Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection

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Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection
Compilation album by
various artists
Released1990 (1990)
Recorded(all selections previously released)
GenreCountry
Length294:28
LabelBMG/Smithsonian Collection of Recordings
ProducerMargaret Robinson
Various artists chronology
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music
(1981) 		Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection
(1990)
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Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection was a multi-volume set of recordings released by the Smithsonian Institution. Released in 1990, the collection contains 100 tracks deemed to be significantly important to the history of country music.

Classic Country Music was issued on either four

vinyl albums. It also contained an illustrated 84-page book by Bill C. Malone
, a country music historian. Malone's extensively annotated essay details country music's history era by era, from its beginnings in the 1920s and commercialization during the 1930s through its growing popularity during the 1980s.

Significant artists whose works were included were

Alabama and The Judds. While many of country music's most important artists are included, notable artists whose works were absent – as acknowledged by Malone in his preface, because the artists chose not to participate – were Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt, George Strait and Randy Travis
.

This new collection replaced The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music, an eight-volume, 143-track collection issued in 1981 (and whose liner notes were also written by Malone). The earlier set included many songs from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as bluegrass and other related genres to country music, and spanned the years 1922 to 1975.

Track listing

Note: The track listing reflects the content of the compact discs. The sequencing is identical on the albums and cassettes, but different tracks may be on different volumes.

Disc 1
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."
New San Antonio Rose"
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys2:39
23."Walking the Floor Over You"Ernest Tubb2:35
24."Born to Lose"Ted Daffan's Texans2:42
25."You Are My Sunshine"Jimmie Davis2:48
Disc 2
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys
2:41
21."It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"Kitty Wells2:30
22."Slowly"Webb Pierce2:31
23."Country Gentleman"Chet Atkins2:14
24."I Really Don't Want to Know"Eddy Arnold2:33
25."Sixteen Tons"Tennessee Ernie Ford2:34
26."Blue Moon of Kentucky"Elvis Presley2:03
27."Bye Bye Love"The Everly Brothers2:21
Disc 3
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."
Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?"
Charley Pride2:12
Disc 4
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."
Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)"
The Judds4:12

References

  1. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 26 December 2011.
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