Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music – Year-by-Year Country History

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1958 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1953 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1970 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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Want to explore the roots of Country Music decade by decade? The Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series from Bear Family offers a year-by-year musical journey from 1945 onward – featuring iconic tracks and hidden gems.

Authentic, raw & historically rich

Each volume features 24–30 songs that defined a year in Country and Hillbilly music – with genres ranging from Honky Tonk to Rockabilly. Includes extensive (English) booklets with background essays and rare photos.

For Country Historians & Roots Music Fans

This series isn’t about nostalgia – it’s about understanding the evolution of American music through its raw, real recordings. A must-have archive.

Want to explore the roots of Country Music decade by decade? The Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series from Bear Family offers a year-by-year musical journey from 1945 onward –... read more »
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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music – Year-by-Year Country History

Want to explore the roots of Country Music decade by decade? The Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music series from Bear Family offers a year-by-year musical journey from 1945 onward – featuring iconic tracks and hidden gems.

Authentic, raw & historically rich

Each volume features 24–30 songs that defined a year in Country and Hillbilly music – with genres ranging from Honky Tonk to Rockabilly. Includes extensive (English) booklets with background essays and rare photos.

For Country Historians & Roots Music Fans

This series isn’t about nostalgia – it’s about understanding the evolution of American music through its raw, real recordings. A must-have archive.

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1969 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 87 mns. On January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Later that year, he adopted the phrase silent majority to...
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1956 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time: 78:14 minutes. It was the year that the floodgates opened. Inside and outside the music business, rock 'n' roll was on everyone's mind. The trade papers didn't know...
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1965 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns. As the simmering political divide between the South and Everywhere Else became more apparent, it was inevitably reflected in music. Anti-Civil Rights songs...
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1967 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 84 mns. It was the year that thousands of kids obeyed the invocation to go to San Francisco and wear some flowers in their hair. Civil unrest spread like a...
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1970 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 86 mns. Our quarter-century retrospective ends here. In country music, as in the broader recording industry, change had been profound. In 1945, the only...
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1968 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 86 mns. In 1965, Bill C. Malone published his doctoral dissertation on country music, and in 1968 it became widely available as Country Music U.S.A. Published...
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1966 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD Deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 83 mns. As far back as the mid-1940s, 'Billboard' magazine had polled dee-jays, including country dee-jays, to tabulate the year's top records, labels,...
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1962 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 mns. Nineteen-sixty-two was the year of Don Law. The forgotten pioneer of the Nashville Sound, Law was—statistically at least—more successful than Chet Atkins or...
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1963 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time approx. 84 mns. In country music history, 1963 goes down as the year of losses. At 2:00pm on Tuesday March 5, a Piper Comanche light airplane left Kansas City for Nashville....
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 81 mns. Just as the folk boom triggered by Tom Dooley had exerted a brief impact upon country music in 1959, so contemporary folk music began to exert an influence...
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1961 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 80 mns. 'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1961' Country & Western Hit Parade 1961 It was the year that the first inductions were made into the as-yet...
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1959 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time: 84:48 minutes. The big hit of the year was the Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley and the words "folk music" swept the industry. It reached country music and story songs, with a...
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1958 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time: 74:10 minutes. Wesley Rose's 1956 prophecy about rock 'n' roll killing country was ringing true and the music was at its lowest ebb.  ,Nevertheless it couldn't be...
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1957 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time: 76:22 minutes. This was the year that the Nashville Sound was born, Music City's fightback to rock 'n' roll with strings and vocal choruses, providing a pop market appeal,...
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1960 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 32 tracks. Playing time: 82:43 minutes. By 1960 the folk boom of the previous year had died. Nashville, for the greater part, continued to produce records with "crossover" appeal that would provide...
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1953 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks, playing time: 75:06 minutes. One event towered over 1953, and it happened between midnight and dawn on January 1. Somewhere in West Virginia Hank Williams died in the back seat of his...
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1954 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks; playing time: 74:03 minutes. 'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music 1954' Country & Western Hit Parade 1954 Something was happening. In 1953, Bill Haley had cracked the pop charts...
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1952 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 26 tracks, playing time: 68:42 minutes. The burgeoning interest in country music manifested itself in many ways. Pop A&R men scoured the hillbilly releases for songs they could cover. Twelve...
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1955 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks, playing time: 80:29 minutes. It was the year everything began to change. When the music merchants gathered for their annual convention in July 1955, one of the keynote speakers remarked...
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1951 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD-Album deluxe with 72-page booklet, 29 tracks, playing time: 79:57 minutes. Nineteen-fifty-one was the year that pop discovered country music. Many of the top pop songs of the year (Cold, Cold Heart, Beautiful Brown Eyes, The Shot...
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1950 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most...
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1948 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most...
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1945 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. It was a cataclysmic year. As 1945 dawned, the Second World War was still ongoing in Europe and Asia, yet by year's end, it was over. Many musicians were in...
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1949 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 77 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most...
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1947 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music
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1-CD deluxe album with 72-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 74 mns. After many, many requests, we're finally doing a definitive year-by-year country series! And it won't stop when the music is in copyright, either! The most...
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