Jeannie C. Riley - On The Honky Tonk Highway With: Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil (CD)

Release Date: 03/04/221-CD (Digipak) with 48-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 75 min.The first in Bear Family Records'® new series of hard-hitting country music from artists who travelled the Honky Tonk Highway in the 1960s and '70s.This CD displays the full range of the astonishing recordings Jeannie C. Riley made for Plantation Records between 1968 and 1971, a time when her songs told the truth and shamed the devil.Jeannie had 24 country hits and 6 pop hits, including her international smash Harper Valley P.T. A. - the only song by a female country singer to top both the country and pop charts until Dolly Parton went pop 13 years later. She also had 9 charted albums.Jeannie was an excellent singer, the real deal, whose authentic Texas honky tonk twang came together with an ability to put across a song to wider audience.Standout songs from the finest country writers include Tell The Truth, The Girl Most Likely, The Back Side Of Dallas, Oh Singer, Country Girl, Rose