In this week's episode we're featuring a dynamite outlier from the late 60s career of Jim Ed Brown: Bottle, Bottle (1968). A lot of Brown's full-length albums of this era were on the slicker side and hard country gems were a little elusive. However, Bottle, Bottle is a full-on dive into the hard country side of the spectrum, dripping with the steel guitar of Pete Drake. Looking and sounding typically dapper, Jim Ed Brown's silky smooth vocal sounds right at home on a country shuffle (of which there are several), songs of loving and leaving and the necessary barroom laments (with a name like Bottle, Bottle, it's expected). The likeable Arkansan cut just enough of this kind of material on this album to have this reviewer wanting to take a second look at Brown's catalogue to see what else has been missed. A-class.
HOUR 1:
1. Jim Ed Brown – I’ll Make The Living (1968)
2. Dave Dudley – Under The Cover Of Night (1963)
3. Rhonda Vincent – Bobby & Sarah (1991)
4. Rhonda Vincent – Heart Wrenching Lovesick Memories (2009)
5. Jim Ed Brown – I Run For My Love (1968)
6. Jim Ed Brown – I Feel A Sin Coming On (1968)
7. Clarence Nieman – One More Drink (70s)
8. David Allan Coe – Don’t Cry Darlin’ (1985)
9. Gary P. Nunn – Honking Out Some Hank (2000)
10. Joe Pain – Deaf, Dumb & Blind (1968)
11. Joe Pain – Down At Kelly’s (1967)
12. Joe Pain – A Thousand Times Paid (1967)
13. Joe Pain – Then Love Dies (1968)
14. Landon Dodd – All They Serve In Here Is Misery (2016)
15. Kenny Price – Day Gig (1970)
16. Jim Ed Brown – My Heart Left Long Ago (1968)
17. Jim Ed Brown – Bottle, Bottle (1968)
HOUR 2:
1. George Owens – The Influence Of You (1970)
2. Jim Lauderdale – I’ll Still Be Around (2016)
3. Jim Lauderdale – Big Town, Small World Blues (1989)
4. Kathy Mattea – 33, 45, 78 (Record Time) (1992)
5. Jim Ed Brown – Pick-Me-Ups (1968)
6. Jim Ed Brown – You’ve Seen That Look On Me A Thousand Times (1968)
7. Cowboy Jazz – That’s What I Like About The West (1980)
8. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Sadie’s Got Her New Dress On (2007)
9. The Mavericks – The Writing On The Wall (1995)
10. Marcy Dickerson – The Face Of A Man (1968)
11. COUNTRY COVERS: Bobby Barnett – Dying Laughing (1971)
12. COUNTRY COVERS: Kitty Wells – We Could (1969)
13. COUNTRY COVERS: The Lonesome River Band – Don’t Go Out Tonight (2002)
14. SHOT OF STEEL: Curley Barrix – Blue Ribbon Clown (1966)
15. Jim Ed Brown – That’s All Right (1968)
16. Jim Ed Brown – Pop A Top (1967)
HOUR 3: If That Ain’t Country’s Year In Country Music - 1963
1. Joe Carson – I Gotta Get Drunk
2. Leon Payne – Jose Lopez
3. Leon Payne – You Stood Me Up This Morning (Cause I Let You Down Last Night)
4. Ray Price – Intro And Theme: Night Life
5. Ray Price – The Twenty-Fourth Hour
6. Ray Price – Sittin’ And Thinkin’
BUMPER: Buck Owens – Orange Blossom Special
7. Ernest Tubb – Thanks A Lot
8. Lattie Moore – Honky Tonk Heaven
9. Jimmy Logsdon – The Life Of Hank Williams
10. Jimmy Logsdon – The Death Of Hank Williams
11. George Jones & Melba Montgomery – Now Tell Me
12. Stonewall Jackson – Not My Kind Of People
13. Hawkshaw Hawkins – Caught In The Middle Of Two Hearts