Cline, but also Ernest Tubb, Dottie West, George Jones, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, and others.
The book includes photographs from McCoys collection that show him with Tubb (his idol and mentor since his teenage years), Little Jimmy Dickens (who these days shows up in music videos with fellow West Virginian Brad Paisley), Ray Price (the singer and songwriter who performed with Hank Williams, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Paycheck) and others.
![]() "Joltin Jim: Jim McCoys Life In Country Music features anecdotes about McCoys long career, including his years of working with musical acts at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester and decades of interactions with country music stars not just Cline, but also Ernest Tubb, Dottie West, George Jones, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, and others. |
The story of how Cline then known by her birth
name, Virginia Hensley won a spot on McCoys Saturday morning radio
show on Winchesters WINC, after an impromptu audition became something
of a legend, but readers might not be aware of McCoys other ties to
Cline. For example, he served as one of the pallbearers when Cline was laid
to rest in Shenandoah Memorial Park outside Winchester on a Sunday
afternoon in March 1963. And in the years after her death, McCoy grew closer to Clines
widower, Charlie Dick, visiting with him during trips to Winchester as
well as at Dicks home in Nashville, Tenn.
Opry Video Classics
is comprised of 120 performances from the 1950s to the '70s, featuring
many live television appearances captured on the stage of the Ryman
Auditorium, home of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 30 years.
Most of the performances have never before been available commercially. The series is presented in eight thematic volumes, including Queens Of Country (Tammy Wynette, Stand By Your Man), Duets (Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, After The Fire Is Gone), Pioneers (Hank Snow, I'm Moving On), and Honky Tonk Heroes (George Jones, The Race Is On).
Time Life will also issue a single volume of Opry Video Classics, featuring such classics as Johnny Cashs Ring Of Fire, Loretta Lynn's Coal Miners Daughter, Conway Twittys Hello Darlin and Patsy Clines Crazy.1. Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn |
2. Fist City - Loretta Lynn |
3. Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone) - Loretta Lynn |
4. Coal Miner's Daughter - Loretta Lynn |
5. After the Fire Is Gone - Loretta Lynn, |
6. Lead Me On - Loretta Lynn, |
7. One's on the Way - Loretta Lynn |
8. Rated "X" - Loretta Lynn |
9. Love Is the Foundation - Loretta Lynn |
10. Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Loretta Lynn, |
11. As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone - Loretta Lynn, |
12. Trouble in Paradise - Loretta Lynn |
13. Feelins' - Loretta Lynn, |
14. Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missing Tonight) - Loretta Lynn |
15. She's Got You - Loretta Lynn |
16. Out of My Head and Back in My Bed - Loretta Lynn |
17. I Still Believe in Waltzes [*] - Loretta Lynn, |
1. Farmers Blues w/Merle Haggard 2. Doin' My Time w/ Johnny Cash 3. Rawride w/Lester Flatt 4. The Whiskey Ain't Workin Anymore w/ Travis Tritt 5. Will You Visit Me On Sunday w/Loretta Lynn 6. Cryin, Waiting Hoping w/Steve Earle 7. Mr. John Henry w/Earl Scruggs 8. Hearts Like Ours w/Connie Smith 9. The Weight w/The Staple Singers 10. One Woman Man w/George Jones 11. Confessing The Blues w/B.B. King 12. Same Ole Train w/Skaggs, Krauss, Emmylou.... 13. I Can See For Miles w/ Ole Crow Medicine Show 14. Let Us Travel w/Del McCoury 15. Move Along Train w/ Miss Mavis Staples |
01 . | You're Lookin' at Country |
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02 . | Coal Miner's Daughter |
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03 . | Fist City |
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04 . | Hey Loretta |
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05 . | Somebody Somewhere |
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06 . | One's on the Way |
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07 . | Your Squaw Is on the Warpath |
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08 . | Out of My Head and Back in My Arms |
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09 . | Back in My Baby's Arms |
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10 . | She's Got You |