Maddox,Rose Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles CD

Rose Maddox - Sing A Little Song Of Heartache: The Solo Singles 1953-62 - Rose Maddox was a country singer, songwriter and fiddle player from Alabama, whose family migrated to California in the 1930s, where she started singing on radio and formed a band with her brothers, who performed and recorded for a decade after WWII as the Maddox Brothers & Rose. When the group broke up in 1957, she started a solo career and enjoyed a string of chart entries over the next few years as she built a reputation as an extrovert, dynamic performer, blending hillbilly, rockabilly and gospel in a highly distinctive musical mix. This 58-track 2-CD collection comprises most of the A&B sides of her singles on Columbia and Capitol during these years, plus bonus tracks from her Capitol album "One Rose". It features her No. 3 country hit "Sing A Little Song Of Heartache" and her other solo country hits from this era "Gambler's Love", "Kissing My Pillow", "I Want To Live Again" and "Conscience I'm Guilty", plus her Top 10 duet hits with Buck Owens "Mental Cruelty" and "Loose Talk". She was an artist who had an impact far beyond the degree of her success, with Emmylou Harris saying she has not has the attention she deserves and Dolly Parton citing her as an early influence. This collection offers a substantial overview of a key era of her solo career and is an entertaining showcase for her particular style of country.

1. The Nightingale Song 2. I'd Rather Die Young 3. I'm a Little Red Caboose (On the Choo-Choo Train of Love) 4. Wasted Years 5. Kiss Me Like Crazy 6. Just One More Time 7. Birthday Card Song (The Card That You Sent on My Birthday) 8. Breathless Love 9. Marry Me Again 10. Poor Little Heartbroken Rose 11. Waltz of the Pines 12. Life That You've Led 13. I Wonder If I Can Lose the Blues This Way 14. There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong 15. Wild, Wild Young Men 16. Second Choice 17. Humming Bird 18. Words Are So Easy to Say 19. Wild Wind 20. Was There a Teardrop 21. Hasty Baby 22. When the Sun Goes Down 23. Tall Men 24. Hey Little Dreamboat 25. Burrito Jo 26. False Hearted 27. Looky There Over There 28. Your Sweet Mean Heart 29. Take a Gamble on Me 30. 1-2-3-4 Anyplace Road (Somewhere USA) 31. I'll Go Steppin' Too 32. Let Those Brown Eyes Smile at Me 33. Gambler's Love 34. What Makes Me Hang Around 35. Custer's Last Stand 36. My Little Baby 37. Lost Today 38. I'm Happy Every Day I Live 39. Please Help Me I'm Falling 40. Down, Down, Down 41. Shining Silver Gleaming Gold 42. Billy Cline 43. I Want to Live Again 44. Kissing My Pillow 45. Mental Cruelty 46. Loose Talk 47. Conscience I'm Guilty 48. Lonely Street 49. There Ain't No Love 50. Your Kind of Lovin' Won't Do 51. Here We Go Again 52. Fool Me Again 53. Let's Pretend We're Strangers 54. Take Me Back Again 55. Sing a Little Song of Heartache 56. Tie a Ribbon in the Apple Tree 57. Honky-Tonkin' 58. Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me