28 Greatest Hits

by Grandpa Jones

Overview

Until a box set of his King recordings appears, 28 Greatest Hits is the best available anthology of Grandpa Jones' classic early years. Sounding like Uncle Dave Macon with an electric guitar, Grandpa Jones' King sides mixed old-timey novelties with hot Travis-picking (Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones were bandmates in the Brown's Ferry Four gospel quartet), and created an anachronistic style that kept pace with the times in its own way. Not every track is electrified, but Jones' unique update of mountain music is heard most clearly on tracks such as "Five-String Banjo Boogie" and the popular "Eight More Miles to Louisville." While most of the songs are novelties, Jones plays it straight occasionally, as on "Tragic Romance" and the couple of sacred songs. Essential music from everybody's favorite Grandpa. ~ Greg Adams

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/1998
Label:	King / King
UPC:	0012676510226
Rank:	71948

Tracks

1. Mountain Dew
2. 15 Cents Is All I Got
3. You'll Make Our Shack a Mansion
4. Eight More Miles to Louisville
5. The Bald-Headed End of a Broom
6. Old Rattler
7. Down in Dixie (Where They Say You All)
8. East Bound Freight Train
9. Time, Time, Time, Time
10. Take It on Out the Door
11. Get Back on the Glory Road
12. I'm Tying the Leaves (So They Won't Come Down)
13. You Done Me Mean and Hateful
14. I Don't Know Gee from Haw
15. I'm My Own Grandpaw
16. Chicken Don't Roost Too High
17. Tragic Romance
18. Daisy Dean
19. Are You from Dixie?
20. Five String Banjo Boogie
21. How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?
22. Old Rattler's Treed Again
23. Grandpa's Getting Married Again
24. It's Raining Here This Morning
25. Our Fathers Had Religion
26. Don't Sweet Talk Me
27. Uncle Eff's Got the Coon
28. My Little Nagging Wife

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Grandpa Jones   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Moe Jaffe   Composer
Chuck Young   Art Direction,Liner Notes
Dwight Latham   Composer
Eloise Riggins   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Steve Goodman   Composer
Jack Yellen   Composer
Scotty Wiseman   Composer
Moe Lytle   Design
George L. Cobb   Composer
Grandpa Jones   Composer
Bascom Lamar Lunsford   Composer