Word: tonker
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...more than two dozen other hit singles, including Don't Take Her,She's All I Got and Slide Off Your Satin Sheets. When he renounced his wild ways in his 50s, he said of his fans: "They still remember me as that crazy, good-time-Charlie honky-tonker, and I don't tell 'em any different." DIED. LILIANE DE ROTHSCHILD, late 80s, quiet member of the French banking family known for her charitable donations to the art world; in Royaumont, France. Her gifts to the Louvre include a diamond-studded snuffbox given by Queen Victoria to her great-grandfather...
...urged before that those fans who haven't got this album do so with utmost speed. Like no other compilation, its 48 tracks, ranging from the mid-'50s to the early '60s, show the development of the Possum from a derivative honky-tonker to the world's best country singer. It's being purveyed by your nearest Internet dealer, though without the booklet described above, which was only included in a "Limited Collector's Edition," since sold out. It'll still be worth your while...
...material, as displayed on "Cup of Loneliness," a superb double-CD compilation of his late-Fifties/early-Sixties recordings. The majority of the tracks on the first disc are either written or co-written by Jones, most often with boyhood pal Darrell Edwards. That includes "Mr. Fool," a languid honky-tonker about lost love that is perhaps the supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes you on a spellbinding journey of his vocal arsenal - swooping...
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