The Old Texan

Moon Mullican | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: King
• ASIN: B00000178F
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,874 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

2. A Mighty Pretty Waltz

3. So Long

4. A Thousand and One Sleepless Nights

5. Short But Sweet

6. A Crushed Red Rose (And a Faded Blue Ribbon)

7. I'm Mad With You

8. Keep a Light in the Window for Me

9. Heartless Lover

10. The Lamp of Life (Is Burning Low)

11. Love Is the Light That Leads Me Home

12. Seven Nights to Rock

13. Southern Hospitality

14. Leaving You With a Worried Mind

15. Well Oh Well

16. Where Beautiful Flowers Grow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CD reissue of original album, October 15, 2001

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Patrick Wall (Waterford, Wateford Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Old Texan (Audio CD)

This is a CD reissue of an original King album by Moon Mullican. The material is excellent and largely unavailable elsewhere. The main highlights not available on another album are "So long", "1001 sleepless nights", "Keep a light in the window for me" & "A Crushed red rose". The material is above the law and shows anyone who isn't aware of the fact that country music in the old days was so diverse and broad.There is only one reason that this album doesn't deserve 5 stars: some of the songs (such as "Leaving you with a worried mind", "Short but sweet" & "Well oh well") are edited and omit much of Moon's piano playing and other playing between the vocal verses. Unfortunately, many of the songs that are cut aren't available on other CDs and you need to look for the hard to find 45s and 78s to get the full versions of the songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Short Shrift, October 30, 2003

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David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Old Texan (Audio CD)

You'd have to be a longtime Moon Mullican fan to get much real enjoyment from this CD, which comes with no liner notes of any kind and includes a few clumsy editing jobs.

"Jambalaya" is embarrassingly bad and had me worrying that I'd stumbled across yet another 3rd-rate Hank Williams copy cat. The real Moon Mullican is shown off better on traditional C&W sides like "So Long" and his later Blues influenced stuff like "I'm Mad With You," "Well Oh Well," and the truly rockin' "Seven Nights To Rock," which Bruce Springsteen covered on his 2003 tour.