FRIZZELL,LEFTY An Article From Life - The Complete Recordings (20-CD Deluxe (CD)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: An Article From Life - The Complete Recordings (20-CD Deluxe Box Set & Book)Condition: NewDescription: EDITORIAL REVIEWS - Newly-researched biography and discography!- Many previously unseen photos from the Frizzell family!- A new designed 264 page hardcover book!- Newly remastered!- Many previously unissued recordings!- Bonus: audio book on 8 CDs with Lefty's life history, written and read by his brother David. This is the cornerstone of every Country music collection! - Colin Escott, May 2018Who was the greatest Country singer of all time? Some might say Merle Haggard, but Merle disagreed. 'There's no way I can describe the effect Lefty Frizzell had,' Merle told us. 'The soul of Hank Williams, the appeal of Johnny Cash and the charisma of Elvis Presley. He had it all. He was dressed all in white - heroes usually are. The impact he had on Country Music, and on me is not even measurable.' George Jones began his career almost as a Lefty tribute act. Much of Willie Nelson's phrasing comes from Lefty Frizzell. When Roy Orbison joined the Traveling Wilburys, it was as Lefty Wilbury. Lefty's songs brought newfound poetry to Country music. Lefty Frizzell's influence is incalculable.A little history. We at Bear Family have always championed Lefty Frizzell. Back in 1984, when Lefty had almost been written out of the Country music story, we issued a comprehensive 14-LP box, 'His Life, His Music,' comprising all his known recordings. It wasn't one of our best-sellers, but it needed to be done because Lefty was that important. Then Merle Haggard's new recordings began shading closer to Lefty, and so did Keith Whitley's records. People began talking about Lefty again. Willie Nelson recorded a tribute album, From Willie to Lefty, and Lefty's younger brother, David, brought the Frizzell name back into the charts. Lefty was finally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. And then the CD era arrived, so in 1992 we reissued our LP box as a 12-CD set, 'Life's Like Poetry,' adding many newly-discovered non-session recordings, and redesigning the book to include many newly-found photos. So now it's more than 25 years after the CD edition. Even more recordings and many more photos have been found together with much more information about Lefty's brief, incendiary life. Now it's time for Bear Family to release the last word on the first name in Country music. This time it's TWENTY CDs, including David Frizzell's audio biography that was not on our original LP box, and many that weren't on the first CD box! The book is now a hardcover and greatly expanded in every way. REVIEW Germany's Bear Family Records continues its incomparably exhaustive work with the upcoming release of a 20-CD set honoring Lefty Frizzell, one of the most influential country musicians of all time. Featuring re-mastered versions of every 45, 78, and LP track from Frizzell s career, along with several previously unissued session recordings, the aptly titled An Article from Life: The Complete Recordings, features a staggering 361 tracks and includes a new 264-page hardcover biography... --Rolling Stone Magazine Bear Family's penchant for behemothic box sets has always been a reissue industry standard. Indeed, even today, with the majors bombarding us with similarly weighty, career-long round-ups (Nazareth, Judie Tzuke and Kate Bush are the latest), the Bear still stands head and shoulders above their efforts. Rock boxes, after all, seem to focus only on past albums as-they-were-released, with a few unreleased bonuses or b-sides to sweeten the load. Bear Family, on the other hand, offer up everything. Every released track, every studio take, every false start... if it's out there, they find it, and rock collectors can only gaze on enviously as their country-loving cousins unwrap... for example, Lefty Frizzell's An Article from Life. It's subtitled ''the complete recordings,'' and you know what? That's an understatement. This is not Bear Family's first excursion into the Frizzell archive. Back in 1992, Life's Like Poetry felt as though it was the very last word in the country legend's story, 330 tracks (across twelve CDs) comprising every studio recording Frizzell cut for Columbia and ABC, and then some. This time around, thirty-one further tracks have been added to the dozen discs, remastering has ironed out some historic imperfections, the accompanying hardback book is 264 pages heavy (its predecessor was just 152), and to add further heft to the project, an additional eight CDs feature a reading of David Frizzell's biography of his oldest brother. In terms of content and appearance alone, then, it's a breathtaking package, but it's when you start playing through the discs that the true value of the box is revealed. Frizzell's music and legacy are both so vast that they do not need to be repeated. But the early discs in particular are utterly astonishing, as he steps all-but fully formed from his very first recordings, the demos he recorded in 1946, and in a world that still awaited the birth of rock'n'roll, Frizzell pursued a musical agenda that could itself have ignited that explosion. It's astonishing, even if you know Frizzell's work, just what a vast impact he made on the music of the era, and on the generations that followed, as well. Arguably, Frizzell blueprinted all that country music would become and while it's true, as the discs wander towards the late sixties and seventies, that the excitement of his early work faded, he's scarcely the only pioneer you can say that about. Besides, his output was scaled back, too. Between 1968 and his death in 1975, Frizzell paid just fifteen visits to the studio, and recorded fewer than fifty songs. At the other end of his career, he recorded almost as many in under three years. But that statistic works to the listener's advantage; it means the bulk of the box set is unfettered brilliance, with a disc-and-a-bit's worth of radio recordings upping the excitement even further. If you own the earlier box, it's up to you whether the added tracks mostly confined to the demos and transcriptions and improved mastering merit another purchase. (Spin Cycle reckons it does.) But if you don't... if your knowledge of Frizzell is the odd greatest hits collection, and maybe an LP or two, this is the most in-depth box set of the year. Dave Thompson Spin Cycle --Goldmine -The Music Collector's Magazine A massive new Lefty Frizzell box set, An Article From Life: The Complete Recordings, is set for release October 19 that will feature 20 CDs of Frizzell s recordings. Likely the most definitive collection of the star's material, the Bear Family Records retrospective delivers a complete assembling of Frizzell's work, including many tracks not on prior Bear Family releases, and provides a fascinating, in-depth look at the country legend's work... --Music RowArtist: FRIZZELL,LEFTYRecord Label: Bear FamilyCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAFormat: CDGenre: CountryNo Of Discs: 20EAN: 5397102175404 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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