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Jeannie C. Riley: On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 48-page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 75 min.

On The Honky Tonk Highway with Jeannie C. Riley - Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil

The first in Bear Family Records’® new series of hard-hitting country music from artists who travelled the Honky Tonk Highway in the 1960s and ‘70s.
This CD displays the full range of the astonishing recordings Jeannie C. Riley made for Plantation Records between 1968 and 1971, a time when her songs told the truth and shamed the devil.
Jeannie had 24 country hits and 6 pop hits, including her international smash Harper Valley P.T. A. - the only song by a female country singer to top both the country and pop charts until Dolly Parton went pop 13 years later. She also had 9 charted albums.
Jeannie was an excellent singer, the real deal, whose authentic Texas honky tonk twang came together with an ability to put across a song to wider audience.
Standout songs from the finest country writers include Tell The Truth, The Girl Most Likely, The Back Side Of Dallas, Oh Singer, Country Girl, Roses And Thorns, The Street Singer, In A Moment Of Weakness, and ... Harper Valley P.T.A.
The accompanying booklet by Martin Hawkins tells the fascinating story of young Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson complete with original interviews and rare photographs.

Jeannie C. Riley was born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson in 1945 in Stamford, Texas. Her childhood was lonely but competitive, and focused on singing – at first into her hairbrush, then on the local Jones County Jamboree.

She moved to Nashville in 1966 with her husband and a six month old daughter, Kim. She was turned down by Monument and Capitol and messed around by undelivered promises from other labels. Her 1981 autobiography called out the casting couch processes in Nashville years before “Me Too” came along. Johnny Cash wrote the introduction: “She was a diamond in the rough... Her story is a textbook example of what many girls have come through in order to ‘make it’ in the Nashville music community.”

In 1968 she was heard by producer Shelby Singleton. His vision saw how her voice and personality could bring alive a story song by Tom T. Hall about a woman calling out the various small town hypocrites who were criticising her. He saw Harper Valley P.T.A. as a hit single, an album, a movie and a TV series - all of which came to pass. When Jeannie recorded Harper Valley, she said: ”There wasn’t a sound as the last echoes of the guitars faded. Then I heard one of the musicians say, ‘Great God A’mighty’.” Everyone in the room was now hearing what Shelby had envisioned. Legend has it that half the music people in Nashville came in to hear the playbacks.

Within a month, her song was number one on the national Hot 100 chart, and number one country, and she was on TV for American Bandstand and the Bing Crosby Show. Soon she was awarded the CMA Song Of The Year and nominated as the Best Female Performer at the Grammies. She was earning 30 grand in Vegas and had her picture made with Elvis Presley. HE came to see HER. From 1969 onwards she formed a band and had a tour bus. She said, “I was virtually living on my bus,” as husband Mickey Riley drove her entourage down the honky tonk highway.

Even though the highway took her first to the top of the pop charts, to national and international TV, and to Vegas, she was still as country as they come. She said, “I took every engagement that came along – state fairs, concerts, night clubs, dinner clubs, and joints.”

Behind Jeannie, this CD features the incredible studio band of Plantation Records led by Jerry Kennedy and including some of the best players in Nashville.

The music Jeannie made during her three years with Plantation has been overshadowed by Harper Valley and not recognised for the significant and influential body of work it is – until now! Here, the story is told the Bear Family way in words, pictures, and especially in this music.

The accompanying booklet by Martin Hawkins tells the fascinating story of young Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson from west Texas, who was transformed into the iconic singer Jeannie C. Riley, who reached the highs of the record business before the lows, and who fought her way back along the honky tonk highway. Complete with original interviews and rare photographs.

After Plantation, Jeannie made some good records for MGM, Mercury and other labels. She would periodically sing only gospel, then relent, reflecting many years of what she called “torment” and what the medics eventually called bi-polar. Today, aged 77 at the time of writing, an old but glam lady, she lives back home in Texas and still sings Harper Valley in her living room, posted on Youtube.

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Interpret: Jeannie C. Riley
Album titlle: On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102176364
weight in Kg 0.115

Riley, Jeannie C. - On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD) CD 1
01	Harper Valley P. T. A.	Jeannie C. Riley
02	Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil	Jeannie C. Riley
03	The Girl Most Likely	Jeannie C. Riley
04	The Little Town Square	Jeannie C. Riley
05	The Back Side Of Dallas	Jeannie C. Riley
06	Things Go Better With Love	Jeannie C. Riley
07	Country Girl	Jeannie C. Riley
08	Duty Not Desire	Jeannie C. Riley
09	Good Enough To Be Your Wife	Jeannie C. Riley
10	Oh Singer	Jeannie C. Riley
11	Darling Days	Jeannie C. Riley
12	Roses And Thorns	Jeannie C. Riley
13	I Almost Called Your Name	Jeannie C. Riley
14	Satan Place	Jeannie C. Riley
15	Light Your Light (And Let It Shine)	Jeannie C. Riley
16	Am I That Easy To Forget	Jeannie C. Riley
17	In A Moment Of Weakness	Jeannie C. Riley
18	The Tree Of Joy	Jeannie C. Riley
19	Teardrops On Page 43	Jeannie C. Riley
20	The Cotton Patch	Jeannie C. Riley
21	Shed Me No Tears	Jeannie C. Riley
22	Before The Next Teardrop Falls	Jeannie C. Riley
23	One Toke Over The Line	Jeannie C. Riley
24	The Street Singer	Jeannie C. Riley
25	I'll Take What's Left Of You	Jeannie C. Riley
26	No Brass Band	Jeannie C. Riley
27	That's A No No	Jeannie C. Riley
28	We Were Raised On Love	Jeannie C. Riley
29	Yesterday All Day Long Today	Jeannie C. Riley

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From: Dusty Grooves On:22 Jul 2022

A fantastic collection of work from country singer Jeannie C Riley!

A fantastic collection of work from country singer Jeannie C Riley – an artist that most folks know for her one major hit, but who also has a heck of a lot more to offer – as you'll discover on this set! Riley is best known for the seminal "Harper Valley PTA" – and the vibe of that track does a good job of setting up the spirit of the rest of the work here – which includes a fair bit of no-nonsense cuts that have Jeannie coming across almost like a feminist – really throwing things back at the boys of the country music world, with songs that are a response to their drinking and cheating – as the lady herself paves a new path forward. Riley can also be a great straighter country singer too, and you'll hear that on the work on the collection too – pulled together almost exclusively from tracks recorded for Plantation Records in 1968, with titles that include "The Back Side Of Dallas", "The Little Town Square", "Good Enough To Be Your Wife", "Duty Not Desire", "In The Tree Of Joy", "Satan Place", "I Almost Called Your Name", "The Street Singer", "The Cotton Patch", "Teardrops On Page 43", "Yesterday All Long Today", "The Girl Most Likely", and "Tell The Truth & Shame The Devil". 29 tracks in all, including some non-LP singles and b-sides that appear here on CD for the first time ever – and the great Bear Family set of notes!

From: The Highway Man On:17 Feb 2022