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Leona Williams: Yes Ma'am, He Found Me in a Honky Tonk - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Yes Ma'am, He Found Me in a Honky Tonk Artist: Leona Williams Label: Bear Family Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5397102172465 Genre: Country Release Date: 2016 06 09 Number of Discs: 1 Contains 82 classic country tracks, including her top ten hit duet with Merle Haggard, The Bull And The Beaver! Includes many previously unreleased recordings and a 'lost' album produced by Tompall Glaser! Contains a biography based on extensive personal
Title: Yes Ma'am, He Found Me in a Honky TonkArtist: Leona Williams
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5397102172465
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2016-06-09
Number of Discs: 1
Contains 82 classic country tracks, including her top ten hit duet with Merle Haggard, The Bull And The Beaver!Includes many previously unreleased recordings and a 'lost' album produced by Tompall Glaser!Contains a biography based on extensive personal interviews!48-page booklet with many rare photos from Leona Williams' personal collection and a detailed discography!Some colleagues and friends about Leona Williams:'Leona Williams is a great singer. She sings with a lot of soul. I know her family must be very proud of this Bear Family box set. I wish her a lot of happiness and success.' - Willie Nelson'When I listen to Leona Williams sing it goes right to my heart; I can feel every emotion that she puts in a song. In my opinion Leona Williams is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. My only regret is that I don't get to see her enough, but when I do it's an honor to be in her presence. I am so excited because I'd like to do a whole damn album of her songs, even though I am a little scared I couldn't do them justice, but guess what?.... I'm gonna try!' - Tanya Tucker'Leona Williams.... The purest voice this side of the Mississippi and beyond! Skillfully crafts songs from a woman who has lived through the lyrics she writes. My heart-felt thanks for creating this traditional country music collection! I love your music and the honesty it brings.' - Rhonda Vincent'Leona Williams is the greatest female country singer that has ever stepped up to a microphone. She can make a grown man cry with her sad songs. I love the lady and her music. What a nice lady!' - George Jones'Leona will always be one of my very favorite people in the world. She was the first artist that ever thought enough of one of my songs to record it. And that feeling of having one of your own songs recorded by someone else has lasted a lifetime.' - Vince Gill
Tracks:
1.1 Dear Eloise
1.2 A Woman's Man
1.3 Ten Minutes Till Heartaches
1.4 Broadminded
1.5 I Just Wanted You to Be Proud of Me
1.6 I Narrowed This Triangle (Down to Two)
1.7 Papa's Medicine Show
1.8 I Want Some More of This
1.9 Once More
1.10 If I'd Only Listened to Mama and Dad
1.11 This Ain't a Home No More
1.12 They'll Never Take His Love from Me
1.13 Just Because of You
1.14 The Circle of Friends
1.15 When I Stop Dreaming
1.16 Baby, We're Really in Love
1.17 Watch Her Go
1.18 Yes, Ma'm (He Found Me in a Honky Tonk)
1.19 Babe, Just for You
1.20 So Goes My World
1.21 Somewhere Inside
1.22 The Old Place Is Gone
1.23 Listen Spot
1.24 He's Just You Made Over
1.25 Country Girl with Hot Pants on
1.26 Country Music in My Soul
1.27 Since I'm Not with the One I Love (I'll Love the One I'm with)
1.28 The Boys and Lucy Brown
1.29 A Gentleman on My Mind
1.30 Tom Lucus
1.31 A Woman's Life Is More Than Just a Man
1.32 Happy Anniversary, Baby
2.1 Out of Hand
2.2 Ain't That Fine
2.3 How Great Thou Art
2.4 Cheese Cake and Apple Pie
2.5 Your Shoeshine Girl
2.6 I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore
2.7 I'd Rather Die (Loving Him)
2.8 I Can't Tell My Heart That
2.9 I Spent a Week There Last Night
2.10 Anything Goes (Til Everything's Gone)
2.11 It's Tearing This Ole Heart Right Out of Me
2.12 Everybody Loves Me But You
2.13 A Lifetime to Forget
2.14 You Don't Love Me Like You Mean It
2.15 Just Like a Prayer
2.16 Hey I'm Somebody (Not Just a Body)
2.17 For All I Know
2.18 There's More Love in the Arms You'll Be Leavin'
2.19 Shape Up or Ship Out
2.20 I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight
2.21 If Anyone Ought to Know
2.22 I Want to Live Again
2.23 That Lonely Unloved Wife Look
2.24 Mama, I've Got to Go to Memphis
2.25 Window Up Above
2.26 Rockin' Rollin' Stoned
2.27 Bright Morning Light
2.28 The Bull and the Beaver
2.29 I'm Getting' High
3.1 The Baby Song
3.2 Call Me Crazy Lady
3.3 Good Nights Make Good Mornings
3.4 He Took Care of Me
3.5 Yes Ma'am
3.6 Any Port in a Storm
3.7 Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee
3.8 Touch and Go
3.9 I Can't Break the Habit
3.10 I Barely Am Getting By
3.11 Catching Crawfish
3.12 Aberdeen
3.13 Why Be a Dreamer
3.14 Midnight Blue
3.15 The Good Times Are Ready to Come
3.16 My Heart Has Finally Said Goodbye
3.17 Guitar Pickin' Song
3.18 You Put Out An Old Flame Last Night
3.19 We've Had Some Good Times
3.20 North Alabama
3.21 Too Close to Home
3.22 The Bridge That Got Me Over Him
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★★★★★ 4
Powerful Family History
Format: Paperback
After the birth of her son, Thi Bui feels an increased sense of urgency about learning the stories of her own parents. Like all but her youngest sibling, she was born in Vietnam, though the children came of age in the United States. While the war itself haunts all of them, was the reason they left their homeland, the wounds her parents bear go far beyond the military conflict. This was only the second graphic novel I’ve ever read (both have been memoirs), and like the first was also selected by my book club. I feel like the limitations of the format mean it will always be a less preferred one for me, because I found myself wanting more words, more depth to the writing itself. But the story is deeply compelling, detailing her father’s brutal childhood, her mother’s much softer one, how they came together, and how the Vietnam War disrupted the future they thought they might have. It’s not as straightforward as “Americans bad”, and Bui is not afraid of the moral ambiguity of that time and place, where the best interests of the majority of the Vietnamese people was an open question for larger forces that seemed to have little room for consideration of what might have actually made regular lives easier to lead. And apart from the larger geopolitical machinations around them, the family had their own share of tragedy, including the death of their first child and a later stillbirth. But three living children and another on the way was enough for her parents to make frantic arrangements to leave, finally succeeding and eventually making their way to the United States. But of course, that was not the end of their story, just the beginning of a new chapter. Bui’s childhood as she depicts it makes it clear that it wasn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but what shines through is her tremendous empathy for her parents and how they became the people she experienced them as. Overarching the narrative is a meditation on parenthood, as it is the birth of her own child that inspires her to ask her parents more. They might have made major mistakes, but it is clear that they loved their children and did what they thought was best for them, making countless sacrifices to give them the best opportunities possible, even if that love was not always shown the way that they wanted and needed to feel it. Vietnamese perspectives on the war in their country were not something I was exposed to growing up (honestly the Vietnam War itself wasn’t something I remember being taught with particular rigor in high school apart from its connection to electoral politics), and I appreciated learning more about the history of the country and how the people who actually lived through the conflict thought about it. Even though this is not my preferred format, I think Bui uses it well to engage in some non-linear storytelling and to very literally illustrate what she’s trying to get it, like the way she parallels the way her relatively rural parents must have felt seeing Saigon for the first time with the way she felt when she first moved to New York, a sense of awe and possibility. It’s a powerful, moving work and I would recommend picking it up!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Truly, the best we could do
Format: Kindle
An excerpt from my analysis essay I submitted for my literature course: By revisiting her family’s past from before, during, and after the Vietnam War, she gained a deeper understanding of the emotional burdens her parents carried and the sacrifices they made that defined the entirety of their lives. Bui’s illustrated graphic memoir reveals that trauma does not simply disappear over time; instead, it becomes inherited, processed, and transformed. Through this process, Thi Bui is able to move toward empathy for her parents, acceptance of who they are, and a more complete sense of self.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Phenomenal. A must-read!
Format: Paperback
I first learned about this book only a week ago when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving in Eugene, Oregon. We went to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art where I saw some work on display by the author, and there was a copy of her book available to look at, so I perused through and decided to buy it and read it. I'm so glad that I did! This is an incredible, poetic story that spans four generations, multiple wars and conflicts, and examines the fragility of the author's relationship with her parents and with her sense of place and motherhood. This book is one of the best I've read in a long time, and the art is moving and beautiful. It gave me new insight into the struggles of refugee life, and created a truly relatable narrative. I devoured this story in one Saturday. I highly recommend it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018
★★★★★ 5
A well composed memoir
Format: Paperback
Full review on nguyentoread.com
The Best We Could Do is Thi Bui's graphic memoir. Thi was born in Vietnam three months before the Vietnam War reached what we consider to be the end of the war. She came to America with her family in 1978. Bui's memoir spans multiple generations. In learning of her mother's and father's pasts, we learn the history of their parents. We see the struggles and pains of two people from very different walks of life trying to live during a time of war and chaos. We see glimpses of the agony everyone in the middle of the Vietnam War faced. Those who were not directly involved on either side but were caught in the middle of larger powers at war. This memoir more closely details the lives of her parents leading up to them arriving in America and making their life there. I was unsure if this memoir would focus largely on the experience of being a Vietnamese immigrant in America. There were parts that showed how it was for Bui's parents in a country where tensions were still high after the Vietnam War, where discrimination largely due to that was overt, and where degrees were not recognized and people who had spent their lives working and creating careers for themselves were not qualified for most work and had to hurdle multiple challenges to learn a language and complete education all over again if they wanted to provide a better life for their children. What Bui so beautifully captures in this memoir is the why behind how her parents were in raising her. Although Bui was born in Vietnam she was young when her family arrived in America. So I think her experience is one that many first generation Vietnamese-American people of my generation can understand and sympathize with. The wanting to know why their parents are the way they are but unable to ask because many have parents, like Bui's mother, who reluctantly share their stories and don't allow their children that glimpse that could help them better understand. In the panel which was most poignant to me, Bui draws her father as he looks over her work that would become The Best We Could Do. He says "You know how it was for me. And why later I wouldn't be... normal."
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2019
★★★★★ 5
This book made me love my parents more
Format: Kindle
I loved the raw depictions of vietnamese history and human emotions. I recommend this book to anyone experiencing intergenerational trauma. 5 stars, this book helped me understand my father and mother just a little more, and that is priceless
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025
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