'Punk' Label To Release New Porter Wagoner Album
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Track:Committed To Parkview
Epitaph Records' hip Anti- label will release a new album from country star Porter Wagoner on June 5. The new album is titled Wagonmaster.
Wagoner, who introduced Dolly Parton to the world, as photographed by Marty Stuart.Wagoner, a country singer/songwriter who has scored 81 country hits, joins Merle Haggard, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mavis Staples and Solomon Burke on the label that also releases albums by Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Jolie Holland.The new album was produced by country singer/songwriter Marty Stuart.According to Anti Records: "Presented and paced like a stage show, the album spins through tales of extreme mental anguish ("Be a Little Quieter"), blind romantic ardor ("Who Knows Right from Wrong"), back-hills hard times ("Eleven Cent Cotton"), powerfully delivered spiritual messages ("A Place to Hang My Hat," "Satan's River") and, with the strikingly offbeat "Albert Erving" and a fine version of the Wagoner-Dolly Parton collaboration "My Many Hurried Southern Trips," some sharply etched, rich glimpses of everyday life."Wagoner's 81 country hits include “Misery Loves Company” (#1, 1962), “I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand” (#7, 1962–1963), “Sorrow on the Rocks” (#5, 1964), “Green, Green Grass of Home” (#4, 1965), “Skid Row Joe” (#3, 1965–1966), “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (#2, 1967), and “The Carroll County Accident” (#2, 1968–1969). Among his hit duets with Dolly Parton were a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" (1967), "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (1968), and "Better Move it on Home" (1970). He introduced Dolly Parton to the world on his television show, "The Porter Wagoner Show," which ran from 1960 to 1979.Wagonmaster features a song, "Committed to Parkview," Johnny Cash wrote for Wagoner that was 'lost' for 25 years. "It stayed lost for quite a few years," agoner told Billboard. "Marty said, 'I'll do my best to find it,' and I said, 'You better find it, or you're in deep trouble.' His secretary told me he turned the office completely upside down two or three times, and he finally found it."“In 1981, I was on tour with Cash in Europe,” producer Stuart is quoted as saying on the Anti- website, “and I had a Porter tape and played it for Cash, and he and I got into a Porter listening marathon. And Cash said, ‘I got a song for Porter, called ‘Committed to Parkview,’ - because they had both been guests there - and he gave me an envelope with a cassette in it to take to him. Well, we got home and I forgot all about it, but when we were choosing material for this album, I remembered and finally found it.”For more:Anti-:http://www.anti.com/artist.php?id=42Billboard:http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003582448
Wagoner, who introduced Dolly Parton to the world, as photographed by Marty Stuart.Wagoner, a country singer/songwriter who has scored 81 country hits, joins Merle Haggard, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mavis Staples and Solomon Burke on the label that also releases albums by Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Jolie Holland.The new album was produced by country singer/songwriter Marty Stuart.According to Anti Records: "Presented and paced like a stage show, the album spins through tales of extreme mental anguish ("Be a Little Quieter"), blind romantic ardor ("Who Knows Right from Wrong"), back-hills hard times ("Eleven Cent Cotton"), powerfully delivered spiritual messages ("A Place to Hang My Hat," "Satan's River") and, with the strikingly offbeat "Albert Erving" and a fine version of the Wagoner-Dolly Parton collaboration "My Many Hurried Southern Trips," some sharply etched, rich glimpses of everyday life."Wagoner's 81 country hits include “Misery Loves Company” (#1, 1962), “I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand” (#7, 1962–1963), “Sorrow on the Rocks” (#5, 1964), “Green, Green Grass of Home” (#4, 1965), “Skid Row Joe” (#3, 1965–1966), “The Cold Hard Facts of Life” (#2, 1967), and “The Carroll County Accident” (#2, 1968–1969). Among his hit duets with Dolly Parton were a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" (1967), "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (1968), and "Better Move it on Home" (1970). He introduced Dolly Parton to the world on his television show, "The Porter Wagoner Show," which ran from 1960 to 1979.Wagonmaster features a song, "Committed to Parkview," Johnny Cash wrote for Wagoner that was 'lost' for 25 years. "It stayed lost for quite a few years," agoner told Billboard. "Marty said, 'I'll do my best to find it,' and I said, 'You better find it, or you're in deep trouble.' His secretary told me he turned the office completely upside down two or three times, and he finally found it."“In 1981, I was on tour with Cash in Europe,” producer Stuart is quoted as saying on the Anti- website, “and I had a Porter tape and played it for Cash, and he and I got into a Porter listening marathon. And Cash said, ‘I got a song for Porter, called ‘Committed to Parkview,’ - because they had both been guests there - and he gave me an envelope with a cassette in it to take to him. Well, we got home and I forgot all about it, but when we were choosing material for this album, I remembered and finally found it.”For more:Anti-:http://www.anti.com/artist.php?id=42Billboard:http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003582448
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