Join us in the record shop on Wednesday, April 9th at 4:00 PM when we’ll host music award-winning archival producer Zev Feldman in conversation with Julie Fudge, Patsy Cline’s daughter and CAO of the Patsy Cline Enterprises LLC. They’ll be celebrating the imminent release of Patsy Cline's Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954 - 1963), which will be released as a double vinyl set on Record Store Day, (which is Saturday, April 12th this year). Feldman and Fudge will be joined by local writer, WXNA co-founder and DJ, and country music enthusiast Randy Fox to discuss the new collection and answer audience questions. Album co-producers Dylan Utz and George Hewitt will be joining Feldman and Fudge as well. While we won’t have copies of the new LP available at our event, we will have copies for sale on Record Store Day and hope you’ll come out that Saturday to pick up one.
The legacy of legendary country vocalist Patsy Cline, whose storied recordings of the 1950s and 1960s with producer Owen Bradley helped establish country music’s pop-crossover Nashville Sound, receives a new chapter with the release of Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963), a revelatory collection of previously unreleased recordings from Elemental Music/Deep Digs. This unprecedented, limited edition two-LP set, produced in association and with the full endorsement of the Patsy Cline Estate, features 48 unissued tracks, all faithfully transferred, mastered and released legitimately for the first time. They survey the full breadth of the singer’s artistry, from her first days as a professional musician with Bill Peer & the Melody Boys and Girls in the early ‘50s to the apex of her popularity, just weeks before she tragically died at the age of 30 in a plane crash on March 5, 1963.
Drawn from radio broadcasts, TV shows, and demo recordings, these meticulously restored performances cast a fresh spotlight on Cline’s luminous, powerful voice, and eschew the opulent strings and vocal choruses of Bradley’s productions in favor of an intimate, unadorned, earthy sound. Affecting alternate versions of Cline’s chart-topping crossover hits “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “She’s Got You” are included. Cline is heard duetting with such fellow country stars as Cowboy Copas (who died in the same crash that took Cline’s life), Ferlin Husky, Red Foley, Bobby Lord, Ernest Tubb, and Lonzo & Oscar.
Co-produced by Zeldman, Cline discographer and authority George E. Hewitt, and sound restoration engineer Dylan Utz, Patsy Cline - Imagine That features a detailed track-by-track discography; a historical note by author/writer Martin Melhuish; reflections on Cline’s art by musicians k.d. lang, Marty Stuart, Ray Benson, and more. Cline’s daughter Julie, says, “Our family has been blessed to have the recordings, the videos, and the photos that have remained since Mom’s passing in 1963. But we have been even more blessed because of the fan base that has kept her so alive. Those that have continued to play her music. Those artists working in film and commercials and television that have used her music in their projects. We are blessed every time we hear her voice. And now these recordings, all fresh and new, are something like a dream. All the hard work and research, all the time and effort…. all have led to something new in a world where we never thought that was possible.” You can read more about Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954 - 1963) on Elemental Music’s website here.
We’re so excited to hear stories from Fudge and Feldman about Patsy Cline and her unreleased recordings, as well as about the process of digging deep and putting together an archival set like this. Our Patsy Cline Discussion Event is free and all ages, so come one, come all! See you soon, Music City!
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Patsy Cline’s Imagine That: The Lost Recordings 1954-1963