Steppin' Out Kind
Released: Mar 14, 2006
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Released: Mar 14, 2006
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Although Louis Marshall Jones was only around 30-years-old when he cut his first acetate for Syd Nathan's fledgling Dayton, Ohio-based King Records in 1943, he was already known as Grandpa Jones,...
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28 Greatest Hits
Released: May 19, 1998
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Released: May 19, 1998
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Until a box set of his King recordings appears, 28 Greatest Hits is the best available anthology of Grandpa Jones' classic early years. Sounding like Uncle Dave Macon with an electric guitar,...
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Good Ole Mountain Dew
Released: Dec 1, 1995
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Released: Dec 1, 1995
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This ten-song, 22-minute budget-priced release includes the hits "T for Texas" and "Mountain Dew" (a 1960s re-recording) as well as such familiar fare as the classic dog songs "Old Rattler" and...
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Pickin' and a Grinnin'
Released: Dec 1, 1995
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Released: Dec 1, 1995
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Essentially a cut-down version of Grandpa Jones's 1963 album Yodeling Hits, basically a Jimmie Rodgers tribute, containing 10 songs. A fine and valuable recording, despite slight overlap with the...
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Grandpa Jones Makes the Rafters Ring
Released: 1962
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Released: 1962
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Amazingly, Grandpa Jones was in the music business almost 30 years before he got to record his first LP (earlier long-players from the King Records label were assembled from his singles). It was in...
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