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.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Asleep at the Wheel/Leon Rausch	Sugar Moon	It's A Good Day
2	Willie Nelson	Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
3	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Dusty Skies	Take Me Back to Tulsa [Disc 2] (Cherokee Maiden)
4	Bob Wills	Cherokee Maiden	Columbia Historic Edition
5	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Blue Bonnet Lane	Legends of Country Music Disc 4
6	Eddy Arnold	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me	The Essential Eddy Arnold
7	George Morgan	In the Misty Moonlight	Room Full of Roses: The George Morgan Collection
8	Dean Martin	In The Misty Moonlight	The Great Dean Martin
9	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Blue Canadian Rockies	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
10	Jim Reeves	Distant Drums	Essential Jim Reeves
11	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
12	Gene Autry	Silver Spurs (On the Golden Stairs)	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 1]
13	Gene Autry	I Was Just Walking Out the Door	Sing Cowboy Sing [Disc 3]
14	Ernest Tubb	Two Glasses Joe	Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection
15	The Del McCoury Band	The Bluegrass Country	Del And The Boys
16	The Byrds	Blue Canadian Rockies	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
17	Merle Haggard	Goin' Away Party	Unforgettable
18	Ricky Skaggs	I Don't Care	The Essential Ricky Skaggs
19	Roy Orbison	Shahdaroba	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
20	Roy Orbison	Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)	The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison [Monument]
21	Willie Nelson	Not That I Care	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
22	k.d. lang	Sugar Moon	Shadowland
23	Les Paul	Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me (Remastered)	100 (100 Original Tracks – Remastered)
24	Bob Wills	Miss Molly	For the Last Time
25	Asleep 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
26	Solitaire Miles	I Hear You Talkin'	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
27	Solitaire Miles	Me & the Man In the Moon	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
28	Hank Thompson	Triflin' Gal	Seven Decades
29	Willie Nelson	Dusty Skies	You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
30	Merle Haggard	Cherokee Maiden	Capitol Collector's Series