Dick Curless - A Tombstone Every Mile - 1950-1969 - Bear Family

Tombstone Every Mile, the name of Curless' first bona fide hit in 1964, is a Bear Family collection that compiles 191 tracks over seven CDs. It is an exhaustive collection of everything Curless recorded for Tower, Event, Alagash, Standard, and Tiffany from 1950 through 1969. Bear Family Records. Release: 1996. Remastered. Track List: 1. Coast of Maine 2. Ida Dance [Instrumental] 3. Jelly Doughnuts 4. Fiddler's Dance [Instrumental] 5. Cottage in the Pines 6. Cupid's Arrow 7. Baby Darling 8. Naponee 9. Rocky Mountain Queen 10. Streets of Laredo 11. Foggy Dew 12. China Nights 13. Blues in My Mind 14. Lovin' Dan Sixty Minute Man 15. Midnight Turning Day Blues (Blue Yodel No. 6) 16. Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women 17. Travelin' Man 18. I'm Ragged But I'm Right 19. St. James Infirmary 20. You Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry) 21. Rosalita 22. Just a Closer Walk With Thee 23. Please Don't Pass Me By 24. Nine Pound Hammer No. 1 25. Rocky Mountain Queen [With Overdub] 26. Dick Curles/Al Hawkes on the First Event Release 27. Nine Pound Hammer No. 1 [With Recitation] 28. I Am a Pilgrim 29. Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old Kentucky Home 30. I Ain't Got Nobody 31. Rainbow in My Heart 32. Something's Wrong With You 33. Evil Hearted Man Blues 34. I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven 35. Deck of Cards 36. High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) 37. Strawberry Roan 38. Red River Valley 39. Cowboy Jack 40. On Top of Old Smokey 41. Home on the Range 42. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie 43. Old Chisholm Trail 44. I Ride an Old Paint 45. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo 46. Green Grow the Lilacs 47. Last Roundup 48. Crawdad Song 49. Rock Island Line 50. Don't Fence Me In 51. Big Rock Candy Mountain 52. Roving Gambler 53. Molly Darling 54. Yellow Rose of Texas 55. Liza Jane 56. Careless Love 57. Buffalo Gal 58. San Antonio Rose 59. Little Brown Jug 60. I've Been Working on the Railroad 61. Silver Threads Among the Gold 62. You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine 63. I Was Seeing Nellie Home 64. Beautiful Dreamer 65. My Old Kentucky Home 66. Whispering Hope 67. What a Friend We Have in Jesus 68. Rock of Ages 69. Church in the Wildwood 70. Bring Them In 71. Onward, Christian Soldiers 72. Nearer My God to Thee 73. In the Garden 74. Jesus Loves Me 75. I Love to Tell the Story 76. Old Rugged Cross 77. Tombstone Every Mile 78. Heart Talk 79. Streets of Laredo 80. King of the Road 81. Uncle Tom 82. China Nights 83. Six Times a Day (The Trains Came Down) 84. Cupid's Arrow 85. Down by the Old River 86. Teardrops in My Heart 87. Nine Pound Hammer No. 3 88. Sunny Side of the Mountain 89. 'Tater Raisin' Man 90. Friend That Makes It Four 91. Mama's Hands 92. Mom and Dad's Waltz 93. Daddy and Home 94. I'm Going Home 95. Buckaroo 96. Little Terry 97. Please Don't Make Me Go 98. You, You, Only You - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 99. Terrible Tangled Web - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 100. Devil Like Me (Needs an Angel Like You) - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 101. No Fool Like an Old Fool - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 102. Old Standby - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 103. Too Late - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 104. I Can't Stop (My Lovin' You) - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 105. Forever and Ever - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 106. Congratulations, You're Absolutely Right - Kay Adams, Dick Curless 107. Heart Talk 108. Highwayman 109. Baron 110. Memories, an Old Picture and a Ring 111. Good Job Hunting and Fishing 112. How Do I Say Goodbye? 113. I Didn't Know Love Was This Way 114. House of Memories 115. All of Me Belongs to You 116. My Side of the Night 117. Game of Love and Poker 118. Try and Leave Me 119. (Standing) On the Outside Looking In 120. Hello Honey 121. Nobody 122. Hobo 123. Tears of Saint Anne 124. I Went Bad for a Pretty Girl 125. Tornado Tillie 126. Life Goes On 127. Big Foot 128. Mumble Boogy 129. You Can't Go Back Again 130. Shoes 131. When Dad Was Around 132. End of the Road 133. Bury the Bottle With Me 134. Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill 135. Just for the Record 136. I'm Worried About Me 137. Heartline Special 138. Secret of Your Heart 139. I Ain't Got Nobody 140. Bummin' on Track E 141. Secret of Your Heart 142. Wild Side of Town 143. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 144. Things 145. Easy Woman 146. Down on the Corner at Kelly's 147. Tonight's the Night My Angels Halo Fell 148. Maybe I'll Cry Over You 149. It's Nothing to Me 150. Good Old Days 151. Over the Edge 152. Blue Is a Beautiful Color 153. Good Year for the Wine 154. Tears Instead of Cheers 155. All I Need Is You 156. Brand New Bed of Roses 157. Be Here to Love Me 158. Kentucky Boy 159. Fanning the Flame 160. Sun 161. Somebody Else 162. Jamaica Farewell 163. China Nights 164. Golden Rocket 165. Just a Closer Walk With Thee 166. I'm in Love Again 167. I Walk the Line 168. Something's Wrong With You 169. China Nights 170. Evil Hearted Man Blues 171. Marianne 172. Blues in My Mind 173. Down by the Riverside 174. Oh, Lonesome Me 175. Where Is Your Heart Tonight 176. I Can Get Along Without You Now 177. Nine Pound Hammer No. 2 178. What Do I Care 179. There's Been a Change in Me 180. After All I Ain't Got Much to Lose 181. Sunny Side of the Mountain 182. Monday Night 183. Nine Pound Hammer 184. China Nights 185. Just a Little Lovin' 186. I Am a Pilgrim 187. Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old Kentucky Home 188. Montreal Express [Commercial] 189. Station Breaks 190. Billy D. Hunter: The Tumbleweed Kid (Tribute to Dick Curless) For a man who was regarded as a cult artist for most of his career, Dick Curless was certainly able to surround himself with the cream of the crop when it came to producers and sidemen, among whom are listed Buck Owens, Tommy Collins, James Burton, Ralph Mooney, Harold Bradley, Pete Drake, David Duke (not that one), and a slew of others. Tombstone Every Mile, the name of Curless' first bona fide hit in 1964, is a Bear Family collection that compiles 191 tracks over seven CDs. It is an exhaustive collection of everything Curless recorded for Tower, Event, Alagash, Standard, and Tiffany from 1950 through 1969. He signed with Capitol in 1970, and there's another box covering that period. Curless recorded until finishing his last album literally days before his death in 1995. While this set documents the singer/songwriter's first forays into Ernest Tubb-style honky tonk, it spends a great deal of time displaying his roots in the Bakersfield sound pioneered by Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and others and his transition into making "truck driver's music" -- mostly because his cult was made of truckers, not because he wrote for them exclusively. Virtually every kind of country music is documented here, from honky tonk barnburners to gospel tunes to love ballads to novelty tunes to cowboy songs and classic ballads. There are train songs and pain songs, truck songs and mama songs. His readings of tunes by Lefty Frizzell, Red Simpson, Merle Travis, Don Gibson, Billy Mize, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Haggard, Collins, public domain tunes such as "Streets of Laredo," and his own early efforts established him as a great stylist and singer as well as a keen interpreter -- his version of Cash's "I Walk the Line" is only eclipsed by the master's. Curless' repertoire covered the entire history of the music as it came down from the Carter Family. There are over a dozen complementary unreleased masters here, making this a must for the country collector, and to have the material organized in such painstaking chronologically recorded fashion adds depth and dimension to Curless' development as an artist. Ultimately, if you are at all a fan, this set and his final album, Traveling Through on the Rounder label, are the things to have. The Capitol period is good, it's just not revelatory like this stuff is. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

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beothuck (2009-08-14)

This torrent is all messed up. Songs are interrupted by others that are NOT Dick Curless. Was that supposed to be a joke?