Roy Acuff – King Of The Hillbillies – Vol. 1 – 4 CD

Track Listing:

CD1:
Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: 1. Singing My Way to Glory - 2:53   2. Charmin' Betsy - 2:49   3. The Great Speckled Bird - 2:55   4. My Mountain Home Sweet Home - 3:10   5. Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight - 3:07   6. Wabash Cannonball - 2:51   7. Freight Train Blues - 2:45   8. You've Got to See Mama Every Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All) - 2:36   9. Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight - 3:00   10. Yes Sir, That's My Baby - 2:50   11. You're the Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) - 3:05   12. All Night Long - 2:45   13. New Greenback Dollar - 2:52   14. Steamboat Whistle Blues - 2:30   15. She No Longer Belongs to Me - 3:30   Bang Boys: 16. When Lulu's Gone - 2:54   17. Doin' It the Old Fashioned Way - 2:52   Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: 18. An Old Three Room Shack - 2:51   19. Red Lips - Kiss My Blues Away - 2:38   20. Trouble, Trouble - 3:02   21. Sailing Along - 2:39   22. Steel Guitar Chimes - 2:45   23. Lonesome Valley - 2:53   24. Sad Memories - 2:57   25. Steel Guitar Blues - 2:53

CD2:
Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans: 1. Old Fashioned Love - 2:31   2. My Gal Sal - 2:28   3. The Great Speckled Bird, Pt. 2 - 2:40   4. Tell Mother I'll Be There - 2:39   Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys: 5. The Rising Sun - 2:41   6. What Would You Do with Gabriel's Trumpet - 2:35   7. Shout, Oh Lulu - 2:39   8. Good-Bye Sweetheart - 2:34   9. Blue Ridge Sweetheart - 2:41   10. One Old Shirt - 2:54   11. Bonnie Blue Eyes - 2:34   12. The Automobile of Life - 2:47   13. Smoky Mountain Rag - 2:41   14. Wabash Blues - 2:31   15. That Beautiful Picture - 2:45   16. The Great Shining Light - 2:40   17. Honky Tonk Mammas - 2:46   18. Haven of Dreams - 2:25   19. Answer to Sparking Blue Eyes - 2:32   20. Smoky Mountain Moon - 2:34   21. Fly, Birdie, Fly - 2:22   22. Ida Red - 2:49   23. Beautiful Brown Eyes - 2:47   24. Mother's Prayers Guide Me - 2:36   25. Living on the Mountain, Baby Mine - 2:53

CD3:
Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys: 1 A Vagabond's Dream - 2:56   2. Old Age Pension Check - 2:40   3. Eyes Are Watching You - 2:44   4. I'm Building a Home - 2:43   5. Walkin' in My Sleep - 2:50   6. Drifting Too Far from the Shore - 2:50   7. Come Back Little Pal - 2:52   8. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - 2:20   9. When I Lay My Burden Down - 2:52   10. Beneath That Lonely Mound of Clay - 2:45   11. The Streamlined Cannonball - 2:45   12. Weary River - 2:50   13. Just to Ease My Worried Mind - 2:36   14 Farther Along - 2:57   15. Blue Eyed Darling - 2:42   16. The Precious Jewel - 2:47   17. The Broken Heart - 2:46   18. Would You Care - 2:55   19. Lonesome Old River Blues - 2:48   20. What Good Will It Do - 2:45   21. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel #8) - 2:52   22. Be Honest with Me - 2:44   23. Worried Mind - 2:48   24. Things That Might Have Been - 2:41   25. You're My Darling - 2:40

CD4:
Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys: 1. It Won't Be Long (Till I'll Be Leaving) - 2:51   2. Just Inside the Pearly Gates - 2:49   3. I Know We're Saying Goodbye - 2:59   4. Brother Take Warning - 2:35   5. The Great Judgement Morning - 2:39   6. Stuck Up Blues - 2:54   7. Lying Woman Blues - 2:43   8. You Are My Love - 2:51   9. Branded Wherever I Go - 2:37   10. No Letter in the Mail - 3:01   11. Are You Thinking of Me Darling? - 2:50   12. I Called and Nobody Answered - 2:41   13. Wreck on the Highway - 2:46   14. Fire Ball Mail - 2:36   15. I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven - 2:42   16. Night Train to Memphis - 2:51   17. The Prodigal Son - 2:47   18. Low and Lonely - 2:35   19. Write Me Sweetheart - 2:30   20. They Can Only Fill One Grave - 2:40   21. Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good - 2:52   22. Not a Word from Home - 2:28   23. Do You Wonder Why - 2:49   24. I'll Forgive You But I Can't Forget - 2:40   25. Blues in My Mind - 2:43

Reviews:
1. AllMusic - Steve Leggett
Roy Acuff loved country music before it was even called that, and he shaped the genre as much as anyone in the 1940s and 1950s. Acuff started out playing fiddle in a traveling medicine show and ended up the face of the Grand Ole Opry. Along the way he founded (with Fred Rose) the legendary Acuff-Rose song publishing company and helped lay the groundwork for the massive commercial juggernaut that country has become in the 21st century. This box set covers Acuff's biggest commercial phase from the late '30s through the 1940s (a time period in which he was immensely popular -- he was even nominated to run for governor of Tennessee in 1948), and it includes his signature songs "The Great Speckled Bird," "Wabash Cannonball," and "Wreck on the Highway," along with dozens of others, all originally issued on 78s, making for a lengthy look at the tone and feel of his recorded work.