EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1968. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music (Country & Western Hitparade) tells the real story of Country music record-by-record, year-by-year. The hits are here, but they're only half the story. The set goes beyond chart books to include groundbreaking records that went nowhere at the time, but influenced generations yet to come. This is the music that influenced the White Stripes, Gillian Welch, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, the Beatles and many others. In other words, this is the true and uncensored history of Country music. Everything you need to hear, year-by-year, as it happened! Bear Family.

Tracklist:

Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Folsom Prison Blues
Luxury Liner
Skip a Rope
Mama Tried
Beneath Still Waters
I Wanna Live
Harper Valley P.T.A 1
Train Leaves Here This Morning 1
The Carroll County Accident 1
Another Place Another Time 1
I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am 1
Fist City 1
Will You Visit Me on Sundays? 1
The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp 1
Little Green Apples 1
Ballad of Forty Dollars 1
Hickory Wind 2
Rocky Top 2
What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) 2
Wichita Lineman 2
Holding on to Nothin' 2
Daddy Sang Bass 2
I Started Loving You Again 2
How Long Will My Baby Be Gone? 2
When the Grass Grows Over Me 2
I Walk Alone 2
Next in Line 3
Stand By Your Man 3
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line

UPC: 5397102172632
Label: Bear Family Germany
Release Date: 9.24.13
Format: CD

Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly - Country & Western Hit Parade 1968 (Import)