Nice collection of rare hillbilly honky tonk from the golden age. Undoubted highlight for me is the first track Wine-o-Boogie by Bill Nettles (Starday 1954), the utterly charming tale of an alcoholic street-drinker who gets arrested. The judge sends him to the drunk tank, with all the other winos, to sober up. Lyric that will never be beat: "we had an empty bottle and pretended it was full...."Nettles' delivery is fantastic - he actually sounds like he's had a few and there's a melancholy yearning on the song that every drinker will recognise. A fatalistic resignation. Gumbo-Mumbo is the original b-side (last track side 2). There's loads of other great and rare early proto-rockabilly songs on this record - and they only made 1500. Never to be reissued.