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Little Jimmy Dempsey, “I Walk the Line”

An instrumental version of this classic courtest of Greg G. at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:

“The recordings have been compiled on a two disc (58 track!) collection called Plantation Gold: The Mad Genius Of Shelby Singleton Jr. And Plantation / SSS Records 1967 - 1976.  Shelby Singleton was born in 1931 in the tiny east Texas town of Waskom, about 20 miles from Shreveport, Louisiana.  His ownership of a Shreveport record store gave him the contacts needed to land a job as a promoter for the Mercury label and by the time he was 30, he was a vice-president for Mercury’s subsidiary Smash label.”