Queen of Country Music [Box set]

Kitty Wells | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 1994)
• Original Release Date: June 10, 1993
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001AZR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #404,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #99 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Honky-Tonk

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Death at the Bar

2. Love or Hate

3. Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet

4. Don't Wait the Last Minute to Pray

5. How Far Is Heaven

6. My Mother

7. Make up Your Mind

8. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight

9. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

10. I Don't Want Your Money, I Want Your Time

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Oh So Many Years

2. One Week Later

3. When I'm With You

4. Can You Find It in Your Heart

5. Repenting

6. I Guess I'll Go on Dreaming

7. Each Day

8. The Pace That Kills

9. A Change of Heart

10. Stubborn Heart

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

4-CD LP-sized box with 28 page book containing her complete recordings from 1948-1958. Chosen in 2010 as one of NPR's 50 Great Voices. Everything that the Queen of Country Music cut between 1949 and 1958, including such epochal hits It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, Release Me, Lonely Side Of Town, (I'll Always Be Your) Fraulein, Makin' Believe, Paying For The Back Street Affair, and many others. This CD edition of our highly acclaimed LP box set was newly mastered from digital transfers. It contains more songs, and a rewritten booklet that now includes photos from Kitty's personal scrapbook. See also Johnny & Jack for more classic Kitty Wells recordings! --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's hard to believe how many perfect songs are on this box set, March 15, 2006

By 

Peter E. Johansen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Queen Of Country Music 1949-1958 (Audio CD)

I love Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline and I intend to listen to them for the rest of my life, but there is no female country singer I love more than Kitty Wells. In fact, with the possible exception of Hank Williams there is no country singer male or female who I like as much. There are so many perfect songs here, so many great musicians backing her, so much heartfelt emotion that I know I haven't even begun to digest everything these CDs have to offer. This is country music unpolluted (it seems) by a desire to appeal to the pop music audience. I am a middle class man in my late twenties who grew up in Seattle and I have never even traveled to the south, but for some reason when I listen to her music I feel like I'm getting inside the songs. Everything just comes together so perfectly - the beautiful simplicity of the the songs themselves, the musicians backing her with minimalist grace, and then Kitty Wells herself who, like Billie Holiday or Robert Johnson, just sounds like she believes so strongly in what she's saying.

I just have one complaint to air that does not concern the contents of this CD. I wonder why there are so few Kitty Wells CDs available? There are a handful of budget CDs all with more or less the same songs on them and then there is maybe one or two decent 17 song collections with a few additional tracks. So basically if you are getting into Kitty Wells you've got to jump from one of these CDs to this 100+ track box set. I suppose one can take comfort in the fact that there's enough quality material here to make it very worth it. Sure, the best songs are in the first 10 years of her career, but there's hardly a bad song on any of these CDs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the true queen of country music, September 27, 2000

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john rice (Goodlettsville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Queen of Country Music (Audio CD)

This box set contains the literal birth of country music for female artists. These selections are songs that earned Kitty the title of the queen of country music. Any true fan of country music must have this collection. the material is classic and as it is heard, a chapter in American history and the evolution of country music is revealed. Long live the Queen

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kitty Wells is still the Queen of Country Music., October 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Queen of Country Music (Audio CD)

Kitty Wells' recordings are difficult to find in this area, which I feel is sad. Here is a great artist, who has brought pleasure to millions, and continues to do so, but is not appreciated the way she deserves. I recently attended one of her preformances in Brown County, Indiana, and was delighted to view the crowd that came to honor Kitty. I did not have time to wait to purchase her recordings and have been to every local distributor to try to obtain the material that I am seeking, only to be told that it will have to be ordered. It is a shame to find that it is so difficult to purchase good traditional musical materials.