10 Years: 1968-1977 (2000)

About this title: Somewhere between Elvis Country and Waylon Jennings resides Bob Luman, a former rock & roll artist who turned to country and enjoyed a healthy string of hits. This five-disc box set compiles everything Luman recorded for Epic and Polydor from 1968 until his death, including 30 Top 100 country hits. Except for a few K-Tel re-recordings, this box set is a complete chronicle of the last years of Luman's career. Luman was very consistent, the box and hardbound book are beautiful, and there are many lost gems on this set, but only the most ardent collector will shell out the high price for this ... read more

Tracks:

1. Happiness Is My Belief
2. I Can't Remeber to Forget
3. Ain't Got Time to Be Unhappy [Sutton]
4. Somebody You'll Call My Name
5. Memphis
6. Release Me
7. Almost Persuaded
8. Ballad of Two Brothers [& Autry Inman]
9. Say It's Not You
10. Sally Was a Good Old Girl
11. Have a Little Faith
12. Let's Think About Living [Bryant]
13. Come on Home (And Sing the Blues to Daddy) [Corbin]
14. Tomorrow's Gonna Be Better Than Today
15. World of Unhappiness
16. I Like Trains
17. Woman Without Love
18. I'm in This Town for Good
19. I An't Built That Way
20. Big Big World [Burch/Nelson/West]
21. Come on Home (And Sing the Blues to Daddy) [Corbin]
22. Ten Years of Life
23. Guitar Man
24. Makin' a Mountain Out of a Molehill
25. Freeborn Man
26. Every Day I Have to Cry Some [Alexander]
27. Suger Man
28. Knee Deep in the Blues
29. There's a Big Wheel
30. Livin' in a House Full of Love
31. Come on Home (And Sing the Blues to Daddy) [Corbin]
32. Come on Home (And Sing the Blues to Daddy) [Corbin]
33. I Like Trains
34. Today I Started Lovin' You Again
35. I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
36. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
37. What'd I Say [Charles]
38. Oh, Boy! [Petty/Tilghman/West]
39. Cleanin' up the Streets of Memphis
40. Brown Eyed Handsome Man [Berry]
41. Dynamite Woman
42. The Gun
43. Gettin'g Back to Norma
44. Maybellene [Berry]
45. Honky Tonk Man [Franks/Hausey/Horto]
46. Mobile Satisfaction
47. What About the Hurt
48. A Time to Remember
49. You're Making It to Hard for Me to Go
50. Give Us One More Chance
51. A Sorry Excuse for a Man
52. Is It Any Wonder That I Love You
53. Your Kind of Man
54. One Hundred Songs on the Jukebox
55. I Got a Woman [Charles/Richard]
56. Don't Let Love Pass You By
57. Fraulein [Williams]
58. Geisha Girl
59. Mexican Joe
60. Filipino Baby
61. Today I Started Lovin' You Again
62. Cleanin' up the Streets of Memphis
63. Brown Eyed Handsome Man [Berry]
64. Good Things Stem from Rock & Roll
65. A Chain Don't Take to Me
66. When You Say Love [Rice/Foster]
67. It Takes You [Foster/Rice]
68. I'm a One Woman Man
69. Woman, I Just Want to Love You
70. Sweet Baby Jane
71. Lonely Women Make Good Lovers [Weller/Oldham]
72. Love Ought to Be a Happy Thing
73. Easy Lovin'
74. Delta Dawn
75. Someone to Give My Love To [Foster/Rice]
76. I'm Gonna Write a Song
77. Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye) [Weatherly]
78. Anything But Lonesome
79. Gone

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