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BCD 17265 - Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music  1970




If the music on the 1970 volume of Bear Family's superlative ongoing Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series isn't as wild and adventurous as that on 1969's, chalk it up to the record industry assimilating the shifting fashions of the time. Nothing here sounds as wild as the singles on the 1969 volume, but everything here still feels modern: Dolly Parton's "Joshua" is nearly as lean and ornery as Waylon Jennings' "The Taker," Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" is a finely realized hangover ode that never would've been written three years prior, Roy Clark's novelty "Thank God and Greyhound" pops with tacky vitality. Elsewhere, there is sinewy Merle Haggard ("The Fightin Side of Me"), robust Jerry Lee Lewis ("There Must Be More to Love Than This," "Once More with Feeling"), AM crossovers from Lynn Anderson ("Rose Garden") and Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through the Night"), pure Nashville schmaltz symphonies from George Jones ("A Good Year for the Roses") and Ray Price ("For the Good Times"), crackling country-rock from Jerry Reed ("Amos Moses"), then the slightest hints of country-rock (Flying Burrito Brothers' "Wild Horses," which doesn't feel of piece with the rest here), and outlaw country (Billy Joe Shaver's "Chicken on the Ground"). All these loose ends combine into one singular sound that is the dawn of a new decade, one where all the progressive country, psychedelia, Bakersfield sound, and Nashville polish combine into a new mainstream, and Dim Lights 1970 winds up fascinating for how it documents that shift.




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   1. Conway Twitty - Hello Darlin'                           [02:26]
   2. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden                             [02:52]
   3. Jerry Lee Lewis - Once More With Feeling                [02:24]
   4. Merle Haggard - The Fightin' Side Of Me                 [02:53]
   5. Johnny Cash - What Is Truth                             [02:38]
   6. Bobby Bare - How I Got To Memphis                       [02:29]
   7. Roy Clark - Thank God And Greyhound                     [02:38]
   8. Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter                    [03:00]
   9. Tompall & The Glaser Brothers - Gone Girl               [03:21]
  10. Dolly Parton - Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)    [03:08]
  11. Guy Drake - Welfare Cadilac                             [03:15]
  12. Jerry Reed - Amos Moses                                 [02:20]
  13. Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Through The Night         [02:34]
  14. Tom T. Hall - A Week In A Country Jail                  [03:01]
  15. Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses                   [06:21]
  16. Charley Pride - Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone          [02:12]
  17. Ray Price - For The Good Times                          [03:49]
  18. Tammy Wynette - Run, Woman, Run                         [02:27]
  19. George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses                [03:03]
  20. Waylon Jennings - The Taker                             [02:21]
  21. Dolly Parton - Joshua                                   [02:59]
  22. Jerry Lee Lewis - There Must Be More To Love Than This  [02:43]
  23. Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty - After The Fire Is Gone   [02:39]
  24. Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down                [04:06]
  25. Billy Joe Shaver - Chicken On The Ground                [02:49]
  26. Conway Twitty - Fifteen Years Ago                       [03:10]
  27. Marty Robbins - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife             [03:33]
  28. Mickey Newbury - How I Love Them Old Songs              [03:47]

Playing Time.........: 01:25:11
Total Size...........: 198,11 MB




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