Billy Barksdale: The Music, by Billy Barksdale

Billy Barksdale: The Music

by Billy Barksdale

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1.	Warming Up 01:19		buy track
2.	Please Don't Leave Me Darling 02:04	lyrics	buy track
by Jesse Ashlock
3.	Steve Testing the Microphone Loud 00:27		buy track
4.	White Lightning 02:08	lyrics	buy track
by J.P. Richardson
5.	Instrumental 1 01:53		buy track
6.	(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers 02:51	info	buy track
7.	Adele Testing the Microphone 00:11		buy track
8.	Cause I'm Waiting, My Darling, For You to Call 02:09	info	buy track
9.	Don't Listen Ears 02:01	info	buy track
10.	Everything She Touches 02:29	info	buy track
11.	I've Been Changed By Your Kisses 02:35	info	buy track
12.	Jambalaya on the Bayou 01:38	info	buy track
13.	Instrumental 2 01:37		buy track
14.	Mansion You Stole 02:11	info	buy track
15.	Ready? 01:55		buy track
16.	Please Come Back (and Say You Miss Me, Too) 02:43	info	buy track
17.	Please Don't Break My Heart 02:10	info	buy track
18.	Roly Poly 00:55	info	buy track
19.	Last Night I Wrote a Letter Addressed From You to Me 03:44	info	buy track
20.	Release Me 02:16	info	buy track
21.	Slowly I'm Falling 02:27	lyrics	buy track
by Webb Pierce
22.	Tattle Tale Eyes 02:44	info	buy track
23.	That's What Keeps Me Alive 03:07	info	buy track
24.	Instrumental 2 (Take 2) 01:21		buy track

about

Billy Barksdale was a family man and the hardest worker I've ever heard of: if he wasn't delivering Dr. Peppers all over Northeast Alabama, he was selling encyclopedias door-to-door. In the rest of his spare time, he was playing music in a dance hall, at a radio station, or in a living room. Billy Barksdale, my grandfather, was especially a musician: that's how he came to be in Ira Louvin's band. I describe my grandfather's tragic connection to Ira Louvin in the piece "Billy Barksdale: The History". In "Billy Barksdale: The Music" are recordings of some of his own compositions and other country songs that he performed with many talented musicians who are listed in the credits for that piece.

My grandfather has been included in several history books about The Louvin Brothers. Unfortunately, my grandfather has been misrepresented and some important details about him were either wrong or missing. I hope this project begins to set the record right and does justice to the enduring memories of all who knew and continue to admire the talented Billy Barksdale.

credits

released July 18, 2015

Billy Barksdale, vocals and guitar
Charles Beshears, pedal steel
Johnny Whitley, drums
Billy McMinn, guitar
Joe Stanley, pedal steel
Bobby Stanley, bass
Charles Hilyer, bass

Recordings by Billy Barksdale.
Compiled from the original reel-to-reel tapes by Danny Barksdale.
Most of these recordings we assume were made at home.
"I've Been Changed by Your Kisses" seems to have been a demo tape recorded in a studio, but where exactly has been lost to time. . .

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