Country & Western Hit Parade 1968 / Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1968 / Various CD

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1968. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Hillbilly Music (Country & Western Hitparade) tells the real story of Country music record-by-record, year-by-year. The hits are here, but they're only half the story. The set goes beyond chart books to include groundbreaking records that went nowhere at the time, but influenced generations yet to come. This is the music that influenced the White Stripes, Gillian Welch, Gram Parsons, Nick Cave, the Beatles and many others. In other words, this is the true and uncensored history of Country music. Everything you need to hear, year-by-year, as it happened! Bear Family.

1. Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line 2. D-I-V-O-R-C-E 3. Folsom Prison Blues 4. Luxury Liner 5. Skip a Rope 6. Mama Tried 7. Beneath Still Waters 8. I Wanna Live 9. Harper Valley P.T.A 10. Train Leaves Here This Morning 11. The Carroll County Accident 12. Another Place Another Time 13. I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am 14. Fist City 15. Will You Visit Me on Sundays? 16. The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp 17. Little Green Apples 18. Ballad of Forty Dollars 19. Hickory Wind 20. Rocky Top 21. What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) 22. Wichita Lineman 23. Holding on to Nothin' 24. Daddy Sang Bass 25. I Started Loving You Again 26. How Long Will My Baby Be Gone? 27. When the Grass Grows Over Me 28. I Walk Alone 29. Next in Line 30. Stand By Your Man 31. Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line