Joe Carson Hillbilly Band From Mars (CD)

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1-CD with 48-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. A reassessment of the career... more

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Joe Carson: Hillbilly Band From Mars (CD)

1-CD with 48-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns.

A reassessment of the career of 1950s-60s honky-tonk singer Little Joe Carson has long been overdue. Joe Carson died at 27 following an automobile accident in 1964, just as he was starting to have major chart success with songs like I Gotta Get Drunk (And I Shore Do Dread It) and Helpless. For that reason, he's largely forgotten today. But he was one of the best country singers of his era and could have been one of the best of any era had he lived long enough. -- From the first notes he sang on record, at age sixteen on his own remarkably assured song I Don't Have A Contract With You, to his last recording, a moving dead-perfect rendering of the standard Fraulein, Joe Carson had an indefinable something that set him apart from most others. Pitifully little of his legacy has been reissued over the years. Bear Family has remedied that at last with this collection, which gathers all of Joe Carson's commercial recordings from 1953 to his death ten years later. It includes not only every commercial release, for Mercury, Capitol, D and Liberty, but also includes an unissued master from his final session and several songs he cut as an audition prior to signing to Capitol in 1956.

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Interpret: Joe Carson
Album titlle: Hillbilly Band From Mars (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127157577
weight in Kg 0.115

Carson, Joe - Hillbilly Band From Mars (CD) CD 1
01	I Don't Have A Contract With You	Joe Carson
02	I'd Give Anything (To Be With You)	Joe Carson
03	I'll Do The Dishes	Joe Carson
04	I Could Love The Devil Out Of You	Joe Carson
05	Show Me Now	Joe Carson
06	I'm Not Allergic To Love	Joe Carson
07	Don't Enter	Joe Carson
08	Just A Little While	Joe Carson
09	Crazy Dream	Joe Carson
10	Take Me In Your Arms	Joe Carson
11	Love Transfusion	Joe Carson
12	Passion And Pride	Joe Carson
13	Careless Words	Joe Carson
14	Time Lock	Joe Carson
15	Shoot The Buffalo	Joe Carson
16	I'll Never Love No One But You	Joe Carson
17	Three Little Words Too Late	Joe Carson
18	Forbidden Wine	Joe Carson
19	I Did It And I'm Glad	Joe Carson
20	Who'll By My Memories	Joe Carson
21	I Gotta Get Drunk	Joe Carson
22	Helpless	Joe Carson
23	The Last Song (I'm Ever Gonna Sing)	Joe Carson
24	Double Life	Joe Carson
25	Fort Worth Jail	Joe Carson
26	Be A Good Girl	Joe Carson
27	Guess You Don't Love Me Anymore	Joe Carson
28	Release Me	Joe Carson
29	Who'll Buy The Wine	Joe Carson
30	I'll Be There	Joe Carson
31	Fraulein	Joe Carson
32	Don't Be Afraid To Laugh When You Love	Joe Carson
33	Hillbilly Band From Mars	Joe Carson

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Joe Carson

Little Joe Carson was one of the most gifted country singers of his generation, a career cut short by a tragically early death. The Texan died in a car accident in early 1964 at the age of just 27 – at the very moment when, after years on the brink of success, a genuine breakthrough was finally taking shape. Connoisseurs mention him in the same breath as George Jones and Ray Price.

Carson had recorded since 1954 and showed remarkable maturity from the start. His most recent successes – among them "I Gotta Get Drunk" and "Helpless" – made clear that he could be far more than a regional star. He stood at a turning point in his career, poised to sign with Marty Robbins' manager Eddie Crandall, when personal worries and finally the fatal crash overtook him.

The last song he ever sang was – hauntingly fitting – "The Last Song (I'm Ever Gonna Sing)", from one of his Liberty albums. The parallels with other Texans who died young, such as Buddy Holly and western-swing pioneer Milton Brown, are hard to miss. What makes Joe Carson's death so tragic is not his youth alone, but the extraordinary talent of a fine and still underrated singer and songwriter.

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