Personnel: Clarence E. Snow (vocals, guitar); Chet Atkins, Joseph W. Tanner, Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, Jerry G. Kennedy, Jerry Reed Hubbard, Al Chernet (guitar); Joseph Hale III Talbot (acoustic guitar, steel guitar); Eugene "Johnny" Beaudoin, Melvin Gentry (steel guitar); Lillian Hunt, Howard Carpenter, Solie Fott, Brenton Banks (violin); Henry Newton "Tommy" Vaden, Robert Chubby Wise, Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Martin Katahn (viola); Harvey Wolfe (cello); Marvin H. Hughes (piano, organ, vibraphone); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Richard Farrell Morris (marimba); Ralph Gallant, Will Ackerman, Farris Coursey, Buddy Harman (drums).
Liner Note Author: Dave Samuelson.
Recording information: Church At 1001 Lenoir Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10/29/1936-12/10/1969); RCA Studio, New York, NY (10/29/1936-12/10/1969); RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN (10/29/1936-12/10/1969); Victor Studio, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (10/29/1936-12/10/1969).
Photographer: R.A. Andreas.
The Godfather of Country Music in Canada, Hank Snow was known early in his career as "the Yodeling Ranger," and he specialized in not only yodels, … la Jimmie Rodgers, but in songs about traveling, including his self-penned signature song "I'm Movin' On," and like Rodgers, he loved trains and train songs, as well as songs about cowboys and the West, which this fun Bear Family set collects here, making for a kind of Snow-led and sung tour of Texas towns and other iconic and familiar place names of the American West, including tracks recorded from the 1930s through the 1960s. ~ Steve Leggett
