Stu Phillips – Singin’ Stu Phillips (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:02 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
Stuart ‘Stu’ Phillips is a Canadian-American Country baritone singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec. Known as ‘The Travelling Balladeer’, Phillips sang as a youth on amateur radio shows in Montreal and Verdun and at 16 worked his way west, appearing at rodeos and carnivals. Phillips performed in the USA and recorded for Columbia. Moving to Nashville in 1965, he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1967 and had several hits with RCA including ‘Bracero’ (1966), ‘The Great El Tigre’ (1966), ‘Vin Rosé’ (1967), and ‘Juanita Jones’ (1967). He also made the LPs Singin’ Stu Phillips (RCA LPM-3619), Grassroots Country (RCA LSP-3717), and Our Last Rendezvous (RCA LSP-4012). In the 1970s he continued his radio, TV, and personal appearances throughout the USA and, on occasion, in Canada.
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Stu Phillips – Our Last Rendezvous (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:51 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Country, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy
b. 19 January 1933, St. Eustace, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. St. Eustace was an area dominated by the French and Phillips grew up bilingual. (He later also recorded in both German and Afrikaans). He was influenced by the singing of Gene Autry but first sang in a Montreal church choir. In his early teens, his father, a railroad architect, relocated for a time to Calgary. When the family returned to Montreal, Phillips remained in Calgary and often fondly refers to it as his home town. He learned to play guitar and worked on various jobs until eventually being hired by CFRN Edmonton as a newsreader, general handyman and engineer. When a disc jockey failed to show Phillips, without authority, deputised singing some of his own songs. Although reprimanded, it led to Stu For Breakfast, an early morning show which launched his career. Realising there were not many Canadian songs, he began to write and gained his inspiration from books on Canadian folklore. In 1956, after spells at CJIB Vernon, British Columbia and CHED Edmonton, he began presenting live television shows on the newly opened CHCT-TV in Calgary. Soon after Don Cameron, the regional director of CBC, offered him a CBC radio show singing folk and children’s songs as the Travelling Balladeer. This proved so successful it also led to him presentingThe Outrider, a network weekly television show. He also became involved with the Calgary Stampede and presented the prime time CBC televisionRed River Jamboree.
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