Essential Country & Western

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

  Frankie Laine
  2:19
• 2
  Big Iron

  Marty Robbins
  3:57
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Five Feet Hight and Rising

  Johnny Cash
  1:46
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Tennessee Stud

  Eddy Arnold
  3:07
• 5
  Ghost Riders in the Sky

  Gene Autry
  3:17
• 6
  Oh, Lonesome Me

  Don Gibson
  2:32
• 7
  North Wind

  Slim Whitman
  2:48
• 8
  Under Your Spell Again

  Buck Owens
  2:42
• 9
  When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)

  Johnny Horton
  2:37
• 10
  The Long Black Veil

  Lefty Frizzell
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Heartaches by the Number

  Ray Price
  2:58
• 12
  Cabon on the Hill

  Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
  2:31
• 13
  Ten Thousand Drums

  Carl Smith
  2:28
• 14
  Rock Island Line

  Lonnie Donegan
  2:28
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young

  Faron Young
  2:18
  4.0 ★
• 16
  He'll Have to Go

  Jim Reeves
  2:20
  4.4 ★
• 17
  Seasons of My Heart

  George Jones
  2:10
• 18
  Walkin' After Midnight

  Patsy Cline
  2:35
• 19
  Sixteen Tons

  Merle Travis
  2:50
• 20
  Running Gun

  Marty Robbins
  2:12
• 21
  Big Midnight Special

  Stoney & Wilma Lee Cooper
  2:43
• 22
  Nine Pound Hammer

  Tennessee Ernie Ford
  2:03
• 23
  I'm Monvin' On

  Hank Snow
  2:48
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Don't Take Your Guns to Town

  Johnny Cash
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 25
  The Dying Cowboy

  Cisco Houston
  3:01
• CD 2
• 1
  Tom Dooley

  The Kingston Trio
  3:05
• 2
  The Battle of New Orleans

  Johnny Horton
  2:32
  4.8 ★
• 3
  The 3:10 to Yuma

  Frankie Laine
  2:26
• 4
  I Got Stripes

  Johnny Cash
  2:04
• 5
  El Paso

  Marty Robbins
  4:21
• 6
  Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

  Jimmie Rodgers
  2:20
• 7
  Amigo's Guitar

  Kitty Wells
  2:40
• 8
  Sam Hall

  Tex Ritter
  2:49
• 9
  Don't Tell Me Your Troubles

  Don Gibson
  2:16
• 10
  Gotta Travel On

  Billy Grammer
  2:31
• 11
  Dark as the Dungeon

  Tennessee Ernie Ford
  2:49
• 12
  The Auctionneer

  Leory Van Dyke
  2:53
• 13
  Man With the Blues

  Willie Nelson
  2:06
• 14
  I Ain't Never

  Webb Pierce
  1:55
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Come Walk With Me

  Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper
  2:24
• 16
  Kaw-Liga

  Hank Williams
  2:33
• 17
  Why Baby Why

  Red Sovine & Webb Pierce
  2:32
• 18
  Chasin' a Rainbow

  Hank Snow
  2:18
• 19
  Blackband Farmer

  Frankie Miller
  2:33
• 20
  Billy the Kid

  Marty Robbins
  2:20
• 21
  Set Him Free

  Skeeter Davis
  2:16
• 22
  Rawhide

  Frankie Laine
  2:02
  4.0 ★
• 23
  The Killer

  Cisco Houston
  4:40
• 24
  Death at the Bar

  Kitty Wells
  2:59
• 25
  Mary of the Wild Moor

  The Louvin Brothers
  3:13

Release credits

• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [24]
• Chet Atkins
  producer [16]
• Don Law
  producer [2.2, 1.2-3, 1.24]
• Ernie Newton
  double bass [23]
• Frankie Laine
  vocal [22]
• Hank Snow
  guitar [23], vocal [23]
• Jack Shook
  guitar [23]
• Jim Reeves
  vocal [16]
• Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [22]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [24], guitar [3], lead vocals [3], vocal [24]
• Joseph Talbot III
  steel guitar [23]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [3, 24]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [3, 24]
• Tommy Vaden
  fiddle [23]

Issues