Artist: Ivory Joe Hunter
Author: Ivory Joe Hunter
Label: MGM
Year: 1968

"If I had my way I would record nothing but country songs". Black southerner who preferred country over soul & blues and he was not the only one. See: Barney Hoskyns' book Say It One Time For The Broken Hearted (Fontana). This mix of Before The Next Teardrop Falls and Green Green Grass Of Home was first released in '89 on Home Cooking lp I'm Coming Down With The Blues.