Jimmie Skinner - Doin' My Time
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Jimmie SkinnerEdition: Music CD Format: Box set, Import CD Release Date: 2003-11-28 Music Label: Bear Family Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Free Music Notes for Doin' My TimeFree Music Review: Jimmie Skinner reissue long overdue
Jimmie Skinner sang country when country definitely wasn't cool. His gravely voice and sidekick Ray Lunsford's electric mandolin were unique. His style was similar to that of Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Tubb and Johnny Cash resembled him in some ways. Skinner's song-writing talents were superb. Skinner was never a superstar, but he left a body of music from country's golden years that deserves preservation and reissue. Bear Family Records scores again with "Doin' My Time", titled after Skinner's biggest song. It was a hit for Flatt & Scruggs in the late 40s and Cash made it Skinner's most rewarding royalty maker when he did it on the live Folsom Prison LP. "Doin' My Time" is a beautiful boxed set that includes six CDs and a wonderful 12" by 12" book in color. The text and photos are great and there is a discography. Five CDs include Skinner's Red Barn, Radio Artists, Capitol, Decca and Mercury releases along with some acetates preserved by the singer's family and a few bluegrass songs made for mail order sales. The sixth CD is a real treat where Skinner taped his unfinished autobiography. This set took me back 50 years to when I listened as a teenager to his songs nightly on WCKY in Cincinnati, a 50,000 watt station that reached much of the country with its Jamboree. Nearly a quarter century has passed since Skinner's death. Bear Family deserves thanks for taking us back to the life of this wonderful singer.
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