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Night Train to Nashville, Vol. 2
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Originally Released: 2005
Discs: 2
Label: Lost Highway Records
Item Number: LST100262

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Night Train to Nashville, Vol. 2
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0.    DISC 1:   
1.    Boogie Woogie Jockey - Jimmy Sweeney
2.    Gene Nobles' Boogie - Richard Armstrong
3.    All States Boogie - Ivory Joe Hunter
4.    Wail Daddy - Charlie Dowell/Willie Lee Patton/Charlie Dowell Orchestra
5.    31 E. Blues - Billie McAllister
6.    No Better for You - Gay Crosse & The Good Humor Six
7.    You Belong to Me - Helen Foster
8.    Too Much - Bernard Hardison
9.    If Things Don't Change - Gene Allison
10.    Love, Love, Love - Ted Jarrett
11.    Miss You So - Lillian Offitt
12.    Little Darlin' - The Gladiolas
13.    No Fool No More - Charles "Wigg" Walker & the Daffodils
14.    Pretty Please - Kinglets/Leroy Thomas/The Kinglets
15.    She Can Rock - Little Ike
16.    I'm Coming Home - Neptunes
17.    You Better Change - Hal & Jean
18.    OK, So What? - Freddie North
19.    She Wears My Ring - Jimmy Sweeney
0.    DISC 2:   
1.    Doctor Feel-Good - Dr. Feelgood & the Interns/Piano Red
2.    I'm a Woman - Christine Kittrell
3.    Don't Pity Me - Herbert Hunter
4.    Next to Me - Clyde McPhatter
5.    Release Me - Esther Phillips
6.    Soldier of Love - Arthur Alexander
7.    Don't Take My Kindness for a Weakness - Earl Gaines
8.    That's My Man - Marion James
9.    Strain on My Heart - Roscoe Shelton
10.    Soul Poppin' - Johnny Jones & the King Casuals
11.    Swinging Soul Medallion Commercial - John Richbourg
12.    Right on Time - Jimmy Church
13.    Judy - Frank Howard
14.    Leave It Up to the Boys - Sandra King
15.    Don't You Forget That You're My Baby - Spidells
16.    I'm Free (The Prisoner's Song) - Johnny Bragg
17.    Screamin' and Shoutin' - The Fabulettes
18.    (You Keep Me) Hangin' On - Joe Simon
19.    (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got - Freddie North
20.    Lucky Lou - The Imperials (previously unreleased, live)
Various Artists: Harold Bradley (spoken vocals, guitar); Tommy Turrentine (trumpet); Stanley "Stash" O'Laughlin (piano); Jimmy Lewis , Alvin Jackson (bass instrument); Oliver Jackson, John Jarette (drums).

Liner Note Author: Reavis L. Mitchell, Jr.

Oh yeah! Those who bought the first volume of Night Train to Nashville have been licking their chops for a long while now for this second installment and with good reason. Both compilations coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Country Music Hall of Fame and reflect the deep roots R&B that flourished in Music City in the years immediately after the second World War and continued to thrive in recordings studios and in the venues of Jefferson Street all the way up until 1970s despite the town being country music's Valhalla. Most of the artists here are Nashville-based, but in order to reflect the true culture of the scene several out-of-town acts are included as well such as Clyde McPhatter and transplant Gay Crosse, who featured a young John Coltrane playing tenor in her band! There are many well-known names here, from Ivory Joe Hunter and Roscoe Shelton to Helen Foster, Arthur Alexander, and Esther Phillips (a native Texan). But they aren't the focus of this set. There are the Kinglets with Leroy Thomas and their killer single "Pretty Please" from 1959, and Bernard Hardison's "Too Much," issued on the Republic label in 1955. There's Lillian Offitt's heart-wrenching "Miss You SOP," issued on Excello in 1957, and Richard Armstrong's "Gene Nobles Boogie" on Checker from 1949. Jimmy Sweeney is also present here in both his incarnations. First under his own name with "Boogie Woogie Jockey" (a tribute to DJ Gene Nobles as was the Armstrong cut), and later as Jimmy Bell in 1960 with "She Wears My Ring." Willie Lee Patton is also here as are the Neptunes, the Gladiolas, and Billie McAllister. What it adds up to at over 39 cuts is another excellent orgy of foot-stomp and heartbreak that offers not only another view of music history, but a wealth of some of the finest tunes ever recorded in the genre and is highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek

Hot on the heels of VOLUME 1's 2004 Grammy award for best historical recording, NIGHT TRAIN TO NASHVILLE VOLUME 2 provides even more of the delectable hits and rarities in the same stylistic vein as its acclaimed predecessor. Subtitled MUSIC CITY RHYTHM & BLUES, 1945-1970, this two-disc set is a music historian's dream, revealing that Nashville was, in fact, a hotbed for R&B artists before (and during) the city's rise as the capitol of country music.

Artists like Jimmy Scott and Arthur Alexander prove that Nashville had as much soul as Memphis and New Orleans, but what's particularly interesting here is the cross-fertilization between country and R&B, a line that, sadly, grew more rigid over time until the two genres became diametrically opposed. NIGHT TRAIN (the title is a clear reference to Nashville's pioneering R&B television program from the '60s) is full of vital and largely unknown music that testifies to the senselessness of such categories.

Entertainment Weekly (No. 384, p.74) - "...[N]ot just a historical corrective but a swell party album for any old-soul or early-rock fan." - Grade: B+

Dirty Linen (p.50/51) - "[T]he standard remains remarkably high....From early 50s boogie pianists and jump blues performers to doo-wop groups and various kinds of crossover stylists..."


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