In this week's episode we're featuring Melba Montgomery's complete Nugget Records sessions from the year 1962. Shortly after having spent almost four years touring with Roy Acuff's roadshow and marginally before being snapped up by United Artists, Montgomery was offered a chance to record for Lonzo & Oscar's newly-relocated Nugget Records in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The result was ten sides which have largely been forgotten by country fans who focus instead on her duets with George Jones and UA solo material. Ten hard country nuggets (pun intended) all of which feature Shot Jackson on dobro and Buddy Emmons on steel. The two co-founders of the legendary Sho-Bud steel guitar company help push these Nugget recordings on a young, fresh and distinctive Melba Montgomery to the heights of honky tonk gold. Superb listening.

HOUR 1: 

1. Melba Montgomery – Since I’ve Known You (1962)
2. Mark Chesnutt – Since You Ain’t Home (2004)
3. Melba Montgomery – Somewhere, Some Night (1962)
4. Melba Montgomery – Just Another Fool (1962)
5. Gary Stewart – In Some Room Above The Street (1976)
6. Melba Montgomery – Hello, True Love (1962)
7. Melba Montgomery – I Already Know (1962)
8. Longview – Where The Dim Lights Are The Dimmest (1999)
9. Lonnie Barron – Teenage Queen (1956)
10. Lonnie Barron – Go On, It’s OK (1956)
11. Lucas Hudgins – The World Left Is Mine (2009)
12. Loretta Lynn – Crazy Out Of My Mind (1970)
13. Aaron Watson – Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (2010)
14. Lonnie Barron – Don’t Doubt My Love (1956)
15. Lonnie Barron – You’re Not The First girl (1956)
 
HOUR 2: 

1. Mack Abernathy – Different Situations (1988)
2. Melba Montgomery – I’ll Find Someone (1962)
3. Melba Montgomery – From These Arms Of Mine (1962)
4. Merle Haggard – Big Time Annie’s Square (1971)
5. Bob Paisley & The Southern Grass – Sweepin’ Through The Gates (1988)
6. Melba Montgomery – Happy You, Lonely Me (1962)
7. Melba Montgomery – What Makes You Think I Still Miss Him (1962)
BUMPER: Bob Wills – San Antonio Rose
8. Red Simpson – Country Western Truck Drivin’ Singer (1972)
9. COUNTRY COVERS: George Strait – Home In San Antone (1991)
10. COUNTRY COVERS: Patty Loveless – If My Heart Had Windows (1993)
11. COUNTRY COVERS: Alan Jackson – She Just Started Likin’ Cheatin’ Songs (1999)
12. SHOT OF STEEL: Junior Brown – What’s Left Just Won’t Go Right (1993)
13. Moe Bandy – They Haven’t Made The Drink (That Can Get Me Over You) (1979)
14. Melba Montgomery – How Can I Keep From Loving You (1962)
15. Billy Henson – Troubles, Trials, Tribulations (1963)
 
HOUR 3: If That Ain’t Country’s Year In Country Music – 1963

1. Buck Owens – Love’s Gonna Live Here
2. Patsy Cline – Faded Love
3. Hawkshaw Hawkins – Lonesome 7-7203 (1962)
4. Cowboy Copas – My Autobiography
5. Johnnie & Jack – I Overlooked An Orchid
6. Johnnie & Jack – You’ll Never Get A Better Chance Than This (1962)
7. Johnnie & Jack – Poison Love (1962)
8. Ray Price – Walk Me To The Door
BUMPER: Buck Owens – Orange Blossom Special
9. Curly Fox – The Old Grey Mule
10. Texas Ruby – Love Me Now
11. Texas Ruby – Shanty Street
12. Jim Roberson – I Care That’s How Much
13. Carl Butler & Pearl – Who’ll Be The Next
14. Dave Dudley – Last Day In The Mines
15. Hank Williams, Jr. – Long Gone Lonesome Blues