Early Hits of "The Texas Troubadour" (2000)

About this title: Unfortunately, sloppy budget CDs are not uncommon in the country market. The price might seem right, but in many cases, the buyer is subjected to inferior sound quality (due to inferior remastering) as well as a lack of liner notes and recording dates. And quite often, country budget labels conveniently forget to mention the fact that they're offering re-recordings of the artist's hits -- not the better-known original versions. There are plenty of poorly assembled Ernest Tubb collections floating around, but this British release isn't one of them. From fine digital remastering and first-rate ... read more

Tracks:

1. Walking the Floor Over You [Tubb]
2. Mean Mama Blues [Tubb]
3. Try Me One More Time [Tubb]
4. Tomorrow Never Comes [Bond/Tubb]
5. Soldier's Last Letter [Stewart/Tubb]
6. Careless Darlin' [Wayne/Shelton/Tubb]
7. Yesterday's Tears [Tubb]
8. It's Been So Long, Darling [Tubb]
9. Filipino Baby [Cox/VanNess]
10. Drivin' Nails in My Coffin [Irby]
11. Rainbow at Midnight [Miller]
12. So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed [Travis/Stone/Kirk]
13. Don't Look Now (But Your Broken Heart Is Showing) [Tubb]
14. Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello [Skinner/Tubb]
15. Forever Is Ending Today [Bond/Tubb]
16. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue) [Brown/DeRose]
17. Till the End of the World [Monroe]
18. Don't Rob Another Man's Castle [Carson]
19. I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You [Benedict/Sanders/Tu]
20. Slipping Around [Tillman]
21. Tennessee Border, No. 2 [Work]
22. Letters Have No Arms [Gibson/Tubb]
23. Throw Your Love My Way [Sutherland/Tubb]
24. I Love You Because [Payne]
25. Blue Christmas [Hayes/Johnson]

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