That'll Flat Git It! Vol. 22: Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Columbia Records

That'll Flat Git It! Vol. 22: Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Columbia Records Review

CD with 40-page booklet. Back in 1992, we decided that Rockabilly sounded good on CD, so we had the idea that we should create the all-time definitive Rockabilly series. Above all, Rockabilly was music recorded for 45RPM singles, so we designed a Rockabilly series label-by-label instead of artist-by-artist, and we compiled it for listening pleasure. Just the great stuff, plus a few super rarities. Every CD would be for the most part a 30 song jukebox of the finest Rockabilly ever recorded for all the great labels. We sourced the very best sounding tapes and took them to the best mastering engineers, and then we took the packaging to a new level. We adopted the catchphrase of the first Rockabilly dee-jay, Dewey Phillips, THAT'LL FLAT GIT IT, and we hired Bill Millar, who'd compiled the still-classic label-oriented Rockabilly LPs in the 1970s and 1980s, to write the notes. We looked for previously unpublished photos, and tried to find all the artists who'd never been found before. The result is a truly definitive series that now runs to over TWENTY-FIVE volumes.

It was inevitable that Bear Family's definitive rockabilly series would turn its attention to Columbia Records before it ended (there will eventually be four volumes devoted to the Columbia). With a strong presence in Nashville and Dallas, Columbia was a label of untold rockabilly riches -- some documented on other CDs, and some revealed here for the first time on Bear Family. This 30 track CD features Ronnie Self, The Collins Kids, Johnny Horton, Little Jimmy Dickens, Sid King, Cliff Johnson, Jimmy Murphy, Marty Robbins, Bobby Lord, Freddie Hart, Onie Wheeler and others. This CD was newly transferred and remastered for incredible sound, and the booklet is full to the brim with detailed notes based on first-person accounts and previously unpublished photos.