Robertson,Texas Jim Country Gospel & Cowboy Favourites CD

He grew up learning ranching and the cowboy life and was singing in church whilst learning to be a cowboy whilst still at school. Blessed with a golden deep voice he gained a job on radio as a singing cowboy and was invited by RCA to record for their legendary Bluebird label. He enjoyed a prolific recording career through the 1940s and 1950s, pausing only during the Second World War when he fought against the Japanese in the Pacific. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he returned to the studios to cut albums of country standards, well-loved hymns and cowboy songs. This release is taken from these sessions, which have never been released on CD before. Here are 28 tracks, beautifully remastered, 24 of them in true stereo - many of them released outside of the USA for the first time. Here, with country backing of guitar, fiddle, etc. Are golden favourites from the pens of Lefty Frizzell, Floyd Tillman, Jimmie Davis, A P Carter, Vaughan Horton, etc. Alongside well-loved traditional favourites, all sung in Texas Jim Robertson's golden, deep voice. Extensive liner notes to the CD by Country Music Radio presenter and writer Paul Hazell.

1. If You've Got the Money 2. Great Speckled Bird 3. Slipping Around 4. Rock of Ages 5. Pictures from Life's Other Side 6. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie 7. Kentucky Waltz 8. You Gotta Walk the Straight and Narrow 9. Softly and Tenderly 10. You Are My Sunshine 11. Little Old Sod Shanty 12. Jesus, Tender Shepherd 13. The Almanac Song 14. When It's Roundup Time in Heaven 15. It Makes No Difference Now 16. A Cowboy's Dream (Aka Cowboy Heaven) 17. Mockingbird Hill 18. Keep on the Sunny Side 19. I Love You So Much It Hurts 20. Till the End of the World 21. Old Rugged Cross 22. The Air, the Sunshine and the Rain 23. Columbus Stockade Blues 24. Home on the Range 25. (Give Me That) Old Time Religion 26. Lonesome Whistle 27. It Is No Secret 28. Night Train to Memphis