Title: Country Legacy
Artist: Carlisle, Cliff
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065773229
Genre: Country

Cliff Carlisle is often compared to Jimmie Rodgers - both men were 'blues' yodelers - but there were differences. Carlisle was not averse to using risqué material, which Rodgers would never have done. Carlisle's recording career opened in 1930, with Gennett. He recorded prolifically in the 1930s, initially with Wilbur Ball and then later his brother Bill Carlisle. He made records for many labels including Bluebird, Decca, Vocalion and ARC. After WW2 he recorded for Mercury and King. Although his early recordings have not been completely ignored, this collection aims to provide an overview of his work. Cliff Carlisle was born in Kentucky, near Mount Eden. He was the third of eight children in a musical family. Apart from outside influences, their father was a singing teacher at a local church. Cliff bought a $4.95 guitar from Sears-Roebuck. He adapted his playing to a Hawaiian style after hearing the recordings of Frank Ferera. Cliff adapted his Sears guitar to create a 'slide' effect. At sixteen, Cliff and a cousin Lillian Truax played socials and school dates as a duo. They won a number of talent contests, but Lillian married. In 1924 he met up with Wilbur Ball, an acoustic/Spanish guitar picker who was a very capable tenor harmony vocalist. Carlisle and Ball joined a tent show troupe where Cliff made his true professional debut. They would continue to play travelling shows for the next ten years. In 1930 they made their recording debut, for Gennett, who at the time recorded 'rural' musicians, both black and white. Their roster in the otm/country field included Fiddlin' Doc Roberts and Gene Autry. Autry records were released on the company's budget label, Champion. The 'nonsense' song Desert Blues, a Jimmie Rodgers composition, was recorded for Gennett in 1930 or 1931. Other items cut for the label can be heard elsewhere on this set. Also heard here are sides by Cliff with his brother Tommy

Tracks:
1.1 Wild Cat Woman ; a Tom Cat Man
1.2 Memphis Yodel
1.3 Desert Blues
1.4 High Steppin' Mama
1.5 Rambling Yodeler
1.6 Dear Old Daddy
1.7 Seven Years with the Wrong Woman
1.8 Gamblin' Dan
1.9 Handsome Blues
1.10 When the Evening Sun Goes Down
1.11 That Great Judgement Day
1.12 Goodbye Old Pal
1.13 I Want a Good Woman
1.14 My Lovin' Kathleen
1.15 You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone (Just Because)
1.16 Nevada Johnny
1.17 There Is No More That I Can Say
1.18 Prepare Me O Lord
1.19 Roll on, Roll on
1.20 When It's Round Up Time in Heaven
1.21 Home of the Soul
1.22 Ash Can Blues
1.23 Mouse's Ear Blues
1.24 That Nasty Swing
1.25 Sal's Got a Meatskin
1.26 Ring Tail Tom
1.27 Onion Eating Mama
1.28 It Takes An Old Hen to Deliver the Goods
1.29 Shanghai Rooster Yodel
1.30 Chicken Roost Blues
1.31 Wigglin' Mama
1.32 Sugar Cane Mama
1.33 Tom Cat Blues
1.34 No Daddy Blues
1.35 My Rockin' Mama
1.36 Rooster Blues
1.37 Guitar Blues
1.38 It Ain't No Fault of Mine
1.39 Shine Your Light for Others
1.40 Two Eyes in Tennessee
1.41 Blind Child's Prayer
1.42 When the Angels Carry Me Home
1.43 Columbus Stockade Blues
1.44 Shanghai Rooster No 2
1.45 Brakeman's Reply
1.46 Waiting for a Ride
1.47 Hobo's Fate
1.48 Cowboy Johnny's Last Ride
1.49 Get Her By the Tail on a Downhill Grade
1.50 My Travellin' Night
1.51 True ; Trembling Brakeman
1.52 Hobo Blues
1.53 Pan American Man
1.54 Pay Day Fight
1.55 Far Beyond the Starry Sky
1.56 I'm Saving Saturday Night for You
1.57 Dang My Rowdy Soul
1.58 My Rocky Mountain Sweetheart
1.59 Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
1.60 Georgia Moon
1.61 I Don't Mind
1.62 I'm Sorry Now
1.63 Lonely Orphan Child
1.64 Trouble Minded Blues
1.65 Mean Mama Don't Worry Me
1.66 Why Did It Have to Be?
1.67 When It's Round Up Time in Texas
1.68 Shine on Me
1.69 Stretch of 28 Years
1.70 Footprints in the Snow
1.71 Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight
1.72 Going Down the Valley One By One
1.73 Memories That Haunt Me
1.74 Black Jack David
1.75 Going Back to Alabama
1.76 Lonesome for Caroline
1.77 Uncloudy Day
1.78 Broken Heart
1.79 Shot the Innocent Man
1.80 Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
1.81 Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
1.82 Where My Memory Lies
1.83 New Memories of You That Haunt Me
1.84 On the Banks of the Rio Grande

Carlisle, Cliff: Country Legacy

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