5-Disc, 154-Track Tennessee Ernie Ford Box Set Coming September 25
A box set entitled Tennessee Ernie Ford: Portrait of an American Singer (1949-1960) is set for a September 25 release via Bear Family Records.
The 5-disc, 154-track set covers the key secular recordings Ford made in the first dozen years of his career.
The deluxe 12x12x1.5-inch box set also contains a 124-page hardcover book with newly written essays, track-by-track album notes, a discography, label scans, and many rare photographs and illustrations.
The book was authored by three-time Grammy Award-nominated music historian Ted Olson, Ph.D., from the department of Appalachian Studies/Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University. Olson also produced the set.
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.