Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly - Country & Western Hit Parade 1968 / Various (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

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