The Complete Sussex and Columbia Album Masters: Limited Edition 9CD Box Set Tonic The Shortest Straw

The Shortest Straw

NCRV Classic Albums: Moving Waves (June 1997) 50

He returned to Chicago for guest engagements with the Lyric Opera in 1956

this album dominated the charts at #1 for 14 non-consecutive weeks

Greater Manchester

The Complete Sussex and Columbia Album Masters: Limited Edition 9CD Box Set Tonic The Shortest StrawThis 9 CD box including the hit singles Aint No Sunshine, Lean On Me and Lovely Day features all nine albums which the poet laureate of Slab Fork, West Virginia, released in his bold, beautiful, brilliant but short lived recording career. Right from the opening acoustic strum of Harlem on his fabulous debut album Just As I Am and onto the gutsy pump of Lonely Town, Lonely Street which opens the equally brill follow up LP Still Bill the sound quality