Stonewall Jackson - Stonewall Jackson Country '1967

Tracks list

One of two albums Stonewall Jackson made in 1967, Stonewall Jackson Country
includes the minor hit This World Holds Nothing (Since Youre Gone), similar in
concept to Skeeter Davis The End of the World. Theres No Reason to Be Living
(Since Youre Gone) is another wrist-slashing ballad in the set. An air of
melancholy surrounds the album because of its overabundance of weepers, for one
thing, but also because of Jacksons talent for expressing a range of bleak
emotions with his voice. The obligatory covers of recent and classic hits would
seem to balance the sad songs -- its a treat to hear Jackson tackle Marvin
Rainwaters Gonna Find Me a Bluebird, but his version of Wynn Stewarts Its Such a
Pretty World Today is oddly mournful. Listeners who claim to hear the blues in
country music will hear plenty of it on Stonewall Jackson Country with its
love-gone-wrong songs and working-man laments. Warning: Jacksons performances
put across the gloomy songs so effectively that the albums aura of defeat is
contagious.

Tracklist:
 01. Stonewall Jackson - This World Holds Nothing (Since Youre Gone) (02:34)
 02. Stonewall Jackson - If This House Could Talk (02:39)
 03. Stonewall Jackson - Its Such a Pretty World Today (02:17)
 04. Stonewall Jackson - I Threw Away the Rose (02:41)
 05. Stonewall Jackson - Gonna Find Me a Bluebird (02:29)
 06. Stonewall Jackson - Big Busy World (02:02)
 07. Stonewall Jackson - Youre the Sad In My Songs (02:44)
 08. Stonewall Jackson - Theres No Reason To Be Living (Since Youre Gone)
(02:30)
 09. Stonewall Jackson - I Cant Dry Your Tears (02:24)
 10. Stonewall Jackson - Only Lonely Me (02:35)
 11. Stonewall Jackson - Ill Go Get the Tool Box (02:57)

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