Classic Country: Great Story Songs

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Time Life Records
• ASIN: B00005UPF9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,571 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Battle of New Orleans

2. Big Iron

3. Don't Take Your Guns to Town

4. Cross the Brazos at Waco

5. Wolverton Mountain

6. The Ballad of Jed Clampett

7. Detroit City

8. A Week in a Country Jail

9. Tom Dooley

10. Old Rivers

11. The Ballad of the Green Berets

12. The Carroll County Accident

13. North to Alaska

14. Saginaw, Michigan

15. El Paso

16. Big Bad John

17. A Boy Named Sue [Live]

18. Harper Valley P.T.A.

19. The Devil Went Down to Georgia

20. Convoy

Editorial Reviews

No pop music style tells a story as well as country, and here are 30 of the most beloved tall tales, gripping yarns and hilarious anecdotes (and the melodies ain't bad, either)! Includes A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash; Big Bad John Jimmy Dean; The Ballad of the Green Berets SSgt. Barry Sadler; Miller's Cave Bobby Bare; The Pool Shark Dave Dudley; Old Rivers Walter Brennan; The Wall Freddie Hart; Sink the Bismarck Johnny Horton; Big Iron Marty Robbins; B.J. the D.J. Stonewall Jackson; A Week in a Country Jail Tom T. Hall; Cross the Brazos at Waco Billy Walker; Convoy C.W. McCall; The Carroll County Incident Porter Wagoner; The Blizzard Jim Reeves, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars 20 Time Life Epic Country Story-Songs, January 14, 2012

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J. Bynum (the southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Country: Great Story Songs (Audio CD)

Great Story Songs / Classic Country series / Time Life single CD: Every great Country song is a `story song' but this CD has 20 of the EPIC stories told in Country Classic Songs. From Marty Robbins' "El Paso" to Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", this is a Great Five Star CD.

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A little info on the Time Life Country Classics:

Time Life has single CDs under the title of "Best of Classic Country" divided into decades so there is a single CD under that name for the "50's", "60's", "70's" and "80's".

Time Life also has many single CDs under the general term of "Country Classics". These titles include:
- Kings of Country
- Queens of Country
- God, Family, Country
- Road songs
- Great Story Songs
- More Great Story Songs
- Crazy Country Hits
- Sweet Country Ballads
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- Great Country Gospel
and several (many many) more titles. These disks are all very good to great, but there is a lot of songs that are repeated from one disk to another.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LONG LIVE THE BALLAD!, March 18, 2007

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B. Lawrence (CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Country: Great Story Songs (Audio CD)

Sure to please the nostalgia of the sixties generation and a very good teaching tool for the folk ballad in the classroom.