category: instrumental country / bluegrass / easy listening

[excerpt from CD liner notes]:
"Whilst it is clear that as a guitarist Hank Snow was not in the same league as, say, Chet Atkins, Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Joe Maphis or Jimmy Bryant, he was well-respected for his art. Certainly his record label, RCA, would never have allowed him to play on all his sessions had he been less than thoroughly competent - studio time was money and woe betide record producers if they allowed their artists to waste it.

Even more proof-positive of his skills is the fact that over the years RCA issued a number of guitar instrumental albums by Hank Snow, starting in 1957 with "Country Guitar", and that master musician Chet Atkins bestowed the honour of recording a guitar album with him in 1964, "Reminiscing", and again in 1969, "By Special Request". Whether you listen to this collection as a guitarist or as a Hank Snow / Country music fan, you won’t be disappointed." -- Paul Pelletier, Jasmine Records 2002

CD Track Listing

  1. HILO MARCH (Kapaeau-Aea; arr. Carman) (1:50)
  2. TWELFTH STREET RAG (Bowman / Razaf) (2:26)
  3. WABASH BLUES (Ringle / Meinken) (2:01)
  4. THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES (guitar duet w/Chet Atkins) (Henderson / DeSylva / Brown) (1:53)
  5. IN AN OLD DUTCH GARDEN (By An Old Dutch Mill) (Grosz / Gordon) (2:17)
  6. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY(guitar duet w/Chet Atkins) (Homer / Brown / Green) (2:25)
  7. OVER THE WAVES (guitar duet w/Chet Atkins) (Rosas) (2:00)
  8. PUT ON YOUR OLD GREY BONNET (guitar duet w/Chet Atkins) (Weinrich / Murphy) (1:27)
  9. SAN ANTONIO ROSE (Bob Wills) (2:36)
10. I WAS SORTA WONDERIN' (Mullican / Ward / Keams) (1:45)
11. WHEN YOU & I WERE YOUNG, MAGGIE (guitar duet w/Chet Atkins) (Butterfield / Johnson) (1:22)
12. THE RHUMBA BOOGIE * (H.Snow) (2:49)
13. CARIBBEAN * (Torok) (2:36)
14. ANNIVERSARY BLUE YODEL (Blue Yodel, No. 7) * (Rodgers / McWilliams) (3:24)
15. BLUE ROSE OF THE RIO * (R & R Keefer) (2:43)
16. AMONG MY SOUVENIRS * (Nicholls / Leslie) (2:51)
17. MUSIC MAKIN' MAMMA FROM MEMPHIS * (H.Snow) (2:27)
18. CONFUES WITH THE BLUES * (H.Snow) (2:57)
19. GOLDEN RIVER * (Hamblen) (2:40)
20. DO RIGHT DADDY BLUES * (Autry) (1:44)
21. I ALMOST LOST MY MIND * (Hunter) (3:06)
22. TANGLED MIND * (Daffan / Shoss) (2:29)
23. LOOSE TALK * (Lucas / Hart) (1:57)
24. THAT HEART BELONGS TO ME * (Pierce) (3:24)
25. TEXAS PLAINS * (Hamblen) (2:16)
26. BEAUMONT RIDE (James / Conniff) (1:45)

  * Hank Snow: vocals

Total timing: 71:23

Label/No: Jasmine Records 3556 (UK import)

Release date: 2003 reissue