GET OUT THOSE OLD RECORDS

• Songs celebrating the phonograph record across five decades!
• Country, rockabilly – and much more!
• Feat. Willie Nelson, Freddy Cannon, Merle Haggard, Charlie Monroe – and Larry Hagman in a 1950 duet with Mary Martin!

VINYL RECORDS

Records were part of our lives. Everyone bought them. Some of us brought them to parties or listened to them with our friends. Others listened to records alone, drawing the power of the music into our personal lives. Many of us played the jukebox, or listened nightly as disc jockeys played the hits of the day. The quest for records meant more than a trip to our neighborhood record store. For many of us it meant visits to yard sales and flea markets. The world was a more exciting place because these records were hidden away in it. Not just the music – but the records. Many of us remember the first 78 we bought. The first 45. The first LP. Will today’s teenagers talk as fondly about the first MP3 they ever downloaded or streamed?

The songs on this collection celebrate the world of phonograph records across five decades – making them, buy-ing them, playing them and measuring the stages of our lives by them. Mostly it’s country and rockabilly music, but not all! Just when you least expect it, a different style will take you by surprise.