Ol’ Rockin’ Ern Revisited CD

Tennessee Ernie Ford
Ol' Rockin Ern Revisited CD

Featuring the original album together with the original versions - plus bonus tracks too!
A big star on both sides of the Atlantic in the pre-rock 'n' roll 1950s, Tennessee Ernie Ford was making hillbilly records that rocked long before that term became common
currency.
Acknowledging the impact made by his early Capitol Records hits, Ernie’s original 1957 album Ol’ Rockin’ Ern revisited and presented a dozen of his late 1940s and early '50s hillbilly classics in a more contemporary, rock ‘n’ roll-influenced format.
It has not been available in its original form since the Stetson label last reissued it, on vinyl, almost 40 years ago.
This new expanded CD release brings you that complere original album in its original running order, followed by Ernie’s pioneering hillbilly boogie versions of the same songs presented in the same running order as the later versions.
There’s also the further bonus of several more up-tempo tracks bumping this superb release up to a big 30-tracker.
For many people in the UK, Tennesse Ernie’s invigorating 78s would have been their first exposure to what was then called Hillbilly music.
There were no pop charts when many of his biggest sellers were first issued, but you can be sure that most if not all of the original versions here would have made the Top 20 if we’d had such a thing back then.