Jimmie Skinner was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter from Kentucky whose roots were in bluegrass music and who forged a successful career as a hit-making country artist. His chart career began in the 1940s as he performed in his sparse, down-home style and continued through to 1960, despite making very few compromises to the changing tastes and styles within the genre until his later sessions. He was also unusual in that alongside his performing career he ran a well-known retail and mail order music store in Cincinnati, Jimmie Skinner's Music Center, doing regular radio broadcasts from the shop window. He recorded prolifically, and this 57-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the Red Barn, Radio Artists, Capitol, Decca and Mercury labels during the 15-year span of this era, featuring at least one side of most of his releases in those years, and including duets with Connie Hall. It features all ten of his country hits, including the Top 20 entries "Tennessee Border", "I Found My Girl in the USA", "What Makes A Man Wander", "Dark Hollow", "John Wesley Hardin", "Riverboat Gambler" and "Reasons To Live". It represents a substantial cross-section of his output during the primary era of his career, and is an entertaining showcase for a highly distinctive artist.
13 Jimmie's Yodel Blues (A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers)
14 You Don't Know My Mind
15 If There Was No You
16 Dad Too, Is Lonely
17 It's My World
18 Running Out of Time
19 It's All the Same to Me
20 It's Bargain Day (In Broken Hearts)
21 Kentucky and You
22 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
23 When the Book of Life Is Read
24 Women Beware (Of the Rambling Kind)
25 Dreaming My Weary Life Away
26 I Ain't Got Time
27 Singing Teacher in Heaven
28 Help Me to Find My Broken Heart
29 I've Got a Lot of Love, Baby
30 I'm Allergic to Your Kisses
31 What a Pleasure
32 My Broken Heart Is Startin' to Show
33 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
34 Blame the Right One
35 Beautiful
36 Steppin' Out on You
37 Dime a Dozen
38 Muddy Water Blues
39 Another Saturday Night
40 Born to Be Wild
41 Hafta Do Somethin' 'Bout That
42 I Found My Girl in the USA
43 What Makes a Man Wander
44 We've Got Things in Common
45 Where Do We Go from Here
46 Dark Hollow
47 Walking My Blues Away
48 John Wesley Hardin
49 Riverboat Gambler
50 Lonesome Road Blues
51 Reasons to Live
52 Careless Love
53 Hem of His Garment
54 Don't Let Love Get You Down
55 Big City
56 Hundred Proof Heartaches
57 One Dead Man Ago
Jimmie Skinner was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter from Kentucky whose roots were in bluegrass music and who forged a successful career as a hit-making country artist. His chart career began in the 1940s as he performed in his sparse, down-home style and continued through to 1960, despite making very few compromises to the changing tastes and styles within the genre until his later sessions. He was also unusual in that alongside his performing career he ran a well-known retail and mail order music store in Cincinnati, Jimmie Skinner's Music Center, doing regular radio broadcasts from the shop window. He recorded prolifically, and this 57-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the Red Barn, Radio Artists, Capitol, Decca and Mercury labels during the 15-year span of this era, featuring at least one side of most of his releases in those years, and including duets with Connie Hall. It features all ten of his country hits, including the Top 20 entries "Tennessee Border", "I Found My Girl in the USA", "What Makes A Man Wander", "Dark Hollow", "John Wesley Hardin", "Riverboat Gambler" and "Reasons To Live". It represents a substantial cross-section of his output during the primary era of his career, and is an entertaining showcase for a highly distinctive artist.
