- Format: CD
- Label: Revola
- Genre: Folk
Long before Rock'n'Roll broke to a grateful world, things were brewing... the kind of sound that the likes of Sam Phillips and Bill Haley hankered after wasn't a fantasy. There was a continuation of their beloved Western Swing and Boogie forms right through the 1940s and 1950s... diffuse, yes, waiting for a focus, yes, but what was known as either Hillbilly Boogie or Cat Music... it was real alright and did it rock? You better believe it!!!!
And no better way to start our series of Pre-Elvis country/R&B hybrids than with the old guard. Crazy cats who had been at it for years, gleefully confusing both racial boundaries and radio programmers and influencing everything that was to become Rockabilly! Everyone from Bill Haley to Elvis to Marc Bolan (who outrageously nicked "Hayride Boogie" lock stock and barrel for his "I Love To Boogie"!) has their roots in these songs. The true sound of White America in the 1940' and early 1950s... redneck mumbling or syrupy string ballads meant less than nothing when you could get REAL GONE! The rise of The Hillbilly Cat Supreme (Yeah! ELVIS!) has overshadowed the role of these pioneers of ROCK ACTION in history but here in spectacular sound and beautiful packaging. It's absolute Boogie heaven!
Track listing:
The Carlisles - Doggie Joe / Merle Travis - I'll Have Myself a Ball / Carl Smith - Go, Boy Go / Jack Rhodes & His Lone Star - Buddies Eternity / Moon Mullican - Rocket to the Moon / Tennessee Ernie - Catfish Boogie / Tennessee Drifters - Boogie Woogie Baby / Marty Robbins - That's All Right / Maddox Brothers & Rose - You Won't Believe This / Grady Martin & His Slew Foot Five - Long John Boogie / Eddy Arnold - Hep Cat Baby / Little Jimmy Dickens - Salty Boogie / Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Cadillac in Model "A" / Hawkshaw Hawkins - Waitin' For My Baby (Rock Rock) / Jimmy Atkins & His Pinetoppers - Juke Joint Johnny / Tillman Franks & His Rainbow Boys - Hayride Boogie / Faron Young - If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') / Red Foley - Pin Ball Boogie / Tex Zario - Go Man Go, Get Gone / Tommy Scott & His Ramblers - Cat Music / Jim Gatlin - Would It Matter At All? / Wade Ray - Idaho Red / Skeets McDonald - Look Who's Cryin' Now / Malcolm Yelvington - Drinkin' Wine Spodee-O-Dee / Cliffie Stone Orchestra - Barracuda / Hardrock Gunter - Gonna Dance All Night / Harmonica Frank - Rockin' Chair Daddy / Johnny Hicks - Pick Up Blues / Jack Cardwell - Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice / Shorty Long - Who Said I Said That? / The Carlisles - Rattlesnake Daddy / Grady Martin & His Winging Strings - Pork Chop Stomp
