0:00 Ring of Fire 2:28 Tennessee Stud 5:42 Heartaches by the Number 8:20 Tiger By the Tail 10:22 Crazy Arms 13:15 You’ve Done Me Wrong 14:58 All of Me Belongs to You 17:17 Oklahoma Hills 19:56 Tonight I’m Singing Just for You 23:15 Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife 26:01 Six Days On the Road
Always loved this album. Country Joe's understated voice is just perfect for this selection of songs, which for me surpass many of the original versions and arrangements. Superb musicians. Although in this period many rock musicians took to country rock, most of the rock guys lacked the chops, dexterity and subtlety to play country music in a polished way. This is more straight country - just superb. Grady Martin one of my favourite guitar players - his work on Buffy Sainte Marie's equally fantastic Nashville album 'I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again', also recorded around this time is sublime as it is also here.
I found out about this album because of Country Joe's Woody Guthrie album which I just bought. Although I'm not really a "country music" fan, this is fantastic.
My late wife and I played the grooves off this record then got another copy. Still know most of the lyrics to every song. We loved it and I used some lyrics from Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife at her life celebration. She was all of those to me.
Amazon is a mess for out of print and used music. Discogs is your marketplace, the Vanguard/Akarma reissue CD is there used for $11. I remember buying that at Best Buy when it was still current, lol. Love this album.