VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1954

Bear Family’s Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series is one of the great treasures of hardcore honky tonk music recorded during the golden years of country & western. In the middle of the '50s, honky tonk was beginning to shift and change shapes, and this volume illustrates that fact beautifully. This entire series has proved itself invaluable as documentary evidence of the evolution of country music, and this volume adds to that argument. (allmusic.com)

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VA - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1954
(Bear Family Records 2009)

1. Stuart Hamblen / This Ole House
2. Slim Whitman / Rose Marie
3. Jim Reeves / Bimbo
4. Johnnie & Jack / Oh Baby Mine (I Get so Lonely)
5. Eddy Arnold / I Really Don't Want to Know
6. Ray Price / Release Me
7. Wade Ray / Idaho Red
8. Webb Pierce / Slowly
9. The Browns / Looking Back to See
10. Little Jimmy Dickens / Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
11. Carl Butler / I Wouldn't Change You If I Could
12. Tommy Collins / You Better Not Do That
13. Kitty Wells / One by One
14. Ray Price / I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
15. Roy Acuff / I Closed My Heart's Door
16. Faron Young / If You Ain't Lovin (You Ain't Livin')
17. Hank Snow / I Don't Hurt Anymore
18. Al Terry / Good Deal, Lucille
19. The Wilburn Brothers / Sparkling Brown Eyes
20. Jimmy C. Newman / Cry, Cry Darling
21. Sonny Burns / Too Hot to Handle
22. Johnny Mathis / If You Don't Somebody Else Will
23. Sheb Wooley / Blue Guitar
24. Ernest Tubb / Two Glasses Joe
25. Terry Fell / Truck Drivin' Man
26. Eddie Noack / Take It Away, Lucky
27. Carl Smith / Loose Talk
28. Elvis Presley / That's All Right