The Maddox Brothers and Rose – Vol. 1; America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band, Their Original Recordings 1946-1951 is a re-issue of recordings by Maddox Brothers and Rose during the years 1946 through 1951.
Track listing "George's Playhouse Boogie" – 2:45 "Midnight Train" – 3:05 "Shimmy Shakin' Daddy" – 2:11 "Careless Driver" – 2:49 "Move It On Over" (Hank Williams) – 2:46 "Whoa Sailor" (Hank Thompson) – 2:36 "Milk Cow Blues" (Kokomo Arnold) – 3:10 "Mean and Wicked Boogie" – 2:39 "Brown Eyes" (A.P. Carter) – 2:58 "Honky Tonkin'" (Hank Williams) – 2:27 "Time Nor Tide" – 3:02 "New Mule Skinner Blues"† (George Vaughn, Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:10 "Philadelphia Lawyer" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:15 "Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down" – 2:18 "When I Lay My Burden Down" – 2:16 "Hangover Blues" – 2:37 "Water Baby Boogie" – 2:09 "Dark as a Dungeon" – 2:23 "Mule Train" – 2:56 "Oklahoma Sweetheart Sally Ann" – 2:15 "Faded Love" – 2:41 "New Step It Up and Go" – 2:28 "(Pay Me) Alimony" – 2:12 "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" – 2:13 "Your Love Light Never Shone" – 2:02 "Meanest Man in Town" – 2:33 "I Want to Live and Love" – 2:05 † Track 12 is actually "I Want to Live and Love", although a different version than track 27.
Personnel Rose Maddox - vocals Gene Breeden, Jimmy Winkle, Ray Nichols - lead guitar Henry Maddox - mandolin, lead guitar (after 1949) Cal Maddox - rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals Fred Maddox - bass Don Maddox - fiddle Cliff Maddox - mandolin (until 1949) Bud Maddox - steel guitar Fred Maddox - lead vocals on "Mean and Wicked Boogie" and "Gonna Lay My Burden Down"
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