Songs of Cindy Walker

Songs of Cindy Walker

Songs of Cindy Walker
Songs of Cindy Walker

Enduring and prolific…country and pop songwriter Cindy Walker’s name is not as familiar to many but her music certainly is. She wrote early western-flavored pop and country swing pieces for performers like Bing Crosby and Bob Wills, composing hits for Hank Snow, Gene Autry, Al Dexter, Eddy Arnold, and others…almost owning the country charts in the 1940s. Her music endured well into the sixties and seventies, covered by Roy Orbison, Ray Charles, and dozens more. Her custom was to rise early and write songs, typing her lyrics on a pink-trimmed manual Royal typewriter while her mother, Oree Walker, would work out the melodies to her daughter’s words. They would station themselves in Nashville five months out of the year to help market the music, returning home to Mexia, Texas where Cindy would live out her life. Join us on a special run of Americana: the songs of Cindy Walker.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch Sugar Moon It's A Good Day Amazon
3Willie Nelson Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
4Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Dusty Skies Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden) Amazon
5Bob Wills Cherokee Maiden Columbia Historic Edition Amazon
6Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Blue Bonnet Lane Legends of Country Music Disc 4 Amazon
7Eddy Arnold Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me The Essential Eddy Arnold Amazon
8George Morgan In the Misty Moonlight Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection Amazon
9Dean Martin In The Misty Moonlight The Great Dean Martin Amazon
10Tennessee Ernie Ford Blue Canadian Rockies Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2] Amazon
11Jim Reeves Distant Drums Essential Jim Reeves Amazon
12Ray Charles You Don't Know Me Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3 Amazon
13Gene Autry Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs) Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1] Amazon
14Gene Autry I Was Just Walking Out the Door Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3] Amazon
15Ernest Tubb Two Glasses Joe Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection Amazon
16The Del McCoury Band The Bluegrass Country Del And The Boys Amazon
17The Byrds Blue Canadian Rockies Sweetheart of the Rodeo Amazon
18Merle Haggard Goin' Away Party Unforgettable Amazon
19Ricky Skaggs I Don't Care The Essential Ricky Skaggs Amazon
20Roy Orbison Shahdaroba The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
21Roy Orbison Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument] Amazon
22Willie Nelson Not That I Care You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
23k.d. lang Sugar Moon Shadowland Amazon
24Les Paul Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered) 100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered) Amazon
25Bob Wills Miss Molly For the Last Time Amazon
26Asleep at the Wheel It's All Your Fault (with Katie Shore) Still the King: A Celebration of the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Amazon
27Solitaire Miles I Hear You Talkin' Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
28Solitaire Miles Me & the Man In the Moon Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas Amazon
29Hank Thompson Triflin' Gal Seven Decades Amazon
30Willie Nelson Dusty Skies You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Amazon
31Merle Haggard Cherokee Maiden Capitol Collector's Series Amazon