The Singing Ranger Review

07/13/2005 7:44 AM, AMG


Not to be confused with the Bear Family multi-disc set of the same name, this Singing Ranger disc is a handy 12-song collection of Snow material from Snow's early period (1949-53) on RCA-Victor, of which only one appeared on the out-of-print RCA best-of disc. The material includes fast-paced romantic numbers ("Honeymoon on a Rocket Ship"), bluesy numbers ("Mississippi River Blues"), sentimental ballads ("The Engineer's Child," "I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late"), and obligatory train songs ("Ben Dewberry's Final Run," which sounds a lot like the blues standard "Casey Jones," with the steel guitar mimicking a train whistle). There are no notes or any other information, and some of the sources betray surface noise, but most of this sounds pretty good. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide