Karen Staley

*Weirton, WV

By Praguefrank, Michal Gololobov

SESSIONS  

ca. November 1987 Sound Stage Studio, 10 Music Circle South, Nashville, TN - Karen Staley (Producer: Jimmy Bowen and Karen Staley)
001 MC-24726 OH, LONESOME ME MCA-53247
002 MC-24727 TAKE KE ME BACK TO THE COUNTRY MCA-53247

ca. December 1987 Sound Stage Studio, 10 Music Circle South, Nashville, TN - Karen Staley (Karen Staley [vcl], Billy Joe Walker Jr. [gt], Larry Byrom [gt], Paul Franklin [dobro/steel],  Dave Pomeroy [bass], Steve Turner [drums], Terry McMillan [percussion], Mark O‘ Connor [fiddle/mandolin], Matt Rollings [piano/Hammond B3 organ]. Producer: Tony Brown and Karen Staley)
003 MC-24926 KEEP WALKIN' ON MCA-53470/ MCAD-42112
004 HE THINKS HE'S JAMES DEAN MCAD-42112
005 WILDEST DREAMS MCAD-42112
006 LOOKS LIKE RAIN MCA-53632/MCAD-42112
007 ONLY THE HEART MCAD-42112
Sunmer 1988 Emerald Sound Studio, 1033 16th Ave., Nashville, TN - Karen Staley (Karen Staley [vcl], Pat Flynn [ac gt], Bela Fleck [banjo], Bruce Bouton [dobro/steel], Mike Brignardello [bass], Eddie Bayers [drums], Jonathan Yudkin [fiddle], Matt Rollings [piano].  Producer: Jimmy Bowen and Karen Staley)
008 MC-27161 SO GOOD TO BE IN LOVE MCA-53470/MCAD-42112
009 TUMBLEWEED MCAD-42112
010 GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON MCAD-42112
011 THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF LOVE I NEED TONIGHT MCAD-42112
012 MC-28424* NOW AND THEN MCAD-42112 [ed*:] MCA-53632
ca. December 1990 Digital Recorders, Nashville, TN/ The Music Mill, 1710 Roy Acuff Place, Nashville, TN - Lee Greenwood and Karen Staley (Steve Gibson [gt], Paul Franklin [steel], Michael Rhodes/Bob Wray [bass], Eddie Bayers/Paul Leim [drums], Rob Hajacos [fiddle], Gary Smith [piano], Matt Rollings [piano/synthesizer], David Innis/Mike Lawler [synthesizers] + Vicki Hampton, Chris Rodriguez, Curtis Young [bck vcl]. Producer: Jerry Crutchfield)
013 84936 I'M NOT MISSIN' ANYTHING Capitol CDP 7-95541-2
Summer 1998 Hound's Ear Studio, Liepers Fork, TN/House Of Blues, Memphis, TN/Midtown T, Nashville, TN/The Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN/Woodland Digital, Nashville, TN - Karen Staley (Anita Cochran [vcl/el gt], Deanna Bryant [vcl], Annie Price [vcl], Earl Whitehill [vcl], Alison Prestwood [vcl], Stephony Smith [vcl], Biff Watson [ac gt],Vince Gill [el gt/bck vcl], Jimmy Olander [el gt], Kenny Greenberg [el gt], Steuart Smith [el gt], Tom Britt [el gt] Pam Gadd [banjo], Shannon Forrest/Chad Cromwell [drums], Eric Darken [percussion], Larry Franklin/Aubrey Haynie [fiddle], Fats Kaplan [accordion], Mike Rojas [piano] + The A-Strings + Neil Thrasher, Patty Loveless, Trace Adkins, Woody Wright, Liana Manis, Melody Crittendon [bck vcl].Producer: Karen Staley, Justin Niebank, Mike D.Clute)
014 FEARLESS Warner 9 47150-2
015 THAT'S THE BAD THING ABOUT A GOOD MEMORY Warner 9 47150-2
016 HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 Warner 9 47150-2
017 SOMEBODY'S CHILD Warner 7-17142/9 47150-2
018 CROSS THE BATTLELINE Warner 9 47150-2
019 CAN'T GET ENUFF Warner 9 47150-2
020 BREAKING ALL THE RULES Warner 7-17142/ 9 47150-2
021 HALF OVER YOU Warner 9 47150-2
022 WICKED WAYS Warner 9 47150-2
023 WITH YOU Warner 9 47150-2
024 GOD IS IN CONTROL Warner 9 47150-2
Karen Staley recorded after 1998, some info in albums list

ALBUMS
MCA MCA/MCAD-42112 Wildest Dreams: So Good To Be In Love; Tumbleweed; Give Me One Good Reason; That's Not The Kind Of Love I Need Tonight; Now And Then; He Thinks He's James Dean; Wildest Dreams; Looks Like Rain; Only The Heart; Keep Walkin' On - 09-01-89
Warner Brothers 9 47150-2 Fearless: Fearless; That's The Bad Thing About A Good Memory; Hindsight Is 20/20; Somebody's Child; Cross The Battleline; Can't Get Enuff; Breaking All The Rules; Half Over You; Wicked Ways; With You; God Is In Control - 17-11-98
Hobo Lizard ? Out Of The Park: The Hits: Keeper of the Stars; On a Night Like This; Half Over You; Take Me As I Am; Let's Go to Vegas; Every Time I Cry; The More I Learn; Just Enuff Rope; A Face in the Crowd; Every Other Memory; Across the Miles; The Devil and Me; Now and Then; You Do or You Don't; Keep Walkin' On - 03
Hobo Lizard ? Phoenix Rising: I'll Leave My Heart in Tennessee; 1 2 3; Don't Quit; Just Me and the Moon; Everytime; I'll Show You; Women and Children First; The Real Me; Party of One; 'Til Your Well Runs Dry; Every Other Memory; 'Cause You Love Me; Where Have You Been All Of My Life; Phoenix; Blind Date - 03
Hobo Lizard ? The Story Of My Life: Love in Any Language; The Truth Will Set You Free; Across the Miles; Temporarily Insane; Run Run (Run); Now and Then; Still a Dog; Make Room for Daddy;What've I Gotta Do; Don't Feel Like Love to Me; No Tears; Now I Can Say Goodbye; When I Was Young; Love To Come My Way; The Story of My Life - 03
Hobo Lizard ? Farther Along: I've Got a Mansion Just Over the Hill Top; Have Thine Own Way, Lord; The Old Rugged Cross; The Solid Rock; Just a Little Talk with Jesus; Softly And Tenderly; In the Sweet By and By; What a Friend We Have in Jesus; In the Garden; Peace in the Valley; Great is Thy Faithfulness; Holy, Holy, Holy; Farther Along; Psalm 46 / A Mighty Fortress; How Great Thou Art - 03
Hobo Lizard ? Me And Mahalia: Walk Over God's Heaven; Come On Children Let's Sing; Satisfied Mind; You Better Get Ready; Keep Walkin' On; Born Again, Again; Peace in the Valley; Keep Your Hand on the Plow; Where Could I Go; The Old Rugged Cross; You Must be Born Again; Jordan; Trouble of the World; God is in Control - 03
Hobo Lizard ? Free To Be: I Believe In Love; Lay It All On The Line;That's Until I See You; Bettin' Against The Stars; One Last Night;Because Of You; One In A Billion Broken Hearts; Be Kind Enough To Be Cruel; I Wish It Were You; Just Say Something; Free To Be; Until I See You; I Believe In Love - 03

SINGLES
MCA (1987-88)
MCA-53247 Oh, Lonesome Me / Take Me Back To The Country - 01-88
MCA-53470 So Good To Be In Love / Keep Walkin' On -12-88
MCA-53632 Now And Then / Looks Like Rain - 04-89
Warner Brothers (1998)
7-17142 Somebody's Child / Breaking All The Rules - 27-10-98

Cousin Emmy

SESSIONS
By Praguefrank
12 April 1946 poss. Chicago, IL – Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolk
001 73514 FREE LITTLE BIRD Decca 24216/ BCD 16853
002 73515 THE BROKEN HEARTED ONE YOU LEFT ALONE 23583/ BCD 16853
003 73516 MILK COW BLUES unissued/ BCD 16853
004 73517 RUBY 23583/ BCD 16853
25 March 1947 Hollywood, CA – Cousin Emmy
005 L 4388 LOST JOHN 24216/ BCD 16853
006 L 4389 LONESOME ROAD BLUES 24215/ BCD 16853
007 L 4390 I WISH I WAS IN BOWLING GREEN 24214/ BCD 16853
26 March 1947 Hollywood, CA – Cousin Emmy
008 L 4391 I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN 24215/BCD 16853
009 L 4392 JOHNNY BOOKER 24214/ BCD 16853
010 L 4393 COME ALL YOU VIRGINIA GALS 24213/ BCD 16853
011 L 4394 FREIGHT TRAIN BLUES unissued/ BCD 16853
012 L 4395 PRETTY LITTLE MISS OUT IN THE GARDEN 24213/ BCD 16853
31 March 1947 Hollywood, CA – Cousin Emmy
013 L 4402 BARNEY, OH BARNEY unissued/ BCD 16853
014 L 4403 CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER unissued/ BCD 16853
24 April 1967 Sound House, El Monte, CA - New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy (John Cohen [gt], Cousin Emmy [banjo], Mike Seeger [mandolin], George Winston [mandolin], Tracy Schwarz [bass]. Producers: Mike Seeger & Peter Bartok)
015 OLD TIM BROOKS Folkways FTS 31015
016 A HOME IN OLD KENTUCKY Folkways FTS 31015
017 I'M GOING 'CROSS THE SEA Folkways FTS 31015
018 PRETTY LITTLE MISS OUT IN THE GARDEN Folkways FTS 31015
019 LITTLE JOE Folkways FTS 31015
020 RUBY, ARE YOU MAD AT YOUR MAN? Folkways FTS 31015
021 DANCE ALL NIGHT WITH A BOTTLE IN YOUR HAND Folkways FTS 31015
022 LOST JOHN Folkways FTS 31015
023 BOWLING GREEN Folkways FTS 31015
024 CAT'S GOT THE MEASLES Folkways FTS 31015
025 MOTHER'S GRAVE Folkways FTS 31015
026 CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER Folkways FTS 31015
027 GRAVEYARD Folkways FTS 31015
028 JOHNNY BOOKER Folkways FTS 31015
029 SCAT TOM KITTY PUSS Folkways FTS 31015
030 SHORTENING BREAD Folkways FTS 31015


ALBUMS
Folkways FTS 31015 New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy: Old Tim Brooks; A Home in Old Kentucky; I'm Going 'Cross the Sea; Pretty Little Miss Out in the Garden; Little Joe; Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man?; Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand; Lost John; Bowling Green; Cat's Got the Measles; Mother's Grave; Chilly Scenes of Winter; Graveyard; Johnny Booker; Scat Tom Kitty Puss; Shortening Bread - 68
Bear Family [GER] BCD-16853 Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolks 1939-1947: I Wish I Was In Bowling Green; Johnny Booker; Come On All You Virginia Gals; Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden; Lonesome Road Blues; I Wish I Was A Single Girl, Again; Chilly Scenes Of Winter; Barney-O-Barney; Lost John; . Ruby; Freight Train Blues; Milk Cow Blues; Broken Hearted; One You Left Behind; Free Little Bird; . Opening Theme: Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane (from Louisville Radio)‘ . Turkey In The Straw (Kinfolk Gang) (from Louisville Radio); Groundhog (from Louisville Radio); Lost John (from Louisville Radio); Mother's Grave (from Louisville Radio); Sowing On The Mountain (from Louisville Radio); Some Of These Days (from Louisville Radio); Ragtime Annie (from Louisville Radio); Closing Theme (from Louisville Radio); Second Show - Opening Theme (from Louisville Radio); Irish Washerwoman (The Shining Fiddlers) (from Louisville Radio); Groundhog (from Louisville Radio); Truck Driver's Blues (Collard Bros.) (from Louisville Radio); Cacklin' Hen (from Louisville Radio); Little Joe (from Louisville Radio); Closing Theme (from Louisville Radio); Third Show - Opening Theme (from Louisville Radio); Arkansas Traveler (from Louisville Radio); Fisher's Hornpipe (from Louisville Radio); Ruby (from Louisville Radio); Wonder Who Will Meet Me There (from Louisville Radio); Closing Theme (from Louisville Radio); Arkansas Traveler (Bonus Track); Sleepy Lou (Bonus Track) - 07-09-07

SINGLES
Decca (1946-47)
23583 The Broken Hearted One You Left Alone / Ruby - 46
24213 Come All You Virginia Gals / Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden - 47
24214 I Wish I Was In Bowling Green / Johnny Booker - 47
24215 Lonesome Road Blues / I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again - 47
24216 Free Little Bird / Lost John - 47
(EPs)
Brunswick [UK] OE 9258: Come On All You Virginina Girls; Pretty Little Missy Out In The Garden / I Wish I Was In Bowling; Green; Johnny Booker - 56
Brunswick [UK] OE 9259 I Wish I Was A Single Girl; Lonesome Road Blues / Free Little Bird; Lost John - 56