Simply Red CD

Red Sovine
Simply Red - Solo Singles 1954-1959 CD

Chiefly remembered for his sentimental, posthumous 1980 UK chart topper Teddy Bear - Red Sovine had a long career in country music stretching back to the early 1950s, recording sinfles for many labels and scoring more than 30 US country chart hits, his first in 1955.
His earliest recordings are about as far away from Teddy Bear as it's possible to get - driving, hardcore honky tonk hillbilly classics that are greatly favoured by vintage country and indeed, many rockabilly collectors.
Almost all of them are gathered here in this 31 track collection that features every one of Red's solo sides from the 1950s, including classics like Juke Joint Johnny, Don't Drop It and You Used To Be My Baby.
These high-quality recordings were made in Nashville with a crack team of 'A' list studio musicians of the calibre of Chet Atkins, Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Ernie Newton, Floyd Cramer and Buddy Harman.
Tut this is the first time that so many of Red's trailblazing 1950s records, across all the labels he recorded for in that decade, have been presented in the same place and in the same collection.