Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Country & Western Hit Parade 1970 CD

EU-only collection of true Country classics from 1970. 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. Hello Darlin' 2. Rose Garden 3. Once More with Feeling 4. The Fightin' Side of Me 5. What Is Truth 6. How I Got to Memphis 7. Thank God and Greyhound 8. Coal Miner's Daughter 9. Gone Girl 10. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) 11. Welfare Cadilac 12. Amos Moses 13. Help Me Make It Through the Night 14. A Week in a Country Jail 15. Wild Horses 16. Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone 17. For the Good Times 18. Run, Woman, Run 19. A Good Year for the Roses 20. The Taker 21. Joshua 22. There Must Be More to Love Than This 23. After the Fire Is Gone 24. Sunday Morning Coming Down 25. Chicken on the Ground 26. Fifteen Years Ago 27. My Woman, My Woman, My Wife 28. How I Love Them Old Songs