1945-Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hilbilly Music Count 1945-Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hilbilly Music Count CD

2008 release, an installment in this luxuriously packaged collection that highlights the history of Country music year by year, beginning in 1945 right up through 1970. The series is compiled an annotated by Grammy-winning Colin Escott. The big hits are here, but so are the classic performances that weren't necessarily big hits at the time, but became influential in the years ahead. Every volume has incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes stories, fabulously rare photos, and an ongoing history of Country music set against the backdrop of the broader American music business. 1945 includes Spade Cooley's 'Shame on You', Dick Thomas' rarely reissued #1 hit 'Sioux City Sue', Porky Freeman's 'Boogie Woogie Boy' featuring Merle Travis, the original version of the beer joint classic 'Drivin' Nail in My Coffin' by Jerry Irby, the original 'Guitar Boogie', as well as classic hits by Gene Autry, Red Foley, Eddy Arnold, Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and many others. Bear Family.

1. Smoke on the Water 2. At Mail Call Today 3. Shame on You 4. That's What I Like About the South 5. Jealous Heart 6. Sioux City Sue 7. Tomorrow Never Comes 8. There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder 9. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You 10. Headin' Down the Wrong Highway 11. Oklahoma Hills 12. Boogie Woogie Boy 13. Don't Fence Me in 14. The Cattle Call 15. I'm Losing My Mind Over You 16. Each Night at Nine 17. Hang Your Head in Shame 18. You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often 19. That's All 20. With Tears in My Eyes 21. Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima 22. It's Been So Long Darling 23. Nails in My Coffin 24. Detour 25. We Live in Two Diff'rent Worlds 26. Blue Ranger 27. Guitar Boogie