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BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1966-1970 G After the volumes covering 1945-1965 were released, the word was out. This series is definitive, fabulously packaged, and faultlessly remastered! Everything you'd expect from BEAR FAMILY!Including these five new additions, it’s now a quarter-century of the very best of country music. G Jack Clement, who produced Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, and many others, said, "This is the best country series of all time. No doubt. No question." Robert Hilburn in the 'Los Angeles Times' said, "An invaluable album project… enables fans to step back in time and listen to the radio just like Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, and Bob Dylan did." Producer Allen Reynolds (Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, and many others) stopped BEAR FAMILY’s Richard Weize at the Country Music Hall of Fame to congratulate him on the series. G Now the story ends with 1966-1970. Every CD is generously full. Every booklet is extensive and chocked full of rare photos and illustrations, as well as complete stories behind the songs! G In addition to the hits, the series contains rarities that went on to influence country music… and all music… in the years ahead. G This series is designed to introduce new listeners to the very best that country music has to offer… while keeping longtime fans entertained. Every volume is a fabulous time capsule. "Collecting an anarchic mix of sex and sentimentality, earnest paeans to family and fanciful tales of drinking and cheating, DIM LIGHTS… affords a fascinating glimpse into black-and-white '50s polemics… Established stars, inspired wannabes proffer an intoxicating brew of dancefloor honky tonk, hillbilly boogie, bluegrass, western swing, incipient rockabilly, goofball novelty, and sentimental country-pop." ('Uncut' magazine) INFORMATION The reviews are in and everyone from Australia to Los Angeles to London is raving about BEAR FAMILY’s definitive year-by-year country series. Starting in 1945, DIM LIGHTS, THICK SMOKE, AND HILLBILLY MUSIC (COUNTRY & WESTERN HIT PARADE) tells the real story of country music record-by-record. 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, and many, many others. This is the music that gave birth to California country rock. This is the music that influenced the Beatles and many other seminal bands. 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 Records • Grenzweg 1 • 27729 Holste-Oldendorf • Germany www.bear-family.com BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] Picking up the story in 1966 and continuing until 1970, the new batch includes original versions of too many classic hits to list – just look at the track listing. But the series also includes neglected classics and shoulda-been hits like Gram Parsons' recordings with the International Submarine Band and the Byrds, George Jones' neglected album track Beneath Still Waters (later a #1 hit for Em- mylou Harris), Charlie Louvin's gothic classic Will You Visit Me On Sundays, Roger Miller's original versions of Me And Bobby McGee and Little Green Apples,Jim Alley's ultra-rare original version of Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line,andsomany more! There’s even more! Incredibly detailed 72-page booklets go with every CD, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes stories, rare pho- tos, record label shots, and complete discographical information. During the years covered by these volumes, the United States was even more bitterly polarized than today. Vietnam, Civil Rights, and the '60s revolution in culture and style created a volatile political and cultural atmosphere. Some took country music back to its hillbilly roots, some tried to embrace the change with newer country songs like Gentle On My Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoe- nix, Ode To Billie Joe,etc., and some tried to blend then-current rock and traditional country music. It was an explosive time and the music reflected much of that. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, And Hillbilly Music goes out on a very high note. BEAR FAMILY began its journey into year-by-year anthologies with the groundbreaking and award-winning BLOWIN’ THE FUSE and SWEET SOUL MUSIC series that tell the story of R&B from 1945-1970. Look for the series to continue into the Funk era. And a year- by-year Rock 'n' Roll anthology is coming soon… ARTIST Various TITLE Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1966 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17261 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy172618z FORMAT 1 CD mini book (CD-size) with 72 pages GENRE Country TRACKS 31 PLAYING TIME 83:11 Bear Family Records • Grenzweg 1 • 27729 Holste-Oldendorf • Germany www.bear-family.com BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] ARTIST Various TITLE Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1967 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17262 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy172625z FORMAT 1 CD mini book (CD-size) with 72 pages GENRE Country TRACKS 31 PLAYING TIME 84:26 ARTIST Various TITLE Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1968 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17263 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy172632z FORMAT 1 CD mini book (CD-size) with 72 pages GENRE Country TRACKS 31 PLAYING TIME 85:55 Bear Family Records • Grenzweg 1 • 27729 Holste-Oldendorf • Germany www.bear-family.com BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] ARTIST Various TITLE Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1969 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17264 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy172649z FORMAT 1 CD mini book (CD-size) with 72 pages GENRE Country TRACKS 28 PLAYING TIME 86:50 ARTIST Various TITLE Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music Country & Western Hit Parade 1970 LABEL Bear Family Productions CATALOG # BCD 17265 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE ÇxDTRBAMy172656z FORMAT 1 CD mini book (CD-size) with 72 pages GENRE Country TRACKS 28 PLAYING TIME 85:52 Bear Family Records • Grenzweg 1 • 27729 Holste-Oldendorf • Germany www.bear-family.com BEAR FAMILY RECORDS TEL +49(0)4748 - 82 16 16 • FAX +49(0)4748 - 82 16 20 • E-MAIL [email protected] COUNTRY AND WESTERN HIT PARADE 1966 Haggard:ITake A Lot Of Pride In What I Am • Loretta Lynn: Fist City • Charlie Louvin:Will You Visit Me On Sundays? • Jim Reeves:Distant Drums • Bobby Bare: The Streets Of Bal- Johnny Darrell: The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp • Roger timore • Marty Robbins:TheShoeGoes On The Other Foot Miller:Little Green Apples • Tom T.Hall: Ballad Of Forty Dol- Tonight • Jeannie Sealy:Don't Touch Me • Mel Tillis: State- lars • The Byrds:Hickory Wind • Osborne Brothers: Rocky Top side • David Houston:Almost Persuaded • Bill Anderson:IGet • Jerry Lee Lewis:What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has The Fever • Loretta Lynn:You Ain't Woman Enough • Roger Made A Loser Out Of Me) • Glen Campbell:Wichita Lineman Miller:Husbands And Wives • Merle Haggard:Swinging Doors • Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton:Holding On To Nothin' • • Don Gibson:Funny, Familiar Forgotten Feelings • Buck Johnny Cash:Daddy Sang Bass • Merle Haggard:IStarted Lo- Owens:Waitin' In Your Welfare Line • Nat Stuckey:Sweet ving You Again • Buck Owens:HowLong Will My Baby Be Thang • Jack Greene: There Goes My Everything • Dallas Fra- zier: Elvira • Merle Haggard: The Bottle Let Me Down • Roger Gone? • George Jones:When The Grass Grows Over Me • Miller: I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Marty Robbins:IWalk Alone • Conway Twitty:NextInLine• Gone) • Wilma Burgess:Misty Blue • Faron Young:Unmitiga- Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man • Jim Alley: Only Daddy ted Gall • Eddy Arnold:IWantToGoWith You • Johnny Cash: That'll Walk The Line The One On The Right Is On The Left • Johnny Paycheck: (Par- don Me) I've Got Someone To Kill • Ray Price:Touch My Heart COUNTRY AND WESTERN HIT PARADE 1969 • The Browns: I'd Just Be Fool Enough • Merle Haggard: The John Wesley Ryles I:Kay•Buck Owens:Who's Gonna Mow Fugitive (aka I'm A Lonesome Fugitive) • Porter Wagoner:Skid Your Grass? • Bobby Bare:(Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn Row Joe • Tammy Wynette:Apartment #9 • Buck Owens: • The Byrds: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man • Merle Haggard: Open Up Your Heart • Waylon Jennings:AnitaYou're Drea- Workin' Man Blues • Loretta Lynn:Woman Of The World ming • Loretta Lynn:Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With (Leave My World Alone) • Charley Pride:AllIHave To Offer Lovin' On Your Mind) • Jim Reeves:Distant Drums (undubbed) You (Is Me) • Glen Campbell:Galveston • Jerry Lee Lewis:To COUNTRY AND WESTERN HIT PARADE 1967 Make Love Sweeter For You • Johnny Cash:ABoyNamed Sue • Dottie West & Don Gibson:Rings Of Gold • Jack Greene:Sta- Bobbie Gentry:OdeToBillie Joe • Johnny Darrell: Ruby (Don't tue Of A Fool • Roger Miller:MeAnd Bobbie McGee • Flying Take Your Love To Town) • Waylon Jennings:Mental Revenge Burrito Brothers:SinCity•Tom T.Hall:Homecoming • George • Jim Reeves:IWon't Come In