Cat No:
RLGM4002562SPMI
Release Date: 03 June 2014
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064002567
Genres: Rock
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Description
She was the first African-American woman to hit the country charts (in 1969, with "Color Him Father"), and the first to appear at the Grand Ole Opry (in August 1969). But, for such a groundbreaking musical pioneer, Linda Martell remains something of a forgotten figure in American music. That's because, despite a trio of hits, TV appearances on Hee Haw and The Bill Anderson Show, and a full dozen appearances at the Opry, she cut her career short in 1974 and returned home to South Carolina to care for her young children.
Through the years, though, word of her of talent and achievments in the country music field has spread, not just on these shores but even overseas, as she was the subject of a recent Christmas movie on the Lifetime channel and of a 2014 documentary made for Swedish TV. The time is ripe, then, to reissue for the first time ever her 1969 album cut for Plantation Records (one wonders if the irony of entitling an album by a black country singer Color Me Country on a label called Plantation was intentional or not), featuring the hits "Color Him Father" "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and "Bad Case of the Blues." Our Real Gone reissue of this landmark album includes notes by Bill Dahl and remastering by Mike Milchner of SonicVision. Rediscover one of country music's most fascinating figures! -
Tracklisting
- 1. Bad Case of the Blues
- 2. San Francisco Is a Lonely Town
- 3. The Wedding Cake
- 4. Tender Leaves of Love
- 5. I Almost Called Your Name
- 6. Color Him Father
- 7. There Never Was a Time
- 8. You’re Crying Boy, Crying
- 9. Old Letter Song
- 10. Then I’ll Be Over You
- 11. Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Disc 1
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The First Time Ever
Johnny Mathis
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Happening For Love
John Power
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