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The Delmore Brothers - Fifty Miles To Travel - 2005

This great country duo was in its prime when the material on this 24-song compilation was recorded for King from the mid-'40s to the mid-'50s. This isn't the cream of that crop, as much of that was been collected on an earlier, superior Ace anthology, Freight Train Boogie. As a secondary collection, however, it presents some always respectable and often very good hillbilly music. It concentrates on sides that hadn't previously been reissued on CD, or reissued at all, including half a dozen outtakes and alternate takes that hadn't been released anywhere, and repeating little from the Freight Train Boogie compilation. While there's some hot country boogie here, there's a little bit more weight given to folky, more traditional-sounding songs such as "Midnite Special" and "Dis Train Am Bound for Glory" than there is on the best Delmore Brothers anthologies. It's often a little more sedate and less innovative than their best King stuff, but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty of exceptional harmonizing and bluesy guitar picking (as on the aptly titled "Fast Express"), occasionally embellished by the harmonica of Wayne Raney. Although most of these are from the less traveled corners of the duo's King output, the CD does have one of their most famous classics, "Blues Stay Away from Me," and -- of more interest to collectors -- a previously unissued alternate take of the song. There also unfortunate unflattering slang references to African-Americans in the otherwise stellar "Mississippi Shore," sung with a casual geniality suggesting such terminology was hardly out of the ordinary among the white Southern country audience when this single came out in 1947. The tracks are taken directly from the original acetates, resulting in a clear sound that's quite exceptional for reissues of country music from this period.


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   1. (00:02:39) The Delmore Brothers - Fifty Miles To Travel (King 739 - Unissued Alt. Take)
   2. (00:02:59) The Delmore Brothers - (When I'm Gone) Don't Talk About Me (Unissued)
   3. (00:02:42) The Delmore Brothers - I Let The Freight Train Carry Me On (King 927)
   4. (00:02:35) The Delmore Brothers - I Won't Be Worried Long (King 1053)
   5. (00:02:58) The Delmore Brothers - Stop That Boogie (King 751)
   6. (00:02:57) The Delmore Brothers - My Heart Will Be Cryin' (King 873)
   7. (00:02:57) The Delmore Brothers - Blues Stay Away From Me (King 803 - Unissued Take 1)
   8. (00:02:49) The Delmore Brothers - Shame On Me (King 751)
   9. (00:02:54) The Delmore Brothers - Waitin' For That Train (King 680)
  10. (00:02:54) The Delmore Brothers - Barnyard Boogie (Kiing 664 - Unissued Alt. Take)
  11. (00:02:55) The Delmore Brothers - Born To Be Blue (King 599)
  12. (00:02:55) The Delmore Brothers - Leavin' Town (Unissued)
  13. (00:03:26) The Delmore Brothers - Why Did You Leave Me, Dear (King 514)
  14. (00:02:46) The Delmore Brothers - Dis Train Am Bound For Glory (King Ep 313)
  15. (00:02:54) The Delmore Brothers - Red River Valley (King Ep 322)
  16. (00:02:50) The Delmore Brothers - Fast Express (King 525)
  17. (00:02:45) The Delmore Brothers - Give Me Your Hand (King Ep 313)
  18. (00:02:56) The Delmore Brothers - Midnite Special (King 514)
  19. (00:02:48) The Delmore Brothers - Somebody Else's Darling (King 570)
  20. (00:02:44) The Delmore Brothers - Down Home Boogie (King 739 - Unissued Take 3)
  21. (00:02:53) The Delmore Brothers - Mississippi Shore (King 592)
  22. (00:02:39) The Delmore Brothers - Let Conscience Be Your Guide (King 5407)
  23. (00:02:40) The Delmore Brothers - Long Journey Home (King Ep 322)
  24. (00:02:49) The Delmore Brothers - Blues Stay Away From Me (King 803)

Playing Time.........: 01:08:27
Total Size...........: 156,68 MB

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