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Johnny Horton Album: “Famous Country Music Makers”
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Famous Country Music Makers |
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Release Date:2007-03-27
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Country, Vintage Country, Oldies
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Label:Castle Pulse
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:5016073782328
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Review - :
Best known for his various narrative "historical" songs like {&"The Battle of New Orleans,"} {$Johnny Horton} was also an accomplished {\honky tonk} singer, where his {\rockabilly} background gave his early tracks for {@Columbia Records} a pronounced punch. This 20-track set includes the best of those early sides, including {$Horton}'s classic 1956 version of {&"Honky Tonk Man,"} a record that still sounds fresh and vital some 50 years later ({$Dwight Yoakam}'s recent hit cover of the song simply reproduces {$Horton}'s original template for it, thus proving the point), the almost as classic {&"I'm a One-Woman Man,"} the wry {&"(I Wished for an Angel) The Devil Sent Me You,"} and the clattering, zippy {&"Big Wheels Rollin',"} but the later narrative hits like {&"North to Alaska"} and {&"The Battle of New Orleans"} are absent, which makes this somewhat of an incomplete portrait. But {$Horton} was no pretender in the {\honky tonk} realm (he even married {$Hank Williams}' widow, after all), and this compilation is perfect evidence of that. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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