I'm Little But I'm Loud: The Little Jimmy Dickens Collection (1996)

About this title: Razor & Tie's 1996 compilation I'm Little But I'm Loud: The Jimmy Dickens Collection is the first comprehensive collection assembled on the diminutive Nashville legend, and it's also a collection that takes his frequently silly music seriously. While it hardly digs as deep as the two Bear Family boxes that followed this in 1997 and 1998, it covers the same period with the same purpose: Namely, it goes through his Columbia recordings of 1949 through 1967 with the intention of not just serving up the hits, but illustrating that Dickens was a first-rate country singer and not just a purveyor of ... read more

Tracks:

1. Take an Old Cold Tater (And Wait) [Bartlett]
2. Country Boy [Bryant/Bryant]
3. Pennies for Papa [Taylor]
4. My Heart's Bouquet [Dickens/Hall]
5. A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed [Wilson/Wilson]
6. Hillbilly Fever [Horton/Vaughn]
7. I'm Little But I'm Loud [Dickens/Bryant]
8. It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun) [Bryant/Dickens]
9. Y'all Come [Duff]
10. Rockin' With Red [Perryman]
11. Out Behind the Barn [Bryant]
12. Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go) [Bryant]
13. We Could [Bryant/Bryant]
14. (I Got) A Hole in My Pocket [Bryant/Bryant]
15. John Henry [Traditional]
16. Farewell Party [Williams]
17. The Violet and a Rose [Auge/Tillis/Renfiel]
18. Another Bridge to Burn [Howard]
19. Life Turned Her That Way [Howard]
20. May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose [Merritt]
21. Country Music Lover [Braddock]
22. (You've Been Quite a Doll) Raggedy Ann [Lane]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.