Your Old Standby Complete Star

Jim Eanes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 14, 1998)
• Original Release Date: July 15, 1998
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Starday
• ASIN: B000009NW0
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,841 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Your Old Standby

2. No Need to Be So Lonely

3. Walk Slowly

4. Don't Stop Now

5. Two Hearts Are Better Than One

6. Settle Down

7. Fiddle on the Hill

8. Bending the Strings

9. Louise

10. Don't Make Me Ashamed

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Your Troubles Are Mine

2. I'm Living Once Again

3. Hand on the Glass

4. A Heart That's Satisfied

5. Budded Roses

6. Log Cabin in the Lane

7. Celebration

8. Road of No Return

9. Dine-e-o

10. Round Town Gals

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1950s Starday Sides Essential For Traditional Bluegrass Fans, January 9, 2002

By 

Todd A. Gracyk (Petaluma, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Old Standby Complete Star (Audio CD)

Smilin' Jim Eanes is a pioneer of bluegrass music. In the 1940s he performed with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys as well as Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys. In the late 1940s Eanes began a successful solo career.

"Your Old Standby" is a 2 CD set containing Eanes' complete Starday output from the mid 1950s to the early 1960s.

Bluegrass banjo legend Allen Shelton was a member of Eanes' Shenandoah Valley Boys during this period and his work here is simply outstanding.

Eanes was a wonderful vocalist and a great songwriter who continued to record into the 1990s. I've had the opportunity to hear many of Eanes' recordings and I consider his 1950s Starday sides his very best (although a few Decca cuts from the early 1950s compare quite favorably).