Country & Western Hit Parade 1969 / Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1969 / Various CD

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1969. 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. Kay 2. Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass? 3. (Margie's at) the Lincoln Park Inn 4. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man 5. Workin' Man Blues 6. Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone) 7. All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) 8. Galveston 9. To Make Love Sweeter for You 10. A Boy Named Sue 11. Rings of Gold 12. Statue of a Fool 13. Me and Bobbie McGee 14. Sin City 15. Homecoming 16. I'll Share My World with You 17. God Bless America Again 18. Wine Me Up 19. You Gave Me a Mountain 20. Just Someone I Used to Know 21. Try a Little Kindness 22. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye 23. Okie from Muskogee 24. To See My Angel Cry 25. Bloody Merry Morning 26. Life's Little Up and Downs 27. Ruben James 28. Kay