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Dick Damron: More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD)

3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 68-page booklet, 86 tracks. Playing time approx. 206 mns.

A comprehensive, complete collection of the early years of 'Canada's Willie Nelson': Dick Damron. The first of two Bear Family multi-disc collections to compile Dick Damron’s career. One of Canada's greatest country music stars, and a member of the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame. Everything Dick Damron recorded between 1959-1976, from his debut rockabilly single Gonna Have A Party to his outlaw country era of the 1970s. Many performances reissued for the first time since their original vinyl release, including the rare '1867-1967: Canadiana Souvenir Album' of Canadian-Centennial celebration. Original versions of
Dick Damron’s biggest hits, including Hitch Hikin’, Mother Love And Country, The Long Green Line, and his career hit Countryfied, which was also a huge hit for George Hamilton IV.

Dick Damron is one of Canada’s musical treasures, with a long career in country music that spans six decades.  Best known for his 'outlaw country' era of the 1970s, his friend George Hamilton IV calls
Dick Damron 'Canada's Willie Nelson.'  This 3-CD collection rounds up the early years of Dick Damron's career, from his 1959 rockabilly debut single Gonna Have A Party to his hard country recordings made at Starday Studios in Nashville in the 1960s, his biggest career hit Countryfied from 1970, and his 'outlaw' era breakthrough recordings from the 1970s produced by Joe Bob Barnhill.  Many of these recordings are reissued on compact disc for the first time, including Dick Damron's 1967 album of 'Canadiana' produced for Canada's Centennial celebration.  86 songs in all, this excellent collection is long overdue for one of Canada’s greatest exports, Dick Damron.

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  • Interpret: Dick Damron

  • Album titlle: More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Preiscode CH
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Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 1
01 Gonna Have A Party Dick Damron
02 Rockin' Baby Dick Damron
03 That's What I Call Livin' Dick Damron
04 Julie I Love You So Dick Damron
05 Black Maria Dick Damron
06 I Guess That's Life Dick Damron
07 Little Sandy Dick Damron
08 Nothin' Else Dick Damron
09 The Same Old Thing Again Dick Damron
10 Times Like This Dick Damron
11 Pretty Moon Dick Damron
12 Hitch Hikin' Dick Damron
13 Strangers Again Dick Damron
14 Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself Dick Damron
15 Hello Heartaches Dick Damron
16 Double Trouble Dick Damron
17 Reflections Of A Fool Dick Damron
18 Autumn In Her Eyes Dick Damron
19 The Cumberland Dick Damron
20 The Night The Dice Grew Cold Dick Damron
21 A Thing Called Happiness Dick Damron
22 The Hard Knocks In Life Dick Damron
23 The Canadian Pioneers Dick Damron
24 This Big Land Dick Damron
25 Blood In The Morning Sun Dick Damron
26 The Little Log Church Dick Damron
27 The Golden Spike Dick Damron
28 Canadas Golden West Dick Damron
29 The Land Of Davis Thompson Dick Damron
30 Cross Country Dick Damron
31 The City Of Gold Dick Damron
32 The Ballad Of Louis Riel Dick Damron
Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 2
01 A Whole Lot Different Dick Damron
02 Walk Out Of My World Dick Damron
03 My Heart Doesn't Sing Dick Damron
04 Sentimental Memories Dick Damron
05 Countryfied Dick Damron
06 No One Knows It Better Than A Clown Dick Damron
07 Rise 'n' Shine Dick Damron
08 When Our Love Was Young Dick Damron
09 The Long Green Line Dick Damron
10 Jackson Country Dick Damron
11 Going Home To The Country Dick Damron
12 Walk A Country Mile Dick Damron
13 Jimmy Justice Dick Damron
14 Somewhere There's A Mountain Dick Damron
15 Lonesome City Dick Damron
16 Mirrors Of My Mind Dick Damron
17 Sweet Dreams Of Yesterday Dick Damron
18 California Girl Dick Damron
19 Sharing The Good Life Dick Damron
20 Rise 'n' Shine Dick Damron
21 The Final Hour Dick Damron
22 Cold Grey Winds Of Autum Dick Damron
23 One More Pretty Girl Dick Damron
24 The End Dick Damron
Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 3
01 The Prophet Dick Damron
02 All That I Was Living For Dick Damron
03 Bittersweet Songs Dick Damron
04 Things That Might Have Been Dick Damron
05 The Cowboy And The Lady Dick Damron
06 I Remember Love Dick Damron
07 Knowin' That She's Leavin' Dick Damron
08 Eastbound Highway Dick Damron
09 Goin' Home Again Dick Damron
10 Mama Was A Christian Lady Dick Damron
11 Mother, Love And Country Dick Damron
12 Backstage Ladies Dick Damron
13 On The Road Dick Damron
14 Half A Jug Of Wine Dick Damron
15 Good Ole Fashion Memories Dick Damron
16 Soldier Of Fortune Dick Damron
17 Freedom And Time Dick Damron
18 After All Dick Damron
19 Lady-O Dick Damron
20 One Night Stand Dick Damron
21 Waylon's T-Shirt Dick Damron
22 North Country Blues Dick Damron
23 Susan Flowers Dick Damron
24 You Can't Call It Country Dick Damron
25 Charing Cross Cowboys Dick Damron
26 Alberta Skyline Dick Damron
27 Country Wine Dick Damron
28 Just Another Old Rodeo Song Dick Damron
29 If You Need Me Lord Dick Damron
30 One More Day Away Dick Damron
Dick Damron More Than Countryfied The Early Recordings Of Dick Damron, 1959 - 1976 Dick... more
"Dick Damron"

Dick Damron

More Than Countryfied

The Early Recordings Of Dick Damron, 1959 - 1976

Dick Damron is one of Canada's musical treasures. The pride of Bentley, Alberta has been a driving force in the Canadian country music scene for over 50 years and,  even though he is now in his seventies, shows no sign of stopping.

Damron has recorded over 30 albums, written over 500 songs, and has had his songs covered by such artists as Charley Pride and George Hamilton IV. He has been named the BMI Best Canadian Songwriter seven times, and in addition to being inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame, has won just about every other music award that Canada has to offer.

Despite the fact that he remains relatively unknown in the United States (he has won five Texas Music Awards, and performed for six years in Las Vegas), Damron has carved out a niché in Canada and Europe, through countless tours. He is also quite well known in his winter home of Mazatlan, Mexico.

This collection is the first time that his early recordings have been properly reissued. It covers the period of 1959 to 1976, from his first rockabilly recording of Gonna Have A Party to his classic 1960s country albums recorded at the Starday studio in Nashville, to his 1970s 'outlaw country' recordings that firmly established the 'Dick Damron sound.' This 3-CD collection is a much-needed retrospective on one of Canada's great honky-tonk heroes.

Dick Damron was born March 22, 1934 in the town of Bentley, Alberta, located almost exactly halfway between Calgary and Edmonton. Like most Canadians, he had an interesting family history with roots from Ireland, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Kentucky, Texas, and Cherokee Indian.

The Damron family wound up in Bentley, a remote town in one of the most remote provinces in Canada, where his father ran a Hereford cattle farm and worked as the principal of the Bentley High School. 'Dickie' Damron, as he was known as a child, was a holy terror that who kept his parents on constant alert through a string of runaway attempts, prairie fires, train trestle shenanigans almost resulting in death, mock hangings during cowboy games, and the like.

Music was always an important part of the family. Like many rural families, the Damrons listened to country music on their battery-powered radio. His grandfather played the banjo, and his father played the fiddle. When his Uncle Bud came over with a guitar that he played in the lap steel manner, Dickie was hooked.

Wilf Carter, also known as 'Montana Slim' and acknowledged as the father of Canadian Country Music, was a huge influence on the young 'Dickie.' The young Damron learned how to sing and play the guitar and began to memorize many of the classic cowboy and yodeling numbers.

Years later, when he returned to Bentley, an elderly woman introduced him at an appearance with a classic quote: "These days there are kids terrorizing the town with motorcycles and cars and trucks with no mufflers. I remember when 'Little Dickie Damron' did it single-handedly on horseback!"

He did indeed ride everywhere on horseback in his formative years, and began riding his horse into local taverns, much to the consternation of the bar owners. Damron's desire was to become a rodeo cowboy, a career path that he pursued for a time.

During his young adulthood, he rode in rodeos and stampedes, making a basic living for himself. The life was rugged and difficult, but thrilling for a young boy living a life he had dreamed about. Living as a vagabond with his fellow riding pals, Damron traveled to such events as the Calgary Stampede, getting to see city life for the first time.

When the rodeo career didn't pan out, he put his energies into music, forming a family band at the age of 15. He wound up marrying the piano player, Martha Ohlson, and in 1955 the couple gave birth to Damron's daughter, Barbara Jean.

After the birth of his daughter, Dick decided to get a 'real job,' and took a very dangerous job as an oil field roughneck for a while. After nearly getting killed and suffering long hours for little pay, he moved the family back to a trailer on the Damron family farm and focused his energies again on music.

When he and his wife Martha were able to assemble enough musicians to get a band together again, they began a popular radio show on CKRD in Red Deer, using the name 'The Musical Round-Up Gang' at first, as they were part of a popular local disc-jockey show called the 'Musical Round-Up.' Later, he would use the name 'Dick Damron and the CKRD Nite-Riders.' The radio show enabled them to get bookings all around the area, and for the next few years, he learned the ropes from the musical school of hard knocks.

As he wrote in his autobiography 'The Legend And The Legacy,' "Somewhere between 1956 and 1964, we made a long, slow transition from being an old-time dance band playing waltzes, polkas and square dances to playing Fifties rock 'n' roll."

As many young musicians discovered around the same time, the music that Elvis Presley ushered in to the public consciousness brought about more money, acclaim, and women, so it was a no-brainer for Damron to make the switch to rock 'n' roll and rockabilly. Unusually, though, he claims it wasn't Elvis so much as it was Carl Perkins that influenced him the most.

In 1959, Damron got the urge to record, and used the tiny studio at CKRD (where his band did their live radio show) to record two numbers, Gonna Have A Party and Rockin' Baby. He and his band subsequently released the two songs on their own Laurel label, named after his brother Howard's then-girlfriend. After they received the records, he and his brothers discovered that in the movie 'Jailhouse Rock' Elvis' character recorded on the ficticious 'Laurel' label. Despite their worries that Elvis' lawyers might sue them, the group never had any legal troubles.

The 45 was pressed by King Plastics in Ohio, a giant operation in Cincinnati that ran their own label, recording studio and record pressing plant, the latter of which catered to custom pressings like Damron's.

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5 Jun 2012

Fantastic Canadian Country Music release! I only was familiar with Dick Damron's Rockabilly songs and now heard his Country tunes the first time and really dig it!! In my opinion a must for every serious Country Music collector! 5 stars all the way!

5 Jun 2012

Fantastic Canadian Country Music release! I only was familiar with Dick Damron's Rockabilly songs and now heard his Country tunes the first time and really dig it!! In my opinion a must for every serious Country Music collector! 5 stars all the way!

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Tracklist
Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 1
01 Gonna Have A Party
02 Rockin' Baby
03 That's What I Call Livin'
04 Julie I Love You So
05 Black Maria
06 I Guess That's Life
07 Little Sandy
08 Nothin' Else
09 The Same Old Thing Again
10 Times Like This
11 Pretty Moon
12 Hitch Hikin'
13 Strangers Again
14 Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself
15 Hello Heartaches
16 Double Trouble
17 Reflections Of A Fool
18 Autumn In Her Eyes
19 The Cumberland
20 The Night The Dice Grew Cold
21 A Thing Called Happiness
22 The Hard Knocks In Life
23 The Canadian Pioneers
24 This Big Land
25 Blood In The Morning Sun
26 The Little Log Church
27 The Golden Spike
28 Canadas Golden West
29 The Land Of Davis Thompson
30 Cross Country
31 The City Of Gold
32 The Ballad Of Louis Riel
Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 2
01 A Whole Lot Different
02 Walk Out Of My World
03 My Heart Doesn't Sing
04 Sentimental Memories
05 Countryfied
06 No One Knows It Better Than A Clown
07 Rise 'n' Shine
08 When Our Love Was Young
09 The Long Green Line
10 Jackson Country
11 Going Home To The Country
12 Walk A Country Mile
13 Jimmy Justice
14 Somewhere There's A Mountain
15 Lonesome City
16 Mirrors Of My Mind
17 Sweet Dreams Of Yesterday
18 California Girl
19 Sharing The Good Life
20 Rise 'n' Shine
21 The Final Hour
22 Cold Grey Winds Of Autum
23 One More Pretty Girl
24 The End
Damron, Dick - More Than Countryfied 1959-76 (3-CD) CD 3
01 The Prophet
02 All That I Was Living For
03 Bittersweet Songs
04 Things That Might Have Been
05 The Cowboy And The Lady
06 I Remember Love
07 Knowin' That She's Leavin'
08 Eastbound Highway
09 Goin' Home Again
10 Mama Was A Christian Lady
11 Mother, Love And Country
12 Backstage Ladies
13 On The Road
14 Half A Jug Of Wine
15 Good Ole Fashion Memories
16 Soldier Of Fortune
17 Freedom And Time
18 After All
19 Lady-O
20 One Night Stand
21 Waylon's T-Shirt
22 North Country Blues
23 Susan Flowers
24 You Can't Call It Country
25 Charing Cross Cowboys
26 Alberta Skyline
27 Country Wine
28 Just Another Old Rodeo Song
29 If You Need Me Lord
30 One More Day Away