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Roots of Country: Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Driftwood, Hank Snow albums
Tony Russell, Cream, June 1972 THESE THREE double albums (with a fourth by Eddy Arnold) open a reissue series presumably intended to uncover the roots of todays country music. Each of them couples two LPs, once available, but long deleted; the Rodgers set, for instance, is Train Whistle Blues and Jimmie The Kid. No ground for complaint there; RCA re-released virtually all Rodgers work on their seven LPs, and Train and Kid were arguably the best of that set. Total word count of piece: 627 To continue reading the complete article, login or subscribe below and get instant access to this and the many thousands of other articles in the Rock's Backpages archive.
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