Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly - Country & Western Hit Parade 1969 / Various (CD)

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1969. 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. Kay
2. Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?
3. (Margie's at) the Lincoln Park Inn
4. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
5. Workin' Man Blues
6. Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)
7. All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)
8. Galveston
9. To Make Love Sweeter for You
10. A Boy Named Sue
11. Rings of Gold
12. Statue of a Fool
13. Me and Bobbie McGee
14. Sin City
15. Homecoming
16. I'll Share My World with You
17. God Bless America Again
18. Wine Me Up
19. You Gave Me a Mountain
20. Just Someone I Used to Know
21. Try a Little Kindness
22. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
23. Okie from Muskogee
24. To See My Angel Cry
25. Bloody Merry Morning
26. Life's Little Up and Downs
27. Ruben James
28. Kay