Patsy Cline - A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye [Americana] Remixed Remastered HD Color

"A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye" by Patsy Cline was composed by Eddie Miller and W.S. Stevenson (a pen name for Bill McCall). It was released as Cline's debut single in July 1955 via Coral Records. It was recorded on June 1, 1955 at producer Owen Bradley's Studio with Paul Cohen producing, Harold Bradley on guitar, Grady Martin on electric guitar and fiddle, Bobby Garrett pedal steel string, Tommy Jackson fiddle, Owen Bradley on piano, Bob Moore on bass, and Farris Coursey on drums.

It was Cline's third recording session in her career. She cut several additional sides during the same session, including "Turn the Cards Slowly," "Hidin' Out," and "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round."

Patsy Cline appeared at Nashville's Centennial Park and performed it for a crowd estimated at fifteen thousand, and at the Grand Ole Opry on June 16, 1956. She also promoted the track on television in Nashville, where she appears here alongside Ernest Tubb on the Grand Ole Opry just prior to its release as a single on July 20, 1955, backed on the B-side by "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round."

The song has since been reviewed by critics and journalists, AllMusic describing "A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye" as "full-blooded honky-tonk, with steel guitar or fiddle front and center." And, in another compilation review, James Christopher Monger named it among Cline's "greatest moments" as an artist, alongside her future hits. It has appealed on many posthumously released compilations albums in 1964, 1967(2), 1974, 1988, 1989,and 1990

Here, her 1955 black and white television appearance alongside Ernest Tubb is remixed and remastered in HD color by DcRock1007, remixing and mastering New Hickory Vintage Masterpiece Series Patsy Cline, “Classics Vol. 1” dub.

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