BILL ANDERSON – The Great Songwriter’s Early Recordings. BACM CD 518

Bill has become one of the most long-lasting and influential talents in the history of country music, as a performer, writer of countless classics (City Lights, Once A Day, Saginaw Michigan and Slippin’ Away to mention just four), and TV host and author – as well as being an authoritative promoter of country music who has helped launched many careers over the decades. BACM are pleased to present this selection of early recordings beginning with his first two, recorded December 1956 through to late 1961. Already showing his talents as fine song-stylist and composer with songwriting credits on 19 of the 26 songs.

Price: USD $16.00

Genres: 50s Country-style | Eras: 1950s, 1960s

Track listing:

- Empty Room
- Take Me
- City Lights
- No Song To Sing
- That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome
- Thrill Of My Life
- Ninety Nine
- Back Where I Started From
- Dead Or Alive
- It's Not The End Of Everything
- Tip Of My Fingers
- No Man's Land
- Walk Out Backwards
- Best Of Strangers
- Po' Folks
- Goodbye Cruel World
- Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands
- Down Came The Rain
- Mama Sang A Song
- On And On, And On
- As Long As I Live
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- It Takes A Worried Man
- Wedding Bells
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Yonder Comes A Sucker

Price: USD $16.00

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Listen to sample tracks:

03-City-Lights (1957)

26-Yonder-Comes-A-Sucker (1962)