Hillbilly Band From Mars
Little Joe Carson is one of the great lost honky-tonkers, a wildly talented country singer who would have gone very, very far had he not died in a car crash in 1964 at the age of 27. Now, Bear Family's put together a 33-track (!) disc containing every commercial recording Carson released from 1953 to his death a decade later, featuring tracks cut for Mercury, Capitol, D and Liberty, plus a couple of audition sides and an unreleased master. Hits include I Gotta Get Drunk (and Shore Do Dread It); Helpless , and Double Life country collectors are gonna feast on this stuff!