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BCD 17263 - Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music  1968





What happened in country music in 1968 was this: it got harder and leaner in some places and much softer in others, a schism Bear Family's wonderful 1968 volume in their ongoing Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Music Hit Parade quite ably illustrate. It's not so easy to say that the West Coast preferred lean, electrified twang while Music City liked things a little more polished. The opening Waylon Jennings hit "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" -- nicely bookended on this 31-track collection by Jim Alley's barely known version -- shows how the Nashville crew were happy to deliver tough hard rockers, while the California contingent were eager to overload their arrangements with strings, echoed guitars, and effects, all showcased on the brilliant, near-psychedelic "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell. These two singles were perhaps the strongest evidence of how all the rules were changing -- and that includes the incongruous inclusions from two Gram Parsons projects, the International Submarine Band and the Byrds, neither of which came close to the charts and neither of which fit in with the rest of the material here even if they did suggest where country music would eventually go -- but apart from the strangely defiant George Jones, who feels utterly divorced from the zeitgeist, there isn't a song here that doesn't reflect the shifting sensibilities of the '60s in some fashion. Traditionalists like Charlie Louvin and the Osborne Brothers open up their sound to accommodate the changing times; Johnny Cash's spiritual hoe-down "Daddy Sang Bass" carries an electric charge; Loretta Lynn and Jeannie C. Reilly tackle feminism with "Fist City" and "Harper Valley PTA," but so does Tammy Wynette, whose "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" captures the pain of a splintering marriage, while "Stand by Your Man" illustrates its flipside. But the songs that still sound vital belong to Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Tom T. Hall, acts that bridge classic traditions -- whether it's honky tonk music or folk songs -- with a modern sensibility, and "Mama Tried," "Another Place, Another Time," and "Ballad of Forty Dollars" all feel rich, fully realized, and alive, songs that still speak to modern sensibilities decades after their initial release.




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                       Tracklisting
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   1. Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line      [02:23]
   2. Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E                           [02:59]
   3. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues                       [02:45]
   4. International Submarine Band - Luxury Liner             [02:54]
   5. Henson Cargill - Skip A Rope                            [02:39]
   6. Merle Haggard - Mama Tried                              [02:13]
   7. George Jones - Beneath Still Waters                     [02:39]
   8. Glen Campbell - I Wanna Live                            [02:47]
   9. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.                 [03:13]
  10. Doug Dillard & Gene Clark - Train Leaves Here This Morning[03:50]
  11. Porter Wagoner - The Carroll County Accident            [02:51]
  12. Jerry Lee Lewis - Another Place Another Time            [02:26]
  13. Merle Haggard - I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am      [02:49]
  14. Loretta Lynn - Fist City                                [02:14]
  15. Charlie Louvin - Will You Visit Me On Sundays?          [02:49]
  16. Johnny Darrell - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp      [02:56]
  17. Roger Miller - Little Green Apples                      [02:40]
  18. Tom T. Hall - Ballad Of Forty Dollars                   [03:02]
  19. The Byrds - Hickory Wind                                [03:32]
  20. Osborne Brothers - Rocky Top                            [02:37]
  21. Jerry Lee Lewis - What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)[02:37]
  22. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman                         [03:12]
  23. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - Holding On To Nothin'   [02:31]
  24. Johnny Cash - Daddy Sang Bass                           [02:22]
  25. Merle Haggard - I Started Loving You Again              [02:22]
  26. Buck Owens - How Long Will My Baby Be Gone?             [02:14]
  27. George Jones - When The Grass Grows Over Me             [02:55]
  28. Marty Robbins - I Walk Alone                            [03:21]
  29. Conway Twitty - Next In Line                            [02:51]
  30. Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man                       [02:42]
  31. Jim Alley - Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line            [02:17]

Playing Time.........: 01:25:55
Total Size...........: 196,70 MB



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