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Jimmie Driftwood: Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

3-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 24-page book, 82 tracks. Playing time approx. 205 mns.

Justly renowned as the writer of The Battle Of New Orleans, Jimmie Driftwood was a true maverick. He was an Arkansas schoolteacher who wrote songs to illustrate his classes. He had a sure grasp of history, a rough untutored voice, and he played homemade instruments. His 82 RCA recordings (complete here) are a storehouse of American history and folklore, set to some of the catchiest melodies around. In addition to the complete and uncensored Battle of New Orleans, there's such folk and country classics as Tennessee Stud, Arkansas Traveler, Sal's Got A Sugarlip, Billy Yank And Johnny Reb, I'm A poor Rebel Soldier, and
First Covered Wagon. If only all history was this enjoyable!

Article properties:Jimmie Driftwood: Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Jimmie Driftwood

  • Album titlle: Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127154651

  • weight in Kg 1.1
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01Unfortunate ManJimmie Driftwood
02Fair Rosamond's BowerJimmie Driftwood
03Soldier's JoyJimmie Driftwood
04Country BoyJimmie Driftwood
05I'm Too Young To MarryJimmie Driftwood
06Pretty MaryJimmie Driftwood
07Sailor ManJimmie Driftwood
08Zelma LeeJimmie Driftwood
09Rattlesnake SongJimmie Driftwood
10Old Joe ClarkJimmie Driftwood
11Tennessee StudJimmie Driftwood
12Razorback SteakJimmie Driftwood
13First Covered WagonJimmie Driftwood
14The Maid Of ArgentaJimmie Driftwood
15Bunker HillJimmie Driftwood
16Song Of The CowboysJimmie Driftwood
17Peter FranciscoJimmie Driftwood
18Four Little Girls In BostonJimmie Driftwood
19Slack Your RopeJimmie Driftwood
20Run, Johnny, RunJimmie Driftwood
21Arkansas TravelerJimmie Driftwood
22Damyankee LadJimmie Driftwood
23ChalametteJimmie Driftwood
24The Battle Of New OrleansJimmie Driftwood
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01The Widders Of Bowling GreenJimmie Driftwood
02Get Along BoysJimmie Driftwood
03Sweet Betsy From PikeJimmie Driftwood
04Shoot The BuffaloJimmie Driftwood
05Song Of The PioneerJimmie Driftwood
06I'm Leavin' On The Wagon TrainJimmie Driftwood
07Jordan Am A Hard Road To TravelJimmie Driftwood
08The Marshall Of Silver CityJimmie Driftwood
09The Wilderness RoadJimmie Driftwood
10The Pony ExpressJimmie Driftwood
11MooshatanioJimmie Driftwood
12The Shanty In The HollerJimmie Driftwood
13Big River ManJimmie Driftwood
14Big John DavyJimmie Driftwood
15On Top Of Pikes PeakJimmie Driftwood
16Fidi Diddle Um A-DazeyJimmie Driftwood
17The Song Of CreationJimmie Driftwood
18The Battle Of San Juan HillJimmie Driftwood
19Banjer Pickin' ManJimmie Driftwood
20TucumcariJimmie Driftwood
21St. Brendon's IsleJimmie Driftwood
22He Had A Long Chain OnJimmie Driftwood
23Big HossJimmie Driftwood
24Sal's Got A SugarlipJimmie Driftwood
25MooshatanioJimmie Driftwood
26Ox Driving SongJimmie Driftwood
27General CusterJimmie Driftwood
28What Was Your Name In The StatesJimmie Driftwood
29Billy The KidJimmie Driftwood
30Jesse JamesJimmie Driftwood
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01Won't You Come Along And GoJimmie Driftwood
02Rock Of ChickamaugaJimmie Driftwood
03How Do You Like The ArmyJimmie Driftwood
04Git Along Little YearlingsJimmie Driftwood
05Oh FlorieJimmie Driftwood
06I'm A Poor Rebel SoldierJimmie Driftwood
07My Black Bird Has GoneJimmie Driftwood
08Goodbye Reb, Y' All ComeJimmie Driftwood
09On Top Of Shiloh's HillJimmie Driftwood
10When I Swim The Golden RiverJimmie Driftwood
11The Giant Of The ThunderheadJimmie Driftwood
12ShanghiedJimmie Driftwood
13Santy Anny-OJimmie Driftwood
14Row Bullies RowJimmie Driftwood
15The Land Of The AmazonJimmie Driftwood
16What Could I Do?Jimmie Driftwood
17Driftwood At SeaJimmie Driftwood
18In A Cotton Shirt And A Pair Of DungareesJimmie Driftwood
19Davy Jones (Song Of A Dead Soldier)Jimmie Driftwood
20Sailor, Sailor, Marry MeJimmie Driftwood
21The Diver BoyJimmie Driftwood
22The Ship That Never ReturnedJimmie Driftwood
23Sailing Away On The OceanJimmie Driftwood
24John Paul JonesJimmie Driftwood
25The Bear Flew Over The OceanJimmie Driftwood
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"Jimmie Driftwood"

Jimmie Driftwood

The Battle Of New Orleans

Tennessee Stud

What Color Is The Soul Of A Man

Rooted in the folk music of his native Ozark Mountains, Jimmie Driftwood was a prolific, engaging singer-songwriter. Two of his songs, The Battle Of New Orleans and Tennessee Stud, became standards in the American folk and country music repertoires.

Born James Corbett Morris on June 20, 1907 in Richwood, Arkansas, he absorbed the folk tales and stories of the mountain men, homesteaders, Native Americans and Civil War veterans who settled in the region around Mountain View. His great-grandmother also taught him songs from her Carolina childhood. As a youngster he was given an unusual handmade guitar made by his grandfather. Its neck was made from a fence rail, its sides shaped from an ox yoke, and its front and back came from a bed headboard. While it didn't have much tone, Driftwood used it throughout his performing career.

Graduating from high school in 1928, he attended John Brown College in Siloam Springs. During the height of the Depression he left college and traveled through the Southwest, settling in Phoenix, Arizona, where he sang on a weekly radio show. Returning to Arkansas in 1935, he began teaching elementary students in Timbo, 12 miles west of Mountain View. Finding his students had difficulty grasping historical events, Driftwood wrote his lessons in rhyme and set them to music. In 1936 he fit his poem about the Battle of New Orleans to the fiddle tune Eighth Of January.

In 1936 Driftwood married Cleda Johnson. For next two decades he concentrated on teaching while attending night classes at Arkansas State Teachers College. In 1947 he bought a 150-acre farm in Timbo. After receiving his degree in education in 1949, Driftwood became principal of Snowball School in Searcy County.

During these years he wrote more than a hundred songs, mostly about historical events or local folklore. In 1952 he made a demo tape of several dozen songs and privately pressed a single, but never pursued placing them with a publisher. Hugh Ashley, a friend of Driftwood's who placed songs with Red Foley, Bill Monroe and Porter Wagoner, encouraged the schoolteacher to demo his songs in Nashville. When school let out for summer vacation in 1957, Driftwood and his wife met with Buddy Killen of Tree Publishing. After listening to two stanzas of The Battle Of New Orleans, Killen dismissed him, coldly suggesting he return to Timbo.

Undeterred, he visited Don Warden, Wagoner's steel guitarist, then establishing his own publishing company. Warden liked what he heard and purchased 25 of Driftwood's compositions, including Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy, which became Wagoner's theme song. He also convinced Chet Atkins to sign Driftwood to RCA Victor. With Atkins on guitar and Bob Moore on bass, Driftwood completed his first album during two October 1957 sessions. A mix of traditional material and Driftwood originals, 'Newly Discovered Early American Folk Songs' included The Battle Of New Orleans.Written from the perspective of an American volunteer fighting with Major General Andrew Jackson's army, it offered a light-hearted saga about the British defeat during the War of 1812's final battle.

Johnny Horton thought the song had potential, and invited Driftwood to Shreveport to perform on The Louisiana Hayride. At Horton's request, Driftwood trimmed and slightly sanitized the song for a radio-friendly single. Three days later Horton recorded the revised The Battle Of New Orleans in Nashville. In April 1959 it entered Billboard's pop and country singles charts for extended runs. It clung to No. 1 on the country chart for ten weeks and No. 1 pop for six.

Counting Homer & Jethro's parody The Battle Of Kookamonga, Driftwood placed six songs on the pop and country charts in 1959, including Eddy Arnold's version of Tennessee Stud. The song was inspired by an actual horse owned by his wife's great-great-grandfather, John Merriman. "The great exploits of this horse were legion," Driftwood wrote in 1966. "Seemed that John got into trouble with his sweetheart's folk and rode off to The Arkansas Territory rather than fight his loved one's people. However, after having ridden this wonderful horse all over the Great Southwest and into Mexico, and after having made a sack full of money from racing and filing a notch or two on his gun, young Johnny came back to Tennessee, thrashed his potential in-laws, and carried the girl away to Arkansas."

The honors and awards continued through 1959. Besides appearances on the Hayride, The Grand Ole Opry and The Ozark Jubilee, he sang at New York's Carnegie Hall, the Berkeley Folk Festival, and at the United Nations in a concert for Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev. In August he received an Honorary Doctorate of American Folklore from Peabody College in Nashville.

Under Atkins' supervision, Driftwood recorded six albums for RCA Victor and contributed five songs to a thematic album, 'How The West Was Won.' In 1963 he signed with Fred Foster's Monument Records. For the first album for his new label, he recorded his plea for racial tolerance, What Is The Color Of The Soul Of Man. The song was hardly new at the time; Driftwood intended to sing it at his Carnegie Hall debut in April 1959. "My Nashville publisher begged me not to sing it, believing that my records would be boycotted in many parts of our country," he later recalled. "Since then I have sung it all over America, with as great applause in Little Rock as anywhere else."

By 1963, an aging Driftwood became weary of life on the road. Returning to Timbo, he and two local physicians formed the Rackensack Folklore Society, sponsoring regular concerts that evolved into an annual folk festival in Mountain View. He also became involved in environmental issues, spearheading a campaign to prevent the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a dam across the Buffalo River.

He continued performing sporadically until his death in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on July 12, 1998. 

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Tracklist
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Unfortunate Man
02 Fair Rosamond's Bower
03 Soldier's Joy
04 Country Boy
05 I'm Too Young To Marry
06 Pretty Mary
07 Sailor Man
08 Zelma Lee
09 Rattlesnake Song
10 Old Joe Clark
11 Tennessee Stud
12 Razorback Steak
13 First Covered Wagon
14 The Maid Of Argenta
15 Bunker Hill
16 Song Of The Cowboys
17 Peter Francisco
18 Four Little Girls In Boston
19 Slack Your Rope
20 Run, Johnny, Run
21 Arkansas Traveler
22 Damyankee Lad
23 Chalamette
24 The Battle Of New Orleans
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Widders Of Bowling Green
02 Get Along Boys
03 Sweet Betsy From Pike
04 Shoot The Buffalo
05 Song Of The Pioneer
06 I'm Leavin' On The Wagon Train
07 Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel
08 The Marshall Of Silver City
09 The Wilderness Road
10 The Pony Express
11 Mooshatanio
12 The Shanty In The Holler
13 Big River Man
14 Big John Davy
15 On Top Of Pikes Peak
16 Fidi Diddle Um A-Dazey
17 The Song Of Creation
18 The Battle Of San Juan Hill
19 Banjer Pickin' Man
20 Tucumcari
21 St. Brendon's Isle
22 He Had A Long Chain On
23 Big Hoss
24 Sal's Got A Sugarlip
25 Mooshatanio
26 Ox Driving Song
27 General Custer
28 What Was Your Name In The States
29 Billy The Kid
30 Jesse James
Driftwood, Jimmie - Americana (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Won't You Come Along And Go
02 Rock Of Chickamauga
03 How Do You Like The Army
04 Git Along Little Yearlings
05 Oh Florie
06 I'm A Poor Rebel Soldier
07 My Black Bird Has Gone
08 Goodbye Reb, Y' All Come
09 On Top Of Shiloh's Hill
10 When I Swim The Golden River
11 The Giant Of The Thunderhead
12 Shanghied
13 Santy Anny-O
14 Row Bullies Row
15 The Land Of The Amazon
16 What Could I Do?
17 Driftwood At Sea
18 In A Cotton Shirt And A Pair Of Dungarees
19 Davy Jones (Song Of A Dead Soldier)
20 Sailor, Sailor, Marry Me
21 The Diver Boy
22 The Ship That Never Returned
23 Sailing Away On The Ocean
24 John Paul Jones
25 The Bear Flew Over The Ocean