Got No Bread / Tryin' Like the Devil

James Talley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 1994)
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001AVA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,380 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. W. Lee O'Daniel And the Light Crust Dough Boys

2. Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love

3. Red River Memory

4. Give Him Another Bottle

5. Calico Gypsy

6. To Get Back Home

7. Big Taters In Sandy Land

8. Intro

9. No Opener Needed

10. Blue Eyed Ruth And My Sunday Suit

11. Mehan, Oklahoma

12. Daddy's Song

13. Take Me To The Country

14. Red River Reprise

15. Forty Hours

16. Deep Country Blues

17. Give My Love To Marie

18. Are They Gonna Make Us Outlaws Again?

19. She Tries Not To Cry

20. Tryin' Like The Devil

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have Hope, Talley Says It Will Be Re-Issued, June 19, 2003

By 

Mark K. Mcdonough "Mark McDonough" (Reston, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Got No Bread / Tryin' Like the Devil (Audio CD)

The first of the two albums combined on this CD, "Got No Bread, No Milk and No Money" remains a favorite of mine some 30 years after I first heard it. Taking Talley's Oklahoma childhood as its theme it is by turns sad, boisterous and haunting. At the time it was issued I was working as a DJ and did everything I could to get people excited about Talley and the album, but he sort of fell between 1970s genres -- too serious in artistic intent for commercial country and too country for rock.

Happily Talley's website says that all of his early albums will soon be re-released.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gems, October 5, 2010

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Donald E. Gilliland (Bangkok, Thailand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Got No Bread / Tryin' Like the Devil (Audio CD)

I agree with the other reviewers that wish Talley was better known. This guy had the heart and soul of a great country/folk singer and performed these songs with passion. The first album, "Got No Money ..." was incredible, and the ones that followed that are also worth owning.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two great albums deserving wider exposure, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Got No Bread / Tryin' Like the Devil (Audio CD)

James Talley was country when country wasn't cool. These two albums, recorded in the mid-Seventies, run the gamut from Western swing to honky-tonk to folkish ballads that tug at you. When "W. Lee O'Daniel And The Light Crust Dough Boys" comes on, you feel like tapping your feet up a storm, while "Give My Love To Marie" and "Deep Country Blues" are as sad and timeless as life. Two wonderful albums that, hopefully, will see light again in the marketplace.