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Greatest Honky-Tonk Hits
Search: Town That Never Sleeps
by: Charlie Walker
Release Date August 26, 2003
About thirty seconds into the first song you start smelling the spilled beer and cigarette smoke. This is the kind of music that put the "Tonk" in "Honky Tonk." Every song is absolutely great. Which should come as no surprise after one reads the liner notes. The musicians that played on these tracks were a veritable line up of Nashville's "A-List." Players like Hank Garland, Grady Martin, Buddy Emmons, Floyd Cramer and Pete Drake, just to name a few. And if that isn't enough for you, Charlie's even got the great Ray Price singing backup on a few songs! Lyrically, of course, the songs are deeper and darker than anything out there today. The pathos of a song like "I'll Catch You When you Fall" stands in stark contrast to the warm ... Read More:
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