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Lefty Frizzell: An Article From Life - The Complete Recordings

by C. Michael Bailey
January 26, 2019

Lefty Frizzell An Article From Life -The Complete Recordings Bear Family Records 2018 Obsession is a great motivator and perhaps the greatest form of appreciation. However, that may be no more than making a virtue out of necessity. The German label, Bear Family Records has made a career of being obsessed in providing a complete accounting of American Music. Previous to this 20-CD box set, An Article From Life -The Complete Recordings was the ...

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Lefty Frizzell: An Article from Life

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by Jakob Baekgaard
November 9, 2018

To a singer of popular music, one song can make the difference. For country singer/songwriter Lefty Frizzell that song was “If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time." The song was recorded on Frizzell's first session for Columbia Records on July 25, 1950, and was the second of four songs recorded that day, the other three were “I Love You A Thousand Ways," “Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)" and “Cold Feet." They were all Frizzell classics, but “If You've ...