Long overdue reissue of a classic country star
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 10/02/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Jean Shepard
"Beautiful Lies - The Early Years"
(Jasmine Records, 2009)
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Wow, how amazing -- and appalling -- that almost all of Jean Shepard's work from the 1950s and '60s is out of print again. Shepard was, in my opinion, perhaps the best female country singer of the 'Fifties, and yet her songs have been so hard to find for so many years. This single-disc set includes all the material from Shepard's 1956 debut album "Songs Of A Love Affair," along with some of her best-known hits, such as "Satisfied Mind" and "Beautiful Lies." It's all great stuff -- kudos to the Jasmine label for bringing at least a fraction of her work back for folks to listen to... Snap it up! (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue Country Music Guide)"