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Ramblin' Fever

Bill Carter

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Ramblin' Fever

Bill Carter: Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD)

2-CD, 36-page booklet, 67 tracks. Total playing time approx. 155 min.

Bill Carter was born in 1929 in Eagleton, Arkansas, moved with his family to Oklahoma in 1937 and six years later to Indio, California. His family encouraged the teenager's interest in music and paid for his singing lessons. Before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1949, he had already performed on several local radio stations. During his military service in California, he formed his first C&W bands and performed in the San Francisco area and at a radio station in San Antonio, Texas.

After completing his military service in 1953, Carter joined Jim DeNoone's country band as a vocalist and performed at the 'California Hayride' in San Francisco and elsewhere. The band's recordings for Gilt-Edge Records, produced that same year, feature Bill Carter as a singer for the first time. He eventually formed his own trio, with whom he worked regularly over the next five years, aiming to become known beyond the local area. During the 1950s in California, he and his band accompanied numerous big names in country music such as Marvin Rainwater, Lefty Frizzell, Freddie Hart, T-Texas Tyler and Buck Owens on tour on the West Coast.

Between 1956 and 1961, Carter recorded under his own name for small and mid-sized labels such as 4-Star, Republic, Tally, Black Jack, Honey B, 'D', Rural Rhythm and Ozark. The 1957 up-tempo number I Wanna Feel Good, produced in Bakersfield, California for Tally, became his biggest hit and opened the doors to the 'Louisiana Hayride' and the 'Grand Ole Opry'.In the years after 1961 Carter followed a new personal orientation and produced Christian Country Music from then on.

With this double CD Bear Family Records® delivers the comprehensive work show on the career of the versatile Bill Carter. Of the total of 67 tunes, only the ten best rockers were previously released on Bear Family's 10"LP 'Cool Tom Cat' (BAF14010). So Carter's complete commercial recordings from the years 1953-61 are united on this double album!

The detailed liner notes are written by Michael Hurtt, who together with Billy Miller, deceased five years ago, wrote the great book 'Mind Over Matter' about the history of Detroit's Fortune label!

  • On this double CD, Bear Family Records® is the first label to present all commercial recordings of the great Bill Carter released between 1953 and 1961, including recordings he made as a singer with Western Swing bandleader Big Jim DeNoone.
  • The Arkansas musician kicked off with country music and hillbilly and jumped on the rockabilly bandwagon in the mid-50s.
  • This compilation additionally includes his outstanding gospel recordings for the Rural Rhythm label and recordings with Western Swing bandleader Big Jim De Nonne for 4-Star., among others, with the Cooper Brothers.
  • A total of 67 recordings for 4-Star, Republic, Tally, Ozark, Rural Rhythm, Honey B and 'D' among ohers.
  • 41 songs on CD for the first time and 14 of them are previously unreleased!
  • In the 1950s California, he and his band accompanied numerous big names in country music on tour on the West Coast.
  • Shortly after signing a promising contract with M-G-M and before his final breakthrough, Carter retired from the music business in 1961 and from then on devoted himself exclusively to Christian country music.
  • Extensive liner notes by Michael Hurtt in the comprehensive illustrated booklet.
  • Carefully restored and remastered recordings.

BEAR FAMILY - RAMBLIN' FEVER: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS FROM BILL CARTER

.. COMPLETE RECORDINGS FROM 1953-1961

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 2
Released April 22, 2022
EAN/UPC 5397102176500
Label BEAR FAMILY BFY17650.2
Genre Rock     Rock & Roll
Dimensions 125 × 141 × 9 mm   ·   216 g

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. A Woman's Way
    2. A Story Book Affair
    3. I Couldn't Keep from Crying
    4. That's Me Without You
    5. Mexican Joe
    6. Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship
    7. Big Jim Boogie
    8. Honeycut Stomp
    9. Wednesday Night Swing
    10. Wild Strings
    11. Long Lost Girl
    12. Making Believe
    13. More Than a Man Can Stand
    14. Don't Monkey with My Widder
    15. You Ain't Got My Address
    16. By the Sweat of My Brow
    17. Mama Loves Papa (And Papa Loves the Women)
    18. I Wanna Feel Good
    19. I Knew Her when
    20. I Used to Love You
    21. Too Used to Being with You
    22. Baby Brother
    23. Ride Gunman, Ride
    24. Ramblin' Fever
    25. Half Hour til Sundown
    26. Stowaway
    27. Seven Years
    28. When God Dips His Love in My Heart
    29. Amazing Grace
    30. This World is Not My Home
    31. Where We Never Grow Old
    32. The 12th Man
    33. Cool Tom Cat (Tape Fragment)

  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Cool Tom Cat
    2. Secret Date (Unedited Version)
    3. Secret Date
    4. Jailer Man (Unedited Version)
    5. Jailer Man
    6. Jailer Man (Alt. Take)
    7. I'll Still Be Loving You
    8. Legend of Billy the Kid (Unedited Version)
    9. The Legend of Billy the Kid
    10. Cross Road
    11. Good Lord to Keep Me Happy
    12. Won't You Go There with Me
    13. Full Time Religion
    14. Thank You Dear Lord
    15. Only a Tramp on the Street
    16. Your Last Day on Earth
    17. God's Mansion in the Sky
    18. Ain't You Gonna Change
    19. The Gates of Glory
    20. Where You Gonna Hide
    21. Glory in Your Soul
    22. Dreambowl Commercial
    23. Colt 45 -part I
    24. Colt 45 -part II
    25. Pony Express
    26. You'll Never Know
    27. Shot Four Times and Dyin'
    28. Stranger Shake Hands with a Fool
    29. Stranger Shake Hands with a Fool (Uptempo Version)
    30. Steamboat's A-comin'
    31. Climb That Scaffold, Jimmy
    32. Lookin' Through the Bars
    33. From Time to Time
    34. I've Missed You
    35. Better Times Are Coming
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