Yellow Rose of Texas (box set)

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Yellow Rose of Texas
Yellow Rose of Texas Ernest Tubb.jpg
Box set by
Released1993
RecordedJanuary 1954 – December 1960
Genre Country, Honky tonk
Length386:10
Label Bear Family
Producer Paul Cohen, Owen Bradley
Ernest Tubb chronology
Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello
(1991)
Yellow Rose of Texas
(1993)
Walking the Floor Over You
(1996)

Yellow Rose of Texas is a box set of Ernest Tubb recordings from 1954 to 1960, released in 1993. It is a 5-CD box set and contains 150 songs. The set includes extensive liner notes, session notes and photographs. [1]

Contents

Four songs include The Wilburn Brothers. Members of Tubb's backing and recording bands during these years included such musicians as Floyd Cramer, Grady Martin, Buddy Harman, Hank Garland, Billy Byrd, Dale Potter and Leon Rhodes.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his Allmusic review, Bruce Eder describes Disc Two as "...more consistent in tone and content, mixing blues and midtempo ballads, most of which are compiled here for the very first time, including four priceless cuts pairing Tubb off with the Wilburn Brothers. [1]

Personnel

Production notes:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Eder, Bruce. "Yellow Rose of Texas > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 9, 2011.