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Listen to a Skeets McDonald honky tonk medley
Skeets McDonald has been featured on our website before, but today we present a special treat. A new feature puts the spotlight on Skeets McDonald. You can learn more about him, buy his music, and hear a medley of his greatest honky tonk songs.
If I remember correctly the majority of the songs in our Skeets McDonald medley are from 1962 and 1963, give or take a little. As country music changed a little from the mid-fifties through the early sixties many artists adjusted.
Ray Price brought drums to the Grand Ole Opry, while steel guitar by Dickey Overbey and the legendary Ralph Mooney made the music ring. Many musicians became students of Ray Price. They saw what worked and watched some of the newcomers like Buck Owens.
Ray Price sang harmony on Skeets McDonald’s “Same Old Town,” cut on one of the first Columbia sessions.
Hear the Skeets McDonald medley here, and then decide. (Opens in a new window)
Readers who want to buy all of his songs on one 5-disc CD set can visit Artist Direct for more previews, or just follow the links from our Spotlight page.
Our Skeets McDonald Medley previews these songs:
• He’ll Let You Live a Little
• You’re Not Wicked, You’re Just Weak
• Same Old Town
• What a Fool I Was
• I Write You Letters
• Fast Company
• Call Me Mr. Brown
• Me and My Heart and My Shoes
• Big Chief Buffalo Nickel (Desert Blues)
• Molly Brown
• Day Sleeper
• She’s Never Gone That Route Before
• Mabel
• There Sits an Angel
• This Old Broken Heart (just bummin around)
• Gotta Get You from That Crowd
The Bear Family CD set has 143 tracks. It was first released on November 25, 1998.
I also found a Youtube video of Skeets McDonald singing “Call Me Mr. Brown”, a song from 1963 that went in to the top-ten:
Related posts:
- Nominees for Greatest Honky Tonk Songs Volume 1
- Happy Honky Tonk Christmas from The Country Classics
- Shirley Bates featured CD titled “New Walls”
- Discover Landon Dodd and The Dancehall Drifters
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