Maurice Hope – August 9, 2016 at 12:32PM
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Singer, songwriter and actor Sheb Wooley is best known to many for his role as drunken singer Ben Colder and wealth of recordings (most being parodies of hits of the day), but before that performed and recorded as the former and had some success too.
Heard here in his formative years, many dating back to before his days as Pete Nolan in the popular western series, Rawhide (alongside his life-long friend, Clint Eastwood). The 25-track album offers up his famed hit “Purple People Eater” to go with “That’s My Pa”, and though the music does sound dated there is an inviting charm to the style of the material; maybe it’s the innocence or the fact the stories told are homely, and relatively uncomplicated in comparison to today’s Nashville promoted country music.
Wooley might have played the ‘fool’ as Ben Colder (be sure to check out some of his work as Ben Colder! He even made a record in the late 1970s on Willie Nelson label) but when it came to talent and nous he was far from one. If you are curious to hear what country music sounded like before, around the time some of the later-day legends were just starting as in Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Buck Owens, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings you may well like to give Sheb a spin or two, but be warned the musical style sounds dated.
Maurice Hope
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