The Beginning of the End: The Existential Psychodrama in Country Music (1956-1972)
by Various Artists

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item number:  6HHKS
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CD Details

  • Released: May 18, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Omni Recording Corp

Tracks:

  • 1.Searching (I'm Always Looking) - Whitey Gallagher
  • 2.Whistle of the Gravy Train - Bobby Grove
  • 3.The Beginning of the End - Jimmy Griggs
  • 4.The Enemy - Jim Ed Brown
  • 5.Puzzles - Ed Bruce
  • 6.My World Is Upside Down - Ray Sanders
  • 7.Jimmy Jacob - Johnny Darrell
  • 8.Low Down Blues - Billy Rufus
  • 9.Saunders Ferry Lane - Sammi Smith
  • 10.Hello, I'm a Jukebox - George Kent
  • 11.Meeting of the Bored - Johnny Dollar
  • 12.Talking to the Grass - Curly Putman
  • 13.Water Under the Bridge - Lonnie Holt
  • 14.Nobody Touches Me - Johnny Collier
  • 15.I'm Gonna Be Gone - Bob Fry
  • 16.National Everybody Hate Me Week - David Price
  • 17.Free - Clay Hart
  • 18.I Started at the Bottom and Worked My Way on Down - Gene Savage
  • 19.You'll Not Take Nothin' Out - Diane McCall
  • 20.Footprints in the Sands of Time - Jimmy Griggs
  • 21.Running With the Wind - George Kent
  • 22.It's a Rough Old Road to Travel - Johnny Darrell
  • 23.Survival of the Fittest - Mel Tillis
  • 24.Wine, the River and You - Clay Hart
  • 25.A Man Is a Slave - Jerry Irby
  • 26.Ghosts of My Lonely Past - The Harmony Ranch Hands / Johnny Skiles
  • 27.I Still Write Your Name in the Sand - Buddy Starcher
  • 28.The Farmer's Prayer - Dave Dudley
  • 29.The Oldtimer - Tony Gavin
  • 30.Searching - James Gallagher

Product Description:

From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'. 30 timeless tales of existential angst wrought from backwoods outsiders and Nashville misfits. Plaintive fiddles, furtive banjos and lonesome voices soundtrack a turbulent vista of eternal questions and unquenchable wanderlusts. Apocalyptic laments, harrowing self-examinations, faltering ids and devastated inebriates. Many originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in tiny amounts, these troubled, marginalised troubadours sing of collapsing egos and stygian landscapes of molten self-doubt. Years in the making - 'The Beginning Of The End' presents existential howls and Freudian diatribes from forgotten 45s, broken preachers and disrupted transgressives. All for your bewildered listening pleasure. Deluxe CD with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia!Full dynamic range 2018 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes!20 page full-colour booklet with rare photos and memorabilia!30 Original Recordings (1956-1972)!

Product Info

  • UPC: 934334406071
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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