VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade 1958 (2011)

Tracklist:

01. Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
02. Kitty Wells - I Can't Stop Loving You
03. Johnny Cash - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
04. Jim Reeves - Blue Boy
05. The Louvin Brothers - My Baby's Gone
06. Roy Acuff - Once More
07. Johnnie & Jack - Stop The World (And Let Me Off)
08. George Jones - Color Of The Blues
09. 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 Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock And Roll)

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. This collection boasts Ray Price's "Invitation to the Blues" and "City Lights"; Faron Young's "Alone with You"; Webb Pierce's "Tupelo County Jail"; Kitty Wells' "I Can't Stop Loving You"; the Louvin Brothers' "My Baby's Gone"; Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me" and "Blue Blue Day"; Lefty Frizell's "Cigarette and Coffee Blues;" Jerry Lee Lewis' reading of "You Win Again"; Johnny Cash's "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," and 19 more. There isn't a weak moment here, but there is a great surprise in the inclusion of "Country Music Is Here to Stay" by Simon Crum (better known as Ferlin Husky). While every volume in this series is well worth owning, those from 1955 on are indispensable.

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