VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1962

This series is designed to introduce new listeners to the very best that Country music has to offer...while keeping longtime fans entertained. Every volume is a fabulous time capsule. This is the music that influenced the White Stripes, Gillian Welch, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, and many, many others. This is the music that gave birth to California country rock. This is the music that influenced the Beatles and many other seminal bands. In other words, this is the true and uncensored history of country music.



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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1962
(Bear Family Records 2011)

1. Hank Snow / I've Been Everywhere
2. George Jones / She Thinks I Still Care
3. Claude King / Wolverton Mountain
4. Patsy Cline / She's Got You
5. Don Gibson / Lonesome Number One
6. Stonewall Jackson / A Wound Time Can't Erase
7. Marty Robbins / Devil Woman
8. Bill Anderson / Mama Sang A Song
9. Flatt & Scruggs / The Ballad Of Jed Clampett
10. Anita Carter / (Love's) Ring Of Fire
11. James O'Gwynn / My Name Is Mud
12. Wynn Stewart / Another Day, Another Dollar
13. Patsy Cline / So Wrong
14. Ray Price / Pride
15. Porter Wagoner / Misery Loves Company
16. Rex Allen / Don't Go Near The Indians
17. Billy Walker / Charlie's Shoes
18. Carl Butler / Don't Let Me Cross Over
19. Loretta Lynn / Success
20. Ned Miller / From A Jack To A King
21. Willie Nelson / Touch Me
22. Hank Cochran / Sally Was A Good Old Girl
23. George Jones / A Girl I Used To Know
24. Buck Owens / Kickin' Our Hearts Around
25. Webb Pierce / Crazy Wild Desire
26. Jim Reeves / Adios Amigo
27. Marty Robbins / Ruby Ann
28. Sheb Wooley / That's My Pa
29. Jimmy Dean / PT 109
30. Little Esther Phillips / Release Me
31. Lucky Starr / I've Been Everywhere