Kirchen,Bill Proper Years CD

Two CDs. Telecaster master Bill Kirchen was right there at the big bang of Americana as a founder member Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen in 1967. Playing guitar has been his only job ever since. Over a ten-year period commencing in 2006, he made albums exclusively at Proper Records' Specific Sound studio in London. All thirty-eight tracks including some bonus material are available in this two CD set. Guests include Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Paul Carrack, Commander Cody, Dan Hicks, Maria Muldaur, Butch Hancock and more in this tour-de-force of Americana and Alt. Country.

1. Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods 2. Rocks Into Sand 3. Get a Little Gonner 4. Skid Row in My Mind 5. Working Man 6. Soul Cruisin 7. Truth Be Told 8. Devil with the Blue Dress 9. One More Day 10. Heart of Gold 11. If It's Really Got to Be This Way 12. Bump Wood 13. Shelly's Winter Love 14. Man in the Bottom of the Well 15. I Don't Work That Cheap 16. Time Will Tell the Story 17. Husbands and Wives 18. Open Range 19. Arkansas Diamond 20. Word to the Wise 21. Ain't Got Time for the Blues 22. Valley of the Moon 23. Too Much Fun 24. Tell Me the Reason 25. Down to Seeds and Stems Again 26. Semi-Truck 27. Rockabilly Funeral 28. Womb to the Tomb 29. Flip Flop 30. Swing Fever 31. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 32. Truck Stop at the End of the World 33. Mama Hated Diesels 34. Hot Rod Lincoln 35. Talkin' About Chicken 36. Think It Over 37. Oxblood 38. The Times They Are A-Changin'