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(Righteous) 24 tracks (57:19) Jean Shepard ’s arrival on the country scene in 1952 followed on the heels of Kitty Wells‘ success and, like her she became one of the first female acts to be featured on The Grand 01′ Opry. Formerly a member of The Melody Ranch Girls she was discovered by Hank Thomp…

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(Righteous) 24 tracks (57:19) Jean Shepard ’s arrival on the country scene in 1952 followed on the heels of Kitty Wells‘ success and, like her she became one of the first female acts to be featured on The Grand 01′ Opry. Formerly a member of The Melody Ranch Girls she was discovered by Hank Thompson and during the early 1950s she began to carve out a career as a honky tonk singer. But, the arrival of the Nashville Sound in the late `50s seemingly reduced her popularity immeasurably. In fact it wouldn’t be until the ’60s that her career would be revived. Indeed, her releases at the tail end of the ’50s and early ’60s fell outside of the Nashville-approved sounds of Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves and Don Gibson that were sweeping the genre and slipped into obscurity. This CD gathers together two of those lost albums from 1958 and 1959, the tempered honky tonk rhythms of the super rare ‚Lonesome Love‘ which owes more than a little in its construction to the emerging rock ’n‘ roll scene and the following year’s ‚This Is Jean Shepard‘ which revisited some of her previous single releases. For whatever reason, in the growth of country music, Shepard’s rich vocal and yearning, mid-tempo arrangements on the former were overlooked, while her earlier legacy remains unheralded to some degree.  On ‚Lonesome Love‘, her dalliance with rock ’n‘ roll on ‚Sweet Temptation‘, next to the more earthy cuts like ‚A Thief In The Night‘ and a rattling good version of Hank Williams’You Win Again‘, showed the influence of new music on her highly accessible sound. It’s amazing, really, when you listen to her soulful delivery on the rock ’n‘ roll-styled ballads ‚I’ll Never Be Free‘ and ‚Memory‘ or the truly commercial `You’re Telling Me Sweet Lies Again‘ that Shepard wasn’t more successful. While Kitty Wells‘ vocal had a deeper more yearning appeal and her choice of material was singularly aimed at the honky tonk where another beer would solve the inadequacies of relationships gone sour, Shepard’s sound on ‚Lonesome Love‘ was looser and dare we say more ‚groovy‘, especially her take on the closer, `I Love You Because‘, a faster and more irreverent version than the huge hit by Jim Reeves. In the hands of Shepard and her string-bending guitarist, it takes on a whole new dimension. This was music that was truly different. `Lonesome Love‘ was released in December 1958, with ‚This Is Jean Shepard‘, a compilation which looked at her earlier 45s, following in September 1959. Again, kicking off with a country gem in Jack Rhodes and Joe Hays‘ beautiful ‚A Satisfied Mind‘ from 1955, the mood quickly changes into novelty honky tonk for ‚Two Whoops And A Holler‘, which was originally to ‚Why Do You Wait?‘ from 1954, a song which is far more aching, primal Shepard. The mood is in part similar to Wells‘ social commentaries, especially on ‚Why Did You Wait?‘, `The Other Woman‘ from 1957 and ‚Act Like A Married Man‘ from the same year and the Shepard vocal has an added rasp, some distance from the smooth intonation on `Lonesome Love‘. Here we have Shepard in more traditional honky tonk territory, before rock `n‘ roll had been infused into every kind of music and her performances on `Beautiful Lies‘ and `Under Suspicion‘ have all the tearjerking qualities that such music live and dies by. Indeed, the glorious `Crying Steel Guitar‘ from 1953, Shepard’s debut single, is, as the title suggests, a true piece of lonesome dustbowl soul. From 1964 onwards, Jean Shepard enjoyed far more commercial success, but you can’t help feeling that if `Lonesome Love‘ had found a few more ears back in the day the fusion of rock ’n‘ roll and country music would have taken an even more strident path. (Dave Henderson) For the complete Capitol Recordings 1952-1964 of Jean Shepard see BCD15905 ‚The Melody Ranch Girl‘ Box Set
Jean Shepard
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