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The Country Music Hall Of Fame came into existence in 1961 with three inductees - Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Roe and Hank Williams. Can't mount any kind of argument against THOSE selections. However, since then there have been some 97 additions and, out of an even 100, just 17 females. Now, I'm not about to suggest that the Hall should be 50-50 or anything like that, but come ON folks, there ARE female performers whose continued absence sticks out like a sore thumb. Such as Skeeter Davis, Lynn Anderson, Tanya Tucker, Kathy Mattea. And Rose Maddox!Born Roselea Arbana Brogdon in Boaz, Alabama on August 15, 1925, all this singer-songwriter and accomplished fiddler did, in addition to being a featured vocalist in the family act, The Maddox Brothers & Rose, was put 14 solo songs onto the national Country charts from 1959 to 1964, and in this yet another fabulous 4-CD anthology of her Capitol years from the Germany-based Bear Family, you get all 14 AND their B-sides amongst the 111 tracks in near-perfect sound reproduction and a 16-page insert filled with vintage photos, discography and fascinating biographical details. In that regard, it would make a perfect companion piece to Jonny Whiteside's biographical book Ramblin' Rose: The Life And Career Of Rose Maddox (also available through Amazon).Just two years before her untimely death at age 72 from kidney failure on April 15, 1998, her Arhoolie blue-grass album, $35 And A Dream, received a Grammy nomination, and from among the limited number of female artists in the Hall Of Fame, both Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton have cited her as a prime influence on their own amazing careers.What you get here are all her duets with yet another Hall member, Buck Owens (including the four hit singles they registered together), cuts with brother John Maddox, and some of the best pure honky-tonk offerings you are ever apt to hear by a female Country vocalist (a lot of it for the first time as many were never previously released). And when you hear her rendition of the Hank Williams classic, Move It On Over, your ears will pick up the original and unmistakable backing instrumental lick from Hank's 1947 version that would later make its way into a song called (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock - the clarion call for R&R.But no matter what she sings - whether Gospel, honky-tonk, Blue Grass, ballads - they're all here - you'll quickly come to the same conclusion I did: this lady could SING and deserves so much more recognition than she's received so far from the Nashville "old boys club" establishment. And it took a German company to bring it to you.Her hits, in chronological order, were: Gambler's Love - # 22 May 1959 on Capitol 4177 b/w What Makes Me Hang Around?; Kissing My Pillow - # 14 February 1961 on Capitol 4487 b/w I Want To Live Again - # 15 in February; Loose Talk - # 4 June 1961 on Capitol 4550 b/w Mental Cruelty - # 8 in June - both duets with Buck Owens; Conscience, I'm Guilty - # 14 August 1961 on Capitol 4598 b/w one of the best renditions you'll ever hear of Lonely Street; Sing A Little Song Of Heartaches - # 3 December 1962 on Capitol 4845 b/w Tie A Ribbon In The Apple Tree; Lonely Teardrops - # 18 March 1963 on Capitol 4905 b/w George Carter; Down To The River - # 18 July 1963 on Capitol 4975 b/w I Don't Hear You; We're The Talk Of The Town - # 15 August 1963 on Capitol 4992 b/w Sweethearts In Heaven - # 19 in August - both duets with Buck Owens; Somebody Told Somebody - # 18 December 1963 on Capitol 5038 b/w Let Me Kiss You For Old Times; Alone With You - # 44 March 1964 on Capitol 5110 b/w When The Sun Goes Down; and Blue Bird, Let Me Tag Along - # 30 August 1964 on Capitol 5186 b/w Stand Up Fool.Just a great compilation.