Stoney Edwards/she's My Rock (2005)

Product Summary Label: Koch Entertainment Dist UPC: 00682970000695 Release Date: 10/4/2005 Buy.com Sku: 64007660 Item#: M2KPD4 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. All She Made Of Me ~ Stoney Edwards 2. Daddy Did His Best ~ Stoney Edwards 3. She Believed In Me ~ Stoney Edwards 4. Kingdom I Call Home ~ Stoney Edwards 5. Tell Me That You Love Me ~ Stoney Edwards 6. Why You Change Your Mind ~ Stoney Edwards 7. You Can't Call Yourself Country ~ Stoney Edwards 8. Why Don't You Go Home (Where You Belong) ~ Stoney Edwards 9. I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today ~ Stoney Edwards 10. I Won't Make It Through The Day ~ Stoney Edwards 11. You're A Believer ~ Stoney Edwards 12. Sunshine Feeling ~ Stoney Edwards 13. She's Helping Me Get Over You ~ Stoney Edwards 14. Fishin' Song, The ~ Stoney Edwards 15. Two Dollar Toy, A ~ Stoney Edwards 16. She's My Rock ~ Stoney Edwards 17. I've Got The Mine ~ Stoney Edwards 18. Honky Tonk Heaven ~ Stoney Edwards 19. You Stayed Long Enough (To Make Me Love You) ~ Stoney Edwards 20. Something New And Different ~ Stoney Edwards   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info 2 LPs on 1 CD: STONEY EDWARDS (1971)/SHE'S MY ROCK (1973). Liner Note Author: Jon Philibert. Hux's 2005 two-fer Stoney Edwards/She's My Rock is the first time Stoney Edwards' first two albums have been released on CD, thereby righting one of the major wrongs within country reissues. Edwards has been perennially overlooked over the years, the kind of singer who only hardcore country fans know about -- which, in a way, is appropriate, since he was a pure hard country singer who adhered to the classic '60s honky tonk sound. Yet for as consistently good as his music was, he never had really big hits -- he had two singles, "She's My Rock" in 1973 and "Mississippi You're on My Mind" in 1975, peak at 20 -- which may have been down to him being a black singer in a genre where African-Americans were a rarity and had a hard time being heard, even in the wake of Charley Pride's considerable success. But it's also true that in the early '70s, when country-pop was dominating the upper reaches of the charts, Edwards' hard country wasn't as commercially appealing, no matter how well executed it was. That might have made his 1971 debut, Stoney Edwards, and 1973's follow-up, She's My Rock, underachievers in terms of the charts, but artistically they were both first-rate, and have held up extraordinarily well over the years. While many of the main cuts showed up on Razor & Tie's excellent 1998 overview Poor Folks Stick Together, both of these albums were consistently good, both in terms of songs and performance, with no weak spots -- so anybody who enjoyed that compilation should certainly pick this two-fer up, because it is simply further proof that when it came to pure, straight-ahead honky tonk in the Lefty Frizzell tradition, few did it better than Edwards in the early '70s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine   Compilation Appearances Wild Thing:songs Of Chip Taylor   Technical Info Release Date : 10/04/2005 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 069 Label : Hux Records (UK) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00682970000695    Related Videos Lost Highway: Willie Nelson