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Liner Note Author: Randy Fox.
Recording information: Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (01/04/1973); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (01/04/1973); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (01/31/1968); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (01/31/1968); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (02/02/1978); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (02/02/1978); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (02/20/1970); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (02/20/1970); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/04/1975); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/04/1975); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/07/1978); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/07/1978); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/23/1972); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/23/1972); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (05/20/1971); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (05/20/1971); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/18/1980); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/18/1980); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/25/1969); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/25/1969); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/27/1968); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/27/1968).
Illustrator: Leona Williams.
Photographer: Leona Williams.
Beloved among country aficionados -- Merle Haggard took his love so far he married her in the '70s, but Loretta Lynn was instrumental in her discovery -- Leona Williams never quite got the credit she deserved. Certainly, she didn't tear up the country charts during the '70s, when she was an active commercial concern. She hovered at the very lower reaches of the charts, popping up into the Top 10 for the 1978 Hag duet "The Bull and the Beaver," and almost cracking the Top 40 in 1983 for "We're Strangers Again." That latter single doesn't show up on Bear Family's long, long-overdue 2013 compilation Yes, Ma'm, He Found Me in a Honky Tonk, a triple-disc set that is her first-ever CD release. All of her recordings between 1968 and 1980 are here, along with a previously unreleased 1986 album produced by Tompall Glaser that is quite clearly a throwback to the classic hardcore country that was Williams' specialty. Raised on Kitty Wells and following in Lynn's footsteps (not to mention the path of Tammy Wynette), Williams was a traditionalist ready to change with the times. There's a clean punch to her recordings that tie them to the time as much as her modern-minded songs (she's proud to have been found in a honky tonk and she sings of a "Country Girl with Hot Pants On") but her music never goes pop; she stays true to the post-war hard country she grew up loving. Williams was a hell of a singer -- powerful yet slyly avoiding histrionics, emotional but never sappy -- and her songs were strong, too, so her lack of chart success now seems like a matter of bad breaks, as the three discs on this superb Bear Family set illustrate she's as good as they come. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Recording information: Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (01/04/1973); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/04/1973); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (01/04/1973); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (01/31/1968); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (01/31/1968); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (01/31/1968); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (02/02/1978); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/02/1978); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (02/02/1978); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (02/20/1970); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (02/20/1970); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (02/20/1970); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/04/1975); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/04/1975); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/04/1975); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/07/1978); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/07/1978); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/07/1978); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (03/23/1972); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (03/23/1972); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (03/23/1972); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (05/20/1971); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (05/20/1971); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (05/20/1971); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/18/1980); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/18/1980); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/18/1980); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/25/1969); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/25/1969); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/25/1969); Acuff-Rose Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, California (06/27/1968); Fireside Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Glaser Sound Studio, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Jack Clement Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Nugget Recording Studio, Goodlettsville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee (06/27/1968); Sierra Nevada Recording, Reno, Nevada (06/27/1968).
Illustrator: Leona Williams.
Photographer: Leona Williams.
Beloved among country aficionados -- Merle Haggard took his love so far he married her in the '70s, but Loretta Lynn was instrumental in her discovery -- Leona Williams never quite got the credit she deserved. Certainly, she didn't tear up the country charts during the '70s, when she was an active commercial concern. She hovered at the very lower reaches of the charts, popping up into the Top 10 for the 1978 Hag duet "The Bull and the Beaver," and almost cracking the Top 40 in 1983 for "We're Strangers Again." That latter single doesn't show up on Bear Family's long, long-overdue 2013 compilation Yes, Ma'm, He Found Me in a Honky Tonk, a triple-disc set that is her first-ever CD release. All of her recordings between 1968 and 1980 are here, along with a previously unreleased 1986 album produced by Tompall Glaser that is quite clearly a throwback to the classic hardcore country that was Williams' specialty. Raised on Kitty Wells and following in Lynn's footsteps (not to mention the path of Tammy Wynette), Williams was a traditionalist ready to change with the times. There's a clean punch to her recordings that tie them to the time as much as her modern-minded songs (she's proud to have been found in a honky tonk and she sings of a "Country Girl with Hot Pants On") but her music never goes pop; she stays true to the post-war hard country she grew up loving. Williams was a hell of a singer -- powerful yet slyly avoiding histrionics, emotional but never sappy -- and her songs were strong, too, so her lack of chart success now seems like a matter of bad breaks, as the three discs on this superb Bear Family set illustrate she's as good as they come. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Woman's Man
2 - Ten Minutes 'Til Heartaches
3 - Broadminded
4 - I Just Wanted You to Be Proud of Me
5 - I Narrowed This Triangle (Down to Two)
6 - Papa's Medicine Show
7 - I Want Some More of This
8 - Once More
9 - If I'd Only Listened to Mama and Dad
10 - This Ain't a Home No More
11 - They'll Never Take His Love from Me
12 - Just Because of You
13 - Circle of Friends
14 - When I Stop Dreaming
15 - Baby, We're Really in Love
16 - Watch Her Go
17 - Yes, Ma'am (He Found Me in a Honky Tonk)
18 - Babe, Just for You
19 - So Goes My World
20 - Somewhere Inside
21 - Old Place Is Gone
22 - Listen Spot
23 - He's Just You Made Over
24 - Country Girl with Hot Pants On
25 - Country Music in My Soul
26 - Since I'm Not with the One I Love (I'll Love the One I'm With)
27 - Boys and Lucy Brown
28 - Gentleman on My Mind
29 - Tom Lucas
30 - Woman's Life Is More Than Just a Man
31 - Happy Anniversary, Baby
Disc 2:
1 - Out of Hand
2 - Ain't That Fine
3 - How Great Thou Art
4 - Cheese Cake and Apple Pie
5 - Your Shoeshine Girl
6 - I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore
7 - I'd Rather Die (Loving Him)
8 - I Can't Tell My Heart That
9 - I Spent a Week There Last Night
10 - Anything Goes ('Til Everything's Gone)
11 - It's Tearing This Ole Heart Right Out of Me
12 - Everybody Loves Me But You
13 - Lifetime to Forget
14 - You Don't Love Me Like You Mean It
15 - Just Like a Prayer
16 - Hey I'm Somebody (Not Just a Body)
17 - For All I Know
18 - There's More Love in the Arms You'll Be Leavin'
19 - Shape Up or Ship Out
20 - I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight
21 - If Anyone Ought to Know
22 - I Want to Live Again
23 - That Lonely Unloved Wife Look
24 - Mama, I've Got to Go to Memphis
25 - Window Up Above
26 - Rockin' Rollin' Stoned
27 - Bright Morning Light
28 - Bull and the Beaver
29 - I'm Getting High
Disc 3:
1 - Baby Song
2 - Call Me Crazy Lady
3 - Good Nights Make Good Mornings
4 - He Took Care of Me
5 - Yes Ma'am
6 - Any Port in a Storm
7 - Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
8 - Touch and Go
9 - I Can't Break the Habit
10 - I Barely Am Getting By
11 - Catching Craw Fish
12 - Aberdeen
13 - Why Be a Dreamer
14 - Midnight Blue
15 - Good Times Are Ready to Come
16 - My Heart Has Finally Said Goodbye
17 - Guitar Pickin' Song
18 - You Put Out an Old Flame
19 - We've Had Some Good Times
20 - North Alabama
21 - Too Close to Home
22 - Bridge That Got Me Over Him
1 - Woman's Man
2 - Ten Minutes 'Til Heartaches
3 - Broadminded
4 - I Just Wanted You to Be Proud of Me
5 - I Narrowed This Triangle (Down to Two)
6 - Papa's Medicine Show
7 - I Want Some More of This
8 - Once More
9 - If I'd Only Listened to Mama and Dad
10 - This Ain't a Home No More
11 - They'll Never Take His Love from Me
12 - Just Because of You
13 - Circle of Friends
14 - When I Stop Dreaming
15 - Baby, We're Really in Love
16 - Watch Her Go
17 - Yes, Ma'am (He Found Me in a Honky Tonk)
18 - Babe, Just for You
19 - So Goes My World
20 - Somewhere Inside
21 - Old Place Is Gone
22 - Listen Spot
23 - He's Just You Made Over
24 - Country Girl with Hot Pants On
25 - Country Music in My Soul
26 - Since I'm Not with the One I Love (I'll Love the One I'm With)
27 - Boys and Lucy Brown
28 - Gentleman on My Mind
29 - Tom Lucas
30 - Woman's Life Is More Than Just a Man
31 - Happy Anniversary, Baby
Disc 2:
1 - Out of Hand
2 - Ain't That Fine
3 - How Great Thou Art
4 - Cheese Cake and Apple Pie
5 - Your Shoeshine Girl
6 - I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore
7 - I'd Rather Die (Loving Him)
8 - I Can't Tell My Heart That
9 - I Spent a Week There Last Night
10 - Anything Goes ('Til Everything's Gone)
11 - It's Tearing This Ole Heart Right Out of Me
12 - Everybody Loves Me But You
13 - Lifetime to Forget
14 - You Don't Love Me Like You Mean It
15 - Just Like a Prayer
16 - Hey I'm Somebody (Not Just a Body)
17 - For All I Know
18 - There's More Love in the Arms You'll Be Leavin'
19 - Shape Up or Ship Out
20 - I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight
21 - If Anyone Ought to Know
22 - I Want to Live Again
23 - That Lonely Unloved Wife Look
24 - Mama, I've Got to Go to Memphis
25 - Window Up Above
26 - Rockin' Rollin' Stoned
27 - Bright Morning Light
28 - Bull and the Beaver
29 - I'm Getting High
Disc 3:
1 - Baby Song
2 - Call Me Crazy Lady
3 - Good Nights Make Good Mornings
4 - He Took Care of Me
5 - Yes Ma'am
6 - Any Port in a Storm
7 - Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
8 - Touch and Go
9 - I Can't Break the Habit
10 - I Barely Am Getting By
11 - Catching Craw Fish
12 - Aberdeen
13 - Why Be a Dreamer
14 - Midnight Blue
15 - Good Times Are Ready to Come
16 - My Heart Has Finally Said Goodbye
17 - Guitar Pickin' Song
18 - You Put Out an Old Flame
19 - We've Had Some Good Times
20 - North Alabama
21 - Too Close to Home
22 - Bridge That Got Me Over Him