Various - Country & Western Hit Parade CD: 1964 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music (CD)

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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade: 1964 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music (CD)

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 upon country music in 1964. A few of those within country music…perhaps even Roger Miller… felt liberated by Bob Dylan's free associating wordplay. Bobby Bare and later George Hamilton and Waylon Jennings tried to embrace some of the less contentious new folk songs. Most, though, chose to ignore Dylan, the unwashed beatniks who followed him, and the causes they championed. Only Johnny Cash appeared to embrace the times that were apparently changing. The seeds of the great social divide that characterized the Sixties became apparent when Cash recorded The Ballad Of Ira Hayes. He pretended to be surprised when country radio shied away from it. He shouldn't have been. Within a year or so, though, Cash seemed to reject his activism, in fact lampooned it in The One On The Right Is On The Left. "Don't be mixing politics with the folksongs of our land," he sang, perhaps as much to himself as anyone else.

The tragedies that had clouded country music in 1963 continued. Jim Reeves' death on July 31 was a sad coda to the passing of Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and Jack Anglin in March the previous year. Few noted the fact, but Alton Delmore of the Delmore Brothers died on June 8, and their legatees, the Louvin Brothers, issued their last LP in 1964. They had already split, and any hope of a reunion was dashed by Ira Louvin's death the following year.

In November, 'Time' magazine sent a reporter to the annual dee jays' convention, now dubbed the Country Music Festival. The report was similar to other reports in other years and similar to David Dachs' brief and largely unflattering chapter about country music in his 1964 book covering all popular music, Anything Goes. Country music was big business worth $100 million a year, said 'Time.' Two thousand stations played country. Nashville accounted for thirty percent of the nation's hit singles, although that figure would soon fall. The musicians couldn't read music. "'It's something about the warmth of Nashville,' they explain, almost misty-eyed at the thought." At the 1964 festival, MGM Pictures premiered 'Your Cheatin' Heart,' the Hank Williams bio-pic. It starred George Hamilton as the unlikeliest ever Hank Williams. Rather than have Hamilton lip-sync to the original recordings, the soundtrack featured new recordings by Hank, Jr., thereby launching Junior's recording career. Two of those who'd known Hank, Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff, walked out halfway through the movie. And, as if to betoken country music's increasing popularity, 'Billboard' magazine increased the number of positions in its industry standard country chart from thirty to fifty.

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Album titlle: 1964 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
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Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Various - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1964 - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music (CD) CD 1
01	Dang Me	Miller, Roger
02	Four Strong Winds	Bare, Bobby
03	The Race Is On	Jones, George
04	Understand Your Man	Cash, Johnny
05	Saginaw, Michigan	Frizzell, Lefty
06	Sittin' In An All Night Café	Mack, Warner
07	Here Comes My Baby	West, Dottie
08	My Heart Skips A Beat	Owens, Buck
09	Sing A Sad Song	Haggard, Merle
10	Ballad Of Ira Hayes	Cash, Johnny
11	Sorrow On The Rocks	Wagoner, Porter
12	He Called Me Baby	Cline, Patsy
13	Don't Be Angry	Jackson, Stonewall
14	Welcome To My World	Reeves, Jim
15	Memory #1	Pierce, Webb
16	Wine, Women And Song	Lynn , Loretta
17	Together Again	Owens, Buck
18	Widow Maker	Martin, Jimmy
19	Close All The Honky Tonks	Walker , Charlie
20	Burning Memories	Price, Ray
21	Go Cat, Go	Jean, Norma
22	Chug-A-Lug	Miller, Roger
23	Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back	Wheeler, Billy Edd
24	It Ain't Me Babe	Cash, Johnny
25	Cross The Brazos At Waco	Walker , Billy
26	I Guess I'm Crazy	Reeves, Jim
27	Long Gone Lonesome Blues	Williams, Jr., Hank
28	Once A Day	Smith, Connie
29	I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)	Owens, Buck
30	I'll Go Down Swinging	Wagoner, Porter
31	The Ballad Of Ira Hayes	LaFarge, Peter

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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music

Country & Western Hit Parade

Diese Serie ist das Nonplus ultra, großartig aufgemacht und mit perfektem Mastering

Jack Clement, der Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams und viele andere produziert hat, sagte: "Dies ist fraglos die beste Country-Serie der Musikgeschichte, kein Zweifel!"Und Robert Hilburn schrieb in der 'Los Angeles Times': "Dieses unschätzbar wertvolle Album-Projekt... ermöglicht es den Fans so zuzuhö ren, wie es schon Elvis Presley, Ray Charles und Bob Dylan taten."

Die Hits sind ergänzt um Raritäten, die die Country Music – und die Musik generell – in den Folgejahren be- einflußt haben: zum Beispiel Wanda Jacksons Originalversion von Silver Threads And Golden Needles, Carl Belews Original von Lonely Streetund Chet Atkins' wegweisendes Walk, Don't Run.

Diese Serie ist konzipiert, um neue Hörer für das Beste zu gewinnen, das die Country Music je anzubieten hatte, aber auch um alte Fans bestens zu unterhalten. Jede einzelne CD steht für eine wunderbare Zeitreise.

Neben den Hits präsentiert die Serie viele Raritäten, die die Country Music – und die Musik generell – in der Folgezeit beeinflußt haben.

Wie alles begann:

Seit vielen Jahren erhielten wir immer wieder Anfragen nach einer definitiven Country-Serie. Und nachdem unsere chronologisch sortierten R&B-/Soul-Reihen 'Blowin' The Fuse' und zuletzt 'Sweet Soul Music' (denen sich demnächst ein Projekt zur Funk Music anschließen wird) zu Riesenerfolgen wurden, haben wir entschieden: Das machen wir in vergleichbarer Form auch für die Country Music! Die ersten Folgen von 'Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music' befaßten sich mit den Jah- ren 1945 bis 1955 – jetzt setzen wir die Reise fort und bewegen uns dabei Richtung Nashville Sound.

Die Serie wurde auf Fans von heute zugeschnitten. Natürlich enthält sie die großen Hits; aber ebenso gibt es klassische Aufnah- men, die es damals nicht nach ganz oben geschafft haben und dennoch später einflußreich wurden. Jede CD glänzt mit bei- spielhaft detaillierten Erläuterungen aus erster Hand sowie mit sensationell seltenen Fotos. Und es wird aufgezeigt, wie sich die Country Music kontinuierlich weiterentwickelte, während es in anderen Bereichen des amerikanischen Musikgeschäftes deutli- che Verwerfungen gab. Jedes einzelne Booklet ist unglaubliche 72 Seiten stark! Also alles wie gewünscht: die definitive Serie!

Superlative werden zwar manchmal überstrapaziert – aber wir sind sicher: Die Serie ist Teil unserer Idee, diese Musik auch nach- gewachsenen Fans näherzubringen – und zugleich die Kenner gut zu unterhalten. Los geht es im Jahr 1956 – als die Country Music sich mit dem Rock'n'Roll arrangieren musste, der für Aufruhr sorgte....

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