NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE 1945 - 1970 VOLUME ONE & TWO MUSIC CITY RHYTHM & BLUES 4 LP SET with 70+ TRACKS - TREMENDOUSLY RARE DECADE OUT OF PRINT COLLECTION STILL SEALED FROM 2004.

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NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE 1945 - 1970 VOLUME ONE

In white America, Nashville is best known as the seat of country music. However, African-Americans looked to Nashville as a great source of R&B. Radio station WLAC was rife with the hits of the R&B stars and the hopefuls. This 2-disc collection features the evolution of R&B as you've never heard it before: thumpin', gritty, growlin' and rockin'.

The most startling revelation contained on this two-CD compilation is how rich, varied, and deep Nashville's R&B scene was during a 25-year period in which the city solidified its reputation as the undisputed capital of country music. Arranged chronologically, Night Train to Nashville also traces the steady progression of African-American music beginning with the end of WWII--from jump blues, lusty R&B, and smooth-groove vocal groups to proto rock & roll, Southern soul, and Top 40 pop that drew blacks and whites together even as the Vietnam War nearly ripped the country apart. Although this collection contains well-known hits (Bobby Hebb's "Sunny", Robert Knight's "Everlasting Love") and widely acknowledged stars (ETTA JAMES and RUTH BROWN, both of whom recorded some of their best work in Nashville), many of its most satisfying pleasures come courtesy of lesser-known artists, such as R&B belter Christine Kittrell, swamp bluesman Shy Guy Douglas, and balladeer Sam Baker. In the midst of many ear-opening discoveries, add one more: When listening to the countrified soul of ARTHUR ALEXANDER, JOE SIMON and JOHNNY ADAMS, it's apparent that Nashville in its '60s heyday wasn't two separate but equal towns but one glorious Southern-music Mecca. --Keith Moere

Track Listings

Disc: 1   1. Nashville Jumps - Cecil Gant
  2. Buzzard Pie - Ruby Green & His orchestra
  3. Skip's Boogie - Kid King's Combo
  4. L & N Special - Christine Kittrell
  5. Sittin' Here Drinking - Christine Kittrell   6. Just Walkin In The Rain - The Prisonaires
  7. If You And I Could Be Sweethearts - The Varieteers
  8. Baby Let's Play House - Arthur Gunter
  9. Christene - Little Hank Crawford
  10. It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day) - Louis Brooks & Earl Gaines
  11. Rollin' Stone - The Marigolds
  12. You Can Make It If You Try -  Gene Allison
  13. Rockin' The Joint - Esquerita   14. Let's Trade A Little - Audrey Bryant   15. Say You Really Care - Roscoe Shelton
  16. Somebody, Somewhere - Larry Birdsong
  17. Pipe Dreams - Jimmy Beck & His Orchestra
  18. WLAC commercial

  19. White Rose

 

 

 

Disc: 2   1. WLAC Air Check/Monkey Doin' Woman - Shy Guy Douglas
  2. What'd I Say - Etta James
  3. Really Part 1 _ Johnny Jones
  4. Just Like Him - Frank Howard
  5. Anna (Go To Him) - Arthur Alexander
  6. Snap Your Fingers - Joe Henderson
  7. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown
  8. Something Tells Me - Sam Baker
  9. Sunny - Bobby Hebb
  10. I Want To Do Everything For You - Joe Tex
  11. Bigger And Better - The Hytones
  12. Since I Met You Baby - The Avons
  13. The Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon
  14. She Shot A Hole In My Soul - Clifford Curry
  15. Gotta Get Yourself Together - The Valentines
  16. Soul Shake - Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson
  17. Reconsider Me - Johnny Adams
  18. Everlasting Love - Robert Knight
  

 

 

NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE 1945 - 1970 VOLUME TWO

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 16, 2005 - All R& B heaven is about to break loose when the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and Lost Highway Records release Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-l970, Volume Two on September 20, 2005. The first volume garnered a Grammy Award as the best historical recording of 2004.

Both volumes accompany the Museum’s same-titled multi-media exhibition, which opened in March 2004 and closes in December this year. The exhibition and its accompanying recordings, publications and continuing series of public programs revisit an almost forgotten time when Middle Tennessee was a major center for R&B musicians and their followers. "The Night Train story resurrects and celebrates an important era in the evolution of Nashville as Music City," said Museum Director Kyle Young. "The avalanche of local and national critical acclaim it has already received has helped not only to validate the work of important artists, but also to create new opportunities for them.

The two-CD second volume further illustrates the sterling quality and diverse sounds of the Nashville rhythm & blues that exploded across national radio and television airwaves (even though it was not considered suitable for family audiences) in this period. Again, there are numerous interesting examples of collaborations between R&B and country music artists, of country songs that became R&B hits and R&B songs that became country hits. The major focus is on Nashville-based artists, but the collection also includes selected recordings by renowned out-of-towners such as Ivory Joe Hunter, Clyde McPhatter, Esther Phillips and John Coltrane (as a member of Gay Crosse’s band). A number of the Nashville artists, including the Spidells, Jimmy Church and Sandra King, appeared in the 1960s on the all-black, Nashville-produced, groundbreaking television program Night Train. First imagined by show host Noble Blackwell, Night Train was followed in later years by the more well-known, Chicago-based Soul Train.

"I think Volume Two strikes a balance between well-known hits and seductive rarities," said Museum Associate Editor Michael Gray, who co-produced both volumes with Dan Cooper.

Track Listings

Disc: 1   1. Boogie Woogie Jockey (Jimmy Sweeney)
  2. Gene Nobles' Boogie (Richard Armstrong)
  3. All States Boogie (Ivory Joe Hunter)
  4. Wail Daddy (Charlie Dowell & Orchestra)
  5. Blues (Billie McAllister)
  6. No Better For You (Gay Crosse & the Good Humor)
  7. You Belong To Me (Helen Foster)
  8. Too Much (Bernard Hardison)
  9. If Things Don't Change (Gene Allison)
  10. Love, Love, Love (Ted Jarrett)
  11. Miss You So (Lillian Offitt)
  12. Little Darlin' (The Gladiolas)
  13. No Fool No More (Charles Walker & the Daffodils)
  14. Pretty Please (The Kinglets w/Leroy Thomas)
  15. She Can Rock (Little Ike)
  16. I'm Coming Home (The Neptunes)
  17. You Better Change (Hal & Jean)
  18. Ok, So What? (Freddie North)
  19. She Wears My Ring (Jimmy Bell)

Disc: 2   1. Doctor Feel-Good (Dr. Feelgood & The Interns)
  2. I'm A Woman (Christine Kittrell)
  3. Don't Pity Me (Herbert Hunter)
  4. Next To Me (Clyde McPhatter)
  5. Release Me (Esther Phillips)
  6. Soldier of Love (Arthur Alexander)
  7. Don't Take My Kindness for a Weakness (Earl Gaines)
  8. That's My Man (Marion James)
  9. Strain On My Heart (Roscoe Shelton)
  10. Soul Poppin' (Johnny Jones & the King Casuals)
  11. Swinging Soul Medallion (John Richbourg)
  12. Right on Time (Jimmy Church)
  13. Judy (Frank Howard)
  14. Leave It Up to the Boys (Sandra King)
  15. Don't You Forget That You're My Baby (The Spidells)
  16. I'm Free (The Prisoner's Song) (Johnny Bragg)
  17. Screamin' and Shoutin' (The Fabulettes)
  18. (You Keep Me) Hangin' On (Joe Simon)
  19. She's All I Got (Freddie North)
  20. Lucky Lou (The Imperials)

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