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DICKENS, Little Jimmy: Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book

(Bear Family Records) 105 tracks - Box set contains 60 page book - Contains all of the Columbia recordings from first session in 1949 until January 1957.

He has been a mainstay of the Nashville music scene since 1949, but he's one of the least-appreciated artists in the city. Now he's one of the last real country artists who grew up back in the hills and started off singing pure mountain music. When Jimmy came to Nashville, he signed with Columbia, and this set gathers his complete Columbia recordings from 1949 to early 1957. Jimmy not only recorded superb uptempo novelties like Take An Old Cold Tater And Wait, Country Boy, I've Got A Rocket In My Pocket, Hillbilly Fever, A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed and Out Behind The Barn, but he was also one of the great ballad singers of our time, recording enduring and heartfelt ballads like My Heart's Bouquet and the original version of such country standards as Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go, Life Turned Her That Way, We Could and Another Bridge To Burn. Jimmy also hired some great pickers including Jabbo Arrington, Spider Wilson, Grady Martin, and Thumbs Carlille. The 105 tracks on this collection begin to set the record straight on Little Jimmy Dickens!

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Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 1
01Take An Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
02Pennies For PapaDICKENS, Little Jimmy
03Crazy Worried MindDICKENS, Little Jimmy
04Golden Haired Darlin'DICKENS, Little Jimmy
05Country BoyDICKENS, Little Jimmy
06I'm Fading Fast With The TimeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
07I'll Be Back A-SundayDICKENS, Little Jimmy
08My Heart's BouquetDICKENS, Little Jimmy
09I'm In Love Up To My EarsDICKENS, Little Jimmy
10A Rose From The Bride's BouquetDICKENS, Little Jimmy
11Beautiful Morning GloryDICKENS, Little Jimmy
12Lovin'LiesDICKENS, Little Jimmy
13A Rose From The Bride's BouquetDICKENS, Little Jimmy
14Lovin' LiesDICKENS, Little Jimmy
15A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The BedDICKENS, Little Jimmy
16Sign By The HighwayDICKENS, Little Jimmy
17Be Careful Of Stones That You ThrowDICKENS, Little Jimmy
18I'm In Love Up To My EarsDICKENS, Little Jimmy
19Then I Had To Turn Around And Get MarriedDICKENS, Little Jimmy
20If It Ain't One Thing It's AnotherDICKENS, Little Jimmy
21F-O-O-L-I-S-H M-EDICKENS, Little Jimmy
22Hillbilly FeverDICKENS, Little Jimmy
23Walk, Chicken, Walk ('cause You're Too Fat..)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
24Just When I Needed YouDICKENS, Little Jimmy
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 2
01When That Love Bug Bites YouDICKENS, Little Jimmy
02Waitin' For The Tide To ChangeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
03Cold FeetDICKENS, Little Jimmy
04Out Of BusinessDICKENS, Little Jimmy
05Bessie The HeiferDICKENS, Little Jimmy
06Lola LeeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
07I'm Little But I'm LoudDICKENS, Little Jimmy
08The Bible On The Table (And The Flag Upon...)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
09What About YouDICKENS, Little Jimmy
10The Galvanized Washing TubDICKENS, Little Jimmy
11He Turned Up His NoseDICKENS, Little Jimmy
12It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
13I Wish You Didn't Love Me So MuchDICKENS, Little Jimmy
14Bring Your Broken Heart To MeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
15I Sure Would Like To Set A Spell With YouDICKENS, Little Jimmy
16On The Sea Of Broken DreamsDICKENS, Little Jimmy
17Poor Little Darlin'DICKENS, Little Jimmy
18They Don't Know Nothin'At AllDICKENS, Little Jimmy
19I've Just Got To See You Once MoreDICKENS, Little Jimmy
20They Locked God Outside The Iron CurtainDICKENS, Little Jimmy
21Brother, Do You Take Time To PrayDICKENS, Little Jimmy
22Hot Diggity DogDICKENS, Little Jimmy
23Waitress, WaitressDICKENS, Little Jimmy
24On The Sea Of Broken Dreams (alt.)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 3
01No Tears In HeavenDICKENS, Little Jimmy
02He Spoke Not A WordDICKENS, Little Jimmy
03That Little Old Country Church HouseDICKENS, Little Jimmy
04Take Up Thy CrossDICKENS, Little Jimmy
05Just A Closer Walk With TheeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
06The Old Country PreacherDICKENS, Little Jimmy
07Take My Hand Precious LordDICKENS, Little Jimmy
08I Shall Not Be MovedDICKENS, Little Jimmy
09Wedding Bell WaltzDICKENS, Little Jimmy
10You Don't Have Love At AllDICKENS, Little Jimmy
11I'm Gettin' Nowhere FastDICKENS, Little Jimmy
12Love Must Be CatchingDICKENS, Little Jimmy
13Thick And ThinDICKENS, Little Jimmy
14Teardrops (Fell Like Raindrops)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
15Sidemeat And CabbageDICKENS, Little Jimmy
16Forever Is Too Long To Be AloneDICKENS, Little Jimmy
17Would You MindDICKENS, Little Jimmy
18I'll Dance At Your Wedding (If You Marry Me)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
19I'm Making Love To A StrangerDICKENS, Little Jimmy
20Barefooted Little CowboyDICKENS, Little Jimmy
21No Place Like Home On ChristmasDICKENS, Little Jimmy
22Rockin' With RedDICKENS, Little Jimmy
23You All ComeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
24Out Behind The BarnDICKENS, Little Jimmy
25Lovesong Of The BayouDICKENS, Little Jimmy
26You Better Not Do ThatDICKENS, Little Jimmy
27Closing TimeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 4
01Slow SuicideDICKENS, Little Jimmy
02Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
03Where's WillieDICKENS, Little Jimmy
04Blackeyed Joe'sDICKENS, Little Jimmy
05A Ribbon And A RoseDICKENS, Little Jimmy
06Stinky Passed The Hat AroundDICKENS, Little Jimmy
07Salty BoogieDICKENS, Little Jimmy
08Conscience (Set Me Free)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
09We CouldDICKENS, Little Jimmy
10Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
11Where Did The Sunshine GoDICKENS, Little Jimmy
12I'm Braver NowDICKENS, Little Jimmy
13Are You Insured Beyond The GraveDICKENS, Little Jimmy
14When They Get Too Rough (They're Just Right.)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
15I Feel For You (But I Can't Quite Reach You)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
16Big SandyDICKENS, Little Jimmy
17It Scares Me Half To DeathDICKENS, Little Jimmy
18You Gotta Have A HeartbreakDICKENS, Little Jimmy
19Red Wing (instrumental)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
20Country Boy Bounce (instrumental)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
21Buddy's Boogie (instrumental)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
22Raisin' The Dickens (instrumental)DICKENS, Little Jimmy
23I Never Thought It Would Happen To MeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
24Say It NowDICKENS, Little Jimmy
25I'm Coming Over TonightDICKENS, Little Jimmy
26Cornbread And ButtermilkDICKENS, Little Jimmy
27I Don't Love You AnymoreDICKENS, Little Jimmy
28Happy HeartachesDICKENS, Little Jimmy
29The Last TimeDICKENS, Little Jimmy
30Let's Quit Before We StartDICKENS, Little Jimmy
LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS OUT BEHIND THE BARN The career of Little Jimmy Dickens has spanned... more
"DICKENS, Little Jimmy"

LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS

OUT BEHIND THE BARN

The career of Little Jimmy Dickens has spanned nearly sixty years. From his humble beginnings watching relatives for hours as he tried to learn the rudiments of rhythm guitar, to the ultimate accolade as he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Little Jimmy Dickens has seen and done it all. He still vividly recalls his debut on radio crowing like a rooster, his career as a singer on radio--station hopping to different parts of the country, his membership of the world famous Grand Ole Opry, and the fact that he was the first country music entertainer to completely circle the globe on a tour. Along the way, he has earned the admiration of several generations of fans, as well as that of his contemporaries in the industry.

Jimmy Dickens began recording for Columbia Records in 1949, and the 104 recordings he made from that point until January 1957 are included in the first part of our retrospective, ‘Country Boy’ (BCD 15848). This release picks up the story, and continues through Jimmy's remaining nine years with Columbia.

As this box begins, rock ‘n’ roll was taking the country by storm. Although rock ‘n’ roll hurt country music tremendously, especially its more traditional artists, Dickens wasn't really affected by it any more than his contemporaries. He had approximately twenty years in the business under his belt and had witnessed some hard times before. Fortunately, by 1957 Dickens was enough of an established star in country music to keep him on the road nearly non-stop, in many cases working as many as three hundred days per year.

As the years progressed into the 1960s, country music was changing at a fast pace. The music was becoming less country and more pop, with terms like 'The Nashville Sound' and 'Countrypolitan' used to describe a more homogenized art form. In hopes of attracting a larger audience, the fiddle and steel guitar were largely replaced with piano, nylon string acoustic guitar, string sections, and background voices. In light of all that was happening in the industry during the years covered in this collection, Jimmy Dickens did make some compromises to keep up with the times, but in most cases not nearly as many as some of his contemporaries did.

The majority of the one hundred titles recorded in this set feature fiddle and steel guitar instrumentation. In addition to the trademark Dickens novelties that he initially became famous for, there are lots of 4/4 country shuffles, and numerous heartfelt country ballads--a Dickens specialty. Popular songs for Jimmy, and others from this collection which have been recorded by fellow artists includeFamily Reunion, (I Got) A Hole In My Pocket, Me And My Big Loud Mouth, When Your House Is Not A Home, I'm Just Blue Enough (To Do Most Anything), Farewell Party, The Violet And A Rose, Another Bridge To Burn, I Leaned Over Backwards For You, Life Turned Her That Way, May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose, My Eyes Are Jealous, and others.

 

UP TO 1957

James Cecil Dickens was born at home on December 20, 1920, in the small community of Bolt, in Raleigh County, West Virginia. The oldest of a family of thirteen, seven boys and six girls, Jimmy believes his ancestry to be English and Irish. The community of Bolt where Jimmy grew up is eighteen miles west of Beckley, near where the legendary folk hero John Henry lived and worked. In that part of West Virginia, coal mining has been the biggest industry for years.

"All my people were coal miners. That's all they knew," remembers Jimmy. "My grandfather Lewis Calvin Dickens and my grandmother Edna Young Dickens took me from a baby and raised me."  Growing up, Jimmy also spent a lot of time with his aunts and uncles and remembers his mother being more like an aunt to him. Music was abundant among Dickens' relatives."My mother played guitar, and three of my mother's brothers, Uncle Quince, Uncle Prince, and Uncle Finley, all played the guitar and thumped around on an old five string banjo a little bit."

Radio was also important musically to Jimmy. "My first memories were of the Grand Ole Opry. The Possum Hunters, the Gully Jumpers, Uncle Dave Macon, Arthur Smith and the Delmore Brothers, were the ones that I listened to as a kid growing up in the hills of West Virginia. I must have been about 15 or 16 when I first started really wanting to play the guitar." After intensely watching his relatives play music for hours on end, it wasn't long before Jimmy himself was playing and he won his first talent contest in Pineville, West Virginia.

Jimmy attended public schools in Surveyor, West Virginia, about eight miles from Bolt. In spite of his short stature at approximately four feet six or four feet eight, and weighing 85 pounds, he played forward on the basketball team for three years. He was also manager of the football team and was a cheerleader. Jimmy took an active part in school plays and took dramatics for four years in high school. The dramatics classes helped Jimmy learn the valuable skills of stage presence and communication that he would need throughout his career. Jimmy was elected president of his senior class and graduated from Trap Hill High School in 1940. Because of his excellence, he received a scholarship in dramatics to West Virginia University, but turned it down. Jimmy's small stature also brought a job opportunity from Calumet Farms in Louisville, Kentucky to become a jockey, but his grandmother wouldn't allow it.

By this time Jimmy Dickens had one thing on his mind, and that was music. He had begun his career a couple of years earlier in 1938 as a performer at WJLS in Beckley where he would crow like a rooster to sign the station on in the mornings. He later joined up with Mel Steele and His Home Folks at the same station where he would sing one song per show. Mel Steele left Beckley and went to WING in Dayton, Ohio and Jimmy quit school to go, but eventually returned home after a few months and went back to school.

Returning to WJLS in Beckley while still in school, Jimmy became a featured performer with Johnnie Bailes and the Happy Valley Boys. The group also included Johnnie's brother Walter who dubbed Dickens 'Jimmy The Kid'. Another important performer in the troupe was a female vocalist, Dixie Lee, who would later take the stage name of Molly O'Day, and like the Bailes Brothers, achieve eventual fame on Columbia records. 

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Tracklist
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 1
01 Take An Old Cold 'Tater (And Wait)
02 Pennies For Papa
03 Crazy Worried Mind
04 Golden Haired Darlin'
05 Country Boy
06 I'm Fading Fast With The Time
07 I'll Be Back A-Sunday
08 My Heart's Bouquet
09 I'm In Love Up To My Ears
10 A Rose From The Bride's Bouquet
11 Beautiful Morning Glory
12 Lovin'Lies
13 A Rose From The Bride's Bouquet
14 Lovin' Lies
15 A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed
16 Sign By The Highway
17 Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw
18 I'm In Love Up To My Ears
19 Then I Had To Turn Around And Get Married
20 If It Ain't One Thing It's Another
21 F-O-O-L-I-S-H M-E
22 Hillbilly Fever
23 Walk, Chicken, Walk ('cause You're Too Fat..)
24 Just When I Needed You
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 2
01 When That Love Bug Bites You
02 Waitin' For The Tide To Change
03 Cold Feet
04 Out Of Business
05 Bessie The Heifer
06 Lola Lee
07 I'm Little But I'm Loud
08 The Bible On The Table (And The Flag Upon...)
09 What About You
10 The Galvanized Washing Tub
11 He Turned Up His Nose
12 It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun)
13 I Wish You Didn't Love Me So Much
14 Bring Your Broken Heart To Me
15 I Sure Would Like To Set A Spell With You
16 On The Sea Of Broken Dreams
17 Poor Little Darlin'
18 They Don't Know Nothin'At All
19 I've Just Got To See You Once More
20 They Locked God Outside The Iron Curtain
21 Brother, Do You Take Time To Pray
22 Hot Diggity Dog
23 Waitress, Waitress
24 On The Sea Of Broken Dreams (alt.)
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 3
01 No Tears In Heaven
02 He Spoke Not A Word
03 That Little Old Country Church House
04 Take Up Thy Cross
05 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
06 The Old Country Preacher
07 Take My Hand Precious Lord
08 I Shall Not Be Moved
09 Wedding Bell Waltz
10 You Don't Have Love At All
11 I'm Gettin' Nowhere Fast
12 Love Must Be Catching
13 Thick And Thin
14 Teardrops (Fell Like Raindrops)
15 Sidemeat And Cabbage
16 Forever Is Too Long To Be Alone
17 Would You Mind
18 I'll Dance At Your Wedding (If You Marry Me)
19 I'm Making Love To A Stranger
20 Barefooted Little Cowboy
21 No Place Like Home On Christmas
22 Rockin' With Red
23 You All Come
24 Out Behind The Barn
25 Lovesong Of The Bayou
26 You Better Not Do That
27 Closing Time
Dickens, Little Jimmy - Country Boy 4-CD-Box & 64-Page Book Box set 4
01 Slow Suicide
02 Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)
03 Where's Willie
04 Blackeyed Joe's
05 A Ribbon And A Rose
06 Stinky Passed The Hat Around
07 Salty Boogie
08 Conscience (Set Me Free)
09 We Could
10 Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle)
11 Where Did The Sunshine Go
12 I'm Braver Now
13 Are You Insured Beyond The Grave
14 When They Get Too Rough (They're Just Right.)
15 I Feel For You (But I Can't Quite Reach You)
16 Big Sandy
17 It Scares Me Half To Death
18 You Gotta Have A Heartbreak
19 Red Wing (instrumental)
20 Country Boy Bounce (instrumental)
21 Buddy's Boogie (instrumental)
22 Raisin' The Dickens (instrumental)
23 I Never Thought It Would Happen To Me
24 Say It Now
25 I'm Coming Over Tonight
26 Cornbread And Buttermilk
27 I Don't Love You Anymore
28 Happy Heartaches
29 The Last Time
30 Let's Quit Before We Start