With few options available to those who want a digital anthology of Pee Wee King's classic RCA recordings, listeners who would like to sample King's innovative and supremely entertaining music can spring for this affordably priced two-CD collection of radio transcriptions recorded circa 1952. Certainly owners of the box set would want to augment their collection with these previously unreleased performances, which include versions of hits such as "Slow Poke" and "Silver and Gold" as well as an incredible variety of novelties, love songs, and Western numbers that incorporate elements of swing, jazz, honky tonk, pop, and polka while seldom neatly fitting into any one of those categories. Redd Stewart is the featured vocalist on these 51 cuts, and liner notes were provided by noted country music historian Bill C. Malone. ~ Greg Adams
Rovi