{"id":1494,"date":"2015-01-04T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bear-family.de\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2015-01-04T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:14:51","slug":"sad-news-from-nashville-little-jimmy-dickens-died-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bear-family.de\/bear-family-records-blog\/2015\/01\/04\/sad-news-from-nashville-little-jimmy-dickens-died-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad news from Nashville… Little Jimmy Dickens died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words by Tracy Pitcox (A Little Jimmy Dickens Fan)
\n„Little Jimmy Dickens passed away January 2, 2015 at the age of 94.\u2028\u2028 Jimmy worked a lot of shows with us throughout the last several years.\u00a0 He would come to Texas and spend a weekend each year even after he „officially quit touring“ and it was some of my favorite times.\u00a0 I would take the entire weekend off just so I could spend it all with him.\u00a0 Picking him up and enjoying pizza and a little wine for dinner (even though I didn’t like wine, but how do you turn down Jimmy), doing the radio show, visiting with fans at the Heart of Texas Country Music Museum and then seeing him getting standing ovation after standing ovation during his shows for us.
\nAs many know, in the music business we deal primarily in cash.\u00a0 Artists have gotten the raw end of many promoters and club owners throughout the years.
\nThe first time Jimmy worked with us, I picked he and his road manager Robbie Wittkowski up at the Austin airport.\u00a0 As soon as Jimmy got in the front seat of my pickup, I handed him an envelope with $5,000 cash in it for his performances.\u00a0 He put it in his jacket.\u00a0 We stopped at a convenience store near Spicewood heading towards Brady.\u00a0 After dinner and visiting, we retired for the night.\u00a0 About eleven that night, Robbie called me and said that Jimmy could not find his envelope and he thought that it must have fallen out when we were at the convenience store.\u00a0 My heart sank.\u00a0 Robbie told me that Jimmy said to „tell Tracy not to worry because it was my fault and I am doing the shows for him and to not be concerned.“
\nOf course, I was very concerned and immediately went to my pickup.\u00a0 I search all over and as I was about to close the door, looked at the inside pocket.\u00a0 Laying there was a white Heart of Texas Records envelope that I had given to him earlier that day.\u00a0 All of the money was still inside of course and I was delighted.\u00a0 I took it straight to Jimmy and Robbie and they were both thrilled.\u00a0 Jimmy told me that I could have easily kept the money and he would have never known.\u00a0 He said, „From now on, any time that I work for you I would appreciate it if you would just give me one of your personal checks.“\u00a0 I did from then on.\u00a0 Every time.
\nHe was such a gracious host anytime that I was in Nashville and always made you feel like you were important and somebody.
\nI saw him last on September 6, and will never forget that visit.\u00a0 We laughed and visited and I thanked him for coming to Texas all of those times and he told me that he was ready to come back.\u00a0 I know that he was.\u00a0 Jimmy Dickens may have been little in size, but his talent was enormous.
\nYou Won’t Be Forgotten, Tater.“
\nLittle Jimmy Dickens has been a mainstay of the Nashville music scene since 1949 and he\u2019s was one of the last real country artists who grew up back in the hills and started off singing pure mountain music.
\nWhen Little Jimmy Dickens came to Nashville, he signed with Columbia, and this set gathers his complete Columbia recordings from 1949-1957. Jimmy not only recorded superb uptempo novelties like Take An Old Cold ‚Tater And Wait, Country Boy, I\u2019ve Got A Rocket In My Pocket, Hillbilly Fever, A-Sleepin\u2019 At The Foot Of The Bed and Out Behind The Barn, but he was also one of the great ballad singers of our time, recording enduring and heartfelt ballads like My Heart\u2019s Bouquet and the original version of such country standards as Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go, Life Turned Her That Way, We Could and Another Bridge To Burn. Little Jimmy Dickens\u00a0also hired some great pickers including Jabbo Arrington, Spider Wilson, Grady Martin, and Thumbs Carlille.The 104 tracks on this collection begin to set the record straight on Little Jimmy Dickens! (This BoxSet is sold out)
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\nContinuing from our first Little Jimmy Dickens box, this set includes all of his Columbia recordings from 1957 to 1966. Altogether, there are 95 songs on 4 CDs, including the complete contents of rare Fifties and Sixties albums like \u2018Big Songs\u2019, \u2018Handle With Care, \u2018Big Man In Country Music\u2019, and \u2018Out Behind The Barn‘. There are also Dickens classics and longtime crowd-pleasers like I Got A Hole In My Pocket, Another Bridge To Burn, When The Ship Hit The Sand, Life Turned Her That Way, and When Your House Is Not A Home. The years from 1957 to 1966 also yielded spirited remakes of earlier hits like We Could and Out Behind The Barn, as well as the international pop and country smash hit May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose. The 44-page book includes many incredible photos from Jimmy\u2019s personal albums as well as his song-by-song recollections and a full, newly-researched biography by WSM announcer Eddie Stubbs. (few boxsets left)
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\nThis set includes all of Little Jimmy Dickens\u00a0fabulous uptempo recordings from the 1950s, including his cover version of Piano Red\u2019s Rockin\u2019 With Red, and classics like Hillbilly Fever, I Got A Hole In My Pocket, Hey Worm (You Wanna Wiggle) and Salty Boogie. You\u2019ll also hear Little Jimmy Dickens\u00a0hot band on numbers like Buddy\u2019s Boogie, Country Boy Bounce, and Raisin\u2019 The Dickens.
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