Snow,Hank Railroad Man / Sings In Memory Of Jimmie Rodgers CD

UK two CD set containing a quintet of albums by the country music legend. Hank Snow was one of country music's grand masters. Along with legends such as Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb and Eddy Arnold, he was one of the big post-war stars of Country Music. Hank's background was different from almost all other country singers having been born Clarence Eugene Snow in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada on May, 9th 1914. Although Hank Snow commenced his recording career in 1936 in Montreal, Canada (debuting on RCA Victor's Bluebird Label), it was when he moved from RCA Canada to the label's American parent company in 1949 that his career really took off, scoring 85 Billboard chart hits between 1950 and 1980. The four albums brought together for this double CD release present Hank Snow at his traditional best, covering titles from the Jimmie Rodgers songbook and tales of railroads and trains, both subjects dear to the singer's heart. Hank Snow Sings In Memory Of Jimmie Rodgers (1970) and The Jimmie Rodgers Story (1972) clearly show that the singer never lost the love for his idol's music. The second album added even greater authenticity as Albert Fullam, a one-time locomotive engineer who had met Rodgers, mixes biographical details with personal reminiscences in a narration that precedes most of the tracks. It was probably Rodgers' persona as the "Singing Brakeman" and songs like 'Waiting For A Train', that were an inspiration for Snow's contributions to the genre. Railroad Man (1963) and Tracks & Trains (1971) highlighted the fact that train songs always had links with traditional country music and these two albums collected songs that stretched over the decades. Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979 and with over 825 recordings to his credit, Hank Snow was forced by ill health into retirement in his final years.

1. Waiting for a Train 2. Big Wheels 3. The Last Ride 4. The Streamline Cannon Ball 5. Ghost Trains 6. Pan American 7. Southbound 8. Way Out There 9. Chattanooga Choo Choo 10. The Wreck of the Number Nine 11. Lonesome Whistle 12. The Crazy Engineer 13. My Rough and Rowdy Ways 14. Everybody Does It in Hawaii 15. Away Out on the Mountain 16. She Was Happy Till She Met You 17. The Hobo's Meditation 18. Home Call 19. Frankie and Johnny 20. Mother, the Queen of My Heart 21. Ninety-Nine Year Blues 22. I've Ranged, I've Roamed and I've Traveled 23. Whisper Your Mother's Name 24. Duquesne Pennsylvania 25. Fireball Mail 26. Canadian Pacific 27. I'm Movin' in 28. Folsom Prison Blues 29. The Same Old Dotted Line 30. Casey Jones Was His Name 31. Wabash Cannon Ball 32. The Train My Woman's on 33. The Engineer's Child 34. Lonely Train 35. My Little Ole Home Down in New Orleans 36. The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) 37. Waiting for a Train 38. Gambling Polka Dot Blues 39. Why Did You Give Me Your Love? 40. Hobo Bill's Last Ride 41. In the Jailhouse Now 42. My Blue-Eyed Jane 43. Pistol Packin' Papa 44. Nobody Knows But Me 45. T.B. Blues