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The Cold Hard Facts Of Life   3-CD




WAGONER, Porter

The Cold Hard Facts Of Life 3-CD

CD
Format: 3-CD digipac with 60-page bookle
Genre: Country
catalog no.: BCD 16537 CH
ISBN: 978-3-89916-381-0
EAN: 4000127165374

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WAGONER, Porter
The Cold Hard Facts Of Life 3-CD

3-CD Digipac mit 60-seitigem Booklet, 70 Titeln, Spieldauer 177 Minuten. - Erstmals auf CD: sechs legendäre Konzeptalben, die den verstorbenen Country-Superstar Porter Wagoner zum Kult-Künstler machten - 'Confessions Of A Broken Man' (1966); 'Soul Of A Convict' (1967); 'The Cold Hard Facts Of Life' (1967); 'The Bottom Of A Bottle' (1968); 'The Carroll County Accident' (1969); und 'Down In The Alley Skid Row Joe' (1970) mit 70 packenden 'Songs und Rezitationen aus dem Leben', darunter so unvergessene 'Billboard'-Top-5-Hits wie 'Green, Green Grass Of Home'; 'Skid Row Joe'; 'The Cold Hard Facts Of Life' und 'The Carroll County Accident'. Ausführlicher Begleittext zu allen Alben und zu Wagoners Leben und Karriere. Der am 26.10.2007 gestorbene Porter Wagoner war schon lange bekannt als der schlaksige Sänger im Paillettenanzug, Symbolfigur für das 'alte Nashville' und seit vielen Jahren Mitglied der Grand Ole Opry. Ein jüngeres Publikum schätzte seine düsteren, alptraumhaften Konzeptalben, die er in den späten sechziger Jahren für RCA eingespielt hat. Wagoners bedrückende, düstere Songs unter anderem geschrieben von Bill Anderson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton und Mel Tillis laufen über vor Verzweiflung, als wären es Szenen aus C-Filmen oder geschmacklosen Erzählungen. Seit sie erschienen sind, haben sie Kultcharakter bei Horror-Freaks, Fans alternativer Country Music und in der Gothic-Subkultur. Die Alben waren über zwei Jahrzehnte nicht mehr erhältlich, jetzt gibt es sie in hervorragendem Stereo, gezogen von den Original-Zweispurbändern./ 3-CD digipac with 60-page booklet, 70 tracks, playing time 177 mns.- First CD release of six best-selling concept albums that gave the late country music superstar Porter Wagoner a cult following (please see German review for album titles). Features a rogue's gallery of murderers, philanderers, depressives, death-row inmates, unrepentant barflies, panhandling winos and other losers. Includes extensive notes covering these fascinating albums and Wagoner's life and career. Porter Wagoner died October 26, 2007 after a brief illness. Mainstream audiences best knew the lanky, rhinestone-suited singer as a symbol of 'old Nashville' and a longtime member of The Grand Ole Opry. But a younger audience embraced him for the dark, nightmarish concept albums he made for RCA Victor during the late sixties. With songs penned by such writers as Bill Anderson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and Mel Tillis, Wagoner's mind-numbing country noir sagas are filled with as much despair as any low-budget grindhouse movie or cheesy paperback novel. Since their original release, these albums gained a cult following among the psychotronic set, alt-country fans and the Goth subculture. After being out of print for more than two decades, they're available once again in glorious stereo from the original two-track mixdown tapes.



CD content:
  1. 1. Men With Broken Hearts
  2. 2. I Just Came To Smell The Flowers
  3. 3. May You Never Be Alone
  4. 4. Skid Row Joe
  5. 5. Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time
  6. 6. How Far Can I Go
  7. 7. I'm A Long Way From Home
  8. 8. Confessions Of A Broken Man
  9. 9. My Tears Are Overdue
  10. 10. I've Been Down That Road Before
  11. 11. Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
  12. 12. My Last Two Tens
  13. 13. Boston Jail
  14. 14. The Convict And The Rose
  15. 15. I Relived My Life Today
  16. 16. I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
  17. 17. Let Me In
  18. 18. The Big River Train
  19. 19. The Snakes Crawl At Night
  20. 20. They're All Going Home But One
  21. 21. Folsom Prison
  22. 22. Soul Of A Convict
  23. 23. Green Green Grass Of Home
  24. 24. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
  25. 25. The First Mrs. Jones
  26. 26. Words And Music
  27. 27. The Cold, Hard Facts Of Life
  28. 28. Sleep
  29. 29. Hundred Dollar Funeral
  30. 30. If I Could Only Start Over
  31. 31. Tragic Romance
  32. 32. Try Being Lonely
  33. 33. I'll Get Ahead Some Day
  34. 34. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
  35. 35. Shopworn
  36. 36. Julie
  37. 37. Wino
  38. 38. Daddy And The Wine
  39. 39. Swinging Doors
  40. 40. The Bottom Of The Bottle
  41. 41. In The Shadows Of The Wine
  42. 42. She Burnt The Little Roadside Tavern Down
  43. 43. The Bottle Let Me Down
  44. 44. One Dime For The Wine
  45. 45. Wine
  46. 46. Turn The Juke Box Up Louder
  47. 47. I Threw Away The Rose
  48. 48. Bottle, Bottle
  49. 49. The World Needs A Washin'
  50. 50. Banks Of The Ohio
  51. 51. Sing Me Back Home
  52. 52. Barefoot Nellie
  53. 53. Sorrow Overtakes The Wine
  54. 54. Black Jack's Bar
  55. 55. The Carroll County Accident
  56. 56. Rocky Top
  57. 57. Your Mother's Eyes
  58. 58. King Of The Cannon County Hills
  59. 59. I Lived So Fast And Hard
  60. 60. Fallen Leaves
  61. 61. Here's A Toast To Mama
  62. 62. Sidewalks Of Chicago
  63. 63. The Silent Kind
  64. 64. The Alley
  65. 65. The Town Drunk
  66. 66. Mama
  67. 67. Bottle Of Wine
  68. 68. One More Dime
  69. 69. I Judged A Man
  70. 70. When I Drink My Wine


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