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Artist: Noack, Eddie
Title: Ain't The Reaping Ever Done? (1962-1976)
Format: CD
Label: OMNI RECORDING CORP.
Catalog Number:181
Barcode:934334403339 itemnumber=1000118048
Price: $19.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: COUNTRY & WESTERN
Release Date: 5/19/2015
Availability: Not Currently In Stock
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A marginal but respected songwriter in his own lifetime, Eddie Noack has become a Honky-Tonk legend in the decades since his death. Best known today for an obscure 45 he cut in 1968 called ‘Psycho’, Noack was a stellar songwriter and consummate performer who never really got his due. Here, for the first time, are reissued some of Noack’s very rarest recordings - a fine LP (recorded in Nashville 1973) that was only ever issued in the U.K (on a minuscule label) and a multitude of rare ‘60s/‘70s 45 only cuts that are rescued from undeserved obscurity. Many of these cuts are the equal of anything in the Noack canon - dark empathic ballads and wry commentaries on the human condition. ‘A Few Good Funerals’ is a sardonic take on small-town mores, ‘Before You Use That Gun’ a desperate plea for mercy and ‘The Memories Are Restless Tonight’ a chilling elegy from a man at the end of his tether. Though schooled in journalism, Noack devoted his life to country music - he went largely unrewarded but left collectors a large body of stunning work. Equally adept at Honky-Tonk weepers, Gospel odes and grim murder ballads, Eddie Noack was always ‘pure country.’ •Holy Grail of Hard Livin’ Honky-Tonk •Remastered from the original mastertapes 2015 •30 track CD. All original recordings •16 page full colour booklet with exclusive liner notes and rare photos •First ever official reissue for Noack's self titled 1976 LP. From the master tapes •Entire rare original LP and 17 45 only tracks on one CD

Track Listing
 1. 
These Hands

 2. 
Too Hot To Handle

 3. 
Barbara Joy

 4. 
When The Bright Lights Grow Dim

 5. 
Have Blues - Will Travel

 6. 
Flowers For Mama

 7. 
No Blues Is Good News

 8. 
A Day In The Life Of A Fool

 9. 
We’ll Still Be On Our Honeymoon

10. 
If It Ain't On The Menu

11. 
The Poor Chinee

12. 
God’s Eyes

13. 
A Few Good Funerals

14. 
For Better Or For Worse

15. 
Ain’t The Reaping Ever Done?

16. 
Before You Use That Gun

17. 
Raise The Taxes

18. 
One Light On In The Neighborhood

19. 
East Texas

20. 
Snowbird

21. 
When I Get To Nashville

22. 
Christ Is The Only Ark

23. 
Papa’s Hands

24. 
Would We Crucify Jesus Again

25. 
Honeymoon With The Blues

26. 
The Countdown

27. 
Through These Doors

28. 
Mama Stays Home (Papa He Goes)

29. 
Born Yesterday

30. 
The Memories Are Restless Tonight


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