Billy Walker - Whirlpool: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)

1-CD Digipak (4-page) mit 36-page booklet, 30 tracks, total playing time approx. 68:46 minutes-Billy Walker's career spanned a period of almost sixty years!-Already as a teenager he became a member of the legendary Big D Jamboree in Dallas.-In 1949 the Texan signed his first record deal with Capitol Records, two years later he landed a contract with Columbia.-From 1952 he belonged to the Louisiana Hayride and scored his first hit in 1954 with Thank You For Calling.-Bear Family's CD album in the popular 'Gonna Shake This Shack' series proves that Walker was much more than just the ballad singer on the Grand Ole Opry.-We present the first fourteen years of his career, from 1949 to 1962.-Stylistically, the spectrum ranges from Texas honky-tonk, fast shuffles and Tex-Mex-style songs to rockabilly and up-beat pop.-The CD is rounded off by his early Nashville recordings, including his only number one hit, Charlie's Shoes from 1962.-Liner notes by Dave Samuelson in the extensively illustrated