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Bear Family Records - BCD 15118 - Carl Butler - Blue Million Tears




Long before Carl & Pearl Butler made the biggest country hit of 1962 with "Don't Let Me Cross Over," Carl Butler recorded as a solo artist for the Columbia and OKeh labels. Blue Million Tears chronicles these early years with 28 recordings Butler waxed between 1950 and 1953, and traces his evolution from an open-throated hillbilly singer patterned after Roy Acuff to an electrified honky tonker moving toward the style of his better-known '60s recordings. Bear Family Records is famous for exhuming long-lost hillbilly bop and rockabilly recordings, but there is nothing of that sort here -- only traditional country music with a few train songs and lots of slow weepers. "Plastic Heart," a novelty that Acuff also recorded, stands out among the many ballads because of its humor and dissimilarity to the surrounding material. Butler had no hits during his early years, and even among his fans these '50s recordings are considered inferior to his '60s hits, but nonetheless, Blue Million Tears is a valuable anthology of rare recordings that should interest serious collectors of traditional country music.



1  The White Rose 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:33  
     2  Plastic Heart  Carl Butler   2:45  
     3  The Heartbreak Express  Carl Butler   2:30  
     4  Country Mile 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:17  
     5  String of Empties  Carl Butler   2:34  
     6  You Plus Me  Carl Butler   2:33  
     7  Shake, Rattle and Roll 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:39  
     8  No Guarantee on My Heart 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   3:05  
     9  Our Last Rendezvous  Carl Butler   2:28  
     10  No Trespassing 
George "Speedy" Krise  Carl Butler   2:51  
     11  I Live My Life Alone 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:16  
     12  Linda Lou 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:46  
     13  Vicious Lies 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:37  
     14  River of Love  Carl Butler   2:25  
     15  A Blue Million Tears 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:36  
     16  Everything Will Be the Same  Carl Butler   2:41  
     17  Stepping On My Heart  Carl Butler   2:33  
     18  A Penny for Your Thoughts (A Nickel for a Hug) 
Loys Southerland  Carl Butler   2:21  
     19  I Need You So  Carl Butler   2:29  
     20  Alone Without You 
Helen Carter / Mel Foree  Carl Butler   2:33  
     21  You Can't Insure a House of Dreams 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:34  
     22  For Fooling Around  Carl Butler   2:52  
     23  Crowded Out 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:37  
     24  My Heart Tells Me (You'll Come Back to Stay) 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:37  
     25  So Close 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:17  
     26  It's Wrong to Be Jealous 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:28  
     27  A Victim of Lies 
Carl Butler  Carl Butler   2:49  
     28  I Just Said Goodbye to My Dreams 
Leon Payne  Carl Butler   2:40



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