Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music, 1955

Locations
Call Number: CD Country Dim
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Country Dim	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Country Dim	2-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024

Titles originally released under different labels in 1955.
Includes notes on the music by Colin Escott (71 p.)
Compact disc.
Ballad of Davy Crockett / Fess Parker -- I feel better all over (more than anywheres else) / Ferlin Husky -- Makin' believe / Jimmy Work -- In the jailhouse now / Webb Pierce -- Just call me lonesome / Eddy Arnold -- 20/20 vision / Jimmy Martin & the Osborne Brothers -- Daydreamin' / Bud Deckelman -- Peepin' eyes / Charlie Feathers -- When I stop dreaming / Louvin Brothers -- Big blue diamonds / Jimmy Dean -- Why baby why (complete version) / George Jones -- Cry! cry! cry! / Johnny Cash -- Run boy / Ray Price -- We could / Little Jimmy Dickens -- Before I met you / Flatt & Scruggs -- Lost to a stranger / Hylo Brown -- There she goes / Carl Smith -- Live fast, love hard, die young / Faron Young -- Sixteen tons / Tennessee Ernie Ford -- The cattle call / Eddy Arnold -- Yonder comes a sucker / Jim Reeves -- Let me go, lover! / Hank Snow -- The yellow rose of Texas / Ernest Tubb -- I don't care / Webb Pierce -- A satisfied mind / Porter Wagoner -- Angel band / Webster Brothers and Carl Butler -- Feudin' banjos / Arthur Smith and Don Reno -- So lovely baby / Rusty & Doug -- I forgot to remember to forget / Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill -- Maybellene / Marty Robbins -- Bonus: In the jailhouse now no. 2 / Jimmie Rodgers.
Various performers.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Fun overview submitted by ckfinzel on June 20, 2017, 4:50pm Great way to get an overview of some classic country western and folk music. It makes for pleasant background music and the recording quality is very good considering when it was recorded.

Old Time Country Music submitted by Meginator on July 30, 2017, 7:05pm I appreciated this compilation's mix of different emerging subgenres of country music; you can pick out a lot of musical influences on various tracks and it's interesting to compare them to influences in later (and, less so perhaps, modern mainstream) country music. Several of the songs are classics. This album offers a nice perspective on mid-1950s country music at a time when the genre began emerging and finding its voice.