No More Nothin' - Selected Singles 1949-1961 CD

Zeb Turner
No More Nothin' - Selected Singles 1949-1961 CD

One of the most in-demand session guitarists of his day in the realms of 1940s Country music, Zeb Turner is revered among fans of hillbilly boogie for his string of chiefly up-tempo recordings for the King label in the first half of the 1950s.
Turner's King 78s and 45s are part of the foundation on which rockabilly and rock 'n' roll are built and even though his name is not remembered as well as those of the chief architects of those genres, his role in their creation is unmistakable.
While it couldn't possibly include every track from every session he played on, the collection brings together every recording that Turner made in his own name for King between 1949 and 1953 and adds some sides that he leased to King a few years later, up to when he stopped recording in the early '60s.
Although the finite playing time of a CD does not allow inclusion of everything Turner recorded, it is nevertheless the most complete collection of his masters that has ever been issued on a single CD before.
Remastered as from the best possible sources, with detailed annotation on Turner and his career, this is what country music sounded like - at its very best - before the arrival of 'The Nashville Sound' later in the '50s.
More than 20 years have passed since Turner's catalogue was anthologised digitally for the first time, and demand for his records still remains strong among hillbilly and rockabilly collectors.