Description
“Choctaw Ridge” explores a new country sound, one that emerged at the end of the 60s in the wake of Bobbie Gentry’s ‘Ode To Billie Joe’, a shock number one hit in 1967. When singers like Gentry, Jimmy Webb, Michael Nesmith and Lee Hazlewood moved from the south to Los Angeles to make it in the music business, they were not part of the Nashville in-crowd and they forged a new direction.
Tracklist:
– LP1 –
1. The House Song – Lee Hazlewood
2. If Only She Had Stayed – Chris Gantry
3. Endless Miles of Highway – Jerry Reed
4. The Back Side of Dallas – Jeannie C Riley
5. Way Before the Time of Towns – Hoyt Axton
6. Strawberry Farms – Tom T Hall
7. Down From Dover – Dolly Parton
8. July 12, 1939 – Charlie Rich
9. What Am I Doing In L.A.? – Nat Stuckey
10 Mr Stanton Don’t Believe It – Rob Galbraith
11 Saunders’ Ferry Lane – Sammi Smith
12 Four Shades of Love – Henson Cargill
– LP2 –
1. Drivin’ Nails In the Wall – Waylon Jennings & the Kimberlys
2. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town – Kenny Rogers & the Firs
3. Why Can’t I Come Home – Ed Bruce
4. Mr Walker, It’s All Over – Billie Jo Spears
5. Harlan County – Jim Ford
6. Widow Wimberly – Tony Joe White
7. Belinda (Alt Take) – Bobbie Gentry
8. Joanne – Michael Nesmith & the First National Band
9. Mr Jackson’s Got Nothing To Do – John Hartford
10 Alone – Lee Hazlewood & Suzi Jane Hokom
11 Fabulous Body and Smile – Sir Robert Charles Griggs
12 I Feel Like Going Home – Charlie Rich
