VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1953 torrent

The middle volume of Bear Family’s five-album Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series covers the year 1953, collecting 28 classic tracks from that wild year - the year after Hank Williams’ monumental passing - and showcasing the kinds of innovation that were occurring in hardcore woolly hillbilly music released regionally as well as nationally. (allmusic.com)

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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1953
(Bear Family Records 2009)

1. Jack Cardwell / The Death of Hank Williams
2. Faron Young / Goin' Steady
3. Hank Williams / You Cheatin' Heart
4. Johnnie & Jack / South in New Orleans
5. Webb Pierce / It's Been So Long
6. Johnny Bond / Let Me Go, Devil
7. Red Cook / Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice
8. Hank Snow / (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
9. The Carlisles / No Help Wanted
10. Marty Robbins / I'll Go on Alone
11. Arlie Duff / You All Come
12. Davis Sisters / I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
13. Lefty Frizzell / California Blues (Blue Yodel no.4)
14. Link Davis / Big Mamou
15. Tommy Duncan / Hound Dog
16. Onie Wheeler / Run'em Off
17. Darrell Glenn / Crying in the Chapel
18. Jim Reeves / Mexican Joe
19. Hank Locklin / Let Me Be the One
20. Joe & Rose Lee Maphis / Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
21. Rudy Grayzell / Looking at the Moon and Wishing on a Star
22. Webb Pierce / There Stands the Glass
23. Carl Smith / Hey Joe!
24. Merrill Moore / Red Light
25. Chet Atkins / Country Gentleman
26. Hank Williams / Take These Chains from My Heart
27. Mitchell Torok / Caribbean
28. Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky / A Dear John Letter