Also Known as Montana Slim: Selected Sides 1933-1941

by Montana Slim, Wilf Carter

Overview

Although he is little remembered in the U.S., country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeler Wilf Carter is pretty much, along with Hank Snow, the godfather of Canadian country music, and he continues to be revered in his home country. He wrote hundreds of songs, from country and western ballads to folk pieces and hobo and cowboy songs, most of which he recorded with just his acoustic guitar, and many of which were punctuated by his skilled yodeling. His sides were released in Canada under his own name, but in the States, he was credited as Montana Slim, a name he embraced as well. This expansive four-disc, 104-track box set surveys his early years, from 1933 to 1941, after which, although he remained immensely popular in Canada, his sales began to decline in the United States. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	02/26/2013
Label:	Jsp / Jsp Records
UPC:	0788065716226
Rank:	78862

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy
2. Yodelling Hillbilly
3. Rescue from Moose River Gold Mine
4. There'll Be No Blues Up Yonder
5. The Fate of Old Strawberry Roan
6. Answer to Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
7. The Cowboy's Airplane Ride
8. Keep Smiling Old Pal
9. There's a Love Knot in My Lariat
10. My Little Yoho Lady
11. Where Is My Boy Tonight
12. The Hindenburg Disaster
13. When the Sun Says Goodnight to the Prairie
14. Everybody's Been Some Mother's Darling
15. The Little Red Patch on the Seat of My Trousers
16. Down the Yodelling Trail at Twilight
17. Dusty Trails
18. By the Grave of Nobody's Darling
19. What a Friend We Have in Mother
20. It Makes No Difference Now
21. I'm Only a Dude In Cowboy's Clothes
22. My Honeymoon Bridge Broke Down
23. Golden Lariat
24. Yodelling Love Call
25. We'll Meet Again in Peaceful Valley
26. My Dream's Come True

Disc 2

27. Swiss Moonlight Lullaby
28. The Capture of Albert Johnson
29. When I Say Hello to the Rockies
30. Golden Memories of Mother and Dad
31. My Old Canadian Home
32. Echoing Hills Yodel Back to Me
33. Let's Go Back to the Bible
34. Old Chuck Wagon Days
35. My Texas Sweetheart
36. If You Don't Really Care
37. My True and Earnest Prayer
38. Why Did We Ever Part
39. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
40. Just One More Ride
41. Yodelling My Babies to Sleep
42. Memories That Never Die
43. He Rode the Strawberry Roan
44. Take Me Back to Old Montana
45. My Little Grey Haired Mother in the West
46. A Little Log Shack I Can Always Call My Home
47. I Miss My Swiss
48. Sway Back Pinto Pete
49. The Life and Death John Dillinger
50. Awaiting the Chair
51. Calgary Round Up
52. Pete Knight King of the Cowboy

Disc 3

53. The Cowboy's High-Toned Dance
54. I Bought a Rock for a Rocky Mountain Gal
55. Streamlined Yodel Song
56. By the Silv'ry Moonlight Trail
57. My Blues Have Turned to Sunshine
58. Sundown Blues
59. The Dying Mother's Prayer
60. Cowboy's Mother
61. Smoke Went Up the Chimney Just the Same
62. I'm Gonna Ride to Heaven on a Streamline Train
63. The Two Gun Cowboy
64. Cowboy Lullaby
65. Lonesome for My Baby Tonight
66. Hillbilly Valley
67. Round-Up Time in Heaven
68. Dreamy Prairie Moon
69. Answer to It Makes No Difference Now
70. Roll Along Kentucky Moon
71. It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry)
72. Rattlin' Cannonball
73. Why Should I Be Sorry for You Now
74. Beautiful Girl of the Prairie
75. What a Wonderful Mother f Mine
76. You Are My Sunshine
77. You Were with Me in the Waltz of My Dreams
78. When That Some Body Else Was You

Disc 4

79. Waiting for a Train
80. I'm Hittin' the Trail
81. I'm Gonna Ride to Heaven on a Streamlined Train
82. Why Did We Ever Part
83. The Last Letter
84. The First Love of Mine
85. Dreaming of My Blue Eyes
86. No Letter Today
87. You'll Get Used to It
88. Put Me in Your Pocket
89. Old Shep
90. My Queen of the Prairies
91. I Ain't Gonna Be a Hobo No More
92. A Sinner's Prayer
93. My Blue Skies
94. Don't Be Mean, I Wasn't Mean to You
95. It's a Cowboy's Night To Howl
96. Red River Valley Blues
97. The Two Gun Cowboy
98. He Left the One Who Loved Him for Another
99. My Old Lasso Is Headed Straight for You
100. Call of the Range
101. It's Great to Be Back in the Saddle Again
102. We'll Meet Again in Peaceful Valley
103. Under the Light of the Texas Moon
104. I'm Still Waiting for You

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Montana Slim   Primary Artist
Wilf Carter   Primary Artist,Vocals,Yodeling,Guitar
Carl De Vries   Guitar (Steel)
Pat Harrison   Compiled

Technical Credits

Christopher C. King   Transfers
Pat Harrison   Annotation