Hank Snow - Snow South Of The Border

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• Condition New
• Type CD
• Vendor Bear Family Records
• SKU 4000127164308
• Artisti Hank Snow
• Lyhyt kuvaus One of country music's most versatile stylists, Hank Snow was as adapt as Latin American rhythms as he was playing straightforward country music. The Rhumba Boogie clung to 'Billboard's' country chart for six months in 1951, two of them at #1. When the calypso craze swept the country in 1956, Snow effortlessly adapted Jamaican rhythms into his own style. Not surprisingly, one of Snow's biggest-selling albums was 'Spanish Fire Ball,' a 1967 collection of Latin-flavored material. It revisited several numbers Snow recorded earlier along with mostly familiar standards like Nuevo Laredo and Maria Elena. This collection features the best tracks from that album along with memorable recordings from every stage of Snow's lengthy career. Besides two versions of his classic The Rhumba Boogie, it includes Rose Of The Rio from Snow's early Canadian years and hit versions of Spanish Fire Ball and When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon. As a bonus, this album includes many of Snow's distinctive acoustic guitar instrumentals, including several duets with Chet Atkins. Quality and creativity – for more than thirty years these basic principles established Bear Family products as something unique and esteemed throughout the world. But what you hear is only part of the complete equasion. Bear Family devotes just as much detail to the graphics. For more than three decades lavishly illustrated books have accompanied our compact disc boxed sets. Today, even our smaller-sized CD releases receive the same eye-catching designs as their larger counterparts. That's why we're honored to be associated with Reinhard Kleist, a renown German artist whose multifaceted creations are celebrated across international circles. Born near Cologne, Kleist graduated from Münster's College Of Higher Education For Graphic And Design. Since moving to Berlin in 1996, he has primarily worked out of his Prenzlauer Berg studio with extended time off for residencies in New York and Cuba. Long fascinated with the darker sides of America and his home country, Kleist has created thematic works like 'Amerika', and 'The Secrets Of Coney Island'. He also worked on 'Narbenstadt ('City Of Scars') – Berlinoir' (a trilogy). Critics and gothic lit fans raved over his optical transfers of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories, 'Das Grauen im Gemäuer' ('The Ruin's Horror'). Kleist also created imaginative graphic novels around popular music icons. His comic biography, 'Elvis,' is a genre highlight. His fascinating 'Cash – I See A Darkness' received three prestigious awards: the Münchner Comic Preis (Munich Comic Award), the Preis der Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfort Book Fair award) and the Max-und-Moritz Preis (Max-and-Moritz Award). This exceptional artist has done distinctive cover designs and illustrations for several recent Bear Family CDs, including a Christmas album by country legend Hank Snow; the 'Deep Roots Album' with originals of Johnny Cash songs; 'Shit Happens', a 'bad luck' anthology of ironic songs; and 'Ein Herz aus Stein', the first collection of Rolling Stones covers sung in German. Kleist also designed the cover for Bear Family's boxed set of the famous German political comedy group 'Die Stachelschweine' ('The Porcupines'). And now Kleist has designed striking graphics for four new thematic Hank Snow compilations covering railroads,life on the Western Plains, the enchanting Hawaiian Islands and those exotic locales south of the American border.
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