Billy Strange Catsup & Honey - Capitol 1951-55

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Billy Strange: Catsup & Honey - Capitol 1951-55

(2009/BACM) 23 tracks

Article properties: Billy Strange: Catsup & Honey - Capitol 1951-55

Interpret: Billy Strange
Album titlle: Catsup & Honey - Capitol 1951-55
Label BRITISH ARCHIVE
Genre Country
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0797734087642
weight in Kg 0.1

Strange, Billy - Catsup & Honey - Capitol 1951-55 CD 1
01	A Lonesome Lover's Lie	Billy Strange
02	Hell Train	Billy Strange
03	New Carroll Country Blues	Billy Strange
04	Catsup And Honey	Billy Strange
05	Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves	Billy Strange
06	The Devil In Me	Billy Strange
07	Half A Photograph	Billy Strange
08	Am I Seeing Things	Billy Strange
09	I Love You Twenty-Four Hours A Day	Billy Strange
10	I'll Never Change My Mind About You	Billy Strange
11	Just Bummin' Around	Billy Strange
12	Let Me Be The One	Billy Strange
13	Let Me in There Baby	Billy Strange
14	Red	Billy Strange
15	I'm Still A Prisoner	Billy Strange
16	The Almanac Song	Billy Strange
17	Gold Can Buy Anything (But Love)	Billy Strange
18	For Better Or For Worse	Billy Strange
19	Kiss, Kiss, Kiss	Billy Strange
20	You're The Only Good Thing (That's Happened..	Billy Strange
21	Crazy Quilt Rag	Billy Strange
22	I Gotta Be Gittin' Home	Billy Strange
23	Barracuda	Billy Strange

Renowned during the ‘60s as a Los Angeles studio guitarist and arranger, Billy Strange first... more

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"Billy Strange"

Renowned during the ‘60s as a Los Angeles studio guitarist and arranger, Billy Strange first surfaced on Capitol in 1952 as a country singer. Born September 29, 1930 in Long Beach, California, his parents were cowboy entertainers, and he won a yodeling contest when he was only five. Strange got his first guitar, a Gibson L-7, at 14 and got good on his axe fast. He eventually joined the cast of Cliffie Stone’s ‘Hometown Jamboree,’ which aired every Saturday night from the American Legion Stadium in El Monte, California over the radio and TV airwaves of Los Angeles.

At his first Capitol session in February of 1952 at the label’s Hollywood studios on Melrose Avenue, Strange cut the careening Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves, laden with sound effects and truly wild steel guitar. His Stuart Hamblen-penned encore Hell Train, was a religious allegory poured over a frantic rhythmic pulse. On August 25, 1954, Billy proved he had no reservations about mixing genres with Let Me In There, Baby, a hurtling blend of country tradition via elegant steel guitar and jump blues energy thanks to Strange’s aggressive vocal.

Although he kept recording for Capitol, Era, Liberty, and Vista as a singer, Strange segued into a second career during the ‘60s as a guitar instrumentalist. He was a member of The Wrecking Crew and recorded prolifically on his own for GNP Crescendo, churning out instrumental albums. Strange worked with Nancy Sinatra during her mid-‘60s hitmaking period and wrote with Mac Davis for Elvis later in the decade (A Little Less Conversation was theirs). He moved to Nashville in the early ‘70s to work publishing for Nancy and her daddy Frank, later marrying his former Capitol labelmate Jeanne Black.

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