VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1952

This volume covers the year 1952, when jukeboxes throughout the South, West, and Midwest were stocked with what we now consider to be pillars of the hard country sound. A fantastic introduction to anyone who wants to hear the sound of honky tonk music at its early best. (allmusic.com)

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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1952
(Bear Family Records 2009)

1. Tex Ritter / High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) [From High Noon]
2. Hank Thompson / Wild Side of Life
3. Kitty Wells / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
4. Johnnie / Ashes of Love
5. Eddy Arnold / Easy On the Eyes
6. Lefty Frizzell / Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses)
7. Jimmie Dean / Bumming Around
8. Jimmy Swan / I Had a Dream
9. Lattie Moore / Juke Joint Johnny
10. Bill Haley / Rock the Joint
11. Doye O'Dell / Diesel Smoke
12. Carl Smith / Are You Teasing Me
13. Hank Williams / Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
14. Webb Pierce / Wondering
15. Jim Eanes / I Cried Again
16. Little Jimmy Dickens / They Locked God Outside the Iron Curtain
17. Hank Snow / The Gold Rush is Over
18. Tennessee Cut-Ups / I'm Using My Bible For a Roadmap
19. Bill Monroe / Raw Hide
20. Slim Whitman / Indian Love Call
21. Slim Willet & The Brush Cutters / Don't Let the Stars (Get In Your Eyes)
22. George Morgan / Almost
23. Big Bill Lister / There's a Tear In My Beer
24. Webb Pierce / Back Street Affair
25. Hank Williams / Honky Tonk Blues
26. Red Foley / Midnight