Title: Tennessee Plowboy & His Guitar
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

Eddy Arnold's earliest recordings are among the greatest and rarest recordings in modern country music. Between 1944 and 1950, Eddy Arnold established an entirely new style of country music that bridged the traditional sounds he'd heard growing up with his love of pop. From the outset, he was astonishingly successful, racking up more than 35 hits during his first six years as a recording artist. Frequently re-recorded, many of those early hits are not only available here in their original versions for the first time on CD, but many are making their first appearance on any long-playing record. All-time Eddy Arnold favourites include It's A Sin, I Couldn't Believe It Was True, I'll Hold You In My Heart, Anytime, Bouquet Of Roses, Texarkana Baby, Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go A Long Way), Don't Rob Another Man's Castle, I'm Throwing Rice, Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me, and Cuddle Buggin' Baby. The set also includes Eddy's rare early versions of Cattle Call from 1944 and 1949, as well as versions of several other songs that were actually re-recorded while the song was on the charts. Altogether, there are 120 songs on 5 CDs, plus a newly researched book on Eddy's career by Michael Streissguth and many rare and previously unpublished photographs.

Tracks:
1.1 Mother's Prayer
1.2 Mommy, Please Stay Home with Me
1.3 Cattle Call
1.4 Each Minute Seems Like a Million Years
1.5 Did You See My Daddy Over There
1.6 Many Tears Ago
1.7 I Walk Alone
1.8 You Must Walk the Line
1.9 (I'll Have to) Live and Learn
1.10 Be Sure There's No Mistake
1.11 I Couldn't Believe It Was True
1.12 I Talk to Myself About You
1.13 All Alone in This World Without You
1.14 Can't Win, Can't Place, Can't Show
1.15 What Is Life Without Love?
1.16 That's How Much I Love You
1.17 Why Didn't You Take That, Too?
1.18 Chained to a Memory
1.19 Easy Rockin' Chair
1.20 To My Sorrow
1.21 It's a Sin
1.22 I'm Somebody Nobody Loves
1.23 That Little Boy of Mine
1.24 Don't Bother to Cry
1.25 Me Too
2.1 I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
2.2 Bouquet of Roses
2.3 What a Fool I Was
2.4 Little Angel with the Dirty Face
2.5 Wondering What to Do
2.6 Prisoner's Song
2.7 Rockin' Alone (In An Old Rockin' Chair)
2.8 It Makes No Difference Now
2.9 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2.10 Seven Years with the Wrong Woman
2.11 Molly Darling
2.12 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
2.13 Who at My Door Is Standing
2.14 Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away
2.15 Texarkana Baby
2.16 (In the) Hills of Tomorrow
2.17 My Daddy Is Only a Picture
2.18 Say You'll Be Mine
2.19 There's Not a Thing (I Wouldn't Do for You)
2.20 I've Got a Lifetime to Forget
2.21 Anytime
2.22 Heart Full of Love
2.23 My Heart Cries for You
2.24 I've Got Other Fish to Fry
2.25 This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You)
3.1 You Know How Talk Gets Around
3.2 Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)
3.3 Till the End of the World
3.4 Save a Little Corner in Your Heart
3.5 M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)
3.6 I Wouldn't Trade the Silver in My Mother's Hair
3.7 That Wonderful Mother of Mine
3.8 Bring Your Roses to Her Now
3.9 I Wish I Had a Girl Like You Mother
3.10 My Mother's Sweet Voice
3.11 There's No Wings on My Angel
3.12 Echo of Your Footsteps
3.13 Why Didn't You Take That, Too?
3.14 That Little Boy of Mine
3.15 My Heart Cries for You
3.16 This Is the Thanks I Get (For Loving You)
3.17 Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
3.18 Me Too
3.19 Little Angel with the Dirty Face
3.20 I've Got Other Fish to Fry
3.21 Many Tears Ago
3.22 I Walk Alone
3.23 Show Me the Way Back to Your Heart
3.24 Homesick, Lonesome and Sorry
3.25 One Kiss Too Many
4.1 I Was Foolish When I Fell in Love with You
4.2 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
4.3 I Tied a Little String Around My Finger
4.4 I'm Throwing Rice
4.5 Shepherd of My Heart
4.6 Why Should I Cry
4.7 C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
4.8 To the Last Beat of My Heart
4.9 Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me
4.10 Evil Tempt Me Not
4.11 When Jesus Beckons Me Home
4.12 Will Santy Come to Shanty Town
4.13 Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
4.14 Lily of the Valley
4.15 Softly and Tenderly
4.16 Mama and Daddy Broke My Heart
4.17 You Touched Me
4.18 Cattle Call
4.19 Chained to a Memory
4.20 Nearest Thing to Heaven
4.21 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
4.22 Prison Without Walls
4.23 Cuddle Buggin' Baby
4.24 Enclosed One Broken Heart
5.1 Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again
5.2 Behind the Clouds
5.3 Million Miles from Your Heart
5.4 At the Close of a Long, Long Day
5.5 C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S
5.6 If I Never Get to Heaven
5.7 Lovebug Itch
5.8 White Christmas
5.9 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
5.10 There's Been a Change in Me
5.11 Precious Little Baby
5.12 Through a Stranger's Eyes
5.13 Open Thy Merciful Arms
5.14 Jesus and the Atheist
5.15 Behind the Clouds
5.16 Precious Little Baby
5.17 Kentucky Waltz
5.18 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
5.19 Jesus and the Atheist
5.20 May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You
5.21 I'm Writing a Letter to the Lord