VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1958 torrent

Bear Family continues its stellar series of hony tonk classics, Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music, with 1958 being the year in review this time out. The inestimable Colin Escott is the series' reissue producer, and he introduces the set with an excellent liner essay; painstakingly researched discographical information is painstakingly provided by Richard Weize and his staff. As always, the packaging, a single disc packed in a hardback bound digipack with 72 pages of text and photos with interviews, studio reminiscences, and more, is outdone only by the music itself. The '50s in general were great years for country music, but the mid- to late entries in the decade were stratospheric as traditional country gave way to hillbilly boogie, rockabilly, and hard-edged honky tonk. (allmusic.com)

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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1958
(Bear Family Records 2011)

1. Don Gibson / Oh Lonesome Me
2. Kitty Wells / I Can't Stop Loving You
3. Johnny Cash / Ballad of a Teenage Queen
4. Jim Reeves / Blue Boy
5. The Louvin Brothers / My Baby's Gone
6. Roy Acuff / Once More
7. Johnnie & Jack / Stop the World (And Let Me Off)
8. George Jones / Color of the Blues
9. Eddie Noack / Have Blues Will Travel
10. Hank Locklin / Send Me the Pillow You Dream On
11. Marty Robbins / Just Married
12. Lefty Frizzell / Cigarettes and Coffee Blues
13. Ray Price / Invitation to the Blues
14. Ernest Tubb / Half a Mind
15. Johnny Cash / Big River
16. Stonewall Jackson / Life to Go
17. Don Gibson / Blue, Blue Day
18. George Jones / Treasure of Love
19. Hank Locklin / It's a Little More Like Heaven
20. Jerry Lee Lewis / You Win Again
21. James O'Gwynn / Talk to Me Lonesome Heart
22. Webb Pierce / Tupelo County Jail
23. Ray Price / City Lights
24. Faron Young / Alone with You
25. Jim Reeves / Billy Bayou
26. Marty Robbins / Ain't I the Lucky One
27. Charlie Walker / Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
28. Johnny Cash / Guess Things Happen That Way
29. Simon Crum / Country Music Is Here to Stay
30. Wayne Raney / We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus